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An internationally respected biblical scholar investigates the origins of the Christian canon. John Barton explores the reasons behind the development of the New Testament and pursues the historical factors involved in combining these books with the...

Recognizing "a playful spirit" as part of our human makeup, Conrad Hyers shows how laughter and humor are integral to our serious study of the Bible. With the darker realities of the Bible--sin, suffering, and death--there exists a lighter...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884023999Author Paul MagdalinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library...

This classic textbook, widely used for over two decades, constructs a history of ancient Israel and Judah through a thorough investigation of epigraphical, archaeological, and biblical sources. Approaching biblical history as history, Miller and Hayes...

The abbreviated Psalms commentary by Honorius Augustodunensis (ca. 1070 - ca. 1140)-a redaction of his own, much larger commentary on the entire Psalter-participates in a long tradition of Christian interpretation of the Book of Psalms. A prolific author...

Critical studies and analyses of space are becoming increasingly common in scholarship, although it is not always clear how such studies proceed, what theoretical works inform them, or what are their potential benefits for biblical studies. This volume...

Four respected scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. Important theological and ethical implications are made for the family today.The Family, Culture, and Religion series offers informed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851522Author William EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

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This book is an essential resource for understanding the question of the Bible's relationship to orality. Susan Niditch offers a strong argument for the continuity of the literature of the Israelites. She helps the modern reader look at the Bible as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111207Author John BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

* Proof humor and the gospel are not mutually exclusive * Adds visual interest to bulletins and other printed materials * New from popular illustrator The second in a series of three books brings weekly gospel readings to life. Each week, a cartoon...

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By the mid-second century Christian writers were engaging in debates with educated audiences from non-Jewish Graeco-Roman cultural backgrounds. A remarkable feature of some of the texts from this period is how extensively they refer to the Jewish...

This insightful volume in the Library of Early Christianity examines the social, political, and economic world of early Christianity. The Library of Early Christianity is a series of eight outstanding books exploring the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986073069Author J Paul RenoFormat PaperbackImprint Old Paths Publications, IncorporatedPublisher Old Paths Publications, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 104g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780899000527Author Rubel ShellyFormat HardbackPage Count 434Imprint Literature and Teaching MinistriesPublisher Literature and Teaching...

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This is an examination of Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Postcolonial interpretation and Empire Studies. "Israel and Empire" introduces students to the history, literature, and theology of the Hebrew Bible and texts of early...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986011368Author Robert D. PattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Old Paths Publications, IncorporatedPublisher Old Paths Publications,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802871350Author Robert Weldon WhalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

'Reading Scripture with the Saints' is a small museum. On its pages hang portraits of Christianity's "masters of the sacred page": Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict of Nursia, Maximus Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and...

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'Death in Second-Century Christian Thought' explores how the meaning of death was conceptualised in this crucial period of the history of the church. Through an exploration of key metaphors and other figures of speech that the early church used to talk...

The church in the West has subsisted for five hundred years in a state of ever-increasing multiple identities, many of which claim to be the best representation of the church established by Christ. Often attending novel models of the church are new...

Franz Delitzsch's lectures in 1902 and 1903 set off the Babel-Bible controversy, which rocked Europe and North America. In this searing critique of Delitzsch, Gunkel provides his own analysis of the relationship between ancient Israel and Babylon. In...

That the earliest followers of Jesus wrote poetry, hymns, and odes is evident already in the New Testament. This volume is a translation of The Odes of Solomon, a collection of early Christian hymns or odes; some are obvioBook InformationISBN...

The series Ethiopic Manuscripts, Texts, and Studies offers, in the first place, catalogues of the Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project, whose purpose it is to digitize and catalogue collections of Ethiopic manuscripts in North America and around the world...

This is a collection of essays examining the period of transition between Persian and Greek rule of Judah, ca. 400-200 BCE. Subjects covered include the archaeology of Maresha/Marisa, Jewish identity, Hellenization/Hellenism, Ptolemaic administration in...

Drawing on the work of leading figures in biblical, religious, historical, and cultural studies in Ireland and beyond, this volume explores the reception of the Bible in Ireland, focusing on the social and cultural dimensions of such use of the Bible...

The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film introduces postgraduate readers to the critical field of Jesus and/on film. The bulk of biblical films feature Jesus, as protagonist, in cameo, or as a looming background presence or pattern. The handbook...