Old Testament

This volume offers a close reading of the historical books of I and II Kings, concentrating on not only issues in the history of Israel but also the literary techniques of storytelling used in these books. Marvin A. Sweeney provides a major contribution...

This volume is part of a series which provides a fundamental resource for feminist biblical scholarship, containing a comprehensive selection of essays, both reprinted and specially written for the series, by leading feminist scholars.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555402549Author Saul M. OlyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 182gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 229mm *...

As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the Jewish tradition. The process involved a number of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596875524Author Seth McEvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802842787Author Roland De VauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683596561Author David FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm)...

The second edition of this popular book has been updated and provided with a new Preface and bibliography, ensuring that it remains an indispensable introduction to feminist theology. The second edition of this highly popular Introduction includes a new...

In this commentary, Graham Hamborg offers a timely and up to date assessment of the books of Hosea, Joel and Amos. Recognising that each had a compositional history leading to the final forms by which we know them, he brings a literary approach to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975391426Author Rich LuskFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Athanasius PressPublisher Athanasius PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615211203Author The NavigatorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint NavPress Publishing GroupPublisher NavPress Publishing GroupDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618907639Author REV Fr Jeffrey KirbyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams)...

Irene Nowell admits that the book of Numbers rarely makes the top ten list of favorite biblical books." But through her insightful interpretations and practical reflections, readers will gain a new and positive appreciation of the text. With Nowell,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606085950Author L Daniel HawkFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The biblical queen Esther is one of Scripture's most fascinating persons, and the drama of the book bearing her name is clearly captured in this superb commentary. Carol Bechtel expertly explores the historical settings, literary structures, and...

This important and substantial study may well prove to represent a breakthrough in the study of the people of Israel during the formative period which preceded the monarchy. Fully aware of the current decline of comprehensive vision in favour of isolated...

In this book, Steven Fraade explores the practice and conception of multilingualism and translation in ancient Judaism. Interrogating the deep and dialectical relationship between them, he situates representative scriptural and other texts within their...

In these expository sermons Lloyd-Jones takes an in-depth look at Psalms 1 and 107. Sure to cause readers to reflect on the nature of true happiness.About the AuthorMartyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), minister of Westminster Chapel in London for thirty...

An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature" considers the definitional issues long plaguing Wisdom scholarship. Will Kynes argues that Wisdom Literature is not a category used in early Jewish and Christian interpretation. It first emerged in modern scholarship,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404444Author Michael V. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The plan of this volume of commentary on the New English Bible text of the First Book of Kings follows the pattern of the now well-established series on the Old and New Testaments. The main divisions of the text are those provided by the New English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835898133Author Ray WaddleFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Upper Room BooksPublisher Upper Room BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586179120Author Scott W. HahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621579373Author Dennis PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Regnery FaithPublisher Regnery FaithWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 183mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683594536Author Jeffrey PulseFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451470369Author Mark R. SneedFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological - to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589832770Author Brian SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621716969Author Lawson G StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint First Fruits PressPublisher First Fruits PressWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The book of Exodus is literally a story about "going out," and as such, it touches on something all of us have in common: each of our lives is marked by different kinds of goings out and comings in. J. Gerald Janzen reads the Exodus story as both the...

The book of Leviticus originally formed part of a larger whole comprising what are now the first four or five books of the Old Testament. Its name is descriptive - 'the Levitical book' being about the personnel of the temple, all of whom were supposed to...

Tucked away at the end of the Minor Prophets, the Books of Haggai and Zechariah offer messages of challenge and hope to residents of the small district of Yehud in the Persian Empire in the generations after the return from Babylonian exile. In this...

This is the first English translation of Bernd Janowski's incisive anthropological study of the Psalms, originally published in German in 2003 as KonfliktgesprAche mit Gott. Eine Anthropologie der Psalmen ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800604714Author P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

A pioneering study of children's social care in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, A Home From Home? presents new information and develops conceptual thinking about the history of children's care by investigating the centrality of key...

Mr Bartlett's volume, like the others in the series, contains the text in the New English Bible. After a general introduction to the book as a whole, the text is given in short passages, with a commentary directly following each. These Jewish historical...

Eminently qualified to write this groundbreaking book, Philip King is known as both an archaeological and biblical authority. Defining biblical archaeology as the "process of correlating archaeological evidence with the biblical record," he sees the...

This book is an examination of characters in the books of Kings; showing how understanding and interpretation of key characters affects readings of the story. The volume begins with more general pieces addressing how the study of characters can shed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626640948Author Colette ToachFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Apostolic Movement International, LLCPublisher Apostolic Movement International,...

Scholars have long attempted to explain how the Pentateuch was put together. According to the predominant theory--the documentary hypothesis--the material in these books, which varies in historical and theological points of view, came from four...