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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161451133Author Andrew ChesterFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 830g

In this study, noted Old Testament scholar and Christian educator David Hester focuses on the difficult questions raised in Job: where is God in the worst moments of our emptiness? What are we to do when experience casts doubt on what we have always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506406268Author Robert WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 226g

1 and 2 Kings unfolds an epic narrative that concludes the long story of Israel's experience with institutional monarchy, a sequence of events that begins with the accession of Solomon and the establishment of the Jerusalem temple, moves through the...

In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Lamentations and Esther. The volume presents various viewpoints and contexts-geographical, communal,...

The Bible, as is often said, is the world's least-read bestseller. That is particularly true of the Old Testament. People are often put off by the sheer bulk of the material and its frequently undistinguished quality. John Dancy has selected large...

These accounts of the Maccabean revolt, by which the sons of Mattathias reclaimed the temple of Jerusalem, tell an important story of the founding of the Jewish people. "The Hammerers" is the meaning of the nickname "Maccabees," given to Mattathias's...

In Degeneration And Revolution: Radical Cultural Politics and the Body in Weimar Germany Robert Heynen explores the impact of conceptions of degeneration - exemplified by eugenics and social hygiene - on the social, cultural and political history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956178794Author Trevor DearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crossbridge BooksPublisher Crossbridge BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This study questions why the relationship between the worship of other gods and the worship of idols within the Old Testament is difficult to define, acknowledging how various traditions have seen these two issues as synonymous and others have viewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890515488Author Dr Terry MortensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint Master BooksPublisher Master BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648370175Author Platt Rutherford, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Girard & StewartPublisher Girard & StewartWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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 9780802842787Author Roland De VauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

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 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...

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 9781414399430Author TyndalePage Count 432Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

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 *...

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...

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

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...