The world's bestselling Bible handbook has been beautifully redesigned and carefully abridged to provide a sleeker, more reader-friendly edition. Still offering a comprehensive overview of God's Word, this timeless classic is now illustrated with more than 500 all-new, full-color graphics, including maps, charts, timleiness, and photographs
The Prophets is widely recognized as a masterpiece of biblical scholarship. Heschel attempts to understand the thoughts, feelings, and impressions of each of the progphets, presenting the reader with a sense of their very being. He effectively achieves a balance between the objective supernatural and the subjective human situation, and presents a ...
From the bestselling author of Escape the Coming Night comes the exciting story of one man who unlocked the secrets of the future 2,500 years ago. This stirring account tells of Daniel, a moral man in a pagan society, and what he can show us about living in a tainted 20th-century.
This widely acclaimed textbook, newly expanded and redesigned, helps readers better understand the Old Testament (and the God it reveals) by exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues behind it and behind each of its books. Helpful maps, photos, timelines, and charts now in full color.
Hidden for centuries in the text of the Bible is a code that forecasts the coming of the end. That code was recently cracked, thanks to computer technology, and its secrets are revealed in BIBLE CODE II. In this follow-up to the best selling BIBLE CODE, Drosnin begins his countdown on September 11th, using predictions based on the code, to tell us ...
This standard textbook on the background, content, and message of the Old Testament is now thoroughly revised and updated and takes full acount of new research in the field of Old Testament studies. One major addition is a new chapter on archaelology and the Old Testament by Robert E. Cooley.
For Introduction to the Old Testament courses. Designed for students with little or no knowledge of the Old Testament, this text provides complete background detail as it follows the story told by the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. Examines the separate biblical books and illustrates the literary structure of each of the books of the Protestant ...
In 1994, three Israeli mathematicians announced the results of an experimental analysis of equidistant letter codes in the earliest Hebrew text of Genesis, the first book of the Torah. By analyzing letters at various set intervals (e.g., every 50th letter, every 65th letter), the scientists determined that words, names, and dates occurred with a ...
This riveting and controversial book reveals how the ancient editors of the Bible used the myths and legends of neighboring cultures to build the foundations of the monotheistic religions of today. Illustrations.
A series of studies on biblical motifs, this title targets the state of the Bible from about 200 B.C. through the end of the first century, when a series of ancient texts and interpretations of these texts began evolving into one work. Kugel argues that the Hebrew Bible evolved the way it did due to midrash--a diverse system of updating, ...
Gleason Archer's venerable Survey of Old Testament Introduction is invaluable to students, scholars, and laymen who want to understand the conservative position on Old Testament introduction and are not afraid to examine critical views.
This second edition of An Introduction to the Old Testament has been revised and updated to reflect recent advances in Old Testament scholarship. An upper-level introduction that includes callouts, charts, and graphs, it offers a solid understanding of three key issues: historical background, literary analysis, and theological message.
This dramatically different way of hearing the voices of the women of the Bible and of interpreting their stories is written by the highly regarded author of "In the Wake of the Goddesses."
A readable, portable anthology of ancient Near Eastern laws and stories that share parallel themes and issues with biblical stories. This third edition has been completely revised in light of the ongoing discoveries of more and more ancient Near Eastern texts and many of the parallels from the first two editions have been added.
A noted Bible scholar describes the search for wisdom and its development throughout Israel's history by examining the wisdom books of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Ecclesiasticus, and Wisdom of Solomon.
Presents a thorough system for unifying and correlating scientific data on the earth's early history. Proposes a biblically based system of creationism and catastrophism. Thoroughly documented.
Presenting a wealth of comment and perspective on Isaiah, J. Alec Motyer pays particular attention to three recurring themes: the messianic hope, the motif of the city, and the theology of the Holy One of Israel.
A major new synthesis and interpretation of findings over the past twenty-five years in biblical archaeology. Thompsons conclusions are sure to spark intense debate.. This is a revolutionary, revisionist book on the Old Testament and the early history of the Middle East. There have been many extraordinary advances in Palestinian and biblical ...
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