Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
by Thomas Crowne
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Biblical Arguments For Abortion: Why It Should Be Legal is a short treatise that discusses the highly and often dangerous issue of abortion here in America from a biblical, legal, scientific as well as common sense standpoint covering many aspects of one of the hottest issues in the country.Irrespective...
by Forrest Snavely
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
I show how the verses in the King James Bible are not based on the earliest manuscripts as our Modern Bibles are. The disputed verses of the King James Bible support the Creeds. The Creeds were written to defeat what Trinitarian scholars and pastors would call heretical views about the nature of Jesus....
Ritual Violence in the Hebrew Bible
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Although the relationship of the Hebrew Bible and violence has been of interest to scholars in recent years, ritual violence in its various manifestations has been underexplored, as have been the theoretical dimensions of ritual violence. This volume is intended to bring into relief the full range...
Abram to Abraham
A Literary Analysis of the Abraham Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Abram to Abraham explores the Abraham saga (11:27-22:24) through a literary lens, following the legendary figure of Abraham as he navigates the arduous odyssey to nationhood. Rather than overlook the textual discrepancies, repetitions and contradictions long noted by diachronic scholars, this study...
Israelite Religions
An Archaeological and Biblical Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Archaeological excavation in the Holy Land has exploded with the resurgence of interest in the historical roots of the biblical Israelites. Israelite Religions offers Bible students and interested lay leaders a survey of the major issues and approaches that constitute the study of ancient Israelite...
Facts, Fiction, and the Bible
The Truth Behind the Stories in the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Facts, Fiction, and the Bible: The Truth behind the Stories in the Old Testament serves as a readers guide to conducting a thorough investigation of the stories contained in the books of the Bibles Old Testament. Its historical exploration helps to distinguish the storiesverifiable facts from their...
Is God a Reality?
A Scientific Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Why is there something rather than nothing? Was there a beginning to our universe, or was it always there? Everything around us winds down; was the universe wound up? Is there evidence of design in our universe, or was it the result of dumb luck? Are there other universes besides ours?
Is life...
Old Jewish Commentaries on «The Song of Songs» II
The Two Commentaries of Tanchum Yerushalmi- Text and translation
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book contains two commentaries on The Song of Songs by Tanchum Yerushalmi (c. 1220-1291), one of the best representatives of rational exegesis in the Middle Eastern rabbinical school of thought. His in depth knowledge of the Bible as well as his acquaintance with Greek philosophy, added to familiarity...
Sacred Sense
Discovering the Wonder of God's Word and World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life’s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine. But William Brown argues that if read properly, what the Bible does most fundamentally is arouse a sacred sense of life-transforming wonder.
In this...
Bringing the Kingdom
Progressive Reflections on Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
People have used the Bible for a variety of purposes over the course of the past two thousand years; unfortunately, many of those uses have reinforced power structures and systems that oppress and dominate those without privilege. Worst of all, people have used the Bible as a means to divide humanity...
Genesis
In the Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
With the publication of Genesis: In the Beginning, one of today's most highly regarded Catholic Scripture scholars turns her attention to one of the most important, fascinating, and challenging books of the Bible. In this important new commentary, Bergant explores the biblical text but also points...
by Brian Wright
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
What did Jesus mean when He told His followers to make disciples of all the nations? Did that mean that they were to “get them saved” ? Make them members of the local church? Teach them creeds and doctrines? Baptize them? The Church has overlooked the undeniable fact that not only did God choose...
Micah
Explanatory Notes & Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
John Wesley's explanatory notes on the Old Testament were written several years after his notes on the New Testament, and are based on the earlier works of Matthew Henry's 'Exposition of the Old and New Testaments', and Matthew Poole's 'English Annotations on the Holy Bible'. Extracts from both of...
Luke
Explanatory Notes & Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2015
The Notes Upon The New Testament is considered to be one of John Wesley's principal works, and its readability, influence and popularity has remained since the time of its publication until today. First printed in 1755 by William Bowyer, John Wesley's Notes Upon The New Testament were entirely...