Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
Saving the Original Sinner
How Christians Have Used the Bible's First Man to Oppress, Inspire, and Make Sense of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
**A scientist and former evangelical argues that holding onto a belief in a literal, historical Adam has forced many Christians to reject science and become intellectually isolated from the modern world. **
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The Bible’s first man stands at the center of a crisis that is shaking much of...
The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture:The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1993
Victors not only write history: they also reproduce the texts. Bart Ehrman explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, examining how early struggles between Christian "heresy" and "orthodoxy" affected the...
Biblical Truths
The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
A leading biblical scholar’s landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confessions of the Christian church? What does the Bible...
The Conclusion of the New Testament (8)
Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (3)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Lord’s recovery during the past five hundred years the church’s knowledge of the Lord and His truth has been continually progressing. This monumental and classical work by Brother Witness Lee builds upon and is a further development of all that the Lord has revealed to His church in the past...
The “Genesis Gap” – A Comprehensive Biblical Study
A COMPLETE LOOK AT THE PRE-ADAMIC CREATION
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This eBook combines tthree previously published titles:
1. “PreAdamic Creation-Genesis Gap” 2. “The ‘Genesis Gap’ – Ignored and Misunderstood” 3. "The 'Genesis Gap' of Creationism Revisited"
This resource (approx. 27,268 words in length) is comprehensive from the biblical...
by Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
For all that is attributed to Jesus - how much of this do you know he actually said? How much of this is interpretation? Can we put our faith in what people tell us about what Jesus really said?
It was these questions which drove the research to uncover basic texts which reveal the closest...
by Robert W. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
The author re-read each the four gospels of the New Testament and selected his favorite of Jesus expressions, the parables, to record and to give his interpretation of. The parables are misunderstood by many who try to find the literal meaning of each parable. But each parable is a story with the...
by N. T. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This companion volume to N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God and Pauline Perspectives is essential reading for all with a serious interest in Paul, the interpretation of his letters, his appropriation by subsequent thinkers, and his continuing significance today. In the course of this...
God Code
Unlocking Divine Messages Hidden in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The book that inspired the major History Channel special, “God Code,” shows there is more to the Bible than meets the eye—messages from God hidden for ages, now revealed by modern computer technology.
In God Code Timothy Smith reveals his quest over decades to understand the complex messages...
by John Barton
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC. The evidence for this consists primarily of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha, but also other ancient Jewish writings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and various anonymous...
Compassion Or Apocalypse?
A Comprehensible Guide to the Thought of Rene Girard
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Ren Girard s thesis that culture and religion arose from an original act of scapegoating murder gained international scholarly attention in the early seventies with his publication in France of Violence and the Sacred. A few years later, with Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Girard made...
Apocalypse and Allegiance
Worship, Politics, and Devotion in the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In this lively introduction, J. Nelson Kraybill shows how the book of Revelation was understood by its original readers and what it means for Christians today. Kraybill places Revelation in its first-century context, opening a window into the political, economic, and social realities of the early...
by Dagobert D. Runes
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
One of the world’s supreme works of religious literature, the Talmud has been unjustly neglected by a civilization that is rightly proud of its Judaeo-Christian heritage. This sacred book of Israel came to birth during the centuries following the fall of Jerusalem to the Roman Empire, when the people...
Eve and Adam
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999
The editors have performed a great service in making widely available a documentary history of the interpretation of the Eve and Adam story." —Publishers Weekly
This fascinating volume examines Genesis 1-3 and the different ways that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters have used these...