Archaeology
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Ancient Israels Faith And History
$56.00Add to cartRelying on archeological artifacts and anthropological study, George Mendenhall re-tells the story of Israel’s history and faith. While careful not to move beyond the evidence, Mendenhall also provides an account of the theological dimensions of Israel’s history.
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New Testament World (Revised)
$42.00Add to cartAncient Palestine’s values seem quite different from the modern industrial West’s. Malina, long in the forefront of cultural anthropology, illumines questions of honor and shame, individual vs. group identity, envy and the evil eye, kinship and marriage, cleanness vs. uncleanness.
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Dead Sea Scrolls And Christian Origins
$33.99Add to cartFrom Joseph Fitzmyer, professor emeritus at Catholic University and a respected pioneer in his field, come 12 authoritative studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls—including a new essay on Qumran messianism. Fitzmyer brings his training in New Testament Semitic backgrounds and Aramaic studies to his examination of the Scrolls, the Qumran community, interpretation of biblical themes, and the relationship of the Scrolls to early Christianity.
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Crossing Galilee
$51.95Add to cartRecent books about Jesus and early Christianity can be divided into two kinds: those that examine the life and work of the historical Jesus prior to his death and those that reconstruct events between Jesus’ death and the writings of the first Gospels. Sawicki’s provocative book challenges the result of both kinds of research by using both archaeology and anthropology to situate Jesus clearly in his Galilean cultural context.
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Dead Sea Scrolls And The Origins Of The Bible
$35.99Add to cartGain deeper insight into The Dead Sea Scrolls and Origins of the Bible! Tracing the development of the canon of the Hebrew and Greek texts that formed the Hebrew Bible, Eugene Ulrich links the growth of the Israelites’ national literature with variant editions of the biblical books exhibited by the scrolls, Masoretic text, Septuagint collection, Samaritan Pentateuch, and other sources. His “revised literary editions” theory sheds new light on the literary precursors to the Old Testament.
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Letters Of Paul (Large Type)
$33.00Add to cartThis resource is intended to help people who are reading through Paul’s letters for the first time or are reading them again for a new look. It is designed to give the context of these letters, enabling readers to better interpret them. It is also designed to assist the non-specialist work through these sometimes difficult epistles. This 4th edition contains an expansion of the chapter, “Currents and Crosscurrents”, additions to the bibliography, as well as changes to the language and references in each chapter, bringing up to date this valuable resource.
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Biblical Archaeology
$19.99Add to cartWhen busy people want to know more about the Bible and the Christian faith, the Zondervan Quick-Reference Library offers an instant information alternative. Covering the basics of the faith and Bible knowledge in an easy-to-use format, this series helps new Christians and seasoned believers find answers to their questions about Christianity and the Bible.
The information is presented in units of one or two pages, so that each section can be read in a few minutes. The Zondervan Quick-Reference Library makes important knowledge affordable, accessible, and easy to understand for busy people who don’t have a lot of time to read or study.
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Peoples Of The Old Testament World
$38.00Add to cartBrian Rosner writes, As a Jew who became the apostle to the Gentiles, Paul stood between the Jewish and pagan worlds. Consequently New Testament scholars have long debated the question of the sources of Paul’s thought. To which sphere was he more indebted?” In Paul, Scripture, and Ethics, Rosner asks this question anew in regard to the source of Paul’s ethical teaching.
In contrast to widely held scholarly opinion, Rosner uses Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 5-7 (where he addresses incest, exclusion, greed, sexual immorality, the government, and marriage) to demonstrate that Paul was indebted to the Old Testament for his ethics.
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Library Of Qumran
$32.99Add to cartOriginally published in German, this work contains the insights of Hartmut Stegemann, one of the world’s premier experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Stegemann recounts his personal experiences examining the scrolls, and gives his thoughts and conclusions about the contents and meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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How The Bible Came To Be
$20.00Add to cartIn a clear and concise way, John Barton explains the process of the development of the Bible. He describes how that which we now know as the Bible came to be written and collected into the authoritative scriptures of the Christian church. With a helpful glossary of important terms, this work is a valuable resource for personal or group Bible studies, beginning Bible students, and all readers who have questions about the origin and transmission of Holy Scripture.
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History Of Prophecy In Israel (Revised)
$56.00Add to cartThis revised and enlarged edition of a classic in Old Testament scholarship reflects the most up-to-date research on the prophetic books and offers substantially expanded discussions of important new insight on Isaiah and the other prophets.
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Portraits Of Paul
$48.00Add to cartThese pioneers in applying cultural anthropology to the New Testament re-examine Acts and the Epistles, drawing contrasts between modern and ancient views of personality. They show how public speeches were shaped by conventions of rhetoric and morality, while honor/shame and gender distinctions cause us to misread Paul.
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Sage Priest Prophet
$37.00Add to cartIn this volume in the Library of Ancient Israel, the author investigates three forms of biblical Israel’s intellectual and religious leadership; the sage, the priest, and the prophet. He looks at the development and character of these roles and how they functioned in their particular time and place. This investigation will lead to a keener understanding of the literature of the Old Testament and the society in which it evolved. It will also shed light on how certain religious traditions originated and how they have developed.
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Truth Under Lock And Key
$25.00Add to cartKlaus Berger offers a clearly written and highly understandable introduction to the controversy surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls. He insightfully examines the relationship between the Judaism of the Qumran community and Christianity in its formative period. The picture that emerges proves to be more provocative and interesting than the speculative views that are making such a stir at the present. An ideal starting point for the nonspecialist, this book provides basic and reliable information about the Dead Sea Scrolls and their significance for Christianity.
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Scripture And Other Artifacts
$55.00Add to cartThis important volume focuses on the contribution of excavated material to the interpretation of biblical texts. Here, both practicing archaelogists and biblical scholars who have been active in fieldwork demonstrate that archaeological data and biblical accounts are complementary in the study of ancient Israel, early Judaism, and Christianity. Thus scriptural and archaeological finds are illuminated by consideration of both.
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Jeremiah : An Archaeological Companion
$42.00Add to cartPhilip King utilizes archaeological artifacts and texts of the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE, many of them unpublished or not easily accessible, to elucidate the text of the book of Jeremiah, a book that is sometimes described as difficult and whose formation is complicated. By doing so, he adds important spatial and temporal dimension to the history of Israel and to the literature about the life of one of its most significant prophets: Jeremiah.
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Through The Ages In Palestinian Archaeology
$54.95Add to cartI came across this book while I was preparing to join an archaeological expedition in Israel. I knew that the site had a long history of occupation and I wanted to get a basic overview of the cultures and artifacts associated with the region from prehistory to modern times. This book was exactly what I was looking for. It describes each major period and provides photographs of significant sites and characteristic artifacts. It also provides a history of the past few centuries of archaeology in the region, the approaches taken, and new techniques. The level of detail is very adequate for an overview without bogging down the reader. Having this background helped me get a lot more out of the dig.
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Archaeology And Bible History (Revised)
$24.99Add to cartJoseph P. Free’s Archaeology and Bible History, first published in 1950, served well an entire generation of pastors, Sunday school teachers, laypersons, and college students by summarizing the history of the Bible and shedding light on biblical events through archaeological discoveries. The author demonstrated how such data helps us understand the Bible and confirm its historical accuracy. At times he also dealt with issues of biblical interpretation and criticism, always from a historically orthodox position. When the book was withdrawn from circulation in 1976 after the fourteenth printing, many hoped for the day when it would be revised and updated. That task has now been undertaken by one of Dr. Free’s former students and a biblical archaeologist in his own right, Dr. Howard Vos. He has brought the archaeological and historical material up to date and has modified earlier archaeological interpretations where necessary. The bibliography has been almost totally replaced.
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Amos Hosea Micah
$33.00Add to cartEminently 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 function of this discipline as the illumination of the events recorded in the Bible in order to clarify the text. In Amos, Hosea, and Micah, King offers an enlightening and elegant commentary on the eight-century prophets from an archaeological perspective.
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Old Testament And The Archaeologist
$14.00Add to cartThe recovery of the history of the ancient Near East through archaeology is one of the major achievements of the modern age. Although the impact of this new knowledge on biblical matters is briefly surveyed, the main concern of this book is with the methods that archaeologists use in going about their work. Lance discusses the principles of excavation and how the materials recovered are brought to bear on biblical studies. The book explains in detail the principles of stratigraphy and typology, suggests practical ways for the beginner to find needed information in the confusing array of primary and secondary publications, and takes a brief look at the future of biblical archaeology as a discipline.
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Stories From Ancient Canaan
$25.00Add to cartContained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The Healers, Kirta and Baal. Stories from Ancient Canaan is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and will be useful to students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.
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Land Of The Bible (Expanded)
$58.00Add to cartSince its first publication in this country, Yohanan Aharoni’s informative, fact-filled work has been a prime source in its field. Now considerably enlarged, and with both text and maps updated, this classic study offers an even more accurate description of the geography, history, and archeology of Palestine. The Land of the Bible is an essential textbook that will continue to serve both scholars and students for years to come.
