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Bibles

  • Reading the Bible Again For the First Timeby Marcus J. Borg

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99

    One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding of the scriptures. Many mistakenly believe there... more...

  • Begatby David Crystal

    OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 15.99

    What do the following have in common?Let there be light - A fly in the ointment - A rod of iron - New wine in old bottlesLick the dust - How are the mighty fallen - Kick against the pricks - Wheels within wheelsThey are all in the King James Bible. This astonishing book "has contributed far more to English in the way of idiomatic or quasi-proverbial... more...

  • Easton's Bible Dictionaryby M. G. Easton

    Packard Technologies 2002; US$ 9.95

    Includes 4,000 Bible Topics and Descriptions. Includes the full text of the book. more...

  • Jesusby Bart D. Ehrman

    Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 19.99

    This controversial book argues that Jesus, like many of his later followers, proclaimed that God was soon to intervene in human affairs and bring all of history to a screeching halt. The author shows why Jesus should be understood as an apocalyptic prophet who anticipated the destruction of evil, the end of the age, and beginning of a new world. more...

  • Ezra-Nehemiahby Lester L. Grabbe

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95

    In this provocative study, Lester Grabbe presents a unique approach to Ezra-Nehemiah with the combination of a literary and historical approach. Lester Grabbe challenges commonly held assumptions about Joshua and Zerubbabel, the initial resettlement of land after the exile, the figure of Ezra and the activities of Nehemiah. Controversially, the challenge... more...

  • Early Christians and Animalsby Robert M. Grant

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95

    Early Christians and Animals presents a lively study of the significance of animals in early Christian thought, tradition, text and art. Robert M. Grant: * examines the diverse and often conflicting sources, from the pagan antecedents Aristotle and Pliny, to Biblical animal references and the Church fathers * provides fresh translations of key texts... more...

  • Houses of the Interpreterby David Lyle Jeffrey

    Baylor University Press 2003; US$ 49.95

    In Houses of the Interpreter, David Lyle Jeffrey explores the terrain of the cultural history of biblical interpretation. But Jeffrey does not merely rest content to chart biblical scholarship and how it has both influenced and been influenced by culture. Instead, he chooses to focus upon the ''art'' of Biblical interpretation --how sculptors, musicians,... more...

  • Racializing Jesusby Shawn Kelley

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95

    Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship. Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates... more...

  • Luke's Gospelby Jonathan Knight; Jonathan Knight Nfa

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95

    Luke's Gospel provides a comprehensive and schematic reading of Luke's Gospel, one of the most important books detailing the life and works of Christ, in six main parts. Knight introduces the Gospel and the narrative theory on which the Gospel rests. He offers a detailed, chapter-by-chapter exposition of the Gospel and also alternative perspectives,... more...

  • In the Beginningby Alister Mcgrath

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00

    In the sixteenth century, to attempt to translate the Bible into a common tongue wasn't just difficult, it was dangerous. A Bible in English threatened the power of the monarch and the Church. Early translators like Tyndale, whose work greatly influenced the King James, were hunted down and executed, but the demand for English Bibles continued to grow.... more...