In this provocative collection of dramatic monologues, the author gives powerful voice to the New Testament women who met Jesus before and after the Resurrection.
The books of the New Testament are some of the most extraordinary documents ever created - brilliant, vivid works central to the lives of many millions of readers over the centuries.
Esta obra lleva a cabo un análisis diacrónico de los resultados de casi dos siglos de método histórico-crítico en dos campos: la investigación sobre las fuentes del Pentateuco (primer capítulo) y el estudio de la figura del profeta (segundo capítulo).
In this thoughtful follow-up to Simply Christian, todays leading Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and acclaimed author uses the Gospel of John to reveal how Christianity presents a compelling and relevant explanation for our world.
Reinterpreting the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, DouglasKlotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ that reveals a mystical, feminist, cosmic Christ.
It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading this book without finding some new insight or inspiration, some new and unexpected testimony to the astonishing breadth of Christianity through the centuries.
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretive retelling of the events in Jesus life through the medium of fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the Beloved Disciple.
With wit, wisdom, and an extraordinary talent for turning dry, difficult reading into colorful and realistic accounts, the creator of the bestselling Don't Know Much About, series now brings the world of the Old and New testaments to life as no one else can in the bestseller Don't Know Much About The Bible.
The greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus Christ, in The Gospel in BriefLeo Tolstoys riveting, novelistic integration of the four Gospels into a single, twelve-chapter narrative.
In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.
The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran exposes how the Koran incites hatred and violence and is anti-democratic, anti-freedom, and intolerant of any other ideology.
Este trabajo se ocupa con detalle de las controversias de Jesús en el evangelio según Marcos, tema comparable en importancia a las parábolas, las acciones simbólicas y los milagros.
El cine, la pintura y la literatura la han mostrado como anacoreta penitente, como prostituta arrepentida, como amante o esposa de Jesús Sin embargo, los rasgos con los que María Magdalena es presentada en los textos más antiguos, los evangelios, han sido pasados casi por alto o tergiversados.
En 1947 tuvo lugar uno de los acontecimientos arqueológicos más importantes para el estudio de la Biblia, el descubrimiento de los manuscritos del mar Muerto en la zona de Qumrán.
El conflictivo tema de los ricos, que tiene como llamativa contraparte a los pobres, es tan antiguo como los recuerdos y registros históricos de la humanidad.
La constitución Dei Verbum, promulgada por el Concilio Vaticano II hace cuarenta años, dio muchos y extraordinarios impulsos a la lectura bíblica en la Iglesia católica.
Nos encontramos ante seiscientos años de voz profética, una misma voz, pero con variados tonos, que recorren los libros de los Doce, conocidos como los Doce profetas menores, y el de Daniel.