Una cita de la encíclica Laudato si' del papa Francisco es el punto de partida de este libro, en el que el cardenal Ravasi propone a los lectores un viaje fascinante hacia la Creación, tal como se describe en las Sagradas Escrituras.
La mujer que tocó a Jesús es un personaje que en el evangelio de Marcos destaca por su lealtad, su autenticidad y su resiliencia, su iniciativa y su capacidad reflexiva, su diaconía en el nuevo grupo y su poder relacional.
This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11, investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom, power, and the 'good life.
This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11, investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom, power, and the 'good life.
First published over ten years ago, The Queer Bible Commentary brings together the work of several scholars and pastors known for their interest in the areas of gender, sexuality and Biblical studies.
Throughout history, we have exalted and theologised about men like Adam or David to the point where we have become oblivious to the fact that they are far from perfect role models for Christian manhood.
A narrative history of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference, the bipartisan, last-ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, an effort that nearly averted the carnage that followed.
Focusing on getting the right 'life balance' between rest, work and play, this course in five interactive sessions aims to help groups explore how to build Sabbath time into the crazy pressures of everyday life, and how Sabbath attitudes can transform the way we spend our time.
This book on Jeremiah seeks to place before a broad audience of students and lay readers one of the truly great Hebrew prophets and extraordinary individuals of the ancient world.
There is no more important topic for inquiry today than the meaning and message of Jesus, for in this quest lies the solution to human discontent and despair.
This book focuses on worship in the letters of Paul in an effort to shed some light upon this key theme and bring the various dimensions of its significance into the foreground of Pauline studies.
The Bible has the unfortunate legacy of being associated with gross human rights violations as evident in the scriptural justification of apartheid in South Africa as well as slavery in the American South.
As with archaeology, traditio-historical research of Old Testament literature proceeds backwards from the received text, travelling through the earlier stages of compositions to the probable origins.
John Paul Heil presents an original analysis of the theme of worship in the book of Revelation guided by a new illustration of its comprehensive chiastic structure.
This book proposes new and comprehensive chiastic structures as well as new unifying themes for the often-neglected New Testament letters of 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and Jude.
