Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings

Today, the conception of spirits and demons has been mostly consigned to pop culture in films and novels.

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Biblical literature is as philosophically savvy as any ancient intellectual tradition, using story, law, and poetry to reason with us.

The Christian church has consistently confessed that the triune God of the gospel is simple and therefore beyond composition.

Einer der erfahrensten Bibelkommentatoren legt ein weiteres Werk vor: den ersten Teil seiner Auslegung des Matthäusevangeliums.

Cato Gulaker employs narrative criticism to explore where the depiction of Satan found in the Book of Revelation is positioned on the axis of two divergent roles.

Hannah M Cotton's collected papers focus on questions which have fascinated her for over four decades: the concrete relationships between law, language, administration and everyday life in Judaea and Nabataea in particular, and in the Roman world as a whole.

In this provocative study, Lester Grabbe presents a unique approach to Ezra-Nehemiah with the combination of a literary and historical approach.

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cultural notes on them.

The festive meal texts of Deuteronomy 12-26 depict Israel as a unified people participating in cultic banquets - a powerful and earthy image for both preexilic Judahite and later audiences.

Based on modern methods on social memory taken from cultural studies the author of this volume presents a model for reading Biblical texts as collective memories, the example here being the Gospel of Mark.

Respected scholar Dorothy Lee considers evidence from the New Testament and early church to show that women's ministry is confirmed by the biblical witness.

This thematic introduction to classical Islamic philosophy focuses on the most prevalent philosophical debates of the medieval Islamic world and their importance within the history of philosophy.

John''s Gospel directs attention to the vision of community.

Baptism is a foundational rite and sacrament of the church.

This volume in the acclaimed feminist companion to the bible series, edited by Athalya Brenner, draws together a range of leading biblical commentators to discuss one of the most challenging and fascinating biblical texts for feminist interpretation, the book of Genesis.

The Letter to Philemon has been read by generations of interpreters, including towering figures such as John Chrysostom, as having to do with Paul returning the fugitive slave Onesimus to his master.

Since antiquity, many have come to view benefaction and patronage in a negative light, largely due to the increasingly immoral motives of those involved in systems that can be exploitative or corrupt.

Grow in your faith as you meditate on the Word of God each day.

Die Froschauerbibel von 1531 ist ein reformations-, kultur- und sprachgeschichtliches Schlüsseldokument der Reformationszeit.

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Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd).

The ancient origins and divinatory power of the runes *; Uncovers the original divinatory meaning of each rune through the myths of its corresponding Norse god or goddess *; Includes beautiful full-color illustrations of the runic gods and goddesses *; Presents rune-casting spreads for divination and character analysis *; Explores the controversial history of runes from the Paleolithic Stone Age to today Invented long before the appearance of the runic alphabet Futhark less than two thousand years ago, the runes were originally created as symbols for specific deities.

Peter is a fascinating character in all four canonical gospels, not only as a literary figure in each of the gospels respectively, but also when looked at from an intertextual perspective.

The church has emphasized ideas about God that have marginalized Jesus’ understanding of his spiritual Father, his Abba.

Mystics who have spoken of their union with God have come under suspicion in all three major religious traditions, sometimes to the point of condemnation and execution in the case of Christianity and Islam.

From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three Abrahamic faiths often runs high.

From the bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: John Shelby Spong's original groundbreaking classic, now newly revised, reveals the Jesus "e;behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition.

Paul's first letter to the Corinthians deals with key aspects of the formation of the Christian community at Corinth.

This book is a series of essays in the area of current culture and its defects, Christian religious belief, and other political and philosophical issues.

Addresses the issue of the precarious nature of Davidic sonship in the Gospel of Mark.

Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

"Bildung" ist eines der zentralen Kommunikationssymbole in unserer Gesellschaft.

What happens when prophets are wrong?

Der Theologische Kommentar zum Neuen Testament steht in der Tradition klassischer historisch-kritischer Kommentarkultur der neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft.

Creative imitation (Gk.

Nahtod-Erlebnisse sind in den Siebziger Jahren als Grenzerfahrungen in der Nähe des Todes bekannt geworden.

The apostle Peter is a pillar of the church whose writing has been overlooked until recently when scholarship remedied this gap, significantly elevating Peter's letters.

Discover new dimensions of insight with a behind-the-scenes tour of the ancient worldYou've heard many Bible stories hundreds of times, but how many details are you missing?