Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings

Does John's Apocalypse envision destruction or salvation for the nations of the world?

Revelation claims to tell the story of 'what must soon take place', and yet, despite centuries of scholarly research, the order and content of this story has remained one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

Vital to an agrarian community’s survival, threshing floors are also depicted in the Hebrew Bible as sites for mourning rites, divination rituals, cultic processions, and sacrifices.

A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story.

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This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Live full of faith through hard timesDo you ever feel like you can't take one more thing?

Revelation claims to tell the story of 'what must soon take place', and yet, despite centuries of scholarly research, the order and content of this story has remained one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

The first systematic and comprehensive attempt to identify and analyze the role of Isaianic language and imagery in literature, art, and music Using reception history as its basis for study, Isaiah Through the Centuries is an unprecedented exploration of the afterlife of the Book of Isaiah, specifically in art, literature, and music.

Virtue amidst Vice represents an attempt to probe a relatively obscure portion of a relatively obscure New Testament document.

In this exciting volume, Diane B.

Luke and the Jewish Other takes up the debated question of the orientation of Luke toward the Jewish people.

A fascinating reception history of the theological, ethical, and social themes in the letters of Paul In the first decades after the death of Jesus, the letters of the apostle Paul were the chief written resource for Christian believers, as well as for those seeking to formulate Christian thought and practice.

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas (or Paidika) is one of the most unusual gospels in the Christian tradition.

This volume investigates the question of how both Assyria and Judah could remember the war of 701 BCE as their respective victory.

The short letter to the Colossians has played a significant role in the development of Christian thought.

Bibeltexte und biblische Gestalten spielen in den Schriften der Kirchenväter eine wichtige Rolle.

Prayer is the lifeblood of the Christian faith--but many followers of Jesus still struggle to make prayer part of their daily lives.

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For years, Christians have argued, debated, and fought one another while "e;speaking the truth in love,"e; yet we are no closer to the grace-filled life Jesus modeled.

In Not Like Those Who Have No Hope, Nestor O.

Paul on Identity shows the inner connection in Pauls view of three distinct issues that all focus on identity: What defines the fundamental Christ identity for which Paul argues?

Explore Answers to Life's Most Important Theological Questions.

In this book the author thoroughly examines the pentateuchal elohistic source, its structural unity and its relationship to the yahwistic source.

Argues that shifts in the marriage customs of ancient Palestine were directly related to wider social changes.

What does the Bible say?

1 Enoch was an important and popular text in ancient Judaism, well attested among the manuscripts at Qumran, and a key piece of the puzzle of Jewish origins.

Die Bibel wird nur da recht verstanden, wo der Ausleger selbst in den Verstehensraum hineingezogen wird.

The Abingdon New Testament Commentaries series provides compact, critical commentaries on the writings of the New Testament.

Tackle each day with an undaunted attitude in an age of mindless doomscrolling and consumption of negative news.

The prophet Amos is known for fiery messages directed at the elites of the northern kingdom of Israel in ancient times.

This book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views practice their religion.

In Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, pastor and theologian R.

Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E.

Luke models his portrayal both of Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts after the human agent of the Isaianic New Exodus in Isaiah 40-66, the servant.

The forty days of Lent open up a journey from the top of Transfiguration Mountain to the bottom of the Valley of the Cross.