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The Bible and the Ancient Near East
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Cyrus Herzl Gordon |
This up-to-date revision of a classic work draws on the latest archaeological and linguistic research to fill in the historical realities behind the great stories of the Bible.
This account of the… |
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Creation regained
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Albert M. Wolters |
In print for two decades and translated into eight languages, Albert Wolters's classic formulation of an integrated Christian worldview has been revised and expanded to reach new readers beyond the g… |
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A theology of the Old Testament
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J. W. Rogerson |
"The remarkable thing about the Old Testament is the persistence of its visions of a better humanity and a better world." Rather than seek to establish "what people may or may not once have believed … |
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The messenger of the Lord in early Jewish interpretations of Genesis
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Camilla Hélena von Heijne |
Texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31 mention an enigmatic figure, "the messenger/angel of the Lord". The identity of God and this angel is merged. The angel is anonymous and speaks with divine authority … |
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War in the Bible and terrorism in the twenty-first century
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Elmer A. Martens,Richard S. Hess |
In February 2004, Denver Seminary's annual Biblical Studies conference addressed the question of modern war and the teachings of biblical ethics regarding it. The conference was envisioned as a colla… |
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Newness in Old Testament prophecy
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Henk Leene |
Henk Leene examines the relations between the new song raised in the Psalms, the new things concealed in Deutero-Isaiah, the new heaven and the new earth announced in Trito-Isaiah, Ezekiel's new hear… |
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Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
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Larry R. Helyer |
From the crisis of the Babylonian exile to the rise of rabbinic Judaism -- a span of over six hundred years -- the Jewish people produced a wealth of literature that lies outside the Hebrew Bible. To… |
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Conceiving a nation
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Mira Morgenstern |
"Interprets the Bible as a text concerned with the political reality of conceiving and nurturing a nation. Highlights the emphasis that the Bible places on women's contribution to what it takes to ma… |
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Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
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Simon John De Vries |
From the Old Testament it is immediately evident that the people of Israel had a clear notion of their presence in time and history. But though the ancient Hebrews thus stand out among their Semitic … |
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The Marzeah in the Prophetic Literature
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John L. McLaughlin |
"The marzeah existed for 3000 years in the Semitic world, but is only mentioned in the First Testament at Amos 6:7 and Jeremiah 16:5. Other prophetic texts have been proposed as allusions that do not… |
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The Shtetl book
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Diane K. Roskies |
Examines the history and way of life of Jews in Eastern Europe. |
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The Messiah in the Old Testament
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Walter C. Kaiser |
Old Testament texts that point to the coming of the Messiah are traditionally interpreted either from the viewpoint of their New Testament fulfillment (evangelicalism) or their linguistic and grammat… |
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Rejection by God
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Monica J. Melanchthon |
"This book focuses on the motif of "divine rejection" in the Hebrew Bible and on the significance of this motif in ancient Hebrew thought. The evolution of the theme of divine rejection is traced fro… |
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