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Jesus Discoveries : 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face With Jesus
$17.9910 Historic Finds That Support the Truth of Christianity
– Explore compelling archeological discoveries that support the authenticity of the Bible, the resurrection of Jesus, and the reasonableness of Christianity
– For believers and skeptics alike
– From an acclaimed biblical scholar and ministry leader
In an age of growing skepticism, many demand hard evidence before believing anything is true–especially when it comes to Jesus and the Bible. A kind of “artifacts or it didn’t happen” attitude. Perhaps nowhere is this attitude more prevalent than when considering the claims of Christianity. The irony of this is that there are centuries of archaeological discoveries that support the narratives found in the Bible. Lost cities and civilizations, found. Lost art and technology, rediscovered. Lost documents, retrieved.
Okay, fine, the skeptic says. I’ll give you cities and art. But what about Jesus? There’s no actual evidence that he ever lived, right? Wrong.
In this eye-opening, faith-fortifying book from acclaimed New Testament scholar and minister Jeremiah Johnston, you’ll encounter ten of the most compelling historic finds that corroborate the truth claims found in the Bible regarding who Jesus said he was, when and where He lived, His claims and aims, how His life ended, and how that wasn’t the end of His story. Far more than a tour of the past, The Jesus Discoveries connects His story with your story, perhaps in ways you’ve never before considered–revealing how Jesus’s story changes your story.
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IVP Atlas Of Bible History Second Edition
$56.99Open Your Understanding of the World of Scripture
The story of the Bible is inextricably linked to the land. To understand biblical history, we need to understand how the people, events, and geography interacted to form that ancient world.
Spanning three thousand years of biblical history, The IVP Atlas of Bible History reveals the many fascinating ways that history and archaeology confirm and complement the Bible’s story. Taking a narrative approach, the atlas traces the unfolding of major events in the Old and New Testaments, from Abraham’s wanderings in Canaan and Egypt to Paul’s missions and the founding of new churches. It covers the many places of the world of the Bible, from Spain to Iran, from Yemen to Greece. Scholarly insights presented in a readable style add depth and color to our understanding of key people and stories in Scripture.
Features and benefits you’ll find in The IVP Atlas of Bible History:
*Ninety-seven maps to help understand the biblical narrative and provide background information
*More than 150 color photographs, panoramic illustrations, and site plans, plus a range of battle plans and small artworks
*Special features on subjects such as the peoples and languages of the Bible that will deepen understanding of geography, landscape, climate, culture, and religion.
This is the perfect companion for anyone seeking a clear, reader-friendly, visual introduction to the history of the Bible.
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Nelsons New Illustrated Bible Manners And Customs
$39.99Discover how the people of the Bible really lived.
Imagine being able to walk the streets of Abraham’s hometown, adjust to life in Babylonian captivity, or travel the roads of Palestine amid the latest buzz about Jesus from Nazareth.
Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Manners & Customs paints an accurate and descriptive picture of ancient civilization throughout the ages. In twenty historical segments, Howard F. Vos tells the story of God’s people from Abraham to the end of the New Testament in biblical order. Unlike other books about Bible lands and cultures, this volume distinguishes the ways life differed from period to period and place to place.
The following topics are covered in each segment:
*Geography and climate
*Government, religion, and warfare
*Housing, family, and dress
*Diet and agriculture
*Education and work
*Travel and commerceComplete with over 400 photographs, extensive bibliographies, and easy-to-understand language, Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Manners & Customs is the go-to guide for studying the customs, manners, and lives of the people of the Bible.
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Judaism Of The Second Temple Period Volume 1
$33.99David Flusser was a very prolific scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and his contributions to Scrolls research, apocalypticism, and apocalyptic literature are inestimable. With this English translation of many of his essays, Flusser’s insights are now available to a wider audience than ever before.
Here Flusser examines the influence of apocalypticism on various Jewish sects. He states that the teachings of Jesus, while reflecting first and foremost the views of the sages, were also influenced by Jewish apocalypticism. Examining the Essenes, their effect on Hebrew language, the split of sects, and much more, Flusser’s collected essays offer an important source of study for any Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.
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Introducing Jesus : A Short Guide To The Gospels History And Message
$21.23To Christians worldwide, the man Jesus of Nazareth is the centerpiece of history, the object of faith, hope, and worship. Even those who do not follow him admit the vast influence of his life. For anyone interested in knowing more about Jesus, study of the four biblical Gospels is essential.
An abridged edition of the bestselling textbook Four Portraits, One Jesus by Mark Strauss, this simple, easy-to-understand guide introduces the four biblical Gospels and their subject, the life and person of Jesus.
Like different artists rendering the same subject using different styles and points of view, the Gospels paint four distinctive portraits of the same remarkable Jesus. With clarity and insight, Mark Strauss addresses questions that surround the study of Jesus and the Gospels. What are the Gospels – are they history, theology, biography? Where did they come from? What do we know about their context? What does each Gospel uniquely teach us about Jesus? Finally, he pulls it all together illuminating what the Gospels together teach about Jesus’ ministry, message, death, and resurrection, and how do we know we can trust their witness.
Including questions at the end of each chapter for group discussion or personal reflection, Introducing Jesus makes the words, history, and context of the Gospels come alive for readers.
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Christianity At The Crossroads
$33.99Christianity in the twenty-first century is a global phenomenon. But in the second century, its future was not at all certain.
Initially Christianity possessed little social or cultural influence and found itself fighting for its life. While apostolic tradition was emerging as a “rule of faith,” factions contested the nature of the gospel, and pagan philosophers found its claims scandalous. And while its pathway was tenuous, Christianity was forming structures of leadership and worship, and a core of apostolic texts was emerging as authoritative. But it was the challenges, obstacles, and transitions faced by Christians in the second century that, in many ways, would determine the future of the church for the next two millennia. It was a time when Christianity stood at a crossroads.
Michael Kruger’s introductory survey examines how Christianity took root in the second century, how it battled to stay true to the vision of the apostles, and how it developed in ways that would shape both the church and Western culture over the next two thousand years. Christianity at the Crossroads provides an accessible and informative look at the complex and foundational issues faced by an infant church still trying to determine its identity. The church’s response to the issues of heresy and orthodoxy, the development of the canon, and the transmission of the Christian Scriptures not only determined its survival, but determined the kind of church it would be for generations to come.
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Recovering Lost Treasure
$14.99FORGOTTEN TREASURES WAIT FOR REDISCOVERY IN
THE CULTURAL RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM IN THE BIBLE.
God used symbolic patterns in the Bible to communicate His truth and plans for humanity. Th ese little-known patterns in the Bible have continued through time and spread around the world. Th is exploration of myths, symbols, and rituals shows how they are all related and reveals what the patterns show about God’s plan through Christ.
Dr. Eric Odell-Hein brings a unique approach to understanding biblical symbolism, backed by academic expertise and biblical orthodoxy. Personal stories illustrate each point.
Discover:– The universal pattern to religious symbolism
– How the Bible points to Christ through use of this pattern
– How Christ is the superior, literal fulfillment of all mythical patterns.Add to cartin stock within 3-5 days of online purchase
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Hitting The Holy Road
$22.99In the face of climate change and other environmental trends, it is easy to be pessimistic about the future. Philosophers, film-makers, environmentalists, politicians and even senior scientists increasingly resort to apocalyptic rhetoric to warn us that a so-called “perfect storm’ of factors are coming together in a way that threatens the future of life on earth. Do these dire predictions amount to nothing more than ideological scaremongering, perhaps hyped-up for political or personal ends? Or are there good reasons for thinking that we may indeed be facing a crisis unprecedented in its scale and in the severity of its effects?Jonathan Moo and Robert White encourage us to assess the evidence for ourselves. Their own conclusion is that there is in fact plenty of cause for concern. Climate change, they suggest, is potentially the most far-reaching threat that our planet faces in the coming decades, but only the most publicized. There is a wide range of much more obvious, interrelated and damaging impacts that an ever-growing number of people, consuming more and more, are having on the planet upon which we all depend.Yet if the Christian gospel fundamentally reorientates us in our relationship with God and his world, then there ought to be something radically distinctive about our attitude and approach to such threats. Moo and White therefore reflect on just what difference the Bible’s vision of the future of all of creation makes to how we live now and respond to the challenges facing life on earth.
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Tenderness Of God
$56.66Introduction
A Few Words About My Approach
1. Becoming A Pilgrim People: Journeying Together
2. Disruption And The Need For Connection: Searching For Meaning
3. Touched By Tenderness: Encountering God
4. The Revolution Of Tenderness: Practicing Misericordia And Communio
5. The Ground Of Our Belonging
6. The Invitation
?Epilogue: Let The Revolution Begin!
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At moments in history, individuals have embodied the gospel message with creativity and passion. One such moment began when a returned veteran named Francis Bernardone found a whole new world in a desolate space just outside Assisi: a leper colony. Drawn to discover the incarnate God, and joined by a collaborator as able and determined as he, Francis and Clare of Assisi’s desire to live authentically in gospel simplicity ushered in a revolutionary sensitivity to the presence of God within the human community.Today, eight hundred years later, the first pope to take the name Francis invites us to engage the “revolution of tenderness” to which we are “summoned by the God who became flesh.” The example of Pope Francis gives us a new and vivid sense of just how compelling radical sincerity and reverent encounter with others can be. Capitalizing on the legacy of Francis and Clare and the energy of a visionary pope who raises critical questions about how to be faithful to the gospel, The Tenderness of God invites readers into a rich conversation across time and space about how to recapture our humanity and nurture our God-given capacity to live meaningfully and joyfully in communion with others.
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Early Christianity In Pompeian Light
$81.66Editor’s Preface
Envisioning Situations
1. Growing Up Female In The Pauline Churches-Carolyn Osiek
2. Nine Types Of Church In Nine Types Of Space In The Insula Of The Menander-Peter Oakes
3. The Empress, The Goddess, And The Earthquake-Bruce W. LongeneckerEnhancing Texts
4. Powers And Protection In Pompeii And Paul-Natalie R. Webb
5. Violence In Pompeiian/Roman Domestic Art As A Visual Context For Pauline And Deutero-Pauline Letters-David L. Balch
6. Spheres And Trajectories-Jeremiah N. BaileyBibliography
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Scholars of early Christianity are awakening to the potential of Pompeii’s treasures for casting light on the settings and situations that were commonplace and conventional for the first urban Christians. The uncovered world of Pompeii, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., allows us to peer back in time, capturing a heightened sense of what life was like on the ground in the first century – the very time when the early Jesus-movement was beginning to find its feet. In light of the Vesuvian material remains, historians are beginning to ask fresh questions of early Christian texts and perceive new contours, nuances, and subtleties within the situations those texts address.The essays of this book explore different dimensions of Pompeii’s potential to refine our lenses for interpreting the texts and situations of early Christianity. The contributors to this book (including Carolyn Osiek, David Balch, Peter Oakes, Bruce Longenecker, and others) demonstrate that it is an exciting time to explore the interface between the Vesuvian contexts and the early Jesus-movement.
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Letters Of Paul
$45.00This is the sixth edition of the classic textbook that has been introducing Paul and his writing to seminary and undergraduate students for over forty years. Roetzel provides a comprehensive look at Paul in light of recent scholarship and theological understandings of Paul. This new edition includes four brand-new sections on the following: the chronology of Paul’s letters; Paul’s concept of “law” in the context of messianic expectation; the religious and political contexts in which Paul’s letters were written; and Jewish understandings of Gentiles and Paul’s mission to include them among the elect of God. This long-established textbook is the ideal choice for any student of Paul.
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Galilee In The Late Second Temple And Mishnaic Periods Volume 1
$93.75Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction-David A. Fiensy And James Riley Strange
2. Galilee And The Historical Jesus In Recent Research-Roland Deines
3. The Political History In Galilee From The 1st Century Bce To The End Of The 2nd Century Ce-Morten Hrning Jensen
4. Religious Practices And Religious Movements In Galilee: 100 Bce-200 Ce- Roland Deines
5. The Ethnicities Of Galilee-Mark Chancey
6. The Synagogues Of Galilee-Lee I. Levine
7. Notable Galilean Persons-Scott Caulley
8. Social Movements In Galilee-Richard Horsley
9. The Galilean Village In The Late Second Temple And Mishnaic Periods-David A. Fiensy
10. Household Judaism In Galilee-Andrea Berlin
11. The Galilean House In The Late Second Temple And Mishnaic Periods-David A. Fiensy
12. Mortality, Morbidity, And Economics In Jesus’ Galilee-Jonathan Reed
13. Education/Literacy In Jewish Galilee: Was There Any And At What Level?-John C. Poirier
14. The Galilean Road System-James F. Strange
15. Urbanization And Industry In Mishnaic Galilee-Ze’ev Safrai
16. Never The Two Shall Meet? Urban-Rural Interaction In Lower Galilee-Agnes Choi
17. Inner Village Life In Galilee: A Diverse And Complex Phenomenon-Sharon Lea Mattila
18. Debate: Was The Galilean Economy Oppressive Or Prosperous-Doug Oakman And Andrew Overman
19. Taxation And Other Sources Of Government Income In The Galilee Of Herod And Antipas-Fabian Udoh
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Drawing on the expertise of archaeologists, historians, biblical scholars, and social-science interpreters who have devoted a significant amount of time and energy in the research of ancient Galilee, this accessible volume includes modern general studies of Galilee and of Galilean history, as well as specialized studies on taxation, ethnicity, religious practices, road systems, trade and markets, education, health, village life, houses, and the urban-rural divide.This resource includes a rich selection of images, figures, charts, and maps.
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