In July 2008 a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Commenting on this startling discovery at the time, noted Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin argued that "some Christians will find it shocking--a challenge to the uniqueness of their theology." In this powerful, groundbreaking work, Boyarin guides us through a rich tapestry of new discoveries and ancient scriptures to make the powerful case that our conventional understandings of ... View More...
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet. How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the world? These are the questions Thomas Cahill addresses in his subtle and engaging investigation into the life and times of Jesus. Cahill shows us Jesus from his birth to his execution through the eyes of those who knew him and in the context of his time--a time when the Jews were struggling to maintain their... View More...
Michael Card shares his very personal journey through Christ's life, a journey which also inspired his beloved album trilogy, The Life. Here, readers walk with Michael Card through the life of Christ for a new understanding of the meaning of Immanuel, meaning God with us. Illustrated. View More...
How did Jesus shape history? In AD 33 an obscure religious teacher died a criminal's death in a distant outpost of the Roman Empire Yet this was an event with world-changing consequences What was the world like in that momentous year? Colin Duriez's compelling book brings to life events in the Roman Empire and beyond View More...
No one has been like Jesus in all of history. The work and words of God all center in him from the prophecies that foreshadowed him, to his miraculous birth, to his unparalleled teaching, to his resurrection and ascension into heaven. Through an inductive study of Matthew 1 15 and other material, you ll discover the wonder and majesty as well as the tenderness and compassion of Jesus. This workbook can be used with the next book in the Walking with God series, Follow Me as a two-part study on the life of Christ. You ll cover all of Matthew and the entire life of Christ on earth and profoundly... View More...
Modern historical study of the Gospels seems to give us a new portrait of Jesus every spring--just in time for Easter. The more unusual the portrait, the more it departs from the traditional view of Jesus, the more attention it gets in the popular media. Why are scholars so prone to fabricate a new Jesus? Why is the public so eager to accept such claims without question? What methods and assumptions predispose scholars to distort the record? Is there a more sober approach to finding the real Jesus? Commenting on such recent releases as Bart Ehrman'sMisquoting Jesus, James Tabor's The Jesus Dyn... View More...
Few words are more common in Christianity than "Jesus Christ is Lord." However, few words are more poorly understood by those who profess to know Christ. The Lordship of Jesus Christ is vitally connected with His work as Mediator. This book addresses this neglected subject that is so central to the Holy Bible and Christian experience. View More...
There is much discussion today about how we are to understand the life of Jesus in the Gospels. What was Jesus doing between his birth and death and how does this relate to salvation? This book corrects the Christian tendency to minimize the life of Jesus, explaining why the Gospels include much more than the Passion narratives. Brandon Crowe argues that Jesus is identified in the Gospels as the last Adam whose obedience recapitulates and overcomes the sin of the first Adam. Crowe shows that all four Gospels present Jesus's obedient life as having saving significance. View More...
To abide is to remain, to rest, to dwell, to be at home. Emily Darnell encourages readers to truly abide in God and His Word, not just to read a couple of verses, but to take time to meditate on it and be nourished. Each chapter will unfold an aspect of abiding, ending with some practices to incorporate in personal worship, or Scriptures to meditate upon to grow deeper in grace, and in knowledge and love of the One who loved you first.
A Doubter's Guide to Jesus is an introduction to the major portraits of Jesus found in the earliest historical sources. Portraits because our best information points not to a tidy, monolithic Jesus, but to a complex, multi-layered and, at times, contradictory figure. While some might be troubled by this, fearing that plurality equals incomprehensibility or unreliability, others take it as an invitation to do some rearranging for themselves, trying to make Jesus neater, more systematic and digestible.After two millennia of spiritual devotion and more than two centuries of modern critical resear... View More...
Comparable in style to the best-selling Ologies children's fantasy book series, Jesus iWitness takes you on a visually immersive, interactive tour of his earthly life using vintage photographs of the Holy Land along with richly colored historical paintings. Across 32 intensively designed pages (16 spreads acting as indi- vidual chapters) -- each containing information that is physically nested and must be actively opened to discover -- readers witness the reality of the events, places, and people in the life of Christ. It's a fresh and compelling way for anyone 12 or older to let the Word of G... View More...
James Dunn is regarded worldwide as one of today's foremost biblical scholars. Having written groundbreaking studies of the New Testament and a standard work on Paul's theology, Dunn here turns his pen to the rise of Christianity itself. Jesus Remembered is the first installment in what will be a monumental three-volume history of the first 120 years of the faith. Focusing on Jesus, this first volume has several distinct features. It garners the lessons to be learned from the quest for the historical Jesus and meets the hermeneutical challenges to a historical and theological assessment of the... View More...
