Category: Bible History

Textual Criticism of the Bible provides a starting point for the study of both Old and New Testament textual criticism. In this book, you will be introduced to the world of biblical manuscripts and learn how scholars analyze and evaluate all of that textual data to bring us copies of the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek that can be used for translating the Bible into modern languages. Textual Criticism of the Bible surveys the field, explains technical terminology, and demonstrates in numerous examples how various textual questions are evaluated. Complicated concepts are clearly explained a...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

By: Bruce Feiler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: William Morrow : April 2001

Seller ID: 383827

ISBN-13: 9780380977758

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

New York Times BestsellerTo tie into the six-part series Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler airing Summer, 2014, a reissue of the classic New York Times bestseller: one part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Bible is a fascinating, unprecedented journey--by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel--through the most famous stories ever told. The first person ever to complete the perilous 10,000 mile journey across the inscrutable desert landscape of the Middle East, Bruce Feiler, a fifth generation Southern Jew, embarks upon a quest to rec...
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Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion

By: Bruce Feiler

Price: $12.50

Publisher: William Morrow : September 2005

Seller ID: 394600

ISBN-13: 9780060574871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In Where God Was Born, Bruce Feiler once again takes up his unique physical and spiritual exploration of the Holy Land. Feiler travels throughout the most dangerous and war-torn areas of the Middle East, taking readers to biblical sites not seen by Westerners for decades and uncovering little-known details about the common roots of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In his most daring adventure yet, Feiler brings readers along as he retraces the Bible through the bloodiest places on the planet, from the Garden of Eden in war-torn Iraq to the rivers of Babylon just south of Baghdad, from David'...
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Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds

By: Donald Harman Akenson

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Harcourt : October 1998

Seller ID: 5826

ISBN-13: 9780151004188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

With wit, elegance, and clarity, Surpassing Wonder illuminates the ancient Hebrew scriptures, the Christian "New Testament", and the Talmuds of the Rabbis by showing who wrote them, under what circumstances, and why they were given the shape they have. These works constitute the very core of our cultural consciousness and in every century have been hidden from us -- first by priests, then by fundamentalists, and now by narrow scholars.Here, with biting irreverence for prejudice and pretension, Donald Akenson renews our sense of awe before these sacred works by encountering them head-on, by set...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

By: Feiler

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial : March 2002

Seller ID: 19634

ISBN-13: 9780380807314

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey -- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel -- through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mt. Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring journey will forever change your view to some of history's most storied events.
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses (P.S.)

By: Feiler

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial : August 2005

Seller ID: 2332

ISBN-13: 9780060838638

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible describes one man's epic odyssey--by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel--through the greatest stories every told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler's inspiring journey will forever change your view of some of history's most storied events.
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

By: Feiler, Bruce

Price: $5.50

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : November 2014

Seller ID: 376506

ISBN-13: 9780062336507

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

New York Times BestsellerTo tie into the six-part series Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler airing Summer, 2014, a reissue of the classic New York Times bestseller: one part adventure story, one part archaeological detective work, one part spiritual exploration, Walking the Bible is a fascinating, unprecedented journey--by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel--through the most famous stories ever told. The first person ever to complete the perilous 10,000 mile journey across the inscrutable desert landscape of the Middle East, Bruce Feiler, a fifth generation Southern Jew, embarks upon a quest to rec...
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse

By: Ferry

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : June 1993

Seller ID: 18727

ISBN-13: 9780374523831

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.

The Babylonians: An Introduction

By: G. Leick

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Routledge : November 2002

Seller ID: 21824

ISBN-13: 9780415253154

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Gwendolyn Leick's approachable survey introduces the Babylonians, the people, the culture and the reality behind the popular myth of Babylon. Spanning some 1800 years in the history of the Babylonians, from the time of Hammurabi, famous for his Law-Code, to the time when Alexander's heirs ruled the Near East, Leick examines how archaeological discoveries and cuneiform tablets recovered from Babylonian cities allow us an impression of the Babylonian people and their society, their intellectual and spiritual preoccupations.Exploring the lives of kings and merchants, women and slaves, and the soc...
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The Most Important Stories of the Bible: Understanding God's Word through the Stories It Tells

By: Hudson, Christopher D.,Campbell, Stan

Price: $8.37

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers : July 2019

Seller ID: 333803

ISBN-13: 9780764232862

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Most of us are familiar with the exciting adventures of David and Goliath, Noah, or Daniel in the lions' den, but we don't always understand how they fit together. We lack context, and so we sometimes miss the point.The Most Important Stories of the Bible will give you a working knowledge of the key events in Scripture and how they flow into one big story. The book's 75 stories are compact, easy to read, and enjoyable. Each chapter includes a brief introduction that gives historical context to help you grasp the overall narrative of the Bible, and concludes with an explanation of why that stor...
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The Bible as History

By: Keller, Werner

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Morrow : January 1981

Seller ID: 42047

ISBN-13: 9780688037246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Survey of Israel's History 1st Edition NEWER EDITION AVAILABLE

By: Leon J. Wood

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Zondervan : January 1970

Seller ID: 391305

ISBN-13: 9780310347606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Since its first publication in 1970, A Survey of Israel's History has established itself as a popular and useful text in Bible colleges and seminaries. This revision by David O'Brien, which brings A Survey of Israel's History up to date, is certain to add to its value and continue its popularity. A chapter on the Intertestamental Period has been added. Numerous line-maps, charts, and diagrams help to clarity details. An extensive chronological chart provides an overall summary of names and dates. Authoritative, thoroughly biblical, factually sound, and movingly human -- A Survey of Israel's Hi...
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Ishmael in the Shadow of Israel: God's Prophetic Plan for Abraham's Firstborn

By: Maalouf, Tony

Price: $21.99

Publisher: Kregel Publications : February 2023

Seller ID: 391600

ISBN-13: 9780825448072

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

A Little Book for New Historians: Why and How to Study History (Little Books)

By: McKenzie, Robert Tracy

Price: $11.99

Publisher: IVP Academic : March 2019

Seller ID: 329053

ISBN-13: 9780830853465

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

In A Little Book for New Historians veteran historian Robert Tracy McKenzie offers a concise, clear, and beautifully written introduction to the study of history. In addition to making a case for the discipline in our pragmatic, "present-tense" culture, McKenzie lays out necessary skills, methods, and attitudes for historians in training. Loaded with concrete examples and insightful principles, this primer shows how the study of history, faithfully pursued, can shape your heart as well as your mind.
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