Category: Bible History

Essential to a proper understanding of the Old Testament is a knowledge of the political, historical, and theological environment of the ancient Near East. While there is an abundance of material explaining this environment, primary source texts are often unavailable or inaccessible to the beginning Old Testament student.

This volume in the Encountering Biblical Studies series fills that void. Readings from the Ancient Near East takes the student through a wide variety of primary source texts from the ancient Near East that illuminate every book of the Old Testament. It is the compa...
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Battles Of The Bible

By: Brenda Lewis

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc.: May 2009

Seller ID: 58172

ISBN: 0785825274

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Battles of the Bible" is a detailed and comprehensive examination of the military events of the bible, supported by the latest biblical and archaeological research. Beautiful maps chart the course of the campaigns, demonstrating the battle tactics and movements used in Ancient conflicts.
The biblical world was one of bloodshed and conflict, from the time of the Exodus, when Moses outmaneuvered Pharoh s formidable army to take the Israelites away from their long-suffered slavery to the land that the Lord himself had promised them, to the terrible sacking of Masada by the Romans, ending the...
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Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses

By: Bruce Feiler

Price: $6.50

Publisher: William Morrow: April 2001

Seller ID: 19661

ISBN: 0380977753

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.

Battles of the Bible

By: Chaim Herzog, Mordechai Gichon

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Greenhill Books: March 1997

Seller ID: 151957

ISBN: 1853672661

Condition: Used - Very Good

Vivid account of military events in the Bible.
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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: 0151004188

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 ...
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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: 0374523835

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: 0415253152

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 ...
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The World of the Bible

By: Harris

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: June 1995

Seller ID: 29474

ISBN: 0500050732

Condition: Used - Very Good

Who were the original inhabitants of the Holy Land? Where were Mount Zion and the City of David situated? Can the scene of Jesus' arrest be located or his crucifixion? This book provides answers to such questions and interweaves biblical stories with the latest research and archeaological discoveries.
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The Bible in World History

By: Hudson

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Barbour Books: December 2016

Seller ID: 301985

ISBN: 1634095707

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

What was happening outside Bible lands during the time of the patriarchs, Jewish kingdoms, the prophets, Jesus' ministry, and the early church? Find out with The Bible in World History. This pocket-sized, fully illustrated reference breaks biblical and early church history into eight major time periods--from "Creation to the Tower of Babel" through "Anno Domini," the years from Jesus' birth to about AD 330--and shows what was happening in other parts of the world during those times. With references to Chinese, Indian, African, and Mayan cultures, among others, The Bible in Wor...
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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: 076423286X

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 w...
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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: 0830853464

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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The Moses Legacy: The Evidence of History

By: Phillips, Graham

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Pan Books: March 2003

Seller ID: 319706

ISBN: 0330484087

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Here we are in Bible lands with John R. Rice

By: Rice, John R

Price: $1.50

Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers: January 1977

Seller ID: 325791

ISBN: 0873983769

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Misreading Scripture with Individualist Eyes: Patronage, Honor, and Shame in the Biblical World

By: Richards, E. Randolph,James, Richard

Price: $27.99

Publisher: IVP Academic: October 2020

Seller ID: 351244

ISBN: 0830852751

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in in
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The Bible Through the Ages

By: Robert V. Huber (Editor)

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Readers Digest: September 1996

Seller ID: 105264

ISBN: 0895778726

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Compact Timeline of Biblical History

By: Samuel T. Jordan

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Robert Beard Books: January 2008

Seller ID: 122925

ISBN: 1435111540

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Mythic Past: Bibical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel

By: Thompson, Thomas L.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Basic Books: January 1999

Seller ID: 320153

ISBN: 1567317049

Condition: Used - Very Good

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What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel

By: William G. Dever

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company: June 2002

Seller ID: 69372

ISBN: 080282126X

Condition: Used - Very Good

For centuries the Hebrew Bible has been the fountainhead of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Today, however, the entire biblical tradition, including its historical veracity, is being challenged. Leading this assault is a group of scholars described as the -minimalist- or -revisionist- school of biblical studies, which charges that the Hebrew Bible is largely pious fiction, that its writers and editors invented -ancient Israel- as a piece of late Jewish propaganda in the Hellenistic era.
In this fascinating book noted Syro-Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever attacks the minimalist pos...
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Bible wines: Or, the laws of fermentation and wines of the ancients

By: William Patton

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Star Bible Publications: January 1991

Seller ID: 110191

ISBN: 0933672047

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Category: Bible History