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Stories from Ancient Canaan

By: N/A

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corpor: January 1978

Seller ID: 37599

ISBN: 0664241840

Condition: Used - Very Good

Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of "Aqhat," "The Healers," "Kirta" and "Baal." "Stories from Ancient Canaan" is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and will be useful to students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.
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Illustrated Dictionary of Bible Life and Times

By: N/A

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Reader's Digest: September-1997

Seller ID: 105293

ISBN: 0895779870

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ

By: Alfred Edersheim

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Eerdmans: June 1976

Seller ID: 70176

ISBN: 0802881327

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Devotional Duide to Bible Lands

By: Batsell Barrett Baxter and Harold Hazelip

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Baker Book House: January-1979

Seller ID: 62801

ISBN: 0801007836

Condition: Used - Very Good

Holman Illustrated Guide to the Bible

By: Beaumont

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Holman Reference: September 2007

Seller ID: 72741

ISBN: 0805494952

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Holman Illustrated Guide to the Bible presents an easy to grasp overview of the entire Bible story in wonderful eye-catching detail. It includes major chapters on key biblical characters and themes, plusfresh insights into how the Bible applies to our lives today. Helpful timelines give the historical context of every book in the Bible, and more than 200 full-color photographs, illustrations, and maps bring thetruth and richness of God's Word into clear focus for visual learners.For anyone who might have considered the Bible a dusty old book of cryptic stories far removed fro...
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Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study (Encountering Biblical Studies)

By: Bill T. Arnold, Bryan E. Beyer

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Baker Academic: September 2002

Seller ID: 63359

ISBN: 0801022924

Condition: Used - Very Good

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 companion ...
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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.
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Great Events of Bible Times: New Perspectives on the People, Places, and History of the Biblical World

By: Bruce Metzger

Price: $4.50

Publisher: DoubleDay: September-1987

Seller ID: 19927

ISBN: 0385236786

Condition: Used - Very Good

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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Battles of the Bible, 1400 BC - AD 73 : From AI to Masada

By: Dougherty

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Metro Books: January 2011

Seller ID: 275440

ISBN: 1435132718

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Story of the Bible

By: Edgar J. Goodspeed

Price: $3.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press:

Seller ID: 173246

ISBN: 4190142595

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Family Living in the Bible

By: Edith Deen

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Harper and Row:

Seller ID: 161975

ISBN: 4144177882

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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: 0060838639

Condition: Used - Very Good

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: 0380807319

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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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.
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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 slaves, an...
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Bibles: An Illustrated History from Papyrus to Print

By: Hamel, Christopher de

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford: May 2011

Seller ID: 271323

ISBN: 1851242988

Condition: Used - Very Good

A unique visual history of the world's best-selling book of all time, "Bibles" provides a rich snapshot of the biblical bookmaking tradition through images from fifty rare and important Bibles. As the captivating and colorful images collected here reveal, in many ways the history of the Bible mirrors the history of the book and publishing. Presented chronologically, the Bibles provide a fascinating look into the book making techniques and characteristics of their time. From the fragile papyrus fragments of the ancient world to medieval illuminated manuscripts and glorious modern printed...
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Come With Me to the Holy Land

By: Harriet-Louise H. Patterson

Price: $5.50

Publisher: The Judson Press:

Seller ID: 75658

ISBN: 0817003010

Condition: Used - Very Good

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