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Author | : Isaac M. Kikawada |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2017-03-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532617690 |
Rebelling against a century of Old Testament scholarship, Isaac M. Kikawada and Arthur Quinn persuasively argue that the first eleven chapters of Genesis are not a literary patchwork by different editors as widely supposed, but are the work of one author of extraordinary subtlety and skill. Comparing Genesis 1-11 with primeval histories from the ancient Near East, Kikawada and Quinn urge their readers to appreciate the ingenuity of Genesis's author: "When we think we find this author napping, we had better proceed very carefully. As with Homer or Shakespeare, when you think you have seen something wrong, there may well be something wrong with your own eyes. You are more likely to be wrong than either of them." Providing a solid case for the unity of Genesis's first eleven chapters, Kikawada and Quinn move on to show how these chapters provide a formal structure for other Old Testament histories. Destined to have lasting impact on biblical scholarship, Before Abraham Was will give scholars, clergy, and students a new appreciation of critical biblical studies and a new hypothesis for the formation of Genesis.
Author | : David Kishik |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1503607356 |
Can anyone say anything that has not already been said about the most scrutinized text in human history? In one of the most radical rereadings of the opening chapters of Genesis since The Zohar, David Kishik manages to do just that. The Book of Shem, a philosophical meditation on the beginning of the Bible and the end of the world, offers an inspiring interpretation of this navel of world literature. The six parts of the primeval story—God's creation, the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, the first covenant, and the Tower of Babel—come together to address a single concern: How does one become the human being that one is? By closely analyzing the founding text of the Abrahamic religions, this short treatise rethinks some of their deepest convictions. With a mixture of reverence and violence, Kishik's creative commentary demonstrates the post-secular implications of a pre-Abrahamic position. A translation of the Hebrew source, included as an appendix, helps to peel away the endless layers of presuppositions about its meaning.
Author | : Crossway Bibles |
Publisher | : Crossway Books |
Total Pages | : 2750 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781433502415 |
Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, the ESV Study Bible is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published.
Author | : Cleo Newsome Jr. |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2010-05-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1453505245 |
"When God created the universe, He also created the Metaphysical universe.” This paraphrase from Donald Walch’s book “A Conversation with God” aptly points to the intricate matrix of themes, ideas and concepts which formulate a complete world view of how things work. This is important because our individual belief system has a direct impact on all of the events and important episodes in our lives and generally affects the quality and longevity of life as a whole. God as the omnipotent catalyst of the entire creative process does not interfere with our choices, but instead allows us to reap the benefits or suffer the consequences of our decisions. When we learn to raise our thinking to the higher consciousness of divine mind, the quality of life both individually and as a people will be naturally uplifted from an uncertain existence of coincidence and chance to a progressively stable and secure co-existence with the sustaining grace of God’s unlimited cosmos. This book represents an attempt to explore some of the more relevant concepts of mankind’s symbiotic relationship to an immaculate Holiness in which we intuitively have always known to exist but through the daily grind of everyday living have somehow lost touch. The book is not amid at any particular religion, culture or ethic group but is a rather modest endeavor to discuss an array of universal themes and concepts common to us all."
Author | : Stephen J. Wellum |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2016-11-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433517868 |
Nothing is more important than what a person believes about Jesus Christ. To understand Christ correctly is to understand the very heart of God, Scripture, and the gospel. To get to the core of this belief, this latest volume in the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series lays out a systematic summary of Christology from philosophical, biblical, and historical perspectives—concluding that Jesus Christ is God the Son incarnate, both fully divine and fully human. Readers will learn to better know, love, trust, and obey Christ—unashamed to proclaim him as the only Lord and Savior. Part of the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series.
Author | : H. D. M. Spence-Jones |
Publisher | : Andesite Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781375895330 |
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Author | : John A. T. Robinson |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1610971027 |
It has been the fate of many books on John to be left unfinished, for its interpretation naturally forms the crowning of a lifetime. I have myself been intending to write a book on the Fourth Gospel since the 'fifties, before I broke off (reluctantly) to be Bishop of Woolwich, though I am grateful now that I did not produce it prematurely at that time. It means however that I shall be compelled to refer to and often recapitulate material directly or indirectly related to the Johannine literature, which I have written over the years (some of it indeed while I was bishop). Many scholars in fact, if not most now, think that the author of the Gospel himself never lived to finish it and have seen the work as the product of numerous hands and redactors. As will become clear, I prefer to believe that the ancient testimony of the church is correct that John wrote it 'while still in the body' and that its roughnesses, self-corrections and failures of connection, real or imagined, are the result of its not having been smoothly or finally edited. If so I am in good company. At any rate who could wish for a better last testimony from his friends than that 'his witness is true' (John 21.24)? In other words, he got it right--historically and theologically. --from the Introduction At the time of his death in December 1983, John Robinson had completed the text of the book on which his 1984 Bampton lectures were to be based, so that it is possible to see the full details of his extremely controversial argument that the Gospel of John was the first Gospel to be written. Dr. Robinson himself once described the dawning of his conviction that this was the case as a 'Damascus Road experience', and his presentation of the evidence is made with all the customary vigor with which he would argue for something in which he deeply believed. The objections which need to be overcome to stand on its head what has long been one of the fundamental assumptions of New Testament scholarship are substantial, but here once again Dr. Robinson shows that so much of what is taken as established fact in that area is no more than preference and presumption. Certainly he will provoke rethinking on a whole series of topics, from the chronology of Jesus' ministry to the nature of his teaching. As The Listener said of the equally controversial Redating the New Testament: The greatest pleasure Dr. Robinson gives is purely intellectual. His book is a prodigious virtuoso exercise in inductive reasoning and an object lesson in the nature of historical argument and historical knowledge. This sequel equals, if not excels, its predecessor in those respects and is a fitting tribute to a brilliant New Testament scholar. The manuscript was prepared for publication by Dr. Chip Coakley, Dr Robinson's pupil, now Lecturer in Religious Studies in the University of Lancaster.
Author | : C. H. Dodd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1976-09-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780521291231 |
An historical investigation of the narrative material and Sayings of St John's Gospel.
Author | : J. Warner Wallace |
Publisher | : David C Cook |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1434705463 |
Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator. Christianity could be defined as a “cold case”: it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity. A unique apologetic that speaks to readers’ intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.
Author | : Various Authors, |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 6637 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0310294142 |
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.