Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books

Adam and Eve were Pharaoh Akhenaton and Nefertiti. The Bible says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and then split into four branches. There is only one river in the Near East that does exactly this, and that is the long oasis-garden of the Nile valley and its division into the...

A brief preface of wishes for a happy world. The Pentameter Evil poem sheds some light on the biblical notion of: that man of sin, his nature, identifying markers and methods. It notes the widespread occurrence of deception in the world, how villains are made to look like saints and injured innocent...

A preface notes my years of comparing history to scripture. I came to some conclusions at variance with conventional wisdom on the second coming. The first chapter discusses the repetitive nature of biblical events in that one event presages or foreshadows another event. The second chapter criticizes...

Tithing is an important part of a True Believer's life. Are you following Yahweh's will by putting Him first?...

How the Bible Works and How to Read the Bible Literally were both created to help teach and uplift. They use educational visuals to help readers better understand the Bible’s message. Even better, they encourage people to pick up the Bible and read it for themselves. Provides a coherent, big-picture...

How are we to understand petitionary prayer? This is a key question for any thoughtful believer who desires to take both the Bible and experience seriously. Some believe God answers any prayer as long as the one praying has enough faith and/or persistence. Others conclude from experience that prayer...

Personal, experiential faith is seldom given a seat at the table of academic theology and biblical studies. David Crump, however, with the assistance of Søren Kierkegaard's religious philosophy, claims that "authentic understanding, and thus authentic Christian commitment, can only arise from...

The Fourth Gospel is at the same time a sublime work that has inspired and enriched the faith of countless Christians and a problematic text that has provided potent anti-Jewish imagery exploited in anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic discourse over the course of two millennia. The Fourth Gospel contains...

John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.

In 'The Bible Exposed -Why God has left the building' the author deconstructs many of Christianity's most cherished illusions. He lifts the lid off the Christian Bible's collection of scientific errors, ancient myths, legends and constant contradictions, and demonstrates that the Bible can only be...

It is a daunting task for the new Bible student to walk into a store for the purpose of purchasing a Bible. Immediately, he is met with shelves upon shelves of more than 100 different English translation choices: AMP, AT, ASV, BLE, CEB, CEV, ERV, ESV, HCSB, IB, ISV, JB, KJ21, LB, MLB, NAB, NASB,...

In 1895, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of other women published "The Woman's Bible".  Struggling for women’s rights in the nineteenth century, the early feminists were constantly told that the Bible ordains woman’s sphere as helper to man and woman’s status as inferior...

**“A remarkable achievement—a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what’s known about the life and death of Jesus.” (Los Angeles Times) Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.** In...

These Homilies are often less complete in exposition than those on earlier books of the New Testament, and in literary excellence will not compare with the Homilies on the Statues, and many other discourses given at Antioch. But to the student of preaching, they are quite as instructive, if not really...