Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
by Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Most people know little about the Hebrew Bible. They know what they were taught in grade school and perhaps what they hear in sermons. But sermons are designed to teach moral lessons, not disclose the Bible's true meaning. In this book, Dr. Israel Drazin, a noted Bible scholar, reveals insights from...
The Apocalypse of St. John
Lectures on the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1993
Initiation enables a person to see, understand, and communicate what may be observed with spiritual eyes. St. John's text arises from such an initiation. It addresses the fundamental questions of existence that every human being asks: Where are we? Where have we come from? Where are we going? And because...
Making Sense Out of a World Gone Mad: A Roadmap for God's Elect Living in the Final Days of the End Times
Final Days of the End Times, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
This is likely to be the most important and most challenging book you have ever read. It is not for everybody. It is written for God’s elect, those chosen individually by God since before the world began, whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, who would one day become His born again...
by Albert O. Aina
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
"Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and...
When Dreams Come True
The Story of Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
“In the last days,” God says, “I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your young men will see visions, Your old men will dream dreams.” Acts 2:17
As the Old Testament story of Joseph illustrates, one of the ways God leads His people is through...
Son of Yahweh
The Gospels As Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Anyone who has ever spent time in a Christian church knows that the gospels are never read as a series of ordered events forming a narrative whole. Instead they are read with dogged incoherence, focusing on tiny snippets taken out of context. The birth stories of Matthew and Luke are emphasized at Christmas;...
by Paul Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This book outlines what the Bible teaches about the Jewish people and religion.
Jewish Themes in the New Testament is an examination of what the New Testament teaches about the Jewish people in the era of the New Covenant. The core of that teaching is an affirmation of God's continued faithfulness...
The Origins of Biblical Monotheism
Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2001
According to the Bible, ancient Israel's neighbors worshipped a wide variety of gods. In recent years, scholars have sought a better understanding of this early polytheistic milieu and its relation to Yahweh, the God of Israel. Drawing on ancient Ugaritic texts and looking closely at Ugaritic deities,...
by Henry Field
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This book is meant to challenge, is often controversial, even something of a whistleblower and, being radical, does not settle for the status quo as I speak out against these terrible times we live in. It is about dealing with life and death with all that that means in joy and heartache and the realities...
by Dan Barker
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive—and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestselling author...
Eros and the Christ
Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul’s christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman...
Joseph of Arimathea
Historical or Mythological? - A New Testament Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Joseph of Arimathea, the graveside attendant to the crucified Jesus, is one of the most mysterious figures in the New Testament. The Gospels make no mention of him during Jesus' early ministry. Then he steps out of the shadows and takes centre stage at the pivotal moment upon which the central mystery...
The Old Testament Is Dying (Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic)
A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The Old Testament constitutes the majority of the Christian Bible and provides much of the language of Christian faith. However, many churches tend to neglect this crucial part of Scripture. This timely book details a number of ways the Old Testament is showing signs of decay, demise, and imminent...
Picturing the Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the ubiquitous...