Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books
How to Believe in God
Whether You Believe in Religion or Not
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
In How to Believe in God, Clark Strand, an accomplished master of both Eastern and Western mystical practices, takes on the most troublesome and provocative passages from Judeo-Christian scripture, transforming the Bible into a manual of spiritual liberation for the twenty-first-century seeker. Offering...
The Murmuring Deep
Reflections on the Biblical Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From one of the most innovative and acclaimed biblical commentators at work today, here is a revolutionary analysis of the intersection between religion and psychoanalysis in the stories of the men and women of the Bible.
For centuries scholars and rabbis have wrestled with the biblical narrative,...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
This short piece takes a look at the implications of one voice in the present discourse on the historical Adam. Denis Lamoureux is a bright and totally well meaning. For this reason alone, a light-hearted response is appropriate. Surely, given all that we know about human evolution, a revision of...
The Raven, the Dove, and the Owl of Minerva
The Creation of Humankind in Athens and Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Through a close textual analysis and a contrastive examination of documents from both cultures, Mark Glouberman explores the biblical roots of our Western sense of self-identity and the ways in which non-philosophical Greek materials enhance our understanding of how that cultural view developed.
Glouberman...
by A. T. Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
The chapters of this book were originally delivered as part of the “Exeter Hall Lectures.” Dr. Pierson’s purpose was to show and illustrate that the Bible is God’s exact provision, satisfaction and guide for all the cravings and crises of man’s moral and spiritual life. Only the creator,...
'The Real Scriptures' of God
Book 1 – Before Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Inside the covers of this book you will find the Real Scriptures of the Christian churches. Many church leaders know that other Christian churches hold to these books but they are only willing to state what they have been brain-washed to believe, that is about the other inferior books: "It isnt...
Idols of Nations
Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers—Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke––read the Bible. Invoking Jeremiah (14:22) and Adam Smith—who took the title of his Wealth...
101 Myths of the Bible
How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In his startling book, Gary Greenberg exposes the reality behind the greatest story ever told. Learn about the Egyptian myths and ancient folklore that survive in one of history's most sacred texts, and discover how:
-King David's bodyguard, not David, killed Goliath
-Noah's Ark did not land...
by Oge Austin-Chukwu
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Women of the Bible - there’s something to learn from each of them. From prostitute to Chief Justice, each one has a story to tell, if we care to listen.
Pearls of Wisdom takes a brief look at thirty-one of these women and pulls out lessons for practical living that will encourage and challenge you.
Women of War, Women of Woe
Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The stories of such women as Rahab, Deborah, Jael, Delilah, Jephthah's daughter, and the Levite's concubine raised thorny questions for nineteenth-century female biblical interpreters. Could a Victorian woman use her intelligence to negotiate like Rahab? Was the seemingly well-educated Deborah an...
Disorderly Women and the Order of God
An Australian Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Michele A. Connolly's postcolonial analysis links the Gospel of Mark - produced in the context of the Roman Empire - with contemporary Australia, established initially as a colony of the British Empire. Feminist analysis of texts from two foundational events in Australian colonial history reveal that...
Cracking Old Testament Codes
A Guide to Interpreting Literary Genres of the Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1995
A guide to the various kinds of literature in the Old Testament-narrative, history, law, oracles, and more-and how to interpret them. Contributors include Eugene Merrill, Walt Kaiser, and Tremper Longman, III.
The Goodly Fellowship of the Prophets (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology)
The Achievement of Association in Canon Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Just below the surface of any Christian view of the Bible is the knotty issue of the biblical canon. How and when was it decided which books would make up the Bible? What makes a book canonical? In this volume, respected Old Testament scholar Christopher Seitz helps readers understand how the Old...
Reading the Synoptic Gospels (Revised and Expanded)
Basic Methods for Interpreting Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This revised and expanded introductory text introduces students of the Bible to the layers of meaning that can be uncovered by serious study of the synoptic gospel texts. Included are two new chapters introducing ideological exegetical approaches to the gospels and a concluding chapter that helps...