Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts books

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Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed

Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Dr Pinchas Giller
ISBN: 9781441110329
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Offers an introduction to the major elements of the prevalent metaphysical system of Judaism, Kabbalah. This book...  Read More >>

Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed

Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Dr Pinchas Giller
ISBN: 9781441111197
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Offers an introduction to the major elements of the prevalent metaphysical system of Judaism, Kabbalah. This book...  Read More >>

White Religion and Black Humanity

White Religion and Black Humanity

Author: Harry H. Singleton III
ISBN: 9780761857372
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In this insightful work, Singleton analyzes the white religious establishment’s use of Christian faith throughout...  Read More >>

The Fall and the Ascent of Man: How Genesis Supports Darwin

The Fall and the Ascent of Man: How Genesis Supports...

Author: Joseph Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780761857549
Format: Paperback
$137.25

In this groundbreaking work, Joseph Fitzpatrick challenges the traditional interpretation of chapter three of Genesis:...  Read More >>

Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book of Jeremiah

Empire and Exile: Postcolonial Readings of the Book...

Author: Dr. Steed Vernyl Davidson (McCormick Theological Seminary, USA)
ISBN: 9780567437044
Format: Hardback
$320.00

Explores the impact of Babylonian aggression upon the book of Jeremiah by calling attention to the presence of the...  Read More >>

Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought

Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political...

Author: Joshua A. Berman (Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, Associate Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem)
ISBN: 9780199832408
Format: Paperback
$67.95

In Created Equal, Joshua Berman engages the text of the Hebrew Bible from a novel perspective--as a document of...  Read More >>

A Common Cultural Heritage: Studies on Mesopotamia and the Biblical World in Honor of Barry L. Eichler

A Common Cultural Heritage: Studies on Mesopotamia and...

Author: Grant Frame (Professor of Assyriology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania) ,  Erle Leichty
ISBN: 9781934309377
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Contains six essays on Near Eastern and biblical law, as well as essays on biblical and Mesopotamian literature,...  Read More >>

Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian and Persian Periods in Memory of Peter R. Ackroyd

Exile and Restoration Revisited: Essays on the Babylonian...

Author: Gary N. Knoppers ,  Dr. Lester L. Grabbe (University of Hull, UK)
ISBN: 9780567280831
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Ackroyd's book is an excellent study of prophetic literature, exile and restoration.  Read More >>

The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine: An Egyptological Approach

The Aramaic and Egyptian Legal Traditions at Elephantine:...

Author: Alejandro F. Botta
ISBN: 9780567120366
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Alejandro Botta locates the Aramaic legal formulary in the context of the Egyptian legal tradition and looks at...  Read More >>

Metaphor and Masculinity in Hosea

Metaphor and Masculinity in Hosea

Author: Hemchand Gossai ,  Susan E. Haddox
ISBN: 9781433113567
Format: Hardback
$211.07

The metaphors in Hosea are rich and varied, comprising both gendered and non-gendered image fields. This book examines...  Read More >>

Divine Madness

Divine Madness

Author: Harry Eiss
ISBN: 9781443832984
Format: Hardback
$245.39

Lila is Sanskrit for play, the play of the gods. It is the self-generating genesis of Bliss, created by Bliss for...  Read More >>

Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Right to Rule: Windows on Abimelech's Rise and Demise in Judges 9

Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Right to Rule: Windows...

Author: Gordon K. Oeste
ISBN: 9780567237835
Format: Hardback
$320.00

Though the portrait of Abimelech as king in ""Judges"" 9 is negative, this portrayal served to delegitimate local...  Read More >>

Galatians, Ephesians

Galatians, Ephesians

Author: Gerald L. Bray
ISBN: 9780830829736
Format: Hardback
$132.00

In this first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, you will encounter the reformers? fervor for the...  Read More >>

Divinity of a Birth

Divinity of a Birth

Author: Robert Geis
ISBN: 9780761856665
Format: Hardback
$114.95

Prophecy, the key to evidence of the Divine in human existence, is best demonstrated with a dating nearest to the...  Read More >>

Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the Sacred Text of Islam

Reading the Qur'an: The Contemporary Relevance of the...

Author: Ziauddin Sardar
ISBN: 9780199836741
Format: Hardback
$79.07

""First published in the United Kingdom by C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2010""--T.p. verso.  Read More >>

God's Equal: What Can We Know About Jesus' Self-Understanding?

God's Equal: What Can We Know About Jesus' Self-Understanding?...

Author: Dr Sigurd Grindheim ,  Mark Goodacre
ISBN: 9780567431110
Format: Hardback
$320.00

Offers an examination of Jesus' claims in the gospels to be 'God's Equal' with reference to the historical Jesus...  Read More >>

Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art

Earthly Visions: Theology and the Challenges of Art...

Author: Timothy J. Gorringe
ISBN: 9780300162806
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Argues that great art can function as a 'secular parable' - that is, like the parables of Jesus, art can lead viewers...  Read More >>

The Commentators' Bible: Numbers: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot

The Commentators' Bible: Numbers: The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot...

Author: Michael Carasik
ISBN: 9780827609211
Format: Hardback
$158.50

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Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion of Physiognomy in Early Christianity

Body and Character in Luke and Acts: The Subversion...

Author: Mikeal C. Parsons
ISBN: 9781602583801
Format: Paperback
$80.99

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The Wisdom Teachings of Harish Johari on the Mahabharata

The Wisdom Teachings of Harish Johari on the Mahabharata...

Author: Wil Geraets ,  Wil Geraets
ISBN: 9781594773792
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Setting the scene -- The story of ""Great India"" -- The Bhagavad Gita -- War and its aftermath.  Read More >>

Reading the Qu'ran

Reading the Qu'ran

Author: Ziauddin Sardar
ISBN: 9781849041072
Format: Hardback
$89.76

Ziauddin Sardar is a world-famous expert on Islam with a track record of accessible books on the subject. His latest...  Read More >>

Holiness & Perfection: A Canonical Unfolding of Leviticus 19

Holiness & Perfection: A Canonical Unfolding of Leviticus...

Author: Michael Fieger ,  Sigrid Hodel-Hoenes
ISBN: 9783034305808
Format: Paperback
$95.09

What is the most important lesson in the word of God? This book analyzes how Lev 19 is unfolded from OT times to...  Read More >>

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