Criticism & Interpretation
epub |eng | | Author:Jennifer Wright Knust

Sex with Strangers Israelites, Judeans, and Christians were not the first groups to attempt to create community boundaries by manufacturing a sex panic, and they will not be the last. ...
( Category: Gender & Sexuality September 16,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-23 | Author:Riches, John [Riches, John]

If the view of history constructed out of the Bible was vulnerable to attack, then so too was its cosmology. Copernicus taught that the planets, including of course the earth, ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

Anybody who simply read the Bible literally ‘as a book presenting narratives and everyday matters’, had missed the point. There was nothing special about the literal Torah: anybody could write ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics July 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

THE BOOK OF GENESIS GENESIS 1¶1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, ¶2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of ...
( Category: Old Testament July 28,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-18 | Author:Jason Long [Long, Jason]

What logic is there in the fact that the being who promises us eternal life because of his love for all humankind is the same entity who orders us to ...
( Category: Bible Study July 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Darrell L. Bock [Bock, Darrell L.]

The Coming of the Eschatological Kingdom How will the eschatological kingdom come? Some texts simply state that the Lord will establish, create, or raise it up in the last days ...
( Category: New Testament July 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Blanton, Ward

VICISSITUDES OF BEATIFICATION To articulate the full irony of this situation, it is worth reflecting for a moment on the carefully organized and ploddingly elaborated Christian historiographical conservatism of Theodore ...
( Category: New Testament July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-09-07 | Author:John Milor

PART III THE NEAR FUTURE At this current point in time, nothing of monolithic, earth-shattering, reality- twisting proportions is currently happening on Earth. In fact, the last massive earth-shattering event ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation July 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Eric H. Cline [Cline, Eric H.]

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem has a large number of reservoirs and chambers underneath where the Temple of Solomon stood. Could the ark be buried here? (Illustration Credits 6.4) Under ...
( Category: Old Testament June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Elaine Pagels [Pagels, Elaine]

Thus Apuleius caricatures a convert who refuses to worship the gods and alienates her husband by drinking wine and participating in what Christians called “love feasts.” Although he refrains from ...
( Category: New Testament June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Burton L. Mack

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE Somewhere in the Aegean, around the year 120 C.E., a great two-volume work appeared that expanded upon the gospel story of Jesus by adding a ...
( Category: New Testament June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David G. McAfee [MCAFEE, DAVID G.]

DOES GOD TEMPT MAN? James 1:13: “Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Ehrman, Bart & Plese, Zlatko [Ehrman, Bart]

Bibliography Attridge, H. “The Greek Fragments,” in Layton, Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2–7, 9–101. Bernhard, A. E. Other Early Christian Gospels: A Critical Edition of the Surviving Greek Manuscripts. London: ...
( Category: New Testament March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Paula A. Price [Price, Paula A.]

M Maat to Mythological Pantheon 799. Maat—Hebrew word for truth. Maat was also the Egyptian goddess who was believed to reign over the virtue of truth. 800. Magi—A) Median tribe. ...
( Category: Prophecy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christian Smith

Living with Scriptural Ambiguities Scripture is sometimes confusing, ambiguous, and incomplete—we have to admit and deal with that fact. Biblicism insists that the Bible as the word of God is ...
( Category: Exegesis & Hermeneutics March 26,2014 )