Bible Study & Reference
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Van Voorst, Robert E.

Table 3 The Contents of the Signs Source in John Fortna gives a brief discussion of the character of SQ.304 It was a written book, as its conclusion, now in ...
( Category: New Testament February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-03 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

* * * * * * CHAPTER FOUR THE CANON OF TRUTH AND THE TRIUMPH OF JOHN People engaged in spiritual exploration often are especially attracted to the Gospel of ...
( Category: New Testament February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-06 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

The Power of Diversity Where did the power and wealth to establish and maintain this full-fledged kingdom come from? What development in the northern hill country led to the emergence ...
( Category: Old Testament February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Mazar, Amihai [Finkelstein, Israel]

Yet, the question remains, is this great epic historically reliable? What if David and Solomon were, as some scholars now contend, purely legendary characters with no more historical substance than ...
( Category: Old Testament February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Wells, Steve [Wells, Steve]

14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |ara | 2014-06-29 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]

Two other authors used as ‘evidence’ for a historical Jesus provide no evidence for a historical Jesus. The first of these is Suetonius; the second, Thallus.103 As for Thallus, I ...
( Category: New Testament February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-07 | Author:Baden, Joel [Baden, Joel]

FROM THE MOMENT OF Saul’s death to the moment his bones were returned to Benjamin, David had come a remarkably long way. He began as a vassal of the Philistines, ...
( Category: Judaism February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Satlow, Michael L [Satlow, Michael L]

And you know that we have separated from the mass of the people . . . and from mingling with them in these matters and from being in contact with ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-31 | Author:Wells, Steve [Wells, Steve]

When they finished slaughtering the Philistines, David asked God if they should do it again. And God said, “Yeah, let’s do it again. Only this time attack from behind when ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation February 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-31 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category: General February 15,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-11-03 | Author:Ahmed Osman

14 THE TOMB OF AKHENATEN ALTHOUGH not a shred of evidence has been found to confirm the date of Akhenaten’s death, Egyptologists have assumed that it must have taken place ...
( Category: Egypt February 14,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman

The Outcome of Faith EVEN THOUGH HISTORIANS CANNOT prove or disprove the historicity of Jesus’s resurrection, it is certain that some of the followers of Jesus came to believe in ...
( Category: New Testament February 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Leman, Dr. Kevin [Leman, Dr. Kevin]

“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck.” PROVERBS 3:3A Put your iPod earphones on and you’ll hear nothing. But flip the “on” switch and the ...
( Category: Old Testament February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Steve Farrar

Chapter Seven Demoted and Benched He Is in Control … Over Prolonged Waiting “I wait for the LORD, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.” —Psalm ...
( Category: Old Testament February 6,2015 )