The Rise And Fall Of The Bible
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The Rise and Fall of the Bible
Author | : Timothy Beal |
Publsiher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780547504414 |
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A professor of religion offers an “engrossing and excellent” look at how the Good Book has changed—and changed the world—through the ages (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In a lively journey from early Christianity to the present, this book explores how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Book’s sacred capital. Showing us how a single official text was created from the proliferation of different scripts, Timothy Beal traces its path as it became embraced as the word of God and the Book of books. Christianity thrived for centuries without any Bible—there was no official canon of scriptures, much less a book big enough to hold them all. Congregations used various collections of scrolls and codices. As the author reveals, there is no “original” Bible, no single source text behind the thousands of different editions on the market today. The farther we go back in the holy text’s history, the more versions we find. In calling for a fresh understanding of the ways scriptures were used in the past, the author of Biblical Literacy offers the chance to rediscover a Bible, and a faith, that is truer to its own history—not a book of answers, but a library of questions.
Shifting Sands
Author | : Thomas W. Davis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004-03-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195167104 |
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Biblical archaeology flourished in the 1970s as an attempt to ground the historical witness of the Bible in demonstrable historical reality. Today this research paradigm has been largely abandoned. Thomas Davis charts the rise and fall of a methodology.
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393634587 |
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“Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read.” —Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography Daring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story’s many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, narrow literalism, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature: all can be counted as children of our “first” parents.
America s Book
Author | : Mark A. Noll |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780197623466 |
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"This book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history decisively influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestant Americans (Catholics, Jews, agnostics), and torn apart by the Civil War. Scripture survived as a significant, though fragmented, force in the more religiously plural period from Reconstruction to the early twentieth century. Throughout, the book pays special attention to how the same Bible shone as hope for black Americans while supporting other Americans who justified white supremacy"--
The Rise and Fall of the Bible
Author | : Timothy Kandler Beal |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780151013586 |
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An acclaimed author takes readers back to early Christianity to ask how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and forward to see how the multibillion-dollar business that has created Biblezines and Manga Bibles is selling down the Bible's sacred capital.
The Rise and Fall of King Solomon
Author | : James Hughes |
Publsiher | : Good Book Guides |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1907377972 |
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Look forward to King Jesus' perfect rule and kingdom as you look back at the rise of King Solomon--and his fall.
The Fall and Rise of Christian Standards
Author | : David Kidd |
Publsiher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781594679971 |
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For those struggling with the balance between nit-picky rules and permissiveness, its an indispensable resource of biblical reason. In gracious, conversational style, the reality of Christianitys cultural adaptation is illustrated, along with a practical understanding of relevant scriptural principles and their legitimate application to the polarizing issue of personal standards. This is a makeover for the church from the inside out!
The Rise and Fall of World Powers
Author | : John MacArthur |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802453775 |
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