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  Illustrated Bible Maps

  $29.99

  Packed full of fascinating maps, photos, and diagrams, Illustrated Bible Maps shows when and where Bible events happened. More than 100 Bible maps and illustrations will take you chronologically through the Old and New Testaments–from Abraham’s homeland in Mesopotamia to the seven churches of Revelation in Asia Minor.

  *See the mountains of Ararat where Noah’s ark came to rest.
  *Follow the route of the exodus through the Sinai Peninsula.
  *See where David faced Goliath in the Valley of Elah.
  *Locate all the places mentioned in the book of Psalms.
  *Trace Paul’s missionary journeys across the Mediterranean Sea.

  You’ll gain a deeper understanding the ancient world of the Bible, with maps showing the rise and fall of empires like Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. Beautiful photos of the Holy Land will help you see where Jesus walked. Each chapter includes a concise timeline of the biblical time period so you can follow along with the big story of God’s work in the world through his people.

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  Essential Atlas Of The Bible

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  Embark on a fascinating journey through the lands where key biblical events unfolded. Visit the places where Jesus preached, Moses journeyed, and Paul spread the word of God – all from the comfort of your home with The Essential Atlas of the Bible.

  With nearly 200 visually captivating, multidimensional maps and full-color images, this comprehensive atlas will deepen your understanding of biblical lands, history, and spirituality. Leveraging highly accurate mapping technologies, it provides an up-to-date geographical perspective that makes Scripture study both engaging and impactful.

  Discover multifaceted insights through innovative chronological charts covering historical backgrounds, regions, weather, and roads of the Bible’s world. This full-color atlas is concise yet comprehensive – perfect for Bible scholars, future pilgrims to the Holy Land, or curious readers seeking greater insight into places frequently mentioned in the Old and New Testaments.

  The Essential Atlas of the Bible goes beyond just providing information; it takes you on a pilgrimage across time, enriching every step of your Bible study journey where you will discover a visual experience of the biblical world.

  Enhance your understanding and deepen your faith – don’t wait, grab your copy of The Essential Atlas of the Bible today.

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  Miracles And Wonder

  $30.00

  From a renowned National Book Award-winning scholar, an extraordinary new account of the life of Jesus that explores the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.

  Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culmination of a decades-long career, she explores the biggest subject of all, Jesus. In Miracles and Wonder she sets out to discover how a poor young Jewish man inspired a religion that shaped the world.

  The book reads like a historical mystery, with each chapter addressing a fascinating question and answering it based on the gospels Jesus’s followers left behind. Why is Jesus said to have had a virgin birth? Why do we say he rose from the dead? Did his miracles really happen and what did they mean?

  The story Pagels tells is thrilling and tense. Not just does Jesus comes to life but his desperate, hunted followers do as well. We realize that some of the most compelling details of Jesus’s life are the explanations his disciples created to paper over inconvenient facts. So Jesus wasn’t illegitimate, his mother conceived by God; Jesus’s body wasn’t humiliatingly left to rot and tossed into a common grave–no, he rose from the dead and was seen whole by his followers; Jesus isn’t a failed messiah, his kingdom is a metaphor: he lives in us. These necessary fabrications were the very details and promises that electrified their listeners and helped his followers’ numbers grow.

  In Miracles and Wonder, Pagels does more than solve a historical mystery. She sheds light on Jesus’s enduring power to inspire and attract.

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  IVP Atlas Of Bible History Second Edition

  $56.99

  Open Your Understanding of the World of Scripture

  The story of the Bible is inextricably linked to the land. To understand biblical history, we need to understand how the people, events, and geography interacted to form that ancient world.

  Spanning three thousand years of biblical history, The IVP Atlas of Bible History reveals the many fascinating ways that history and archaeology confirm and complement the Bible’s story. Taking a narrative approach, the atlas traces the unfolding of major events in the Old and New Testaments, from Abraham’s wanderings in Canaan and Egypt to Paul’s missions and the founding of new churches. It covers the many places of the world of the Bible, from Spain to Iran, from Yemen to Greece. Scholarly insights presented in a readable style add depth and color to our understanding of key people and stories in Scripture.

  Features and benefits you’ll find in The IVP Atlas of Bible History:

  *Ninety-seven maps to help understand the biblical narrative and provide background information

  *More than 150 color photographs, panoramic illustrations, and site plans, plus a range of battle plans and small artworks

  *Special features on subjects such as the peoples and languages of the Bible that will deepen understanding of geography, landscape, climate, culture, and religion.

  This is the perfect companion for anyone seeking a clear, reader-friendly, visual introduction to the history of the Bible.

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  Nelsons New Illustrated Bible Manners And Customs

  $39.99

  Discover how the people of the Bible really lived.

  Imagine being able to walk the streets of Abraham’s hometown, adjust to life in Babylonian captivity, or travel the roads of Palestine amid the latest buzz about Jesus from Nazareth.

  Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Manners & Customs paints an accurate and descriptive picture of ancient civilization throughout the ages. In twenty historical segments, Howard F. Vos tells the story of God’s people from Abraham to the end of the New Testament in biblical order. Unlike other books about Bible lands and cultures, this volume distinguishes the ways life differed from period to period and place to place.

  The following topics are covered in each segment:

  *Geography and climate
  *Government, religion, and warfare
  *Housing, family, and dress
  *Diet and agriculture
  *Education and work
  *Travel and commerce

  Complete with over 400 photographs, extensive bibliographies, and easy-to-understand language, Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Manners & Customs is the go-to guide for studying the customs, manners, and lives of the people of the Bible.

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  Experiencing Israel : Walking With Jesus In The Holy Land

  $23.99

  Follow in the Footsteps of Your Savior

  If you’ve ever wanted to walk the streets Jesus trod, hike the hills He travelled, pass through the doorways He entered, you can now discover the Holy Land like never before.

  Journey with bestselling author Dr. Tony Evans from wherever you are and explore the Holy Land in Experiencing Israel. This guided tour of key locations in the Bible reveals the historical and spiritual significance of each place.

  As you see Israel up close through the pages of this book, you will…
  *gain a deeper understanding of the events of the Bible through the geography and history, and people of the land
  *gather insights that enrich your understanding of God’s Word and build on the spiritual *foundations of your faith
  *feel as if you were there through the stunning, full-color photography throughout
  *find practical applications that bring the world of the Bible into your life today

  Whether for the first time, or all over again, take your faith journey deeper with Experiencing Israel.

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  Mind The Gap

  $65.00

  Introduction

  Part I: Mind The Gap! Reading Between The Old And The New Testament

  When Was The Old Testament Written? A Brief Timeline

  Ancient Judaism And Its Literatures

  Part II: The Jewish Jesus

  Jesus, The Messiah Of Israel

  In A World Of Demons And Unclean Spirits

  Did Jesus Abolish The Law Of Moses?

  The Resurrection Of The Dead And Life In The Company Of Angels

  Epilogue

  Glossary

  Further Readings

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  Do you want to understand Jesus of Nazareth, his apostles, and the rise of early Christianity? Reading the Old Testament is not enough, writes Matthias Henze in this slender volume aimed at the student of the Bible. To understand the Jews of the Second Temple period, it’s essential to read what they wrote-and what Jesus and his followers might have read-beyond the Hebrew scriptures. Henze introduces the four-century gap between the Old and New Testaments and some of the writings produced during this period (different Old Testaments, the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls); discusses how these texts have been read from the Reformation to the present, emphasizing the importance of the discovery of Qumran; guides the student’s encounter with select texts from each collection; and then introduces key ideas found in specific New Testament texts that simply can’t be understood without these early Jewish “intertestamental” writings-the Messiah, angels and demons, the law, and the resurrection of the dead. Finally, he discusses the role of these writings in the “parting of the ways” between Judaism and Christianity. Mind the Gap broadens curious students’ perspectives on early Judaism and early Christianity and welcomes them to deeper study.

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  Gods Secretaries

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  A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; Arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities. This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment “Englishness” and the English language had come into its first passionate maturity. Boisterous, elegant, subtle, majestic, finely nuanced, sonorous and musical, the English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own reach and scope than any before or since. It is a form of the language that drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book. The sponsor and guide of the whole Bible project was the King himself, the brilliant, ugly and profoundly peace-loving James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England. Trained almost from birth to manage the rivalries of political factions at home, James saw in England the chance for a sort of irenic Eden over which the new translation of the Bible was to preside. It was to be a Bible for everyone, and as God’s lieutenant on earth, he would use it to unify his kingdom. The dream of Jacobean peace, guaranteed by an elision of royal power and divine glory, lies behind a Bible of extraordinary grace and everlasting literary power. About fifty scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London did the work, drawing on many previous versions, and created a text which, for all its failings, has never been equaled. That is the central question of this book: How did this group of near-anonymous divines, muddled, drunk, self-serving, ambitious, ruthless, obsequious, pedantic and flawed as they were, manage to bring off this astonishing translation? How did such ordinary men make such extraordinary prose? In God’s Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king; of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible; of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world, immersing us in an age whose grea

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  Lost Books Of The Bible And The Forgotten Books Of Eden

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  Suppressed by the early Church fathers who compiled the Bible, these Apocrypal Books have for centuries been shrouded in silence. Now, for the first time in paperbound book, the reader can discover the hidden beauties of the Lost Books. To be found in this volume are the Apostles’ Creed, the Psalms and Odes of Solomon, and other Apocrypal writings that have become part of our religious heritage. The story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, of Adam and Eve, of the girlhood and betrothal of Mary, of the childhood of Jesus, are here in all warmth, intimacy, and humanity of their first telling.

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  Life In Biblical Israel

  $70.00

  Stunning color photographs, graphic illustrations, and lively text offer a vivid description of everyday life in ancient Israel. Based on the most up-to-date research, this magnificent volume covers such topics as domestic and work life, cultural expression, and religious practice. An ideal resource for students, scholars, and interested laypeople.

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  Historical Jesus Ancient Evidence For The Life Of Christ

  $23.50

  1. The Modern Quest For The Historical Jesus
  2. Did Jesus Ever Live?
  3. Limitations On Historical Jesus
  4. Reinterpretations Of The Historical Jesus
  5. The New Gnosticism
  6. The Jesus Seminar And The Historical Jesus
  7. Primary Sources: Creeds And Facts
  8. Archeological Sources
  9. Ancient Non-Christian Sources
  10. Ancient Christian Sources (Non-New Testament)
  11. Summary And Assessment

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  This book is chiefly an effort to examine the life, death and resurrection of Jesus from a different perspective. It is largely concerned with pre- and non-biblical evidence for these events. The main body is devoted to a study of sources that date from before, during, and just after the New Testament, including creedal traditions recorded for the first time in the pages of Scripture. These fascinating subjects seem to be too frequently left unexplored.

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  5 Books Of Miriam

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  SKU (ISBN): 9780060630379ISBN10: 006063037XEllen FrankelBinding: Trade PaperPublished: February 2000Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

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  Dictionary Of The Later New Testament And Its Developments

  $74.99

  Preface
  How To Use This Dictionary
  Abbreviations
  Transliterations
  List Of Contributors
  Dictionary Articles
  Scripture Index
  Subject Index
  Articles Index
  1290 Pages

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  1998 GOLD MEDALLION WINNER

  The Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments follows the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels and the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters as the third in a celebrated series of reference works on the Bible. Picking up where the previous volumes left off, this volume includes in its scope the book of Acts, the general epistles of Peter, James, Jude and John, and the books of Hebrews and Revelation. This Dictionary is without peer in its in-depth coverage of the most neglected books of the New Testament.

  In addition to its coverage of this New Testament literature, a unique and valuable feature of this dictionary is its extended coverage of developments in early Christianity through A. D. 150. Some articles, such as those on each of the apostolic fathers, focus exclusively on this post-apostolic period. But nearly all topical articles take into consideration the writings of the apostolic fathers. Readers will enjoy a deeper and expanded understanding of how orthodox Christianity continued and developed in the years just following the New Testament era. No other single-volume reference work provides comparable coverage and assessment of the early patristic era and its theology.

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  Sign And The Seal

  $28.00

  The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vesel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark’s power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon.

  After ten years of searching through the dusty archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia, Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true story behind the myths and legends — revealing where the Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.

  Part fascinating scholarship and part entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most intriguing tales of all time — from the Knights Templar and Prester John to Parsival and the Holy Grail — this book will appeal to anyone fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery of secret mysteries.

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  Understanding The Bible (Revised)

  $24.99

  1. The Purpose Of The Bible
  2. The Land Of The Bible
  3. The Story Of The Bible (Old Testament)
  4. The Story Of The Bible (New Testament)
  5. The Message Of The Bible
  6. The Authority Of The Bible
  7. The Interpretation Of The Bible
  8. The Use Of The Bible

  192 Pages

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  This book answers foundational questions: Who wrote the Bible? What is its message? Why is it thought to be a “holy” book? How does one read and interpret it? Best of all, though, you’ll broaden your vision of Jesus Christ, the focal point of Scripture. How? By better understanding the geographical, religious, and historical concerns that shaped the world in which he lived. You’ll see Jesus as never before: both as a man of his times and culture, and as the culmination of a divine providence that prepared the way for the ministry of the Messiah. Written by renowned preacher, writer, and apologist John Stott, this new, expanded edition includes – Questions at the beginning of each chapter to help you focus – New, up-to-date maps for the chapters on history and geography – An index to help you speedily access areas of interest.

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  Chronological Aspects Of The Life Of Christ

  $17.99

  Dr. Hoehner has gathered a vast amount of data, both from Scripture and extrabiblical sources, to support his conclusions concerning key dates in the life of our Lord, among them: – The Date of Christ’s Birth – The Commencement of Christ’s Ministry – The Duration of Christ’s Ministry – The Year of Christ’s Crucifixion He carefully documents his position and compares the date available–including a study of Greek words, Roman law, and Jewish customs and prophecy.

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