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  • A Human-Shaped God

    Theology of an Embodied God

    by Charles Halton ...
    Winner of the 2024 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for the best new idea in religion.A Human-Shaped God approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia

    An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors

    by Charles Halton, Saana Svärd ...
    Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest periods of recorded human history (c.2300–540 BCE). In three introductory chapters and a concluding chapter, ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Genesis: History, Fiction, or Neither?

    Three Views on the Bible’s Earliest Chapters

    by James K. Hoffmeier, Gordon John Wenham, Kenton Sparks, Charles Halton, Stanley N. Gundry ...
    Series series Counterpoints: Bible and Theology
    The nature of the Genesis narrative has sparked much debate among Christians. This book introduces three predominant interpretive genres and their implications for biblical understanding.Each contributor identifies their position on the genre or genres of Genesis, chapters 1-11, addresses why their interpretation is respectful of and appropriate to the text, and contributes examples of its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    A Human-Shaped God

    Theology of an Embodied God

    by Charles Halton ...
    Narrated by William Sarris ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    A Human-Shaped God approaches the humanlike accounts of God in the Old Testament as the starting places for theology and uses them to build a picture of the divine. This understanding of God is then brought into conversation with traditional conceptions that depict God as a being who knows everything that happens, is at every place at the same time, is constant and unchanging, and does not ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Beyond the Bible - A Revealing Look at the Bible, History, and Myth from the World In which They Live.

    by Neil P Harvey ...
    Beyond the Bible is an engaging look into the Bible's origins and how its stories played out in ancient religion and myth. Neil P. Harvey reexamines modern traditions and uncovers breathtaking, seldom revealed facts that challenge long-held, conventional beliefs about the Bible and history. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Ghosts

    A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator

    by Irving Finkel ...
    The must-read exploration of the earliest human ghost stories from leading expert Irvine Finkel, author of The Ark Before Noah'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History RevealedThere are few things more in common across cultures than the belief in ghosts. Ghosts inhabit something of the very ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • God: An Anatomy

    by Francesca Stavrakopoulou ...
    An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous."[A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh’s body, from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out ... Ms. Stavrakopoulou has almost too much fun ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Eden in Egypt

    Adam and Eve were Pharaoh Akhenaton and Nefertiti

    by ralph ellis ...
    Series series Egyptian Exodus Series
    Adam and Eve were Pharaoh Akhenaton and Nefertiti.The Bible says that a river flowed through the Garden of Eden and then split into four branches. There is only one river in the Near East that does exactly this, and that is the long oasis-garden of the Nile valley and its division into the (originally) four branches of the Nile Delta. This observation takes Ralph into the depths of the Genesis ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

    A New History of the Ancient Near East

    by Amanda H. Podany ...
    A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants, bricklayers, and others In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes readers on a gripping journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquests of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament

    Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible

    by John Walton ...
    Understand how ancient people viewed the world to better understand the Old TestamentLeading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages.This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Gilgamesh

    A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

    by Sophus Helle ...
    A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic graceGilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh’s deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Babylonian World

    Edited by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Babylonian World presents an extensive, up-to-date and lavishly illustrated history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD