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  • The Historical Writings

    Introducing Israel's Historical Literature

    by Mark A. Leuchter ...
    Series series Introducing Israel's Scriptures
    History has an inescapable centrality in the Hebrew Bible, and biblical narratives are for many readers the best recognized and most memorable parts of the Bible. The history of ancient Israel and the nature of Hebrew historiography remain hotly contested topics today. This new introduction explores key questions and methods shaping contemporary scholarly debate. Students will explore the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Empire Far and Wide

    The Achaemenid Dynastic Myth and Jewish Scribes in the Late Persian Period

    by Mark A. Leuchter ...
    The Persian period (539-332 BCE) sits somewhat awkwardly within the study of Second Temple Judaism. Amidst a myriad of issues and debates, the approach to the Persian period is fundamentally complicated by the difficulty in labelling communities -- whether or not the communities in the province of Yehud, in Egypt, or in the Eastern Diaspora can even be called "Jewish," a label denoting a type of ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Soundings in Kings

    Perspectives and Methods in Contemporary Scholarship

    by Klaus-Peter Adam, Mark A. Leuchter ...
    Series series Soundings
    The reigning assumptions in 1970s and 1980s scholarship on 1 and 2 Kings, and indeed on all of the Deuteronomistic history, have come under serious question. How can differing views of that history be reconciled? What sources were available to the authors? Should we call them "authors"? How well do the Books of Kings fit into the larger history of which they are a part; just who composed that ... Read more

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  • The Exodus

    How it Happened and Why It Matters

    by Richard Elliott Friedman ...
    "In fluent prose . . . makes a gripping and persuasive case that it was the Levites who escaped Egypt and carried the story of the Exodus into Canaan." — The New York Times Book ReviewThe Exodus has become a core tradition of Western civilization. Millions read it, retell it, and celebrate it. But did it happen? Unable to find physical evidence until now, many archaeologists and scholars claim ... Read more

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  • Is the Bible True?

    How Modern Debates and Discoveries Affirm the Essence of the Scriptures

    by Jeffery L. Sheler ...
    A Christianity Today Book of the Year: "An excellent book for anyone interested in the Bible both as a work of history and a testament of faith." — Publishers WeeklyIn this authoritative, bold, and balanced book, renowned U.S. News & World Report religion writer Jeffrey L. Sheler sifts through the claims and counterclaims of contemporary biblical studies. After carefully investigating the full ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why the Bible Began

    An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

    by Jacob L. Wright ...
    Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable. For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon's devastation of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The Invention of God

    by Thomas Römer ...
    Translated by Raymond Geuss ...
    Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Römer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms—Yhwh, God, or Allah—by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from the Bronze Age to the end of the Old Testament period in the third century BCE.That we can address such enigmatic questions at all may come as a surprise. But as Römer makes clear, a wealth of evidence ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament

    The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, #2

    by Joshua Aaron Bowen ...
    Series Book 2 - The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament
    Following from the popular Volume 1, The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 2, takes up the challenge of providing a clear and useful guide to those wanting a better understanding of the Old Testament, including its cultural and historical background, as well as discussions on contentious topics like violence and genocide, and whether the Exodus was a real historical event. Volume 2 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

    by Norman Golb ...
    Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online.Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme controversy.Challenging traditional dogma, Golb has been the leading proponent of the view that the Scrolls cannot be the work of a small, desert-dwelling fringe sect, as various earlier scholars had ... Read more

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  • The "Dead Sea Scrolls"

    A Biography

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus, and they continue to inspire veneration and conspiracy theories to this day. John Collins tells ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hebrew Bible

    New Insights and Scholarship

    Edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn ...
    Series Book 4 - Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
    In April of 2001, the headline in the Los Angeles Times read, “Doubting the Story of the Exodus.” It covered a sermon that had been delivered by the rabbi of a prominent local congregation over the holiday of Passover. In it, he said, “The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible ... Read more

    $26.99 USD