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  • The Early History of God

    Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    Series series The Biblical Resource Series (BRS)
    Foreword by Patrick D. MillerIn this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional view that Israel was fundamentally different in culture and religion from its Canaanite neighbors, this ... Read more

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  • Treblinka Survivor

    The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

    by Mark S Smith ...
    More than 800,000 people entered Treblinka, and fewer than seventy came out. Hershl Sperling was one of them. He escaped. Why then, fifty years later, did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten, published account of the Treblinka death camp, written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation and discovered in his briefcase after his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Biblical Monotheism

    Israel's Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic Texts

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    According to the Bible, ancient Israel's neighbors worshipped a wide variety of gods. In recent years, scholars have sought a better understanding of this early polytheistic milieu and its relation to Yahweh, the God of Israel. Drawing on ancient Ugaritic texts and looking closely at Ugaritic deities, Mark Smith examines the meaning of "divinity" in the ancient near East and considers how this ... Read more

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  • Judges 1

    A Commentary on Judges 1:1 – 10:5

    Series series Hermeneia
    This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation of the text and detailed interpretation of almost every word or phrase in the book of Judges, drawing from archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, many never noted before. Archaeology also serves to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early ... Read more

    $71.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Human is God?

    Seven Questions about God and Humanity in the Bible

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    Walter Cardinal Kasper has written, “It is time, it is the right time, to speak of God.” This book invites readers to use their God-given ability to work through important questions that many people have about God today: Why is God so angry in the Bible? Is the biblical God male or female (or what)? Who is Satan? Why do people suffer?By exploring the Bible’s answers to these and other biblical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • God's Word to Israel

    New and Augmented Edition

    While many Christians recognize the abiding value of the Old Testament as God's Word they stay away from studying it because they see it as a difficult and forbidding subject. In this completely revised and expanded edition of God’s Word to Israel Joseph Jensen incorporates the latest scholarship using a combination of the historical, literary, and thematic approaches to present a unified ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Genesis of Good and Evil

    The Fall(out) and Original Sin in the Bible

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    For centuries, the Garden of Eden story has been a cornerstone for the Christian doctrine of the Fall and original sin. In recent years, many scholars have disputed this understanding of Genesis 3 because it has no words for sin, transgression, disobedience, or punishment. Instead, it is about how the human condition came about. Yet the picture is not so simple. The Genesis of Good and Evil ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Where the Gods Are

    Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    Series series The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
    The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, and ancient iconography, which attempt to describe deities in relation to humans. Smith uses a novel approach to show how the Bible depicts God in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, AD 431-451

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    Series series Oxford Early Christian Studies
    The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-fifth century. It argues that the conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle convincingly to arbitrate between them, represented a key dynamic driving--and unsettling--the conciliar activity of these decades. Mark S. ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Exodus

    Volume 3

    by Mark S. Smith ...
    Series Book 3 - New Collegeville Bible Commentary: Old Testament
    So resounding is its message that echoes of the Exodus are heard throughout the Old and New Testaments and the present. Exodus names and terms permeate our biblical and liturgical vocabularies: Pharaoh, Moses, Aaron, burning bush, I AM," plagues, Passover, manna, Ten Commandments, forty days and forty nights, Ark of the Covenant. The Exodus experience, indeed, is central to both Jewish and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Lunch with Charlotte

    by Leon Berger ...
    When Charlotte escaped Vienna on the Kindertransport, she carried more than memories of Nazi persecution—she bore the wound of her mother's ultimate betrayal. Through twenty-five years of Friday lunches in Montreal, this remarkable Holocaust survivor finally reveals to author Leon Berger the devastating secret that shaped her entire existence. From Kristallnacht to the London Blitz to building a ... Read more

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