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  • How Catholics Encounter the Bible

    by Michael Peppard ...
    Series series
    Slip into a pew at a Catholic church almost anywhere in the world on a Sunday morning, and you'll likely find something missing: the Bible. More than five hundred years after the Bible came off the first printing press, why does the world's largest biblical religion often not have a printed Bible in the room? And if not, how is it that the life of Catholics is shaped by the Bible? In How Catholics ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Death and Rebirth in Late Antiquity

    by David Eastman, Mark D. Ellison, Jennifer Awes Freeman, Felicity Harley-McGowan, John J. Herrmann, Jr., David G. Hunter, Jacob Latham, Michael Peppard, William Tabbernee, Annewies van den Hoek, Andrew McGowan0, Lee M. Jefferson1 ...
    Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The World's Oldest Church

    Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria

    by Michael Peppard ...
    Series series Synkrisis
    Michael Peppard provides a historical and theological reassessment of the oldest Christian building ever discovered, the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos. Contrary to commonly held assumptions about Christian initiation, Peppard contends that rituals here did not primarily embody notions of death and resurrection. Rather, he portrays the motifs of the church’s wall paintings as those of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    How Catholics Encounter the Bible

    by Michael Peppard ...
    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 38 min

    Slip into a pew at a Catholic church almost anywhere in the world on a Sunday morning, and you'll likely find something missing: the Bible. More than five hundred years after the Bible came off the first printing press, why does the world's largest biblical religion often not have a printed Bible in the room? And if not, how is it that the life of Catholics is shaped by the Bible?In How Catholics ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Revelation of the Magi

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  • Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code:A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine

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  • Mary Magdalene

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    A Biography

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    After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity.Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms—witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and ... Read more

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