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  • Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them

    by Susan Ackerman ...
    A wide-ranging study of women in ancient Israelite religion.Susan Ackerman has spent her scholarly career researching underexamined aspects of the world of the Hebrew Bible—particularly those aspects pertaining to women. In this collection drawn from three decades of her work, she describes in fascinating detail the worship of goddesses in ancient Israel, the roles women played as priests and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and the Religion of Ancient Israel

    by Susan Ackerman ...
    Series series The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
    A synthetic reconstruction of women’s religious engagement and experiences in preexilic Israel“This monumental book examines a wealth of data from the Bible, archaeology, and ancient Near Eastern texts and iconography to provide a clear, comprehensive, and compelling analysis of women’s religious lives in preexilic times.”—Carol Meyers, Duke UniversityThroughout the biblical narrative, ancient ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality

    Women's Life-Cycle Rituals in Ancient Israel

    by Susan Ackerman ...
    Maturity, Marriage, Motherhood, Mortality is a deft study of women's life-cycle rituals in ancient Israel. These include rituals that marked a young woman's coming of age (“maturity”) and her betrothal and wedding (“marriage”); rituals undertaken by women during pregnancy, parturition, and their first days and early years after giving birth (“motherhood”); and rituals that were enacted at the time ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • When Heroes Love

    The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

    by Susan Ackerman ...
    Series series Gender, Theory, and Religion
    Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, greater than the love of women." These passages, along with other ambiguous erotic and sexual language found in the Gilgamesh epic and the biblical David ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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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

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Israelite Religions

    An Archaeological and Biblical Survey

    by Richard Hess ...
    Archaeological excavation in the Holy Land has exploded with the resurgence of interest in the historical roots of the biblical Israelites. Israelite Religions offers Bible students and interested lay leaders a survey of the major issues and approaches that constitute the study of ancient Israelite religion. Unique among other books on the subject, Israelite Religions takes the Bible seriously as ... Read more

    $31.69 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

  • The World of Jesus and the Early Church

    Identity and Interpretation in the Early Communities of Faith

    Edited by Craig A. Evans ...
    How do religious texts impact the way communities of faith understand themselves? In The World of Jesus and the Early Church: Identity and Interpretation in Early Communities of Faith Craig Evans leads an interdisciplinary team of scholars to discover and explain how the dynamic relationship between text and community enabled ancient Christian and Jewish communities to define themselves. To this ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hebrew Bible

    A Critical Companion

    Edited by John Barton ...
    A comprehensive and accessible guide to the Hebrew BibleThis book brings together some of the world's most exciting scholars from across a variety of disciplines to provide a concise and accessible guide to the Hebrew Bible. It covers every major genre of book in the Old Testament together with in-depth discussions of major themes such as human nature, covenant, creation, ethics, ritual and purity ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • 1 Peter (New Testament Guides)

    by Prof. David G. Horrell ...
    Series series New Testament Guides
    This volume offers a concise and accessible introduction to 1 Peter, especially aimed at undergraduate-level students. It provides information on the likely historical and social setting of this letter, on its literary form and theological content, and on issues involved in its interpretation. In particular, this volume suggests that 1 Peter is an important text not least for the ways in which it ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?

    A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture

    by Craig L. Blomberg, Darrell L. Bock, Richard S. Hess, Alan Millard, Eckhard J. Schnabel, Richard L. Schultz, Willem A. VanGemeren, Robert W. Yarbrough, Richard E. Averbeck, Robert D. Bergen, Robert B. Chisholm Jr., Graham A. Cole, Thomas W. Davis, Michael Hasel, John W. Hilber, Michael A. G. Haykin, Jens Bruun Kofoed, Thomas H. McCall, John Monson, Steven M. Ortiz, Jason Stanghalle, Mark D. Thompson ...
    Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible's storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible's jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture must be prepared to answer this question.Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith? offers a firm defense of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD