The Land Is Mine - Six Biblical Land Ideologies by Norman C Habel
$10.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Overtures to Biblical Theology Ser. | Reading Level: good
Norman C. Habel identifies six discrete ideologies in the Hebrew Bible regarding land: royal, agrarian, theocratic, prophetic, ancestral household, and immigrant.
In Search of Wisdom - Essays in Memory of John G. Gammie by Leo G. Perdue (Editor); Bernard Brandon Scott (Editor); William Johnston Wiseman (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: good
This much-needed volume provides a comprehensive study of wisdom in the Hebrew Bible, in selected intertestamental and Rabbinic texts, and in the New Testament. An introductory essay summarizes the various meanings of wisdom in current research and offers an accurate understanding of the term. With seve ...Show more
Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage by Craig Bartholomew (Editor); Fred Hughes (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
Many Christians go on pilgrimage, whether to Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago, or some other destination, but few think hard about it from the perspective of their faith. This book fills that gap, looking at the biblical and theological elements in pilgrimage and asking how we could do pilgrimage differently. ...Show more
Liberating Eschatology - Essays in Honor of Letty M. Russell by Margaret A. Farley (Editor); Serene Jones (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
This volume addresses a theme long essential to feminist and liberationist theology: in what can we hope, and what role should hope play in our actions and our lives? It provides a constructive set of proposals and fills a crucial gap in theological resources as well-known contributors address the theme ...Show more
From Temple to Tent - From Real to Virtual World (Exodus 24:15 - Numbers 10:28) by Sarah L. Hart
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Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
The principal interest of the text on the tabernacle tent, Exodus 24:15 - Numbers 10:28, is Israelite worship-cultic place, the cultic people, and laws for the regulation of cultic life. The method followed is description of the biblical text and collation of the evidence as would a classicist go about ...Show more
Wisdom and Creation - The Theology of Wisdom Literature by Leo G Perdue
$16.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
Wisdom literature, asserts the author, is grounded in the theological tradition of creation. For the Wisdom writers of Israel and early Judaism, God is the maker of heaven and earth, whose creativity both forms and sustains the world. The very nature of God is to create life, to sustain it, and to ensur ...Show more
Immanuel - The Coming of Jesus in Art and the Bible by Hans-Reudi Weber
$14.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
In Search of True Wisdom - Essays in Old Testament Interpretation in Honour of Ronald E. Clements by Edward Ball (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: The\Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies | Reading Level: good-very good
The distinguished authors whose essays appear in this volume (marking the seventieth birthday of Ronald Clements, who until his retirement, was the Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies, King's College London) include John Barton, Walter Brueggemann, Brevard Childs, John Rogerson, Rolf Rend ...Show more
The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution by Christopher Hill
$16.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: good-very good
The translation of the Bible into English in the 16th century was one of the most important events in English history. Previously, the sacred text had been accessible only to a tiny minority, now anybody could read or listen to it.
The Birth, the Curse and the Greening of Earth - An Ecological Reading of Genesis 1-11 by Norman Habel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: near fine
Few people realize that the first character in the Bible (after the headline sentence of Genesis 1.1) is Earth. What if we read the creation story and the primal myths of Genesis from the perspective of that key character, rather than from the anthropocentric perspective in which our culture has nurture ...Show more
The Beast that Crouches at the Door - Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Beyond by David Fohrman
$15.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
What are we to learn from the narratives in the Torah? A walking, talking snake. A tree that bears mysterious knowledge of Good and Evil. A mark upon Cain for all to see. The early narratives in the Book of Genesis are familiar to us from childhood, yet the meaning of these stories often seem maddeningl ...Show more
Framing Her - Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus by Judith E McKinlay
$18.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Bible in the Modern World Ser. | Reading Level: very good
How does one read the story of Sarah and Hagar, or Jezebel and Rahab today, if one is a woman reader situated in a postcolonial society? This is the question undergirding this work, which considers a selection of biblical texts in which women have significant roles. Employing both a gender and a postcol ...Show more