A literary and historical introduction to the Bible exploring the content of both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian New Testament, but also introducing the reader to scholarly questions and theories about the Bible.
An ideal Bible for anyone who desires to reflect on the individual stories and chapters of just one, or even all, of the biblical books, while being led to prayer through meditation on that biblical passage.
An inspirational way to practice lectio divina through the person of St. Paul, the first of all Christian proclaimers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, using the Acts of the Apostles.
Uses tools of biblical scholarship, prayer, reflection, and the insights of other women to explore the relationships of various women of both the Old and New Testament.
This book seeks to establish the properly oriented use of the historical-critical method as the mode of ascertaining the sense of the written Word of God.
Introduces the reader to the major texts and genres of rabbinic literature in which the Jews present their reading of the Bible through which every biblical verse discloses seventy different insights, all of them wise and true.
Using the "three worlds" of the historical background, the literary features, and the interpretive possibilities for the text, this book surveys the major divisions of the Bible and presents examples of how to interpret the Bible using contemporary methodologies.
Questions and answers that people ask today about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls their contents, their significance, and recent developments about them written by an expert who has worked on the scrolls from the beginning.
A literary and historical introduction to the Bible exploring the content of both the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian New Testament, but also introducing the reader to scholarly questions and theories about the Bible.
