From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ
10 best books like From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ (Paula Fredriksen): Awakenings, A Thief of Time, Silas Marner, Shamed, Animal Dreams, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family and the Birth of Christianity, Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat, The Old Testament
| Author | Oliver Sacks |
| ISBN | 0375704051 |
Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver...
| Author | Tony Hillerman |
| ISBN | 0061000043 |
Visiting Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in the pages of a Hillerman mystery is the next best thing to sleeping under the stars in Navajo country, wondering if there is magic in the sky above.
A Thief of Time has atmosphere to spare, and a complex plot. Leaphorn and Chee are also fleshed out more than usual...
George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner...
| Author | Linda Castillo |
| ISBN | 1250142865 |
An Amish grandmother is murdered on an abandoned farm, her seven year old granddaughter abducted. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder plunges headlong into a case that quickly becomes a race against the clock. She knows the longer the girl is missing, the more likely a tragic outcome. The family of the missing...
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| ISBN | 0060921145 |
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach....
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope
As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...
The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family and the Birth of Christianity
| Author | James D. Tabor |
| ISBN | 0743287231 |
The Jesus Dynasty offers a startling new interpretation of the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity that is grounded in careful analysis of the earliest Christian documents and recent archaeological discoveries, including the much-discussed "Jesus family tomb."In The Jesus Dynasty,...
Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
| Author | Neale Donald Walsch |
| ISBN | 0399142789 |
Suppose you could ask God the most puzzling questions about existence - questions about love and faith, life and death, good and evil. Suppose God provided clear, understandable answers. It happened to Neale Donald Walsch. It can happen to you. You are about to have a conversation...
I have...
Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat
| Author | Patricia Williams |
| ISBN | 0062407309 |
You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black and female? Ask any girl from any hood. You want to know what it takes to rise above your circumstances when all the cards are stacked against you? Ask me.
Comedian Patricia Williams, who for years went by her street-name "Rabbit," was...
| Author | Amy-Jill Levine |
| ISBN | 1565853652 |
Course Lecture Titles
1. In the Beginning
2. Adam and Eve
3. Murder, Flood, Dispersion
4. Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar
5. Isaac
6. The Jacob Saga
7. Folklore Analysis and Type Scenes
8. Moses and Exodus
9. The God of Israel
10. Covenant and Law, Part I
11....
| Author | E.P. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0140144994 |
random thoughts:
-for Sanders, Jesus was (and this is not surprising to anyone who has read his other works on Jesus and Paul) very much a faithful, observant Jew; I largely agree; the conflicts with the Pharisees seem, when actually read in context, fairly minor in and of themselves, though...
| Author | Burton L. Mack |
| ISBN | 0060655186 |
In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus.
Mack's innovative scholarship, which boldly...
| Author | Jeffrey Archer |
| ISBN | 1250200768 |
Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . .
William Warwick has always...
Forged: Writing in the Name of God
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0062012614 |
s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God's Problem reveals which books in the New Testament were not passed down by Jesus' disciples, but were instead forged by other hands--and why this centuries-hidden...
The Conception of Terror: Tales Inspired by M. R. James - Volume 1
A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James.
Casting the Runes - adapted by Stephen Gallagher
When academic Jo Harrington (Anna Maxwell Martin) is sent a paper - The Truth of Alchemy, by Anton Karswell - for peer review, she pulls no punches. It has no place in a serious...
A woman disappeared. A man was convicted. Case closed?
Body of Proof, a true crime podcast, examines the many unanswered questions surrounding the disappearance and death of Suzanne Pilley in Edinburgh in 2010 and the subsequent conviction of David Gilroy. Journalists and TV producers...
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 1508238332 |
From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.
Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion...
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0062285203 |
The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.
Throughout...
| Author | Belleruth Naparstek |
| ISBN | 0062513605 |
We've all experiences moments of "knowing" that defy logic and reason. But just what is this extra sense and how does it work? Why do certain life experiences--falling in love, intense grief, near-death experience, meditation--seem to bring it on? Let this thoughtful and illuminating guide help...
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history....
| Author | Anne Hillerman |
| ISBN | 0062391976 |
Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.
Joe Leaphorn may have retired...
Luther's Theology of the Cross: Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 0631175490 |
(This review was submitted as a class project.)
McGrath plunges into the formidable mass of Luther scholarship to reach his own conclusions regarding the nature and date of Luther’s theological breakthrough and the relation of that breakthrough to his distinctive theology: the theologia...
L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexorable. Mais si au fondement de ses premiers exploits se découvraient plutôt des marchandages, de vulgaires combinaisons d’intérêts ? Et si les glorieuses images de la Wehrmacht entrant triomphalement...
Caves, Huts, and Monasteries: Finding the Deeper Self Along the Footpaths of Asia
| Author | Mark Kacik |
| ISBN | 1618521012 |
When the anxiety of materialistic excess overcomes your soul, and you hear a cry from deep within, what do you do?
Author Mark Kacik traveled the remote back roads of Asia in search of a peaceful mind, a deep understanding of self, and an alternative to his hectic and materialistic American lifestyle.
...
| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| ISBN | 1408834820 |
A highly collectable hardback boxed set from the world of Harry Potter - containing handsome new editions of Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (both in hardback for the first time) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Hogwarts Library is an essential collection for...
Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic
| Author | British Library |
| ISBN | 1408890771 |
An irresistible romp through the history of magic, from alchemy to unicorns, ancient witchcraft to Harry's Hogwarts – packed with unseen sketches and manuscript pages from J.K. Rowling, magical illustrations from Jim Kay and weird, wonderful and inspiring artefacts that have been magically...
| Author | Karl Barth |
| ISBN | 0664231535 |
Karl Barth (pronounced "bart") was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training...
The Second Temple Period (The Sages: Character, Context & Creativty, #1)
| Author | Binyamin Lau |
| ISBN | 1592642454 |
The Sages is the first book to appear in English by the charismatic Jerusalem rabbi, Binyamin Lau. It offers fresh perspectives on the individual characters of the Jewish sages (Chazal), the historical contexts in which they lived, and the creativity they brought to the pursuit of Jewish wisdom. This...
Snared: Escape to the Above
| Author | Adam Jay Epstein |
| ISBN | 1250146925 |
Chopping blades, scorpion nests, giant spiderwebs—no one makes traps better than Wily Snare.
He has never seen the sun, or blue sky, or even his parents. Wily Snare lives underground, creating traps to keep treasure-seekers away from the gold in an ancient wizard’s dungeon. He spends...
FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual
| Author | Susan Prosser |
| ISBN | 1449382592 |
This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual...
