Handbook on the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
8 best books like Handbook on the Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (Victor P. Hamilton): Confessions, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, The Spies of Shilling Lane, The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation, The Life of Moses, The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Designed to Lead: The Church and Leadership Development
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0192833723 |
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and on the activity of remembering and interpreting...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| ISBN | 0316478520 |
In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, she committed suicide in her cell. What went wrong? Talking to Strangers is all about what happens when we encounter people we...
The Spies of Shilling Lane
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her...
| Author | Justo L. González |
| ISBN | 0060633158 |
For a very general introduction to the early history of the Church up until the Protestant Reformation, I would recommend this book. But only as a primary introduction.
Its chief virtues are that it is highly readable (high school reading level) and easy to understand; the chapters are brief...
| Author | Gregory of Nyssa |
| ISBN | 0809121123 |
St. Gregory of Nyssa This great spiritual master of the fourth century was born as the general persecution of Christians was ending. One of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers (the other two were Gregory's brother, St. Basil the Great, and their mutual friend, St. Gregory Nazianzen), Gregory has come to...
The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-Theological Commentary
| Author | John H. Sailhamer |
| ISBN | 0310574218 |
Most scholars studying the first five books of the Bible either attempt to dissect it into various pre-pentateuchal documents or, at the very least, analyze Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy as separate, self-contained documents. The Pentateuch As Narrative focuses on the...
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
| Author | Andy Crouch |
| ISBN | 0830833943 |
2009 Christianity Today Book Award winner! Named one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2008 (religion category).
It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture...
Designed to Lead: The Church and Leadership Development
| Author | Eric Geiger |
| ISBN | 1433690241 |
Most churches merely exist.
Many churches do not develop leaders intentionally and consistently. When leaders emerge from some churches, it is often by accident. Something is missing. Something is off.
Authors Eric Geiger (author of bestselling Simple Church and Creature of...
