Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
10 best books like Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages (Jaroslav Pelikan): The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died, The Jewish Study Bible, Lost Scriptures: Books That Did Not Make It Into the New Testament, Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?, From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries and Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith, Sinai and Zion, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel, An Introduction to the New Testament
| Author | Philip Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0061472808 |
In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China. The Lost History of Christianity unveils...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0195297512 |
The Jewish Study Bible is a one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. Nearly forty scholars worldwide contributed to the translation and interpretation of the Jewish Study Bible, representing the best of Jewish biblical scholarship available today....
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0195182502 |
While most people think that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament are the only sacred writings of the early Christians, this is not at all the case. A companion volume to Bart Ehrman's Lost Christianities, this book offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical...
| Author | Adina Hoffman |
| ISBN | 0805242589 |
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove...
| Author | Peter R.L. Brown |
| ISBN | 0231061013 |
I read this book a few years ago and just realized that I never reviewed it. Brown is everything one could desire from a scholar of Mediterranean culture in the several centuries after Christ. He founded the field of Late Antique studies as such, and this book is one of the key contributions he made earlier...
| Author | Peter J. Gomes |
| ISBN | 0060000732 |
Jesus came preaching, but the church wound up preaching Jesus. Why does the church insist upon making Jesus the object of its attention rather than heeding his message? Esteemed Harvard minister Peter J. Gomes believes that excessive focus on the Bible and doctrines about Jesus have led the Christian...
| Author | L. Michael White |
| ISBN | 0060816104 |
The path from Jesus to Christianity is not as straight as we might think. Now, for the first time, L. Michael White, one of the world's foremost scholars on the origins of Christianity, provides the complete, astonishing story of how Christianity grew from the personal vision of a humble Jewish peasant...
Levenson presents an excellent introduction to the Jewish faith as it is represented in scripture. In Sinai & Zion he takes a clear look at the two mountains and the traditions which arose from Jewish experience of them and details their symbolism, meaning, and theological trends which arose:...
Foreword by Patrick D. Miller
In this remarkable, acclaimed history of the development of monotheism, Mark S. Smith explains how Israel's religion evolved from a cult of Yahweh as a primary deity among many to a fully defined monotheistic faith with Yahweh as sole god. Repudiating the traditional...
| Author | Raymond E. Brown |
| ISBN | 0385247672 |
Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable Introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown's "An Introduction to the New Testament" is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible.Universally...
This thoroughly revised edition of Bruce M. Metzger's classic work is the most up-to-date manual available for the textual criticism of the New Testament. The Text of the New Testament, Fourth Edition, has been invigorated by the addition of Bart D. Ehrman--author of numerous best-selling books...
| Author | Martin E. Marty |
| ISBN | 0679643494 |
In this cogent volume, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world’s largest religion.
Comprising nearly one third of the world’s population–more...
| Author | Luke Timothy Johnson |
| ISBN | 0060641665 |
The Real Jesus—the first book to challenge the findings of the Jesus Seminar, the controversial group of two hundred scholars who claim Jesus only said 18 percent of what the Gospels attribute to him—"is at the center of the newest round in what has been called the Jesus Wars" (Peter Steinfels, New...
| Author | T.J. Wray |
| ISBN | 1403969337 |
Of all the demons, monsters, fiends, and ogres to preoccupy the western imagination in literature, art, and film, no figure has been more feared—or misunderstood--than Satan. But how accurate are the popular images of Satan? How--and why--did this rather minor biblical character morph into the...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0060838736 |
A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn...
| Author | Merold Westphal |
| ISBN | 0801031478 |
In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical "contamination," he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church....
| Author | Alister E. McGrath |
| ISBN | 0385722168 |
In the sixteenth century, to attempt to translate the Bible into a common tongue wasn't just difficult, it was dangerous. A Bible in English threatened the power of the monarch and the Church. Early translators like Tyndale, whose work greatly influenced the King James, were hunted down and executed,...
| Author | Thomas Aquinas |
| ISBN | 1928832431 |
Two years before he died, St. Thomas Aquinas probably the greatest teacher the Church has ever known was asked by his assistant, Brother Reginald, to write a simple summary of the Faith of the Catholic Church for those who lacked the time or the stamina to tackle his massive Summa Theologica.
In...
| Author | Garry Wills |
| ISBN | 0670037931 |
A brilliant synthesis of the Apostle Paul's thought and influence, written by a ?foremost Catholic intellectual? ("Chicago Tribune")
All through history, Christians have debated Paul's influence on the church. Though revered, Paul has also been a stone on which many stumble. Apocryphal writings...
| Author | F.F. Bruce |
| ISBN | 0385025335 |
Though this is an older work, I think it is still profitable since it gives alot of historical information concerning the background behind the New Testament. F.F Bruce strength's as a Classicist can clearly be seen, which can be his strength and also his weaknesses. As his strength, one can see that...
| Author | Brian Moynahan |
| ISBN | 0312314868 |
The English Bible---the mot familiar book in our language---is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt.
William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed...
