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Good Book is what happens when a regular guy actually reads the book on which his religion, his culture, and his world are based. Along the way, he grapples with the most profound theological questions: Does God prefer obedience or good deeds? And the most unexpected ones: Why are so many women in the Bible prostitutes? Why does God love bald men so much? Is Samson really that stupid? Good Book is an irreverent, enthralling journey through the world's most important work of literature.

The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, played a central role in the Bible's history. Many of the Hebrew scriptures were still evolving when they were translated into Greek, and these Greek translations, along with several new Greek writings, became Holy Scripture in the early Church. Yet gradually the Septuagint lost its place at the heart of Western Christianity.

¿Sabía que ni la manzana del Paraíso ni la ballena de Jonás aparecen en la Biblia? ¿Cómo se explica que Matusalén muriera a los 969 años? ¿Por qué aparece en el relato del Paraíso una serpiente como encarnación del Diablo y no cualquier otro animal? ¿Se transformó la mujer de Lot realmente en una estatua de sal? Moisés, ¿era hebreo o egipcio? El faraón del éxodo, ¿fue un hombre o una mujer? ¿Habló la burra de Balaán? ¿Qué ocurrió en el llamado milagro del sol?

Gianfranco Ravasi racconta qui la grande storia delle idee e delle vicende dell’antico testamento: un itinerario ricco di paesaggi nuovi e sorprendenti, un’esperienza di bellezza e di ricerca della verità, indagini su originale visione del mondo, dell’uomo e del mistero che lo circonda. Questo viaggio, estraneo sia alla contemplazione distaccata sia alla sintesi frettolosa, permettere al lettore, al riparo da pregiudizi banali e difficoltà interpretative, di addentrarsi per la prima volta nelle scritture o di tentare nuove sortite.

During its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to almost every important claim about reality, humanity, and God in Judaism and Christianity. And it continues to play a central role in debates about science, politics, and human rights. With clarity and skill, acclaimed biblical scholar Ronald Hendel provides a panoramic history of this iconic book, exploring its impact on Western religion, philosophy, science, politics, literature, and more.

The world's three largest faiths all find a common root in one man: Abraham. Breaking new ground, David Rosenberg portrays Abraham as a man whose whole life, and therefore his legacy, is informed by the Sumerian culture that produced him. Abraham is a brilliant literary excavation of the ancient cultures from which our modern world has grown.

Offering rare insights into this iconic and enduring book, Larrimore reveals how Job has come to be viewed as the Bible's answer to the problem of evil and the perennial question of why a God who supposedly loves justice permits bad things to happen to good people.

Can the Bible be approached both as sacred scripture and as a historical and literary text? For many people, it must be one or the other. How can we read the Bible both ways? The Bible and the Believer brings together three distinguished biblical scholars--one Jewish, one Catholic, and one Protestant--to illustrate how to read the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament critically and religiously.

En soulignant l’intemporalité et la bonté des commandements de Dieu, Kevin DeYoung nous expose des vérités cruciales au sujet des dix commandements. Il nous explique ce qu’ils représentent, les raisons pour lesquelles nous devrions les connaître, mais aussi comment leur obéir. Ce livre nous rappelle que les commandements de la loi de Dieu sont bons, justes et saints, et qu’ils ne doivent pas être ignorés. Comme le psalmiste, nous pouvons prendre plaisir dans la loi de Dieu, puisqu’elle met en lumière notre péché et révèle la grâce glorieuse de Dieu en Jésus-Christ.

In the tradition of Boice’s expositional commentaries, Nehemiah not only explains the meaning of the text verse by verse and section by section, but it relates the concerns of the text to the world, the church, and the realities of Christian life. Pastors, Bible students, and laypersons alike will find Boice’s easy-to-digest commentary an important tool, not only in understanding the rebuilding of the wall of Jerusalem but also in understanding how God equips his servants for their appointed tasks.

Daniel’s prayer and seventy-week prophecy in Daniel 9 is unique and epic. With Israel being in exile nearly seven decades, Daniel was eager for the nation’s physical and spiritual restoration. However, the Lord revealed that His plans for Israel would reach into the distant future, encompassing a period of seventy weeks. In this remarkable revelation, God outlined a precise chronology when Christ would come and die to achieve redemption, and when the Antichrist would rise and reign but ultimately be destroyed.