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All the verse-by-verse insights of the 12-volume Expositor's Bible Commentary--in 2 convenient volumes. When you want to dig more deeply into the meaning of God's Word, a good expository Bible commentary is ideal. You want more than a simple, one-volume commentary that just scratches the surface. But you don't want a time-consuming multi-volume set laden with fine points you can't use. The Expositor's Bible Commentary Abridged Edition is tailor-made for you. Based on the critically acclaimed Expositor's Bible Commentary used by pastors, students, and scholars across the world, this...

In the short but powerful book "Snap Out of It," author Barry Bragg invites you to examine traditional religious ideas and exchange them for a spontaneous, personal, free-fl owing, natural spirituality. Through analysis of the Bible, interviews with former fundamentalists, and his own cartoons, Bragg presents an alternative path to those wanting freedom from unexamined religious teaching. He proposes that we are all part of one vast, creative energy, and that humanity is innately good. In walking a spiritual path, you must ask, with unwavering courage, What is really true?

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Biblical texts create worlds of meaning and invite readers to enter them. When readers enter such textual worlds, which are strange and complex, they are confronted with theological claims. With this in mind, the purpose of the IBT series is to help serious readers in their experience of reading and interpreting by providing guides for their journeys into textual worlds. The focus of the series is not so much on the world behind the text as on the worlds created by the texts in their engagement with readers.

Nowhere is the world of the biblical text stranger than in the apocalyptic...

The Global Bible Commentary invites its users to expand their horizon by reading the Bible with scholars from all over the world and from different religious persuasions. These scholars have approaches and concerns that often are poles apart. Yet they share two basic convictions: biblical interpretation always matters; and reading the Bible "with others" is highly rewarding.

Each of the short commentaries of the Global Bible Commentary is a readily accessible guide for reading a biblical book. Written for undergraduate and seminary students and their teachers, as well...

Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of the Bible compose a coherent story that continues through both the Old and New Testaments. "The convictions of the Bible, to be sure, are the convictions of religion and ethics," he writes, "but the methods are the methods of literature." Carefully arranging a selection of excerpts that comprise approximately one-fourth of the entire Bible, he enables the reader to follow chronologically the main narrative...

Radio messages from J. Vernon McGee delighted and enthralled listeners for years with simple, straightforward language and clear understanding of the Scripture. Now enjoy his personable, yet scholarly, style in a 60-volume set of commentaries that takes you from Genesis to Revelation with new understanding and insight. Each volume includes introductory sections, detailed outlines and a thorough, paragraph-by-paragraph discussion of the text. A great choice for pastors - and even better choice for the average Bible reader and student Very affordable in a size that can go anywhere, it's...

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Best-selling author Dannah Gresh knows the transforming power that will turn your life into a glorious adventure with God. In this book, she reveals the secret of the Lord, gently leading you on a journey from an -I'm so exhausted, depleted, and empty- existence to a...

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Thousands of readers have journeyed Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee. Now they can access McGee's comments on virtually any Bible topic with the Thru the Bible Complete Index.

Created for pastors, teachers, and inquisitive students of God's Word, this 352-page resource is the perfect companion volume for those who want to get the maximum benefit from their Thru the Bible collection. Each topic is indexed by volume and page number to the five-volume commentary set. Users of the 60-volume paperback edition can...

Read the best of Matthew Henry's classic commentary on the Bible in one convenient book. Henry's profound spiritual insights have touched lives for over 300 years. Indexed maps and charts make this a book any pastor, student, Bible teacher, or devotional reader will treasure

The ability to translate scripture into modern-day application is at your fingertips. Nelson's new Compact Bible Commentary is perfect for beginning Bible readers, students, pastors, and teachers--ordinary believers seeking a fresh and current perspective--all in a portable travel size. Over forty evangelical scholars created this rich resource, an abridgement of the already-successful Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Commentary. It is compact yet comprehensive, engaging every book of the Bible. Easy-to-understand translations and verse-by-verse explanations, combined with...