Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General

The story of the Exodus of Moses and the people of Israel has been told many times and in many ways, especially in movies like The Ten Commandments. The Israelites are being led to the Promised Land, but because of their faithlessness, most are banished to forty years in the Sinai Desert. 

After Sinai takes a completely different look at an old story. Michael Shelton reviews the major threads in the accounts in the books of Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy and concludes the problem wasn’t the faithlessness of the Jews; it was the overbearing demands of the one...

Through the ages, mankind has longed to understand and explain our origin. The Bible tells us we were created in the image and likeness of God and that God formed our body from the dust of the ground. But exactly how were we made? What was our form like? How did this body differ from Jesus when he took on human flesh? How do we rightly address the relationship between Creation and incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and re-creation?

In Made for Glory, award-winning author Joshua A. McClure combines testimony and biblical inquiry to...

In this volume in the series Reading the Bible in the Twemty-First Century: Insights, Mitzi J. Smith describes the distinctive African American experience of Scripture, from slavery to Black Liberation and beyond, and the unique angles of perception that an intentional African American interpretation brings to the text today. Smith shows how questions of race, ethnicity, and the dynamics of "othering" have resulted in new reading of particular texts, and describes challenges that scholarship raises for the future of biblical interpretation.

Have you read the Bible?

From cover to cover? From Genesis to Revelation?

It would seem that few of us have.

Not even devout Christians, or those you'd think would be required to read the whole Bible -- like a nun who, when browsing through a copy of When God Speaks for Himself burst out, horrified:

"That's not true
Those verses aren't in the Bible "

To prove it, she opened the Bible -- only to discover that she was wrong.

How can this be?

It turns out that what most people "know" about God, Jesus...

How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a "Bible nation"

Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded on a "biblical worldview as a Christian nation." But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals in other ways. The billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby, a huge nationwide chain of craft stores, the Greens came to national attention in 2014 after successfully suing the federal government over their religious objections to provisions of the Affordable Care Act....

-Dispensationalism has been hailed as the secret to unlocking the meaning of God's Word...and condemned as heresy. And yet, in spite of strong feelings on both sides, there is one thing champions and critics alike often share in common-- they don't fully comprehend what dispensationalism is all about. Dr. Doug Bozung has set out to solve that problem - -from the Foreward by Dr. Charles Dyer.

If you have an interest in dispensationalism but don't really have a grasp of what it is or how it works, this is the book for you. If you want to teach others what dispensationalism is and need...