Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Biblical Studies - History & Culture

Donna Laird examines Ezra and Nehemiah in the light of modern sociological theorist Pierre Bourdieu. How did this context of hardship, exile, and return change what Ezra and Nehemiah viewed as important? How did they define who was a part of their community, and who was an outsider? It goes on to explore how the books engaged readers at the time: how it addressed their changing circumstances, and how different groups gained and used "social power," or the ability to influence society.

From renowned historian, biographer and novelist, A.N. Wilson, a deep personal, literary, and historical exploration of the Bible.

In The Book of the People, A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains relevant even in a largely secular society, as a philosophical work, a work of literature, and a cultural touchstone that the western world has answered to for nearly two thousand years: Martin Luther King was...

Podemos confiar en la Biblia?: Respuestas a las mAs inquietantes preguntas sobre la Biblia

Descubre los misterios y secretos que han envuelto la creaciOn de este libro tan popular. Las historias y los hechos que los poderosos esconden estAn revelados en esta obra de investigaciOn.

En este libro encontrarAs respuesta a las siguientes preguntas:

• COmo llegamos a tener definitivamente la Biblia tal cual la poseemos hoy?
• Es posible que tantos autores no se contradigan entre ellos?
• CuAntas Biblias hay?
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The world of early Christians was not a world lived in texts; it was a world saturated with material reality and concerns: what, where and when to eat or drink; how to present oneself in the space of bodily life and that of death; how to move from one place to another; what impacted status or the adjudication of legal charges. All these and more controlled so much of life in the ancient world. The Christians were not immune from the impact of these realities. Sometimes they absorbed their surrounds; sometimes they quite explicitly rejected the material practices bearing in on them;...

The world of early Christians was not a world lived in texts; it was a world saturated with material reality and concerns: what, where and when to eat or drink; how to present oneself in the space of bodily life and that of death; how to move from one place to another; what impacted status or the adjudication of legal charges. All these and more controlled so much of life in the ancient world. The Christians were not immune from the impact of these realities. Sometimes they absorbed their surrounds; sometimes they quite explicitly rejected the material practices bearing in on them;...

In this book, you will discover what the true story was and what the wrong one was in the myths of Sumer and Babylon.

In the Mesopotamia region, plates written by ancient writers were discovered. After deciphering their content, scientists named them myths and legends because they interpreted that these texts spoke about gods and goddesses. As for me, I chose to describe the deciphering of these texts as right and wrong because it's right for scientists to call them myths and legends, but it's totally wrong to believe they speak about myths of gods and goddesses.