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

The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive 'fatal woman' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson's downfall. Yet these ubiquitous portrayals of Delilah as femme fatale tend to eclipse the many other viable readings of her character that lie, underexplored, within the ambiguity-laden narrative of Judges 16 -...

This study is a comparative study of the asham sacrificial concepts of the Israelites (Jews) of the Old Testament times and the contemporary Asante religion of the Asante people of Ghana in West Africa. The results from the study show that there are similar ideas that the Israelite and the Asante religions have on guilt sacrifice. However, the reality must not be overlooked that there are significant differences in the practice of each of the religions. Even though the Israelites and Asante are similar in some of their religious concepts, they are dissimilar in reality and practice.

First published in 1978, this book offers a comprehensive study of the illuminations of the Stavelot Bible. The illuminations themselves have been recognized as occupying an important place in the incipient stage of the Romanesque style in the Meuse valley. The two volumes of the Bible contain no less than ninety-seven illuminated initials, almost half of them containing figures. Wayne Dynes's study brings this into context by giving the historical background of the abbey of Stavelot and the manuscript itself, and then the exegetical and illustrative tradition shaping earlier illuminated...

ALL's Focus:

On the evening after Yeshua's resurrection, Luke reports that He explained to the two travelers "what was said in all the Scriptures concerning Himself." ALL examines our risen Lord's "all."

To whom is ALL of interest? Skeptics, searchers, Bible students, teachers...

ALL 's twelve studies explore:

• Who fulfilled the Old Testament's foreshadowed Messiah as
• Seed, Son, Lamb, Priest, Host, King, and Prophet?
• What new Messianic identity is...

God doesn't love men more than women. Why then have women been excluded from church leadership for so long? History is replete from biblical days through the centuries with godly women who impacted society. The cameos of these women had godly character traits that set them apart.

In 1978, author Frieda C. White published A Woman Called to Preach, which has seen great success in the years since. Now, she has transformed her opus into A Woman God Can Use, a detailed exploration of the relationship between women and God. Here are just a few of the questions explored in...