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

The journey from religion to relationship is a journey of self-discovery. No one need have a "learned one" or "guru" that becomes one's interpreter of truth. However, from time to time, we need input to help us shine the light of truth on our path so we can continue the personal journey leading closer to, and to know more fully, the Creator of all things.

This book is designed to point each of us to the essential truths that transcend religious dogma and, if properly understood, will help each reader refocus their own thinking towards what is important to them and their spiritual...

Long before the words of the Old Testament were written, many of their roots existed in the form of ancient myth-the religious beliefs and practices of cultures in Sumeria and Egypt. That raises an interesting question: does the value of religion lie in its infallibility, or in the higher values it instills in its followers?

In his book, "Something Borrowed, Something True," the geographer Robert Mayfield explores the origins of modern Judeo-Christian beliefs, and the cultural evolution that helped create those religions. Readers will learn of his conclusions concerning the origin of...

Social memory research has complicated the relationship between past and present because it is a relationship which finds expression in memorial acts such as storytelling and text-production.

This relationship has emerged as a dialectic in which "past" and "present" are mutually constitutive and implicating. The resultant complication directly affects the procedures and products of "historical Jesus" research, which depends particularly on the assumption that we can cleanly separate "authentic" from "inauthentic" traditions.

In Structuring Early Christian Memory Rafael...

Multidisciplinary in approach, this informative yet entertaining encyclopedia covers major aspects of miraculous phenomena through more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries that document how humanity's belief in religious miracles over multiple places, periods, and faiths have affected society--even changed the course of history. Written for high school students and general readers, the coverage enables readers to learn about different civilizations and cultures, the controversies surrounding different beliefs, and the often uncomfortable engagement of religion with...

Many of the writings deemed 'apocryphal' and 'pseudepigraphical'were in circulation in the early centuries of Judaism and Christianity. Their influences and impacts on the development of early communities, and the development of Jewish and Christian thoughts, have not yet been sufficiently examined. While this judgment is especially true for the so-called Christian Apocrypha, it also applies for other writings that were not included in the Jewish and Christian Bibles and nor in other sacred collections of Scripture, like Rabbinics and Patristics.

Most of these ancient writings...