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The wisdom and encouragement of Scripture are found in this
convenient, user-friendly edition of the NIV Bible, ideal for
evangelism and missionary work. Perfect for those reading the Bible
for the very first time, the NIV Outreach New Testament Large Print
helps explore what God's Word has to say to you and the rest of his
people. This affordably priced Bible includes the New Testament
text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version
in a large 10.5-point type size in a softcover binding.
There has been a lack of serious historical investigation of the
famous creedal statement 'Christ descended into hell' that was
universally affirmed by the church for the first 1,500 years of
Church history. This book is an in-depth investigation of the
history of the doctrine of Christ's descent and how Revelation 1:18
alludes to Christ's descent. COMMENDATION "In The Battle for the
Keys Justin Bass leads us through an exceptional exegetical,
historical, and theological exploration of the question of both the
whether and whither of the Christ's descensus ad infernos. Whatever
doubters or believers choose to do with Dr Bass's competent and
convincing evidence, arguments and conclusions, they cannot choose
to ignore them." - Michael J. Svigel, Dallas Theological Seminary,
USA
The Gospel of Luke tells the story of Jesus from a perspective
unlike any other. Pastor John MacArthur will take you through
Luke's account of the gospel, passage by passage, so that you can
better understand everything from Luke's specific audience to the
detailed portrayal of Jesus' ministry. As a physician, Luke
presents a detailed account of Jesus' conception and birth. As a
meticulous historian, he highlights Jesus' parables, teachings,
healings, and compassion to the outcasts in Israel. He follows
Christ on His journey to the cross, recounts His last days that led
to His crucifixion and burial, and documents Christ's victory over
the grave. From the beginning of Jesus' public ministry to the
Lord's final words, Luke stresses Jesus' willingness to go to the
cross to complete His ultimate mission-to be the Savior of all the
world. -ABOUT THE SERIES- The MacArthur Bible Study series is
designed to help you study the Word of God with guidance from
widely respected pastor and author John MacArthur. Each guide
provides intriguing examinations of the whole of Scripture by
examining its parts and incorporates: Extensive, but
straight-forward commentary on the text. Detailed observations on
overriding themes, timelines, history, and context. Word and phrase
studies to help you unlock the broader meaning and apply it to your
life. Probing, interactive questions with plenty of space to write
down your response and thoughts.
It is widely accepted by New Testament scholars that the Gospel of
Luke and the Acts of the Apostles probably originated as two parts
of one work by a single author. In spite of this, the books have
been assigned to very different genres: Luke is traditionally
viewed as a biography of Jesus, and Acts as a history of the early
church. Comparing in detail the structure and content of Acts with
the formal features of history, novel, epic and biography, Sean A.
Adams challenges this division. Applying both ancient and modern
genre theory, he argues that the best genre parallel for the Acts
of the Apostles is in fact collected biography. Offering a nuanced
and sophisticated understanding of genre theory, along with an
insightful argument regarding the composition and purpose of Acts,
this book will be of interest to those studying the New Testament,
Acts, genre theory and ancient literature.
The prophetic clock is ticking. We are living in tumultuous times.
From corrupt world politics to global pandemics to an unprecedented
rebellion against God and His Word, humanity has reached a critical
stage. What happens next? In this eye-opening book, Jimmy Evans
examines biblical prophecies about the end times and points to
their unmistakable parallels with today's world. With clear,
insightful analysis of Scripture, he answers many common questions,
such as: - Are we living in the end times? - How should Believers
respond to increasing immorality? - Will Christians go through the
Tribulation? - What role does Israel play in God's prophetic plan?
- Are COVID-19 and other world events announcing the imminent
return of Jesus? Ultimately, Tipping Point will help you understand
current events with confidence. There is no going back, but hope
and peace are possible as God's plan unfolds and we approach the
end of the age. Jimmy Evans is senior pastor of Gateway Church in
the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and holds an honorary doctorate of
literature from The King's University. In addition to authoring
more than seventeen books, Jimmy has studied eschatology for more
than 45 years and is passionate about helping believers find hope,
peace, and encouragement in the Word of God.
This book provides an original and comprehensive assessment of the
hypotheses concerning the origin of resurrection Christology. It
fills a gap in the literature by addressing these issues using a
transdisciplinary approach involving historical-critical study of
the New Testament, theology, analytic philosophy, psychology and
comparative religion. Using a novel analytic framework, this book
demonstrates that a logically exhaustive list of hypotheses
concerning the claims of Jesus' post-mortem appearances and the
outcome of Jesus' body can be formulated. It addresses these
hypotheses in detail, including sophisticated combinations of
hallucination hypothesis with cognitive dissonance; memory
distortion; and confirmation bias. Addressing writings from both
within and outside of Christianity, it also demonstrates how a
comparative religion approach might further illuminate the origins
of Christianity. This is a thorough study of arguably the key event
in the formation of the Christian faith. As such, it will be of
keen interest to theologians, New Testament scholars, philosophers,
and scholars of religious studies.
Stresses the importance of the canonical context of the book of
Revelation
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Hebrews
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Elizabeth McQuoid; Charles Price with Elizabeth McQuoid
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The latest in the popular Keswick Ministries devotional series: 30
days of readings
Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the
gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious
communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral
traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of their
fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something
akin to the Romantic poet speaking for their Volk - a questionable
framework inherited from nineteenth-century German Romanticism. In
this book, Robyn Faith Walsh argues that the Synoptic gospels were
written by elite cultural producers working within a dynamic cadre
of literate specialists, including persons who may or may not have
been professed Christians. Comparing a range of ancient literature,
her ground-breaking study demonstrates that the gospels are
creative works produced by educated elites interested in Judean
teachings, practices, and paradoxographical subjects in the
aftermath of the Jewish War and in dialogue with the literature of
their age. Walsh's study thus bridges the artificial divide between
research on the Synoptic gospels and Classics.
The publication in 1881 of The New Testament in the Original Greek,
by the Cambridge scholars Brooke Foss Westcott (1825 1901) and
Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828 1892), marked the culmination of
twenty-eight years of work and revolutionised the theory and
methods of New Testament textual criticism. The editors broke with
tradition and reconstructed a critical text based on the
third-century uncial manuscripts Codex Vaticanus and Codex
Sinaiticus, paving the way for future editions. Westcott and Hort's
claim to reconstruct the 'original text' may seem extravagant
today; but according to Bruce Metzger theirs was the 'most
noteworthy critical edition of the Greek Testament ever produced by
British scholarship'. This second volume contains the reconstructed
text. Readings that the editors thought were possible contenders
for the original are printed in the margin; other readings, judged
to be of value but appearing later, are given in the appendix.
This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion
and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor. By analyzing and
comparing this figure in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and
receptions, the chapters explore a conceptual shift from "Children
of Abraham" to "Ambiguous Neighbors." Through a variety of case
studies using diverse methods and material, chapters explore the
neighbor in these neighboring texts and traditions. The figure of
the neighbor seems like an innocent topic at the surface. It is an
everyday phenomenon, that everyone have knowledge about and
experiences with. Still, analytically, it has a rich and innovative
potential. Recent interdisciplinary research employs this figure to
address issues of cultural diversity, gender, migration, ethnic
relationships, war and peace, environmental challenges and
urbanization. The neighbor represents the borderline between
insider and outsider, friend and enemy, us and them. This ambiguous
status makes the neighbor particularly interesting as an entry
point into issues of cultural complexity, self-definition and
identity. This volume brings all the intersections of religion,
ethnicity, gender, and socio-cultural diversity into the same
neighborhood, paying attention to sacred texts, receptions and
contemporary communities. The Ambiguous Figure of the Neighbor in
Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Texts and Receptions offers a
fascinating study of the intersections between Jewish, Christian
and Islamic text, and will be of interest to anyone working on
these traditions.
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Second Corinthians
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Thomas D., Sj Stegman, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
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There is an increasing hunger among Catholics to study the Bible in
depth and in a way that integrates Scripture with Catholic
doctrine, worship, and daily life. "Second Corinthians" is the
fourth of seventeen volumes in the Catholic Commentary on Sacred
Scripture (CCSS), a new series that will cover the entire New
Testament and interprets Scripture from within the living tradition
of the Church. This volume, like each in the series, is
supplemented by features designed to help readers understand the
Bible more deeply and use it more effectively.
'STUNNING PHOTOS THAT BRING THE GOSPELS TO MODERN LIFE.' Mail on
Sunday - Peter Stanford The New Testament Experience: The Gospels
for the Modern World is specifically designed to reach a visual
generation and bring them a fresh insight into the Gospels and the
relevance of the Word of God to their lives today. Using the ESV
translation and photography to bring the key characters and stories
of each Gospel to life, this modern and immersive Bible aims to
create a beautiful and engaging resource for the believer and for
the local church leader. It is a tool to equip the youth of the
Church and new Christians with the life and teaching of Jesus
Christ. The New Testament Experience works with a broad
international team of photographers and creatives, depicting the
gospels in the modern world. Each gospel is set in a different
city: Matthew in London; Mark in New York City; Luke in Sydney;
John in Bogota. There are also 7 articles to teach key themes found
in the gospels, these include: The Life of Jesus, The Gospels,
Grace, The Holy Spirit, The Church, Prayer and The Bible. At the
start and end of each gospel there are sections bringing pertinent
insights and context to the key themes. This book utilises the
method employed by Jesus himself to engage with and teach the
people that followed him - the method of storytelling. Inspired by
teaching through parables, The New Testament Experience works with
the scriptures as a basis for the visual representation of the
stories found in the gospels but for a 21st century audience. Key
Features - Images brings the key characters and story of each
Gospel to life in a modern context. - The spirit and narrative of
the Bible is visually captured as scriptures are presented in a
modern, readable and relevant way. - The reader is encouraged to
visualise and remember stories and key scriptures that will inspire
and shape their thinking of Jesus. - Full colour images and 8.75
point type face for easy reading Benefits - An ideal introduction
to the bible for New Christians - A compelling resource for parents
and youth leaders buying for teens and young adults. - Short
features dispersed throughout the Bible.
The publication in 1881 of The New Testament in the Original Greek,
by the Cambridge scholars Brooke Foss Westcott (1825 1901) and
Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828 1892), marked the culmination of
twenty-eight years of work and an innovation in the theory and
methods of New Testament textual criticism. This first of two
volumes contains a detailed discussion of the theories and methods
behind the reconstructed text, sets out the editors' theory of
text-types, and justifies their choice to break with the dominant
use of the Textus Receptus. It argues for the Neutral Text,
represented by the uncials Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus, as
being the earliest and least corrupt form. Westcott and Hort's
claim to reconstruct the 'original text' may seem extravagant today
but according to Bruce Metzger theirs was the 'most noteworthy
critical edition of the Greek Testament ever produced by British
scholarship'.
Frederick Henry Scrivener's 1861 introduction to the textual
history of the New Testament marks a key moment in the history of
biblical studies. The author, a renowned biblical scholar and
textual critic of his time, focuses on the central areas of his
research field. These include the Greek New Testament manuscripts
and their general character, early printed and later critical
editions, ancient versions of the New Testament in various
languages and the linguistic features of New Testament Greek. In
addition, he discusses editorial principles and practice and the
differing approaches that had recently been adopted, and gives
examples of their application to actual New Testament passages.
Originally intended for readers with no previous knowledge of this
subject, and carefully organised so as to be accessible to them,
the book is still of interest to upper-level students and to
historians of the discipline.
Published posthumously in 1893, Frederick Scrivener's Adversaria
Critica Sacra remains a volume of key importance to biblical
scholars today, representing Scrivener's remarkable accuracy in his
study and collation of manuscripts. During an age when many
manuscripts were being newly discovered, and New Testament textual
criticism was a rapidly developing field, Scrivener's collations
played an important role in highlighting and making available the
many different readings in existence. The book presents sixty-three
manuscripts containing all or part of the Greek New Testament,
including twenty which contain the Gospels in whole or in part,
fifteen Lectionaries (Greek Church Lesson-books), five copies of
Acts and the Catholic Epistles, and ten which are collations of the
earliest printed editions of the Greek New Testament. Scrivener
provides an informative general account of each manuscript, and an
estimate of their respective critical values.
Frederick Henry Scrivener (1813-1891) was a pioneer of New
Testament textual criticism. His transcription of the Codex
Augiensis - a ninth-century Greek and Latin manuscript of St Paul's
Epistles which had been part of the famous Benedictine library at
Reichenau - was published in 1859 and is a document of considerable
historical significance in biblical research. It presents 'as true
an image as possible' of the ninth-century text. The volume also
includes a 'full and exact' collation of fifty manuscripts of the
Gospels. In his Critical Introduction, Scrivener provides a
detailed account of the manuscripts he has collated, setting the
context for the reader. He also investigates the principles of
comparative criticism, demonstrating that true and faithful
readings of the Greek New Testament cannot be derived from any one
authority, but must be the result of patient comparison of the
evidence provided by all.
This annotated edition of The Acts of The Apostles was prepared for
classroom use by Thomas Ethelbert Page, a schoolmaster at
Charterhouse, and published in 1886. The text is taken directly
from the critical edition of the New Testament in Greek published
by Fenton Hort and Brooke Westcott in 1881, the most authoritative
version then available. Page's extensive annotations (over two
hundred pages to accompany seventy pages of text) aimed to provide
an explanation of the Greek text free of doctrinal discussions and
moral reflections, unlike most existing commentaries which Page
found 'quite unadapted for practical work with boys'. Page
endeavoured to make the translation process as straightforward as
possible and his extensive commentary offers a clear and simple
understanding of the text. His book is still a useful guide for
those approaching the Greek text for the first time.
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