In The New Testament In Its World acclaimed biblical scholar N. T. Wright draws on a lifetime of distinguished scholarship to provide a thorough overview of the New Testament for students, church leaders, and everyday Christians. Wright, along with prominent New Testament scholar Michael Bird, explores the history, literature, and theology of the New Testament with an emphasis on its relevance for Christians today. Beginning with an overview of how to read the New Testament, the authors then survey its historical background to orient readers to the world of Jesus and the early church. This is followed by an in-depth study of Jesus' inauguration of the kingdom of God through his life, ministry, death, and resurrection. The next section explores the life and theology of Paul, who continues to unfold the significance of Jesus' life and ministry, and applies these to the issues faced by the early churches. Wright and Bird survey all of Paul's letters, providing a compact commentary on each, while explaining contemporary scholarly discussions on Paul and his teachings. They then turn to the gospels, written after Paul's letters, followed by the general epistles and Revelation, explaining the background, critical issues, important teachings, and contemporary applications for each. This is followed by a description of how the New Testament came to be, guiding the reader through issues of textual criticism and canonization. A concluding section brings all of the previous threads together to encourage readers to consider how their personal story fits into the larger story of God's redemption narrated in the New Testament. Students of the New Testament will not only be equipped with all of the technical information needed to understand the New Testament today but will see it as one cohesive story in which they are invited to play a vital role through their own lives and circumstances.

Barrett's book consists of a complete revision of the four chapters, of the Didsbury Lectures, given at the British Isles Nazarene College, Manchester. The chapter titles indicate the content: From Jesus to the Church; Ministry; Sacraments; and The Developing Community. Barrett properly points out that "the church is at the same time central and peripheral." Likewise, the church is provisional, temporary, penultimate-an interim solution for the time between the resurrection/ ascension of Jesus and the heaven of the church. He also correctly notes the possibility and danger of an ecclesiological as well as christological Apollinarianism. Consequently, he emphasizes the human nature of Christ and human dimensions of the church.

Many have asked thequestion "Can I findmeaning in life" This isbecause we as humanbeings need to feel thatour lives count forsomething that they aresignificant. It is linked toour selfesteem. To feel unimportant is to feelinadequate and this is a difficult burden to bear.Enjoying a meaningful life is therefore a preciousthing and something that is worthwhilesearching for. However if our existence isultimately meaningless if there's no God to obeyand no immortality to enjoy then our individualactions become utterly futile. This book is apersonal apologetic that is thoughtprovoking forboth Christians and nonChristians.

The magnificent series of biblical commentaries known as Black's New Testament Commentaries (BNTC) under the General Editorship of Professor Morna Hooker has had a gap for far too long - it has lacked an up to date commentary on the Fourth Gospel.
Professor Andrew Lincoln now fills this gap with his excellent new commentary. The key questions for scholars are gone into thoroughly- questions of historicity, the use of historical traditions and sources, relationship to the Synoptics, authorship, setting, first readers and Professor Lincoln makes his own position on these issues abundantly clear.
The Fourth Gospel raises a number of problems generally known as The Johannine Question. According to tradition the Gospel was written by St John the Apostle. The authenticity of the tradition is examined in the introduction but the textual issues are examined within the commentary itself. For example one problem is that Chapters 15 and 16 seem in early versions to have preceded chapter 14. Chapter 21 must have been a later addition. The purpose of the Gospel as stated in Chapter 20 v 31 is to strenghten the reader's faith in Jesus as the Christ and the Son of God. But even the celebrated prologue has given rise to much speculation, whereas most commentators believe it is the key to the Gospel as a whole.
These issues are meat and drink to scholars but in Professor Lincoln's expert hands they are extremely interesting and highly pertinent to our contemporary understanding of the Gospel.

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Gerald A. Larue examines the scriptural underpinnings of occult and supernaturalistic notions that survive in contemporary society. The book is based on the author's thorough knowledge of the history of ancient Near-Eastern cultures and their mythology.

"Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality" took form when Allen began his own exploration of the Bible, marking passages that struck him as extraordinarily beautiful, or those that were profoundly confusing. Spellbound by the very mystery of it, he perceived that much of the text leads directly to controversy. And, he urges, it is of greater importance now than ever before that all Americans be conversant with the Bible, partly because of those who would use Scriptures as a weapon to force their views on others. Allen presents his ideas as a series of alphabetically arranged essays on characters, events, and books of the Scriptures, as well as on such controversial topics as abortion, anti-Semitism, capital punishment, death, evolution, and original sin. He draws on the expertise of biblical scholars, theologians, and philosophers to demonstrate that fundamentalist assumptions about the reliability and authenticity of the Bible as the inviolable Word of God simply have no rational or factual basis.

Many readers are convinced that the Psalms are hopelessly "masculine," especially given that seventy-three of the 150 psalms begin with headings linking them to King David. In this volume, Denise Dombkowski Hopkins sets stories about women in the Hebrew Bible alongside Psalms 42-89 as "intertexts" for interpretation. The stories of women such as Hannah, Rahab, Tamar, Bathsheba, Susanna, Judith, Shiphrah, Puah, and the Levite's concubine can generate a different set of associations for psalm metaphors than have traditionally been put forward. These different associations can give the reader different views of the dynamics of power, gender, politics, religion, family, and economics in ancient Israel and in our lives today that might help to name and transform the brokenness of our world. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity, equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from different parts of the world, showing the importance of social location in the process of interpretation and that there is no single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.

After the Civil War, Ingersoll embarked upon a career as a lecturer, touring the United States to make his thoughts on religion, women's rights, and humanism known to all. Some Mistakes of Moses, one of the most popular of these lectures, is a critical examination of the "Pentateuch" (the first five books of the Bible). Ingersoll passionately believed that the alleged divine origins of the Bible were not sufficient reason for a suspension of critical judgement. His diatribe against Old Testament religion is a call for rationality, a quality sorely missing in this time of political upheaval in the world in the name of religion.Ingersoll greatly feared that when the Bible was read as truth rather than as a collection of fables, mankind would destroy itself in its attempt to follow the teachings of Moses to the letter. Ingersoll fervently believed that the most important belief one can have is belief in man. "Theology is a superstition - Humanity is a religion" - this was the credo of Robert G. Ingersoll. Now, a new generation of readers can thrill to Ingersoll's brilliant and witty rhetoric, just as great thinkers Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V Debs, and others did almost one hundred years ago.

The promise of land and progeny to the patriarchs-Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob-is a central, recurring feature of the Pentateuch. From the beginning of the story of Abraham to the last moment of Moses's life, this promise forms the guiding theological statement for each narrative. Yet literary and historical inquiries ascribe the promise texts to a variety of sources, layers, and redactions, raising questions about how the promise functioned in its original manifestations and how it can be used to understand the formation of the Pentateuch as a whole. Joel S. Baden reexamines the patriarchal promise in its historical and contemporaneous contexts, evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of both final-form and literary-historical approaches to the promise. He pays close attention to the methodologies employed in both documentary and non-documentary analyses and aims to bring source-critical analysis of the promise to bear on the understanding of the canonical text for contemporary readers. The Promise to the Patriarchs addresses the question of how the literary-historical perspective can illuminate and even deepen the theological meaning of the Pentateuch, particularly of the promise at the heart of this central biblical corpus.

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Baie woorde of frases in die Bybel is vir hedendaagse lesers moeilik verstaanbaar.

Die Toeligtingsbybel ontsluit die Woord op ’n lesersvriendelike, toeganklike manier. Dit bevat die volledige teks van die vertroude Nuwe Lewende Vertaling, en verhelder woordkeuses en defi nisies, teologiese begrippe, historiese konteks en geografiese inligting deur verduidelikings in hakies. Hierdie toeligtende verduidelikings lei tot ’n dieper waardering vir die rykdom wat in die Skrif opgesluit lê.

God se Woord is ewig en vandag nog relevant. Die Toeligtingsbybel sal die Skrif op ’n verfrissende wyse verlig en lei tot geloofversterking en geestelike groei.

• Volledige teks van die NLV Bybel.
• Sinonieme, definisies of ekwivalente vir woordkeuses ter wille van betekenisverruiming.
• Verduidelikings van teologiese begrippe.
• Historiese konteks en geografiese inligting om vir die leser ’n vollediger prentjie van die Bybelse leefwêreld te skep.
• Elke Bybelboek het ’n kort inleiding oor die boodskap wat elke boek oordra.
• Kruisverwysings na ander plekke in die Skrif waar ’n bepaalde onderwerp aangeroer word.
• 8.8 punt lettergrootte

Die Nuwe Lewende Vertaling Super Grootdruk is die ideale Afrikaanse Bybel vir lesers wat van ’n ekstra groot lettertipe hou.

Die Super Grootdruk-uitgawe bevat die volledige teks van die vertroude Nuwe Lewende Vertaling. Dit kombineer Skrifgetrouheid en lesersvriendelikheid om die boodskap van die grondteks in eietydse Afrikaans vir vandag se leser weer te gee. Agt volkleur-kaarte is ook ingesluit.

Hierdie Bybel beskik oor die volgende kenmerke:

• Verduidelikende voetnote
• 16.5-punt lettergrootte
• Dubbelkolom-uitleg
• 8 volkleur-kaarte
• Hardeband
• Merklint

Die Nuwe Lewende Vertaling (NLV) kombineer Skrifgetrouheid en lesersvriendelikheid om die boodskap van die grondteks in eietydse Afrikaans vir vandag se leser weer te gee.

Hierdie grootdruk-uitgawe met kunsleer-omslag beskik oor die volgende kenmerke:

• Voetnote om begrip en kennis uit te brei
• 12 punt lettergrootte
• Dubbelkolom-uitleg
• 8 volkleur-kaarte
• Merklint
• Duimgrepe
• Verpakking: “Sleeve”

’n Pragtige nuwe uitgawe van die gewilde NLV-vertaling! Die ideale geskenk vir jong manne.

Die Nuwe Lewende Vertaling kombineer Skrifgetrouheid met ’n dinamiese, duidelike skryfstyl wat God se Woord kragtig oordra aan almal wat dit hoor en lees. Dit dra die boodskap van die oorspronklike tale oor in gemaklike Afrikaans. Die Nuwe Lewende Vertaling nooi lesers om die Bybelse teks hul eie te maak en God se verhaal vir hul eie lewe en die wêreld te ontdek. Dit beskik oor die volgende kenmerke:

• Volledige teks van die NLV met verduidelikende voetnote
• 10-punt lettergrootte
• Dubbelkolom-uitleg
• 8 volkleur-kaarte
• Kunsleer-omslag
• 1400 bladsye
• Merklint
• Duimgrepe

Die Bybel bevat soveel leiding en Goddelike raad, maar dit kan oorweldigend wees om dit van begin tot einde deur te lees. Waar begin ’n mens, en waar vind jy tyd in jou besige skedule? Maar dis geen rede om God se leiding mis te loop nie.

Die 366 oordenkings in Wandel deur God se Woord neem jou op reis deur die Bybel – van Genesis tot Openbaring. Dit dek die bekendste, mooiste en belangrikste verse – die essensie van God se Woord – sodat jy die impak van die Woord opnuut sal ontdek.

Ontdek hoe prakties, lewensveranderend en bemoedigend God se Woord is, en dat dit die duidelikste roetewyser vir jou lewenspad is.

• 366 oordenkings wat fokus op kerngedeeltes van die Bybel – van Genesis tot Openbaring.
• Elke dag bevat ’n vers of gedeelte uit die Skrif, ’n kort oordenking en gebed.
• Hardeband.
• 388 bladsye.
• Ook beskikbaar in Engels onder die titel Walking Through the Word.

The Bible contains a wealth of guidance and godly advice, but it can feel like a daunting task to read it from cover to cover. It can be hard to find the time in a busy schedule and where do you even start? But that does not mean you have to miss out on God’s guidance.

Walk Through God’s Word is a 366-day devotional that will walk you through the whole Bible—from Genesis to Revelation—in bite-sized bits. It covers the best-known, most beautiful, most important verses—the essence of God’s Word—and will help you rediscover the impact of the Word on your life.

Experience how practical God’s Word really is, how life-changing, how encouraging, how clearly it shows you your way.

• 366 devotions that cover the whole Bible—from Genesis to Revelation—in bite-sized bits.
• Each day includes a short devotion, a key Scripture verse and a short prayer.
• Hardcover.
• 388 pages.
• Also available in Afrikaans under the title Wandel deur die Woord.

’n Pragtige nuwe uitgawe van die gewilde NLV-vertaling met 'n omslag van egte leer.

Die Nuwe Lewende Vertaling kombineer Skrifgetrouheid met ’n dinamiese, duidelike skryfstyl wat God se Woord kragtig oordra aan almal wat dit hoor en lees. Dit dra die boodskap van die oorspronklike tale oor in gemaklike Afrikaans. Die Nuwe Lewende Vertaling nooi lesers om die Bybelse teks hul eie te maak en God se verhaal vir hul eie lewe en die wêreld te ontdek. Dit beskik oor die volgende kenmerke:

• Volledige teks van die NLV met verduidelikende voetnote
• 10-punt lettergrootte
• Dubbelkolom-uitleg
• 8 volkleur-kaarte
• Omslag van egte leer
• 1400 bladsye
• Silvergerand
• Merklint
• Duimgrepe
• Verpakking: "Slipcase"