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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible (Paperback)

The substantial value of the Dead Sea Scrolls for biblical studies is well known. However it can be difficult to remain on the cutting edge of Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. In this volume leading expert James C. VanderKam offers detailed summaries... more

Spiritism and religion : can you talk to the dead? : including a study of the most remarkable cases of spirit control 1918 [Leather Bound]

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Raising the Dead : Early Medieval Name Stones in Northumbria (Hardcover)

This is the first work to explore and explain the form function and theological meaning of Northumbrian name stones both in their immediate Insular setting and within a wider European context. Earlier studies have concentrated on the archaeological... more

History Ideology and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Collected Studies (Hardcover)

In this volume Devorah Dimant assembles twenty-seven thoroughly updated and partly rewritten articles discussing various aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls that she published over the past three decades. An introductory essay written especially for... more

Pre-Owned The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious Than Ever (Hardcover) 1610171381 9781610171380

God is not dead. --Wall Street Journal Believe it or not the world is more religious than ever before. Everyone seems to take it for granted that the world is getting more secular--that faith is doomed by modernity. Scientists secularists and... more

¡Presente!: Nonviolent Politics and the Resurrection of the Dead (Hardcover)

¡Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the School of the Americas (also known as the SOA or WHINSEC). Specifically it analyzes how the presence of the dead-a presence proclaimed... more

Wisdom at Qumran : A Form-Critical Analysis of the Admonitions in 4qinstruction (Paperback)

This study identifies the wisdom forms found in the admonition sections of the Dead Sea Scroll. Jeffries groups the admonitions by topic and considers their structure form setting and intention in light of biblical wisdom and the sectarian texts.... more

An essay on the cultivation of the intellect by the study of dead languages. -- 1830 [Leather Bound]

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Society for New Testament Studies Monogr The Concept of Purity at Qumran and in the Letters of Paul Book 53 (Paperback)

This examination of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Letters of Paul finds that in both these bodies of literature religious self-understanding is expressed in terms of the concept of purity so important to primitive religion and earlier Judaism. Dr... more

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Context of Hellenistic Judea (Hardcover)

Approaching the Qumran scrolls as an intrinsic part of Hellenistic and Roman antiquity this volume shows how the authors and collectors of the Scrolls shared the interests of other inhabitants of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East and engaged... more

Pre-Owned Gospel Above All - Teen Bible Study Book: 1 Corinthians 15:3 (Paperback) 1535900865 9781535900867

Is Christianity Dead? People may think Christianity is dying but this pronouncement is a little premature. Jesus promised to build His church declaring that the gates of hell wouldn t prevail against it. Along with this promise Jesus gave clear... more

Holiday Celebration Bible Study: The Victory of Jesus : A Devotional Celebrating Easter the Ascension and Pentecost (Series #4) (Hardcover)

Celebrate the victory of Jesus in this 50-day devotional that spans Easter to Pentecost: Jesus overcomes death by rising from the dead appears to his followers ascends into heaven and sends the Holy Spirit. Get THE VICTORY OF JESUS. Jesus s death... more

Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (Paperback)

The Dead Sea Scrolls have expanded the corpus of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and tested scholars ideas of what apocalyptic means. With all of the scrolls now available for study contributors to this volume engage those texts and many more to... more

Reimagining Apocalypticism: Apocalyptic Literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Writings (Hardcover)

The Dead Sea Scrolls have expanded the corpus of early Jewish apocalyptic literature and tested scholars ideas of what apocalyptic means. With all of the scrolls now available for study contributors to this volume engage those texts and many more to... more

Pre-Owned Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Paperback) 0802862853 9780802862853

9780802862853. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 228. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 228 p. Contains: Unspecified. Series of Studies on the Ancient Period. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State is the... more

The resurrection of Jesus; a new study of the belief that Jesus rose from the dead of its function as the early Christian cult story and of the origin of the Gospel literature b

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Library of Second Temple Studies The Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls Book 67 (Paperback)

This book constitutes an examination of key sobriquets found among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. Its primary focus is literary rather than historical and concentrates on the function of the sobriquets as labels utilised positively or negatively... more

Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls Wisdom Texts from Qumran (Paperback)

This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little discussed part of the Dead Sea... more

Oxford Ritual Studies The Dancing Dead (Paperback)

Walter E. A. van Beek draws on over four decades of fieldwork to offer an in-depth study of the religion of the Kapsiki/Higi who live in the Mandara Mountains on the border between North Cameroon and Northeast Nigeria. Concentrating on ritual as the... more

Context of Early Christianity S Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity: A Sourcebook for the Study of New Testament Miracle Stories (Paperback)

Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity presents a collection in translation of miracle stories from the ancient world. The material is divided up into four main categories including healing exorcism nature and raising the dead. Wendy Cotter in an... more

Heritage Series Study Guides: A Biblical Theology of Worship (Paperback)

Franklin M. Segler and Randall Bradley in their excellent study on worship Christian Worship wrote: As we believe so we worship ... Worship without theology is sentimental and weak; theology without worship is cold and dead. Worship and theology... more

Mémoire n°11 - Gods of the West. A study in latin and celtic religion (Part 1 - Indiges) (Paperback)

From the moment it was published in defiance of its dead author s wishes the Aeneid became the standard for Latin literature. Latin was taught out of it and Dark Age authors such as Gildas and Gregory of Tours who knew no other classical Latin... more

Library of New Testament Studies Genesis in the New Testament Book 466 (Hardcover)

Genesis in the New Testament brings together a set of specially commissioned studies by authors who are experts in the field. After an introductory chapter on the use of Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls and second temple literature each of the New... more

New Testament Studies In Contextual Exegesis. Neutestamentli: The Fate of the Dead and the Living at the Lord s Parousia (Hardcover)

1 Thess 1:9-10; 4:13-18; 5:1-11 (also 1 Cor 15) present Paul s extensive exhortations on the afterlife based on Christ s death and resurrection. Paul employs principally apocalyptic and eschatological motifs in these teachings. Christ s second... more

God Cards Companion Guide : Exploring the Seven Aspects of God (Paperback)

This is a new era. People are waking up to their spiritual nature. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. If you are looking for ways to awaken to your Divine nature this book is for you. Based on a year long study of the word God author... more

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah: The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hardcover)

This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this period. Strikingly... more

Spiritism and Religion : Can You Talk to the Dead? : Including a Study of the Most Remarkable Cases of Spirit Control / Liljencrants Johan Baronharry Houdini Collection (1918) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1918 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

In Paradise : Or the State of the Faithful Dead: A Study From Scripture On Death and After-Death (Paperback)

This is a thoughtful exploration of what happens to the soul after death based on extensive research of biblical texts. Charles Hall Strong posits that while the idea of heaven as a physical place is a popular one it is more likely that the soul... more

The Dead Sea Scrolls And Primitive Christianity (Hardcover)

A groundbreaking study of the Dead Sea Scrolls by one of the foremost Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. Danielou explores the connections between the Scrolls and the origins of Christianity shedding new light on one of the most... more

International Voices in Biblical Studies: Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History (Hardcover)

Behind Deuteronomys reflection on history is a host of support staff mostly anonymous women who harvest glean cook fetch water and wash spin and weave heal the sick bury the dead and much more. This study considers womens work in the Hebrew Bible. more

Society of Biblical Literature (Numbered): Women at Work in the Deuteronomistic History (Series #04) (Paperback)

Behind Deuteronomys reflection on history is a host of support staff mostly anonymous women who harvest glean cook fetch water and wash spin and weave heal the sick bury the dead and much more. This study considers womens work in the Hebrew Bible. more

Sheffield Academic Press Individual Titles: Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Hardcover)

This significantly expanded and revised fourth edition of what has always been the best English translation of the Scrolls has become a combination of two books: Vermes has replaced nearly all of the original Introduction with an abridged version of... more

Our Church : A Personal History of the Church of England (Paperback)

For most people in England today the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road visited for the first time if at all when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage and which regards the... more

In paradise : or The state of the faithful dead : a study from Scripture on death and after-death / by Charles H. Strong. 1892 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive (Paperback)

9780785288299. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Wild at Heart helped men get their hearts back. Waking the Dead will help us... more

Library of Second Temple Studies: On Scrolls Artefacts and Intellectual Property (Hardcover)

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine recovered in Jordan and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently the state of Israel which had already purchased many of the... more

Library of Second Temple Studies Dualism in Qumran (Paperback)

This is an assessment of dualistic thinking in the Qumran material written by leading contributors in the light of two decades of Qumran research. The importance of dualistic thinking within the Dead Sea Scrolls has always been emphasised in Qumran... more

Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Community of the Renewed Covenant: Notre Dame Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls Book 10 (Paperback)

The thirteen Qumran scholars present recent overviews and syntheses in various areas of scrolls study making The Community of the Renewed Covenant the broadest most authoritative and up-to-date book available on the Dead Sea Scrolls. These essays... more