Humanism - The Whore of Babylon and the Sleeping Church
by Christina M Lopez
Nicholas of Lyra's Apocalypse Commentary (TEAMS Commentary)
Surveys of the history of biblical exegesis and, in particular, the history of Apocalypse commentaries rarely fail to allude to Nicholas of Lyra O.F.M. (1270-1349) as the greatest biblical exegete of the fourteenth century. Late medieval and Reformation verses were written about him. Nicholas was born in the town of Lyre, near Evreux in Normandy. Since Evreux was a center of Jewish studies, he was able to cultivate his interest in Hebrew and to become thoroughly acquainted with the Talmud, Midra...
Comparative Mythology, Cultural and Social Studies and The Cultural Category- Factor Correlation Method
by Muata Ashby
Cultural Perspectives on the Bible
by Robert Bruce Smith and Rob Smith
Obadiah through Malachi (Westminster Bible Companion)
by William P. Brown
Taken together, the nine prophets found in the books Obadiah through Malachi lived during a tumultuous two hundred years of Israelite history. Their communities dealt with the crisis of the impending Assyrian threat in the eighth century and the Babylonia exile in the sixth, as well as the hopeful age of restoration in the late sixth and early fifth centuries. Intimately connected to the travails and needs of their communities, these prophets had the responsibility of bringing God's message of h...
Hellenistic Inter-State Political Ethics and the Emergence of the Jewish State (Jewish and Christian Texts)
by Doron Mendels
Drawing from more than one thousand easily replicated examples, the author analyzes how biblical writers encoded messages into their texts. The Exilic Code dates portions of the Bible, establishes Ezra as an exilic person, brings to light a School-of-Daniel scripture factory, names Second Isaiah and the Suffering Servant, identifies the individual who triggered Josiah's reforms, and traces coding from the Deuteronomistic Historian in the seventh century BCE to Daniel's apocalypse in the second....
The Balavariani (David Marshall Lang's Journey from Russia to Armenia via Caucasian Georgia, #2)
Originally published in 1966, the full Georgian text of the oldest version of this Christian version of this matchless classic of Oriental wisdom literature is made accessible to a wider readership in an English translation. Based on a unique manuscript preserved in the Greek Patriarchate at Jerusalem, this rendering should appeal to those interested in comparative religion, Buddhism, medieval Christianity, the history of monasticism and in the literature of the Georgians and other ancient natio...
Jesus and the Peasants (Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context)
by Douglas E Oakman