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A Biography of Barabbas: The Robber the Jews Chose Instead of Jesus from the series Wicked Men and Women in the Bible by Robert Alan King is a book with over 6,500 words. King explores what the Bible tells us about Barabbas in order to come to a better understanding of who he was and who he was not....

An historical survey of 20 of the Bible's lesser known male figures, including Joseph of Arimathea, Eldad and Medad, Hiram, Philip the Evangelist and Pontius Pilate.

Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code and Lost Christianities, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, Paul of Tarsus, and Mary Magdalene....

Paul's life was never dull. First appearing in the New Testament as a violent enemy of Christ, Paul later went on to not only put his faith in the risen Lord but to pen thirteen letters of the New Testament--in the midst of being beaten, shipwrecked, snakebitten, imprisoned, and chased out of town....

The Gospel of James, also known as the Infancy Gospel of James or the Protoevangelium of James, is an apocryphal Gospel probably written about A.D. 145, which expands backward in time the infancy stories contained the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and presents a narrative concerning the birth and upbringing...

Who was Jesus? A prophet? There have been many of those. A miracle-worker? A radical revolutionary? A wise teacher? There have been many of these, too. In his latest book, renowned Scripture scholar Gerhard Lohfink asks, What is unique about Jesus of Nazareth, and what did he really want? Lohfink...

Fulton J. Sheen turned his voice and pen to many subjects during the course of a long and remarkable apostolate. But nothing was closer to the heart of his message than bringing the words of Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother to bear on the problems of modern life and the modern world. In this book, Archbishop...

Is there anyone “up there” to hear our cries for help? Will there ever be justice in this world? Why do we suffer? Is there life after death? Is there a meaning in history? How will it all end? Is there a God? What do we mean by “God” anyway?The answers are in the Bible, some say. But are they?...

This is a tool to help readers conduct individual or group study of Genesis in the Bible in connection with the novel Deborah, Shaping A Nation. It reminds readers they are in a time period 3500 years ago, in the Middle Bronze age, but the culture was not primitive. Eight Lessons feature multiple questions for study and discussion.

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Paul's writings are centrally important not only for the establishment of the Christian faith but also for the whole history of Western culture. Senior New Testament scholar Udo Schnelle offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of Paul that combines historical and theological analysis....

Few biographical works spark passions as intensely as do interpretations of the life of Jesus. In this highly accessible book Bart Ehrman reviews the latest textual and archeological research into Jesus's life and the history of first-century Palestine and draws a fascinating controversial portrait...

"Judas is a dark journey through the murderousness of Christian Anti-Semitism, culminating in the mass slaughter of more than a and their associated European butchers. Lucid, study is close to definitive on the fictive figure of Judas."—Harold Bloom

*Includes famous artwork depicting Jesus, Saints, and more. *Discusses the most well known Lost Books of The Bible, including what is discussed in them and their relation to canonical texts. *Discusses historians' theories as to who wrote these books, where they were written, and when.*Includes a Bibliography...