Criticism Interpretation category: 2013 books

1 Thessalonians provides a fascinating glimpse into the origins and social life of the Christ group in the ancient Roman city of Thessalonike, while 2 Thessalonians reveals how the community developed at a somewhat later time. This guide narrates the story of the founding of the group by considering...

God? or Yahweh? or Both? is an easy read and a must for all who are interested in the historical Old Testament.  This book will challenge many previously held beliefs of the ancient writings of the scribes of those times who recorded what they thought they saw given their level of experience,...

Are Biblical Cherubim like the lamassus, those human-headed bulls or lions of the Ancient Near East? Are they like the winged babies of Renaissance Art? Here, two interpretations and iconographical representations are found. Some scholars seem to assimilate the Biblical Cherubim to the lamassus, while...

Is the Christian dogma really true? Why isnt the world a happier place? Why is life so fragile? These questions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the discussion of religion and the myths, allegories, and fables that surround it. In The Ball Shell Walls, author Joseph Kantor Higgins...

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16  The Second Coming of Christ provides a collection of Bible truths to make believers and non-believers...

The Nativity is the very heart of the Christian tradition. For more than 2,000 years, the story of Jesus’ birth has been told and retold, mythologized and sentimentalized. In The Nativity, Geza Vermes untangles centuries of storytelling and places the birth and the events surrounding it within their...

Luthers transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation. In 1520, with his Wittenberg congregation in mind, Luther set out to clarify the biblical foundation of good works. In doing so he recast the very definitions of sacred and secular both for his own generation and ours.

Like all skilful authors, the composer of the biblical books of Luke and Acts understood that a good story requires more than a gripping plot - a persuasive narrative also needs well-portrayed, plot-enhancing characters. This book brings together a set of new essays examining characters and characterization...

Swedenborg discusses the White Horse in Revelation Chapter 19, and the spiritual sense of the Word.

If you have ever studied the  Fourth Gospel, you may have noticed places where it didn't seem to fit together. Many explanations have been given for the presence of this unevenness in the text. Perhaps there were multiple versions of the text, or a community wrote and adapted it over time. But these...

Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research. This commentary on Acts, his magnum opus, may be the largest and most thoroughly documented Acts commentary ever written. Useful not only for the study of Acts but also early Christianity, this...

Why gamble with your eternity? "What Are The Odds" is a concise book of apologetics that uses simple probability, logic and mathematics to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt Jesus' claims of being the Judeo-Christian Messiah and God in the flesh. Its compelling statistics and unique perspective...

Many books and articles have been written on the apocalyptic book of Daniel in the Old Testament of the Bible. A search by the authors for the expression Daniel’s Seventy Weeks on the Internet for example, turned up 574 000 results. One has to dig deep though, to find articles or books showing that...

It Seems to Me was created to make the Bible more accessible to the average reader. It offers a sensible approach to the whole Bible, with the primary goal of helping people find modern paths through the ancient book. It focuses on such themes as the ancient context of the Bible, how language works,...