The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor is the earliest known surviving story of a shipwrecked sailor and as such is the forerunner of many stories of nautical adventure encountering strange magical creatures from Homer s Odyssey to Sinbad the Sailor. In a broader sense i... Lees meer.
The final version of the Septuagint was published in 132 BC which included the Wisdom of Solomon a book of wisdom credited to King Solomon circa 950 BC. This book was never copied by the Masoretes and no fragments of it have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in... Lees meer.
The Book of Parables is unique in that no fragments of it have yet been documented within the Dead Sea scrolls. As the Books of Enoch have traditionally been used by the Beta-Israel community and it is likely a book they carried south from Egypt to Kush and later the E... Lees meer.
The Amarna Letters are a collection of clay tablets found in the ruins of El Amarna Egypt in the 1880s. The city of El Amarna was built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten during his religious reforms in the 1340s BC but was then abandoned after he died and Egypt reverted to w... Lees meer.
Alan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the political... Lees meer.
The Rosary is the quintessential Marian prayer of the Church but Fr Guy Nicholls shows how it is also a deeply Scriptural devotion that reveals Christ in its Mysteries. Giving a short Scripture passage to meditate on for each bead of every Mystery this book is an esse... Lees meer.
The history of the rosary is explained and appropriate scriptural passages are offered to further enhance meditation on each mystery. The magnificent artwork of Fra Angelico is an added benefit.... Lees meer.
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This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity Judaism and Islam.... Lees meer.
The five books of Enoch are a collection of books written in Semitic languages and often grouped together as the Book of Enoch or 1st Enoch. The books were likely written at different points in time and different Semitic languages. The first book was the Book of th... Lees meer.
How does an invisible God reveal himself to us in scripture and in Jesus. Amy Scott Robinson poet and storyteller explores biblical metaphor in this year s BRF Advent book. When you hear the name God does an image come into your head. Do you think of him as a s... Lees meer.