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24-Point Gospel The Big News for Today Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Only Bible in the house my mother can now read. Including the "Large Print" ones. It is only the four gospel's so it would be great if the company came out with other books from the Bible in 24-point.Click Here to see more reviews about: 24-Point Gospel The Big News for TodayThe Gospel according to Matthew,...

How the Bible Became a Book: The Textualization of Ancient Israel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)How the Bible Became a Book by William Schniedewind discusses not only when the bible may have come about, but also the importance of how and why it was written. Schniedewind cites a broad range of evidence to support his theses. He also utilizes a realistic look at the different time periods of ancient...

Lee's Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Like most Americans, I knew a few odd things about Singapore and nothing much about its history, politics, or the manner of life of its citizens. This terrific reporting done by Chris Lydgate reveals a lot to me that the strange episode of the kid getting caned for vandalism did not.I did not know of...

The Religion of Israel: A Short History Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The information in this book is remarkable. It has given me a much deeper and more thorough understanding of the "old testament". I knew before reading that it wasn't history in the sense we have it today, that it was handed down orally, and not accepted into the Hebrew canon until around the middle...

A Man Named Zacchaeus: Jesus Miracle Stops and Parables Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Amazon sent me a message telling me that since I bought or rated other Mary Stewart books, I would probably like this one. This book is self published through an assisted publisher. The famous Mary Stewart, who wrote the Merline Trilogy, plus about a dozen other remarkable works, would not need assistance....

City of the Dead: Thebes in Egypt (British Museum Publications) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Yet again Prof. Manniche manages to poduce an excellent work. This book makes an excellent addition to Musicians and Musical Instruments in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Herbal, and Sacred Luxuries. I am anxious to get a copy of Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. City of the Dead is oriented toward the...

Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The doyen of New Testament scholars of the past five decades, the late W.D. Davies of Duke University, said of Sabin's book that, "in a complicated field, the author writes in an admirably lucid, uncluttered style and draws upon the vast pertinent sources. The Gospel of Mark is one of the most scrutinized...

Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Bryce is a writer who brings history excitingly to life. This book covers the last 500 years of the bronze age, which separates the era of the city states on one hand and - after an interim "dark age" - the great empires of the first millenium on the other.Bryce explores this world through the medium...

Oral World and Written Word: Ancient Israelite Literature (Library of Ancient Israel) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I started Ms. Niditch's "Oral World and Written Word" with something of an attitude after other books on the composition of the Bible had left a jargonesque, overcomplicated, underexplained taste in my brain. I was expecting more of the same. However, I was soon won over by the clarity of Nidich's thinking,...

The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is about one group of Christians in the 2nd and 3rd centuries who, writing before the canon had been set, fought heatedly against sects of Christians it considered heretical. This group - the 'proto-orthodox' - modified its scriptures to avoid alternative interpretations of Jesus, and in so...

Fun with Hieroglyphs: 24 Rubber Stamps, Hieroglyph Guidebook, Ink Pad (Box Set) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a homeschooler we really enjoyed the "hands on" approach that this book with ink and stamps gave us. It was great fun and it helped us to understand the first written language a whole lot more.Click Here to see more reviews about: Fun with Hieroglyphs: 24 Rubber Stamps, Hieroglyph Guidebook, Ink Pad...

Blinded By the Right; the Conscience of an Ex-Conservative Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Though nowhere near the importance or writing quality of a Koestler book, nevertheless Brock's book blows the lid off the moral emptiness of movement "conservatives."I'm "anonymous" for a reason: I witnessed a lot of the events that Brock portrays accurately in his book, and I am a conservative who was...

Creative Learning: Activities and Games That REALLY Engage People (Essential Tools Resource) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Bob Lucas is a forward thinking, brain-based learning practitioner who's prolific writings (having written or contributed to 29+ books) have enriched the training literature for years. I wrote the forward for this book because of my enthusiasm for the techniques Bob advocates. A generous smorgasbord...

Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an interesting way of viewing myths. It is a scholarly book, even if one does not read the footnotes. For scholars, this is a useful book, and I refer to the author's viewpoints when I write about mythology.The author has clearly done a great deal of useful research. Her style of writing is accessible,...

Fixing God's Torah: The Accuracy of the Hebrew Bible Text in Jewish Law Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Since the nineteeenth century, the absolute integrity of the text of the Pentateuch as the letter-for -letter accurate revelatory message of the Divine to Moses on Mount Sinai has been an article of faith for Orthodox Judaism. Prof. Levy shows with meticulous scholarship that from early Rabbinic times...

The Tomb-Builders of the Pharaohs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The valley of the Kings in Egypt has enticed numerous archeologists in search of the burial sites of the Pharoahs. These remarkable tombs were built by skilled workers who had a special city built for them and their families. Mr. Bierbrier has researched and done a scholarly work about these workers...

Chasing Pharaohs I: The Rise of the Maahes Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Thoroughly researched, artfully and sometimes even poetically told, breathtakingly exciting - this is novel writing as it was always supposed to be. If you like your stories rich and deep, full of ancient history and spiritual resonance, th...en this is for you. It is a must read book for anyone who...