Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: October 7, 1997 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-40604-0 (0-345-40604-4)
Now Karen Armstrong offers a companion book for those who read her compelling, best-selling A History of God. In the Beginning is a provocative new look at the great stories of the Book of Genesis, a commentary on their meaning both historically and in our time. In the Beginning includes both...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press On Sale: October 5, 2010 Price: $22.99 ISBN: 978-0-307-45711-0 (0-307-45711-7)
“A book with this much healing truth could only be written by someone who has experienced profound pain. In When the Hurt Runs Deep, Kay Arthur addresses universal questions about suffering and pain with insights that are candid, practical, and deeply hopeful, offering encouragement and assurance that you are not alone.” —Gary...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala On Sale: September 14, 2010 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-495-2 (1-59030-495-0)
Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity–yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer...
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Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books On Sale: December 1, 2006 Price: $45.00 ISBN: 978-1-58834-240-9 (1-58834-240-9)
Michelle Brown, former curator at the British Library, gathers together seventy fragile biblical treasures in this sumptuously illustrated volume that captures the development of both Bible and book, as well as a formative period of early Christian history. The book features a number of rare parchments, codices, illuminated manuscripts, and jeweled...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: July 13, 2010 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-59164-7 (0-307-59164-6)
For those who have had an introduction to Sacred Scripture, Father Raymond E. Brown, S.S., the outstanding American biblical scholar, has organized this collection of fourteen of his essays on various aspects of the New Testament. Although there are some essays of a popular nature, most of them are studies in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 13, 2001 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-48372-8 (0-385-48372-4)
From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews, his most compelling historical narrative yet.
How did an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire come to be the central figure in Western Civilization? Did his influence in fact change the world? These...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: February 26, 2002 Price: $16.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-49793-0 (0-385-49793-8)
Interpretations of the life of Jesus have flourished for nearly two millennia--from the Gospels to scholarly investigations by theologians and historians, to fictional portraits by novelists like Nikos Kazantzakis and Norman Mailer. Despite this long history, a clear and coherent picture of Jesus as a man and a teacher has remained...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: November 15, 2005 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-50863-6 (0-385-50863-8)
A brilliant new biography of Saint Paul, whose interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus transformed a loosely organized, grassroots peasant movement into the structured religion we know today
Without Paul, there would be no Christianity. His letters to various churches scattered throughout the Roman Empire articulated, for the first time...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: August 17, 2004 Price: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50862-9 (0-385-50862-X)
Without Paul, there would be no Christianity. His letters to various churches scattered throughout the Roman Empire articulated, for the first time, the beliefs that make up the heart of Christian practice and faith. In this extraordinary biography, Bruce Chilton explains the changing images of Paul, from the early Church period...
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Format: Hardcover, 692 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books On Sale: September 27, 2011 Price: $72.00 ISBN: 978-1-58394-249-9 (1-58394-249-1)
Inspired by intense studies, meditation, and a variety of teachings from the great Torah sages, best-selling author Gabriel Cousens, MD, presents the fifty-two parashas of the Torah as a practical path to liberation. His interpretation, which focuses on enlightenment, what he feels is the original intention of the Torah, provides a...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: May 9, 2006 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-51829-1 (0-385-51829-3)
Reflecting Josemaría Escrivá’s belief that God can be found in professional and everyday settings, The Way blends passages from sacred Scripture with anecdotes drawn from Escrivá’s life and work, snatches of conversation, and selections from his personal letters. The direct, conversational writing style and its deeply felt humanity are among the...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: April 6, 2004 Price: $18.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-1182-5 (0-8052-1182-9)
In this fascinating and important study, Tikva Frymer-Kensky—biblical scholar, assyriologist, feminist—takes up two of the most significant intellectual and religious issues of our day: the experiences of women in a patriarchal society and the relevance of the Bible to modern life. She examines the stories of Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel; of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: October 18, 2005 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-50348-8 (0-385-50348-2)
The first archaeological evidence of the historical reality of the Gospel story.
From a historical point of view, the uniqueness of this cave is that it contains archaeological evidence that comes to us from the very time of the personalities and events described in the Gospels. For here is the largest ritual...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: November 2, 2010 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-307-27762-6 (0-307-27762-3)
Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity in human form, unresolved moral ambiguities within the text, and the problem posed to her as an enlightened reader by the miracle of the Resurrection. What she rediscovers—and...
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Format: Hardcover, 1008 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: June 16, 2009 Price: $45.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-51229-9 (0-385-51229-5)
More than a generation has passed since the appearance of the last major Catholic Bible dictionary. It has been a fertile generation for biblical scholarship, an eventful time for biblical archaeology, and a fruitful time for the Church’s interpretation of the Bible. It is time for a new resource.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: September 19, 2006 Price: $13.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-49662-9 (0-385-49662-1)
Scott Hahn has the rare ability to explain the essential teachings of Catholicism in a totally accessible manner. Rather than burdening the reader with difficult or arcane references and arguments, he writes of familiar feelings and situations and allows the theology to unfold naturally. In First Comes Love, Hahn turns his...
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Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: November 8, 2005 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50933-6 (0-385-50933-2)
The bestselling author of The Lamb’s Supper continues his thoughtful exploration of the complex relationship between the Bible and the Catholic liturgy in a revelatory work that will appeal to all readers.
Scott Hahn has inspired millions of readers with his perceptive and unique view of Catholic theology and worship, becoming one...
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Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: June 1, 2010 Price: $14.99 ISBN: 978-0-307-59077-0 (0-307-59077-1)
In Many Are Called, Dr. Scott Hahn, one of the most celebrated scholars and influential Catholic writers living today, enthusiastically encourages Catholics around the world to renew their focus on the sacred role of the Catholic priest. Using his unique ability to present deep spiritual and theological ideas in the language...
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Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: May 8, 2007 Price: $22.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50935-0 (0-385-50935-9)
This book unravels mysteries, corrects misunderstandings, and offers thoughtful, straightforward responses to common objections about the Catholic faith.
Bestselling author Scott Hahn, a convert to Catholicism, has experienced the doubts that so often drive discussions about God and the Church. In the years before his conversion, he was first a nonbeliever and...
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Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: May 18, 2004 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-50931-2 (0-385-50931-6)
The most solemn, majestic, and beautiful gifts that Jesus Christ gave to the world are His sacraments. He endowed them with unprecedented and unparalleled power—power to change lives, save souls, and share God’s very life. The sacraments are the ordinary means by which God directs the course of each human life...
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Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
Publisher: Titan Books On Sale: April 6, 2010 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-84856-525-8 (1-84856-525-9)
Some of Britain’s finest comics artists of all time also produced strips for the classic British comic Eagle based on stories from the Bible. Now, for the first time ever, all these Bible Stories are being collected, beginning with Frank Hampson’s Road of Courage, the life story of Jesus, and Mark...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Three Leaves On Sale: August 21, 2007 Price: $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-51665-5 (0-385-51665-7)
Who was Jesus? And how was this first-century political revolutionary, whose teachings are meant to lead the way to freedom, turned into a meek and mild servant of the status quo? How is it possible to profess a belief in Jesus, yet ignore the suffering of the poor and the needy?...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Anchor Bible On Sale: April 13, 1998 Price: $37.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-46892-3 (0-385-46892-X)
Professors, Please Note: Titles in the Anchor Bible series are not available at the special examination copy price. Copies are available at regular list price.
Admittedly, as the last book in the Old Testament, and a minor prophet at that, Malachi is often overlooked by Bible readers. Yet, Malachi's passionate proclamations and...
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