San Antonio College Library

"In this full-color atlas, a respected scholar, educator, and guide in Israel introduces the geographical settings of the Bible and explains how each place participates in the biblical story"-- Provided by publisher .

Casting the tumultuous history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam against the rich canvas of the Near East, The Biblical World reveals how three great religions emerged from the same cradle. Author Jean-Pierre Isbouts employs a non-denominational perspective and a wide range of sources--from ancient hieroglyphic texts to the latest scientific finding--to place Bible stories in the framework of history. Chronologically arranged chapters detail battles,...

Traces everyday Bible life from Genesis to Revelation, covering food, clothing, warfare, housing and much more. -- cover.

An anti-Semitic Polish scholar recounts the stories of three men from the first century A.D., Cornelius, Joseph Arimathea, and Yeshua, while claiming to have uncovered the Fifth Gospel, told by Christ's betrayer Judas Iscariot.

A retelling of six stories from the Old Testament, which explore the complexity of love from the perspective of Ruth, Delilah, Reuben, Isaac, Gamiel, and Zillah.

"Traces Moses' life from the day he is launched into the Nile River in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator."--P. [4] of cover.

Provides information about the changing historical, social, and cultural contexts in which the Biblical writers and their original readers thought and lived, including writers of Jewish and Christian apocryphal works.

Places the key events and people described in the bible into their social and geographic context, showing the link between the scriptures and the society in which they were written.

The Gifts of the Jews reveals the critical change that made western civilization possible. Within the matrix of ancient religions and philosophies, life was seen as part of an endless cycle of birth and death; time was like a wheel, spinning ceaselessly. Yet somehow, the ancient Jews began to see time differently. For them, time had a beginning and an end; it was a narrative, whose triumphant conclusion would come in the future. From this insight...