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  • Language for God in Patristic Tradition: Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism, By Mark Sheridan
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    Language for God in Patristic Tradition

    Wrestling with Biblical Anthropomorphism

    by Mark Sheridan

    Criticism of myth in the Bible is not a modern problem. Its roots go back to the earliest Christian theologians, and before them, to ancient Greek and Jewish thinkers. The dilemma posed by texts that ascribe human characteristics and emotions to the divine is a perennial problem, and we have much to learn from the ancient attempts to address it. Mark Sheridan provides a theological and historical ...

  • Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians, By Kenneth E. Bailey
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    Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes

    Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians

    by Kenneth E. Bailey

    Christianity Today Book Award winner

    Paul was a Hebrew of the Hebrews, steeped in the learning of his people.

    But he was also a Roman citizen who widely traveled the Mediterranean basin, and was very knowledgeable of the dominant Greek and Roman culture of his day. These two mighty rivers of influence converge in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.

    With ...

  • Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch, By Gordon J. Wenham
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    Exploring the Old Testament

    A Guide to the Pentateuch

    Exploring the Bible Series

    by Gordon J. Wenham

    Exploring the Old Testament: A Guide to the Pentateuch offers a clear overview of the "five books of Moses," as well as an introduction to the historical and textual questions that modern scholarship has posed and the answers it has proposed. This critically informed, textually sensitive introduction to the Pentateuch introduces students to

    • the basic features of the Pentateuch
    • the ...