Past & Present

Average: 5 (1 vote)

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Author: 
Leymah Gbowee & Carol Mithers
List Price: 
$25.99
Type: 
Hardcover
In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia’s women together—and together they led a nation to peace.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

Verily, Verily: The KJV - 400 Years of Influence and Beauty

Author: 
Jon M. Sweeney
List Price: 
$18.99
Type: 
Hardcover
Sweeny shows why the KJV has been the most important entry into the Christian scriptures for the English-speaking world.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

Author: 
Timothy Beal
List Price: 
$25.00
Type: 
Hardcover
"Beal's exciting book offers both fascinating history and a new and insightful way to approach the 'sacred text'." -John Shelby Spong
Average: 5 (2 votes)

God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible

Author: 
Adam Nicolson
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$13.99
Type: 
Paperback
Adam Nicolson, in celebration of 400 years of the KJV, will be MassBible's 2011 Harrell F. Beck Lecturer.
Average: 5 (1 vote)

I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

Author: 
Izzeldin Abeulaish
List Price: 
$24.00
Type: 
Hardcover
His deepest hope is that his daughters will be "the last sacrifice on the road to peace between Palestinians and Israelis."
Average: 5 (1 vote)

Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire

Author: 
Jennifer Wright Knust
List Price: 
$25.99
Type: 
Hardcover
Bible scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addresses the big questions that dominate today's discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible
Average: 5 (1 vote)

American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us

Author: 
Robert E. Putnam & David E. Campbell
List Price: 
$30.00
Type: 
Hardcover
American Grace is a major achievement, a groundbreaking examination of religion in America.
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible

Author: 
Robert Alter
List Price: 
$19.95
Type: 
Hardcover
The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning.
Average: 5 (3 votes)

Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine

Author: 
Scott Korb
List Price: 
$25.95
Type: 
Hardcover
A lively and illuminating portrait of the nearly unknown world of daily life in first-century Palestine.
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Average: 5 (1 vote)

Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Author: 
Stanley Hauerwas
List Price: 
$24.99
Type: 
Hardcover
A loving, hard-working, godly couple has long been denied a family of their own. Finally, the wife makes a deal with God.