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Not Scattered or Confused: Rethinking the Urban World of the Hebrew Bible

Author: 
Mark McEntire
List Price: 
$40.00
Type: 
Paperback

The Hebrew Bible displays a complicated attitude toward cities. Much of the story tells of a rural, agrarian society, yet those stories were written by people living in urban environments. Moreover, cities frequently appear in a negative light; the Hebrew slaves in the book of Exodus were forced to build cities, and the book of Samuel’s critique of monarchy assumes an urban setting that supports that monarchy.

To Cast the First Stone: The Transmission of a Gospel Story

Author: 
Jennifer Knust & Tommy Wasserman
List Price: 
$45.00
Type: 
Hardcover

The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” To Cast the First Stone traces the history of this provocative story from its first appearance to its enduring presence today.

A History of Early Christian Literature

Author: 
Justo Gonzalez
List Price: 
$40.00
Type: 
Paperback

Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals and movements as heretical, and the Trinitarian and christological controversies—the defining theological events of the early church—have long provided the framework with which to understand the development of early Christian belief.

Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus

Author: 
Jim Wallis
List Price: 
$25.99
Type: 
Hardcover

Writing in response to our current “constitutional crisis,” New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation.

Advent for Everyone, Matthew: A Daily Devotional

Author: 
N.T. Wright
List Price: 
$16.00
Type: 
Paperback

Advent for Everyone: Matthew provides readers with an inspirational guide through the Advent season, from the First Sunday of Advent through the Saturday after the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Popular biblical scholar and author N. T. Wright provides his own Scripture translation and brief reflection to guide readers through the season toward the wonder and joy of Christmas.

Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

Author: 
Bart Ehrman
List Price: 
$16.99
Type: 
Paperback

The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.

Outdoing Jesus: Seven Ways to Live Out the Promise of "Greater Than"

Author: 
Doug Pagitt
List Price: 
$16.99
Type: 
Paperback

Is it sacrilegious to claim that ordinary people can do greater works than Jesus?

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these” (John 14:12). 

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