David W Smith, "Stumbling toward Zion: Recovering the Biblical Tradition of Lament in the Era of World Christianity"
English | ISBN: 1783687770 | 2020 | 166 pages | EPUB | 1042 KB
In this powerful and challenging book, David W. Smith identifies a crisis at the heart of the church. It is the crisis of triumphalism - the tendency to avoid honest engagement with brokenness and suffering, privileging victory while rejecting the practice of lament. This imbalance, Smith argues, threatens to undermine the credibility of faith for a watching world, alienating those experiencing hardship and oppression; those wrestling with doubt, uncertainty, and loss.

Philippians: A Biblical Study by Joyce Meyer
English | March 2, 2021 | ISBN: 1546026185 | 208 pages | EPUB | 33 Mb
Internationally renowned author and Bible teacher Joyce Meyer provides a close study on Philippians, emphasizing the true joy that comes from serving others through Christ.

Barbara Reaoch, "Making Room for Her: Biblical Wisdom for a Healthier Relationship with Your Mother-In-Law or Daughter-In-Law"
English | ISBN: 1087746388 | 2022 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Maybe you're a bride-to-be who is about to gain a mother-in-law. Or perhaps you're a mother-of-the-groom who is about to gain a daughter-in-law. Or maybe you've been in an in-law relationship for decades, one that's been struggling in painful tension for years. No matter your age or stage, every daughter-in-law and mother-in-law needs help navigating their relationship sometimes.

Esther Eshel, "The Scribe in the Biblical World: A Bridge Between Scripts, Languages and Cultures "
English | ISBN: 3110996685 | 2022 | 382 pages | PDF | 23 MB
In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt.

Jane L. Kanarek, "Biblical Narrative and the Formation of Rabbinic Law"
English | ISBN: 1107047811 | 2014 | 226 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book presents a new framework for understanding the relationship between biblical narrative and rabbinic law. Drawing on legal theory and models of rabbinic exegesis, Jane L. Kanarek argues for the centrality of biblical narrative in the formation of rabbinic law. Through close readings of selected Talmudic and midrashic texts, Kanarek demonstrates that rabbinic legal readings of narrative scripture are best understood through the framework of a referential exegetical web. She shows that law should be viewed as both prescriptive of normative behavior and as a meaning-making enterprise. By explicating the hermeneutical processes through which biblical narratives become resources for legal norms, this book transforms our understanding of the relationship of law and narrative as well as the ways in which scripture becomes a rabbinic document that conveys legal authority and meaning.

David J. Chalcraft, "Encountering Diversity in Indian Biblical Studies"
English | ISBN: 1032383496 | 2023 | 402 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book provides analysis of a variety of biblical narratives and texts which are the vehicle for the expression, articulation and performance of diverse identities in the Indian context and is the first attempt to do so for a global audience of scholars and students.

John Eckhardt, "Daily Declarations for Spiritual Warfare: Biblical Principles to Defeat the Devil"
English | ISBN: 1616384433 | 2011 | 400 pages | EPUB | 801 KB
Defeat the Devil and Rout His Demons...

Nicole J. Ruane, "Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law"
English | ISBN: 0521877245 | 2013 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the Hebrew Bible's numerous laws about sacrificial procedure to understand the significance of gender in sacrificial rituals and the reasons that gender distinctions are so vital in these acts. Gender selection of both victims and participants is an intrinsic aspect of the nature and purpose of each rite, affecting its form and function, as well as its legitimacy. Sacrifice and Gender in Biblical Law considers the laws of the firstborn, the rite of the red cow, laws of slaughter, rituals of purification, and other offerings. It shows that these laws regulate material wealth and contribute to the construction of social roles.

Katherine J. Dell, "The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature "
English | ISBN: 110848316X | 2022 | 375 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Study of the wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible and the contemporary cultures in the ancient Near Eastern world is evolving rapidly as old definitions and assumptions are questioned. Scholars are now interrogating the role of oral culture, the rhetoric of teaching and didacticism, the understanding of genre, and the relationship of these factors to the corpus of writings. The scribal culture in which wisdom literature arose is also under investigation, alongside questions of social context and character formation. This Companion serves as an essential guide to wisdom texts, a body of biblical literature with ancient origins that continue to have universal and timeless appeal. Reflecting new interpretive approaches, including virtue ethics and intertextuality, the volume includes essays by an international team of leading scholars. They engage with the texts, provide authoritative summaries of the state of the field, and open up to readers the exciting world of biblical wisdom.

Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England: "Divina in Laude Voluntas" By Patrick McBrine
2017 | 398 Pages | ISBN: 0802098533 | PDF | 3 MB
Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe. Composed mainly in Latin and subsequently in Old English, biblical versification has much to tell us about the interpretations, genre preferences, reading habits, and pedagogical aims of medieval Christian readers."Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England" provides an accessible introduction to biblical epic poetry. Patrick McBrine's erudite analysis of the writings of Juvencus, Cyprianus, Arator, Bede, Alcuin, and more reveals the development of a hybridized genre of writing that informed and delighted its Christian audiences to such an extent it was copied and promoted for the better part of a millennium. The volume contains many first-time readings and discussions of poems and passages which have long lain dormant and offers new evidence for the reception of the Bible in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.