Download or read book Scriptural Tales Retold written by Erich S. Gruen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish writers in antiquity retold and recast, sometimes distorted or bypassed, biblical narratives that ostensibly had the status of sacred texts. Gruen asks the question of what prompted such tampering with tales that carried divine authority, and what implications this widespread practice of liberal revising had for attitudes toward the sacrality of the scriptures in general. Gruen focuses upon writings of the Second Temple period, an era of the deep integration of Jewish history and the Greco-Roman world. Gruen brings to the task the training of a classicist and ancient historian rather than that of a biblical textual critic or a rabbinics scholar, not pursuing the commentaries of the later rabbis with their very different approaches, methods, and goals. As such, Gruen's emphasis rests upon narrative rather than legal matters, the haggadic rather than the halakhic. The former lends itself most readily to the creative instincts of the re-tellers.
Download or read book The Book of Books written by Tor Dennis and published by Lion Children's Bks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Oxford: Lion, 2003.
Download or read book Stories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel written by Celia Barker Lottridge and published by Groundwood Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of thirty-two Bible stories retold for children.
Download or read book Really Woolly Bible Stories written by DaySpring and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces noted Bible stories, including those of the Creation, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Samson, David, Daniel, Jonah, the Nativity and other events from the life of Jesus, the parable of the Good Samaritan, and the Resurrection. On board pages.
Download or read book The Serpent s Promise written by Steve Jones and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique contribution to the God/religion debate: a scientific take on the Bible that doesn't take sides. Many of the subjects studied by physicists or by biologists are found in the texts of the world's religions: the origins of the universe, of life and of mankind; fate, sex, age and death; and the prospects of eternal life or of fiery doom. The Bible is a handbook for understanding Nature and, in its own way, it succeeds. As a factual account, of course, it is out of date, but many of its statements can be rephrased in modern terms. Distinguished geneticist Steve Jones has done that: written a rivetingly accessible work on recent advances in our understanding of ourselves, using the Bible as a framework. His narrative is structured around the Good Book's grand themes, from Genesis to Revelations, and weaves a series of unexpected facts into a coherent whole. The struggle of rationalism with its opposite has, after decades of torpor, returned to centre stage. Polemics against and in favour of religion and atheism fill the shelves. Instead of adding to that pile, Steve Jones stands back and take a fresh look at that issue in a volume that is not an attack or a defence but which explores scriptural motifs--Creation, the Garden of Eden, original sin, the Exodus, virgin birth, the Resurrection, and the Last Judgment--using the methods and results of the latest scientific research. It is a remarkably quick jump, shows Professor Jones, from Adam to astrophysics. Although some of the questions raised are beyond the capabilities of science, at least a scientist can ask them in a new way. Steve Jones shows there is a better route to understanding the universe than through doctrine.
Download or read book Deserted written by Nathan Roberts and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would the earliest stories of the Bible be like without an angry God smiting humans with floods, fire, frogs, and brimstone? They might become the story of a mother surviving a snake bite and a dangerous pregnancy. Architects and dreamers building towers and boats to save themselves from the harsh desert. A doctor who obsessively cleans. Young gay lovers seeking refuge in the sanctuary cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Estranged brothers planning ten terrorist attacks to free their people from slavery. Without an angry God, the Bible might become a fictional collection of stories about deeply human men, women, and children from a small nomadic tribe deserted in an ancient Hebrew desert.
Download or read book Bible Stories Retold written by Hiram W. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living God s Way written by Ralph Milton and published by Winfield, B.C. : Wood Lake Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bible Story written by Arthur Stanley Maxwell and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this booklet are but a cross section of the more than 400 stories that comprise the 10 volumes of: The Bible story.
Download or read book Bible Stories Retold written by Hiram W. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bible Story Retold in Twelve Chapters written by Andrea Skevington and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evocative and full in scope, The Bible Story Retold in Twelve Chapters is a flowing retelling of the Bible's great stories. In twelve chapters, Andrea Skevington brings together all the Bible's treasured tales to reveal the overarching story of God and his people. Skilfully crafting her stories with care and consideration for the biblical original, yet with the energy of the story front-of-mind, the result is a text with a compelling pace, which is at once fresh and original for new readers, but with an underlying depth and perspective that will delight those already familiar with the stories - whatever their age. Bound in a quality hardback with silver foil detail on the cover, this Bible is one to enjoy giving, receiving, reading, and treasuring.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Bible Stories written by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronologically retells the stories of both the Old and New Testaments, accompanied by illustrations.
Download or read book The Scripture Stories Retold for Young Israel written by Mendel Silber and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Favorite Bible Stories Retold for Children written by Ardath Gertrude Krottjer and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Stories from the Bible written by Nicola Baxter and published by Armadillo. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the perfect introduction to the Bible for children, carefully selecting some of the most popular and accessible stories and retelling them in a way even the youngest listeners will relate to.With delightful illustrations on every page the book introduces well-loved characters from the Old Testament, and includes other less-frequently told tales to encourage children to explore further. Using tales from both Testaments to introduce God, the Christmas story, the life and works of Jesus, and the first Christians, the stories will not only entertain young listeners but will also introduce them to some of life's universal themes.
Download or read book Bible Stories Retold for Children written by E. C. Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tiny Tots Bible Story Book written by John H. Walton and published by Faith Kidz. This book was released on 1993 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fourteen stories from both the Old and New Testaments, retold for preschool children and accompanied by Scripture verses and several simple discussion questions.
