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| 040 | _cSt. Andrew's Theological Seminary | ||
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_aREF BS 445 _b.B53 1996 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe Bible through the ages |
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_aPleasantville, NY : _bThe Reader's Digest Association, _cc1996. |
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_a384 p. : _bIllus. ; _c27 cm. |
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| 500 | _aAt head of title: Reader's Digest | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes index | ||
| 505 | _aContents: | ||
| 505 | _aThe Bible through the ages introduction -- | ||
| 505 | _aPart One: The oral tradition -- | ||
| 505 | _a1. Timeline: 4000 to 1010 B.C. -- | ||
| 505 | _a2. The world of the patriarchs -- | ||
| 505 | _aPatriarchal clans in the Fertile Crescent -- | ||
| 505 | _aEveryday life in Sumer -- | ||
| 505 | _a3. Abraham and his God -- | ||
| 505 | _a4. Storytelling and the oral tradition -- | ||
| 505 | _a5. Stories in the oral tradition -- | ||
| 505 | _aA tale within a tale -- | ||
| 505 | _a6. The birth of writing -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe development of cuneiform -- | ||
| 505 | _a7. The Egyptian sojourn -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Egyptian Book of the Dead -- | ||
| 505 | _a8. Papyrus: Egypt's gift to writers -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe making of papyrus -- | ||
| 505 | _a9. Moses in Egypt -- | ||
| 505 | _aFrom Israel and Egypt: Songs of praise and of faith in a single God -- | ||
| 505 | _a10. Moses and the law -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe oral law -- | ||
| 505 | _a11. Champions of the Promised Land -- | ||
| 505 | _aExcerpts from the Song of Deborah. Part Two: The written word -- | ||
| 505 | _a1. Timeline: 1010 to 65 B.C. -- | ||
| 505 | _a2. A mighty kingdom -- | ||
| 505 | _a3. Poetry in the Old Testament -- | ||
| 505 | _aPoetry of love and sadness -- | ||
| 505 | _a4. David and the Psalms -- | ||
| 505 | _a5. The temple and worship -- | ||
| 505 | _aAutumn festival -- | ||
| 505 | _a6. Words of wisdom -- | ||
| 505 | _aWords of wisdom from Israel and Egypt -- | ||
| 505 | _a7. Language of the Old Testament -- | ||
| 505 | _a8. The divided kingdom -- | ||
| 505 | _a9. Who were the prophets? -- | ||
| 505 | _aVoices of the twelve -- | ||
| 505 | _a10. Oracles of Isaiah -- | ||
| 505 | _a11. Baruch and Jeremiah -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe seal of Jeremiah's scribe -- | ||
| 505 | _a12. The writing craft -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe making of parchment -- | ||
| 505 | _a13. The Babylonian captivity -- | ||
| 505 | _a14. Ezekiel: The voice of exile -- | ||
| 505 | _a15. Shaping the Pentateuch -- | ||
| 505 | _aMystery of the doublets -- | ||
| 505 | _aA tapestry of words -- | ||
| 505 | _a16. Ezra: the second lawgiver -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe decree of Cyrus -- | ||
| 505 | _a17. The chronicler -- | ||
| 505 | _a18. Tales that inspire -- | ||
| 505 | _a19. The making of the Septuagint -- | ||
| 505 | _aAlexandria -- | ||
| 505 | _a20. The Samaritan Pentateuch -- | ||
| 505 | _a21. Defining Daniel -- | ||
| 505 | _a22. Choosing the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _a23. What was left out -- | ||
| 505 | _a24. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- | ||
| 505 | _aLast days of Qumran -- | ||
| 505 | _aWas John the Baptist an Essene? -- | ||
| 505 | _a25. Recovering the scrolls -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay. Part Three: Words of a new faith -- | ||
| 505 | _a1. Timeline: 65 B.C. to A.D. 400 -- | ||
| 505 | _a2. The world of Jesus -- | ||
| 505 | _aJesus and Roman Judea -- | ||
| 505 | _a3. The life and ministry of Jesus -- | ||
| 505 | _aJesus and the Hebrew Scriptures -- | ||
| 505 | _a4. Spreading the Good News -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe ministry of Philip -- | ||
| 505 | _a5. Apostle to the Gentile world -- | ||
| 505 | _aMartyrdom of the apostles -- | ||
| 505 | _a6. Letter writing in the First Century -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Letter of Paul to Philemon -- | ||
| 505 | _a7. Thessalonians and Galatians -- | ||
| 505 | _a8. Corinthians and Philippians -- | ||
| 505 | _aTimothy and Titus -- | ||
| 505 | _a9. Romans, Colossians, Ephesians -- | ||
| 505 | _a10. Who wrote the "other" epistles? -- | ||
| 505 | _a11. Telling the story of Jesus -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Gospel of Thomas -- | ||
| 505 | _a12. Language of the New Testament -- | ||
| 505 | _a13. The Gospel of Mark -- | ||
| 505 | _a14. The Gospel of Matthew -- | ||
| 505 | _a15. The Gospel of Luke and Acts -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe use of Mark's Gospel in Matthew and Luke -- | ||
| 505 | _a16. The Gospel and Letters of John -- | ||
| 505 | _aWas there a signs source? -- | ||
| 505 | _a17. Present at the Apocalypse -- | ||
| 505 | _aApocalypse of Peter -- | ||
| 505 | _a18. Josephus -- | ||
| 505 | _aTestimony on Jesus -- | ||
| 505 | _a19. Shaping the Mishnah -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Talmud -- | ||
| 505 | _a20. Invention of the book -- | ||
| 505 | _aA fourth-century codex -- | ||
| 505 | _a21. Apostolic fathers -- | ||
| 505 | _aCollected works -- | ||
| 505 | _a22. Role of the BIble in early Christian worship -- | ||
| 505 | _aChristian instruction -- | ||
| 505 | _a23. Christian popular literature -- | ||
| 505 | _a24. The early spread of Christianity -- | ||
| 505 | _a25. Early Christian art -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a26. The Gnostic challenge -- | ||
| 505 | _aA Gnostic find -- | ||
| 505 | _a27. Debating the New Testament canon -- | ||
| 505 | _a28. Revising the Septuagint -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Targums -- | ||
| 505 | _a29. Origen and the Sixfold BIble -- | ||
| 505 | _a30. Early biblical interpretation -- | ||
| 505 | _a31. Establishing the Christian canon -- | ||
| 505 | _aCanonical debate from the first century to the fourth. Part Four: Copying the Word -- | ||
| 505 | _a1. Timeline: 400 to 1455 -- | ||
| 505 | _a2. Jerome's majestic achievement -- | ||
| 505 | _aOld Latin Bibles -- | ||
| 505 | _a3. Ulfilas among the Visigoths -- | ||
| 505 | _a4. Desert fathers -- | ||
| 505 | _a5. Pilgrimages -- | ||
| 505 | _aFaith of Islam -- | ||
| 505 | _a6. Varying traditions -- | ||
| 505 | _a7. The Bible in the Eastern churches -- | ||
| 505 | _a8. Byzantine icons -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a9. The Vernacular Bible in Europe -- | ||
| 505 | _a10. The Bible in the British Isles -- | ||
| 505 | _a"Work of the angels" (The Book of Kells) -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe cross speaks -- | ||
| 505 | _a11. Lindisfarne Gospels -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a12. Guardians of the scriptures -- | ||
| 505 | _aMonastic libraries -- | ||
| 505 | _a13. A monk as a scribe -- | ||
| 505 | _aAlcuin and the Franks -- | ||
| 505 | _a14. The art of illumination -- | ||
| 505 | _aWorking with gold leaf -- | ||
| 505 | _aWomen copyists and illuminators -- | ||
| 505 | _a15. Medieval bindings and luxury covers -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a16. Books for private devotions -- | ||
| 505 | _a17. Hebrew scribes and illuminators -- | ||
| 505 | _aRules for scribes -- | ||
| 505 | _a18. New ways of studying scripture -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Kabbala -- | ||
| 505 | _a19. Picture Bibles -- | ||
| 505 | _aArt of the blockbook -- | ||
| 505 | _a20. Medieval worship -- | ||
| 505 | _aFeast of our Lord -- | ||
| 505 | _a21. The cathedral as Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a22. Biblical drama -- | ||
| 505 | _a23. Poverty movements -- | ||
| 505 | _aDominic and his friars preachers -- | ||
| 505 | _a24. The Bible in the university -- | ||
| 505 | _a25. Wyclif and the Lollards -- | ||
| 505 | _aReform in Bohemia. Part Five: The printed Word -- | ||
| 505 | _a1. Timeline: 1455 to 2000 -- | ||
| 505 | _a2. The age of Gutenberg -- | ||
| 505 | _aPapermaking -- | ||
| 505 | _aInside a 15th-century print shop -- | ||
| 505 | _a3. printed Bible decoration -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a4. The impact of humanism -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Council of Trent -- | ||
| 505 | _a5. Polyglot Bibles -- | ||
| 505 | _aChristophe Plantin -- | ||
| 505 | _a6. Luther's Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _aIn Luther's words -- | ||
| 505 | _a7. The path toward an authorized English Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _aThomas Cromwell -- | ||
| 505 | _aShakespeare and the Geneva Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _aNot-quite-right Bibles -- | ||
| 505 | _a8. King James Version -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe evolution of a Psalm -- | ||
| 505 | _aTexts leading to and from the King James Version -- | ||
| 505 | _a9. Taking the Bible to the Far East -- | ||
| 505 | _a10. The Bible in Africa -- | ||
| 505 | _a11. Taking the Gospel to the New World -- | ||
| 505 | _a12. Apostles to the Indians -- | ||
| 505 | _a13. Bibles for a new nation -- | ||
| 505 | _aJefferson's Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Woman's BIble -- | ||
| 505 | _a14. The Bible and the family -- | ||
| 505 | _aa picture essay -- | ||
| 505 | _a15. The Hebrew Bible in America -- | ||
| 505 | _a16. Slavery and the Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _aSisters against slavery -- | ||
| 505 | _a17. Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon -- | ||
| 505 | _a18. The Bible in the South Seas -- | ||
| 505 | _aCatholics in Hawaii -- | ||
| 505 | _a19. The rise of the Bible societies -- | ||
| 505 | _aThe Gideons International -- | ||
| 505 | _a20. Translating scripture today -- | ||
| 505 | _aA comparison of modern translations -- | ||
| 505 | _aStandard texts for Old and New Testaments -- | ||
| 505 | _a21. Today's Bibles -- | ||
| 505 | _a22. Computers and the Bible -- | ||
| 505 | _a23. Modern biblical scholarship -- | ||
| 505 | _aCairo Genizah. | ||
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