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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE BIBLICAL WORLD
edited by Michael D. Coogan
Here, in one impressively illustrated volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts - the Bible.
For more than a century, archeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary scholars have constructed a fresh synthesis of this material with the biblical tradiations. The Oxford History of the Biblical World incoporates the best of this scholarship, and in chronologically ordered chapters presents a readable and integrated study of the history, art, architecture, languages, literatures, and religion of biblical Israel and early Judaism and Christianity in their larger cultural contexts. The authors also examine such issues as the roles of women, the tensions between urban and rural settings, royal and kinship social structures, and official and popular religions of the region. Readers will find that 200 photographs, line drawings, and maps as well as an insert containing 25 color images vividly illustrate the history discussed.
Understanding the biblical world is a vital part of understanding the Bible. Broad, authoritative, and visually engaging, The Oxford History of the Biblical World will illuminate for any reader the ancient world from which the Bible emerged.
PALESTINE IN THE TIME OF JESUS
K. C. Hanson & Douglas E. Oakman
Through a judicious use of the social sciences, Hanson and Oakman's enormously helfpul volume explains in a readable way the primary social institutions and structures of ancient Palestine, with a view to how they are reflected in and shaped the early Jesus movement.
After an overview of social analysis and of the ancient Mediterranean worldview, the core of the book systematically presents major domains and institutions of family, politics, and economy, always with reference to specific biblical and other ancient texts. In a concluding chapter, the authors explore Palestine's religious institutions, especially Herod's Temple system and Jesus' relation to it. The wealth of archaeological data, documentary data, and analysis is enhanced by extensive charts, diagrams, study questions, glossaries, and suggested readings.
"This book has been admirably conceived and developed to assist the ordinary Bible reader in narrowing the cultural distance between the world of Jesus and our own. Both authors are expert teachers, proven researchers, and clear articulators of what they know so well: the society of Palestine in the time of Jesus, its social institutions, cultural values, daily experiences, an elite and non-elite approaches to the God of Israel. A careful reading will . . . make the pages of the Gospels come alive. . ."
—Bruce J. Malina
Creighton University
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Archaeology & the Bible
The Chronology of Christ's Crucifixion & Resurrection
Crucifixion In Antiquity: The Evidence
The Bordeaux Pilgrim
The Credibility of Josephus
Church of the Apostles Found On Mt. Zion
Jerusalem's Essene Gateway: Where the Community Lived In Jesus' Time
The Madaba Map
Main Events in the History of Jerusalem
Maps of the Roman World in the First Century CE
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