"An examination of the early, mysterious Essene community at Qumran that links it with John the Baptist, Jesus, and the beginnings of Christianity"--Provided by publisher.
Her book is a history of the city - and it is more than that; it is, in Karen Armstrong's words,'an attempt to find out what Jews, Christians and Muslims have meant when they say the city is ''holy'' to them, and point out some of the implications of Jerusalem's sanctity in each tradition'.
Through the swirling smoke of Aaron's incense - and of scholarly theories - the present volume steps toward the meaning enacted on ''the Day of Purgation,'' commonly know as Yom Kippur or ''the Day of Atonement.'' By treating moral evil noth as relational/legal breach and as pollution, the Israelite system of ''purification offerings'' = so-called ''sin offerings'' addresses both the standing a…
The focus of this book is on the narrowly defined question of the nature of the communities described in the scrolls.
Where is Islam now in the life of the Arabs and the Muslims? Where is its important hoped-for role? Where are its movements and its men, or those who claim they are its men?
The basis of this book was a course of lectures delivered in May, 1956, under the Morse Lectureship Foundation, in Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Keyakinan pokok yang diuraikan Rowley sepanjang buku ini ialah bahwa pertemuan dan persekutuan dengan Tuhan sendiri meruppakan inti ibadat, baik di Israel kuna maupun di gereja modern.
The ranks of the new israeli citizens were quietly swelld by the arrival of Jewish immigrants who streamed in from the neighbouring Arab countries anxious to return to their homeland.
This book follows the convention of referring to Palestinian rabbis as "R.," an abbreviation for "Rabbi," and to Babylonian rabbis as "Rav." For example, Yohanan, a Palestinian Amora, is called Rav Yehuda.
This full-color book is filled with beautiful photographs of a scale model of Herod's temple. Each are and item of the temple is discussed in detail, including the inner gates, the porch, the table of showbread, the lampstand, and the altar of incense.