Kekerasan demi kekerasan atas nama agama di Tanah Air telah menimbulkan banyak pertanyaan bagi para perindu kedamaian dan toleransi. Masih segar dalam ingatan kita bagaimana kelompok minoritas Syi’ah Sampang mengalami perlakuan tidak adil di kampung halamannya oleh sekelompok orang yang mengatasnamakan kelompok tertentu. Malangnya, alim ulama setempat, dengan cepat menyimpulkan bahwa ajaran S…
The Bible is not a Western book, and the world of the New Testament is not our world. The New Testament world was preindustrial, Mediterranean, and populated mostly by nonliterate peasants who depended on hearing these writings read aloud. Only a few of the literate elite were part of the Jesus movement, and they knew nothing of either modernity or the Western culture we inhabit today. This mea…
This thoroughly revised edition of Bruce M. Metzger's classic work is the most up-to-date manual available for the textual criticism of the New Testament. The Text of the New Testament, Fourth Edition, has been invigorated by the addition of Bart D. Ehrman--author of numerous best-selling books on the New Testament--as a coauthor. This revision brings the discussion of such important matters as…
Because Christianity claims to be a historical revelation, says Bruce, the quesion of the reliability of the documents on which it was founded is a crucial one. Here he presents the most convincing evidence for the historical trustworthiness of the canon of the New Testament.
Evangelicalism's most trusted biblical scholar here guides readers to a clearer understanding of the meaning of the New Testament. Proceeding book by book, F.F. Bruce presents the central themes of the New Testament in language simple enough to be understood by beginners yet rich enough to provide fresh insights for longtime students of the Bible. New cover design.
Student edition of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Text is identical to the Editio Minor (smaller-print edition). A revision of Kittel Biblia Hebraica, prepared by H.P. Ruger, et al. on the basis of Manuscript B19A in the National Public Library, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. Includes thoroughly revised Masoretic apparatus by G. E. Weil. Introductions in German, English, Spanish, and …