Buku ini memuat dua karangan yang berbeda dan berasal dari waktu penelitian yang berbeda pula. Karangan pertama memberikan informasi tentang hubungan Tuhan Allah, bangsa Israel dan bangsa-bangsa non-Israel, sebagaimana hal itu dilihat oleh para nabi abad 8 S.M.
Buku ini mengungkapkan cerita pribadi Saudari Choo Thomas yang menempuh perjalanan ke surga dengan Yesus beberapa kali, dan Yesus membawanya bertamasya di surga. Anda akan membaca tentang imannya yang kuat tentang surga, kerajaan Tuhan, yang akan membuat orang-orang percaya menyadari betapa pentingnya bertemu secara pribadi dengan Tuhan dan menerima jawaban-jawaban dari Dia melalui doa.
The second temple period (516/15 BCE-70 CE) was an age in which the Jewish people, wherever they lived, were under the political and military control of other nations. Only for a brief time in the late second and early first centuries bce did they have their own independent state, which continued to exist under the shadow of far greater powers.
Buku ini menyajikan sumber informasi yang paling mutakhir (literatur dan arkeologis) tentang kehidupan orang-orang Israel alkitabiah, dengan menggunakan bahasa sederhana dan menghindari istilah-istilah teknis. Selain itu, penulis juga banyak menyajikan ilustrasi hitam-putih dan berwarna untuk membantu memperkaya pengetahuan pembaca tentang konteks teks-teks Alkitab yang langsung dan tidak langs…
This book is an essential reference for curators, field archaeologists, collectors, biblical historians, and others who would like to understand the evolution and use of pre-coinage currency and ancient scale weight of the Near East.
Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. Contr…
The book of the Old Testament are religious writings. In the first place they consist of confessions of faith, in which pride of place is taken by the acts of God and not the words and deeds of human beings.
The volume also clarifies that not all Qumran commentaries are pesharim, and that there is a variety within them.
The biblical manuscripts found at Qumran, contends Sidnie White Crawford, reflect a spectrum of text movement from authoritative scriptural traditions to completely new compositions.
In a book meant to introduce general readers to this fascinating area of study, veteran archaeologist Jodi Magness here provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran and presents an exciting new interpretation of this ancient community based on information found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary documents. Magness's work offers a number of fresh conclusions concerning life at Q…