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(P/B) THE IDEA OF NATURAL RIGHTS
The studies that follow attempt to explore the early tradition of natural rights thinking from which the doctrines of the modern world are ultimately derived. They are presented as ventures into a terrain that has not been very thoroughly explored in recent scholarship. We have a huge body of work on present-day rights concepts - one author recently referred to a "welter" of such theories. There also exists an abundant literature on the classical rights doctrines of the seventeenth century; indeed it is hard to keep up with the output of t...
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(P/B) ON THE RELIABILITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
The genesis of this little book goes back many years to a pleasant and wide-ranging conversation with a fellow Aberdonian (he, by academic post; I, by birth), namely, my long-standing friend, Professor I. Howard Marshall. And this was long before the present-day, rather frenetic conflict over the biblical writings and their authenticity (or otherwise) by so-called minimalists and maximalists, often high on rhetoric and counterclaims, if too often on precious little else. During that conversation long ago, we had mused on the valuable role ...
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(H/B) NASREDDINE
It's time to go to market, so Nasreddine loads up the donkey and sets off with his father. But when onlookers criticize his father for riding while Nasreddine walks, the boy is ashamed. The following week, Nasreddine persuades his father to walk, and let him ride - but then people criticize the boy for making his father walk! No matter what Nasreddine tries, it seems that someone always finds something to disapprove of. Nasreddine is a legendary character popular in stories told throughout the Middle East, and this clever story will bring ...
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(P/B) THE DOORS OF THE SEA
As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God's power or God's nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God - if such exists - allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless human suffering. He calls both to recognize in the worst catastrophes not the providenti...
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(P/B) HERMENEUTICS
Anthony Thiselton here brings together his encyclopedic knowledge of hermeneutics and his nearly four decades of teaching on the subject to provide an splendid interdisciplinary textbook. After a thorough historical overview of hermeneutics, Thiselton moves into modern times with extensive analysis of scholarship from the mid-twentieth century, including liberation and feminist theologies, reader-response and reception theory, and postmodernism. No other text on hermeneutics covers the range of writers and subjects discussed in Thiselton's...
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(P/B) BEYOND THE ESSENE HYPOTHESIS
Respected scholar Gabriele Boccaccini here offers readers a new and challenging view of the ideology of the Qumran sect, the community closely related with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Boccaccini moves beyond the Essene hypothesis and posits a unique relationship between what he terms "Enochic Judaism" and the group traditionally known as the Essenes. Building his case on what the ancient records tell us about the Essenes and on a systematic analysis of the documents found at Qumran, Boccaccini argues that the literature betrays the core of an an...
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REWRITING SCRIPTURE IN SECOND TEMPLE TIMES (P/B)

QUMRAN AND JERUSALEM

BEYOND THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY

(P/B) A PRIMER ON POSTMODERNISM

(H/B) DID GOD HAVE A WIFE?

(P/B) FROM CELLS TO SOULS AND BEYOND

(H/B) JESUS AND THE EYEWITNESSES: THE GOSPELS AS EYEWITNESS TEST

(P/B) JESUS OUTSIDE THE NEW TESTAMENT: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIE

(P/B) THE EARLY HISTORY OF GOD - YAHWEH & THE OTHER DEITIES