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Jerusalem and the One God: A Religious History
Jerusalem, with its turbulent history, is without doubt one of the best- known cities of the world. A long line of foreign powers have ruled over it, from as far back as biblical times. But the city owes its importance not to them but to the fact that it is the birthplace of monotheism. Othmar Keel sketches in broad brush…
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SUGGESTION: Classic Gospel Commentary Theophylact of Orchid
First, place your order for The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/7445. That gives you a nice resource you can tag "reformed" Then start nagging Logos for a slightly older classic: The Explanation of the Gospel by Blessed Theophylact…
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The Early Church - Henry Chadwick
The story of emergent Christianity from the apostolic age to the dividing of the ways between the Greek East and the Latin West
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Reading Images, Seeing Texts: Towards a Visual Hermeneutics for Biblical Studies
In recent years, a growing number of biblical scholars have turned to ancient art as a vital resource for understanding the historical and conceptual background of the Bible. While these "iconographic" approaches have done much to advance findings from more traditional text-based studies, they have yet to fully address…
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No Graven Image?: Israelite Aniconism in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
This is the first in-depth study of the Israelite prohibition of images in the light of comparative material from the surrounding cultures. The author proposes a distinction between tolerant de facto aniconism and programmatic aniconism and argues that there was a development from West Semitic de facto aniconism (cults…
