Product Description: In Biblical Jeremiah, Barbara Green explores the prophet Jeremiah as a literary persona of the biblical book through seven periods of his prophetic ministry, focusing on the concerns and circumstances that shaped his struggles. Having confronted the vast complexity of scholarly issues found in the Book of Jeremiah, Green has chosen to examine the literary presentation of the prophet rather than focus on the precise historical details or the speculative processes of composition...read more

Product Description: Laura Lewin’s ten-year-old daughter recently asked her “If there are seven billion people in the world and half have vaginas, then why is everyone so embarrassed to use that word?” She was right! Why are we embarrassed to use that word? It has been over fifteen years since Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking play The Vagina Monologues...read more

Product Description: The best medical care available, professionals always in attendance, final days spent with a loving family: All factors suggest a peaceful end for the old man. But it’s whispered that the death of powerful patriarch Jake Lavarone was not natural...read more

Product Description: The story of the remarkable women of The Auxiliary Territorial Service, including such famous members as Queen Elizabeth the lorry driver and Churchill’s daughter, Mary The Auxiliary Territorial Service was formed in 1938 as Britain faced the threat of war...read more

'A reading of the Book of Jonah that interfaces biblical studies with biblical spirituality'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Powerful. Assertive. Evil. What we know of Jezebel, queen of Israel, seems pure malevolence. What we know is what ancient writers, in their attempt to shape a theological history, considered important. More than just an intriguing story, Jezebel: Portraits of a Queen provides insight into a character used (and portrayed) by biblical writers as a negative example...read more

Product Description: This book marries the several elements: a given text (1 Samuel), a focal character (King Saul), a spacious and creative theorist (Mikhail Bakhtin), a historical context (the collapse of monarchic Israel and the moment for return. The dilemma for the exile community is to return with royal leadership or without it); a reading challenge is: can a character be a cipher for a corporate experience (Saul represent the whole monarchic experience)? The author argues that the narrative of 1 Samuel may be read as a riddle propounding the complex story of Israel/Judah's experience with kings as an instruction for those pondering leadership choices in the sixth century...read more

Product Description: Who should lead us? Who should we, as a community, look to for guidance? These questions followed the Israelite community upon their return from the Exile: Should they return with Davidic kingship or without it? Their answer was King Saul...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As an introductory text and companion for the Interfaces series, From Earth's Creation to John's Revelation gives an overview of the basic material necessary for an introductory undergraduate course in Old or New Testament. It helps readers locate the biblical characters within the biblical timeline and introduces the characters in ways that students of the Bible will find informative and vital...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A simplified, abridged version of the classic about an innkeeper's son who finds a treasure map that leads him to a pirate's fortune, accompanied by an essay focusing on the story's lesson on courage.

Product Description: Book by Green, Barbara (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: How well are the psalms understood? The parables seem more accessible, but are they? And as familiar as we are with the texts of the psalms and the parables, how open are we to new perspectives on them?The studies in Like a Tree Planted, the first volume in the Connections series, encourage readers to deepen their understanding of the psalms and parables and to grow in their relationship with God...read more

Product Description: This book offers a fresh reading of the biblical story of Joseph, alert to, and explicit about current literary methodology. Joseph is sold south by traders; then his brothers must go down to barter for food; and finally all his kin relocate in Egypt to survive famine...read more

Product Description: For intermediate to advanced computer users who have little or no exposure to multimedia, this book/disk set shows ways to use multimedia authoring tools to enhance existing Windows documents and presentations, as well as how to develop a multimedia application from start to finish...read more