Product Description: This book honors the significant and enduringwork of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to thisfestschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship betweenwriting, the development and Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.

Product Description: Jesus never wrote a book. Most scholars assume that information about Jesus was preserved only orally up until the writing of the Gospels, allowing ample time for the stories of Jesus to grow and diversify. Alan Millard here argues that written reports about Jesus could have been made during his lifetime and that some among his audiences and followers may very well have kept notes, first-hand documents that the Evangelists could weave into their narratives...read more

Product Description: Jesus never wrote a book. The main sources about him, the Four Gospels, were written some forty years after his death, and contentious debates reign concerning their sometimes contradictory portrayals, which accounts are credible, and how far their authors may have altered or invented episodes to support a view or doctrine of the early Church...read more

Product Description: This book is for the armchair archaeologist and other adventurous students of the bible. Have you ever wished you could discover hidden cities, ivory palaces and golden temples? This lavishly illustrated, easy-to-read guide to biblical times offers fresh insight into ancient cultures and peoples described in the Bible...read more

More than two thousand entries cover the books of the Bible, and people, places, events, and key doctrines in the Bible (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Millard, A. R.

Product Description: This is intended not as a complete bibliography of the subject, but a guide to sources of information. The continued demand for the first edition of this guide, published in 1968, led to a revised edition in 1974 and now the present revision, which brings the information up to August 1979...read more