VIYFF Books

By David Crystal

ISBN-10: 0199585857

ISBN-13: 9780199585854

"Let there be light," "A fly within the ointment," "New wine in previous bottles," "How are the powerful fallen," "The salt of the earth." a majority of these daily words owe their acceptance to the King James Bible. certainly, it really is stated that this spectacular Bible has contributed extra to the colour and beauty of the English language than nearly the other literary source.

In Begat, best-selling language specialist David Crystal bargains a stimulating journey of the verbal richness and superb achieve of the King James Bible. How can a piece released in 1611 have had this type of lasting impact at the language? to reply to this query, Crystal bargains attention-grabbing discussions of words similar to "The pores and skin of one's tooth" or "Out of the mouth of babes," tracing how those memorable strains have discovered self sufficient lifestyles within the paintings of poets, playwrights, novelists, politicians, and newshounds, and the way extra lately they've been taken up with enthusiasm through advertisers, Hollywood, and hip-hop. He indicates, for example, how "Let there be mild" has resurfaced as "Let there be lite," the identify of a vitamin cookbook, and "Let there be flight," the identify of a piece of writing approximately airport delays. alongside the way in which, Crystal reminds us that the King James Bible owes a lot to past translations, particularly these through Wycliffe within the fourteenth century and Tyndale within the 16th. yet he additionally underscores an important revisions made via King James's crew of translators, contrasting the memorable "Am I my brother's keeper" with Wycliffe's "Am I the keeper of my brother."

Language fans and scholars of the Bible could be both enthralled through Begat and its attractive examine the intersection of faith and literature.

By Christian D. Ginsburg

Ktav reprint of the e-book initially released in 1897 by way of TBS, with the Prolegomena by way of Prof. Orlinsky.

By van den Roelof Broek

ISBN-10: 9004237577

ISBN-13: 9789004237575

ISBN-10: 9004241973

ISBN-13: 9789004241978

In Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem at the lifestyles and the eagerness of Christ , Roelof van den Broek bargains the 1st variation, with advent, translation and notes, of a coptic textual content which includes numerous apocryphal parts

By Michael D. Evans

ISBN-10: 1593790104

ISBN-13: 9781593790103

NEW present caliber OVER SIZED smooth hide - NO backbone CREASES, powerful BINDING, PAGES AND backbone - SHIPS similar DAY WITH monitoring NUMBER!cst

By Carl E. Armerding, W. Ward Gasque

ISBN-10: 0943575117

ISBN-13: 9780943575117

This ebook comprises average, functional details on easy methods to research Biblical prophecy, with examples. you'll examine much in regards to the topic. doesn't pass into what the ebook of Revelation ability, purely the best way to review it.

By Phillip R. Callaway

ISBN-10: 1608996603

ISBN-13: 9781608996605

Synopsis: within the lifeless Sea Scrolls for a brand new Millennium, Phillip R. Callaway provides the main accomplished survey of the lifeless Sea Scrolls because the ultimate e-book of the cave four fragments. The chapters on enhancing the Scrolls, at the caves, at the scrolls, and on Khirbet Qumran current the proof with out getting slowed down in older controversies. Callaway discusses the so-called yahad ostracon, in addition to a desirable writing workout, and the intended useless Sea Scroll on stone. those that wish to be aware of extra in regards to the Bible one of the Scrolls are provided short reviews on over 100 readings from Qumran's biblical manuscripts and different biblical texts. within the bankruptcy at the pseudepigrapha and apocrypha, Callaway emphasizes the wealthy literary construction of the mid- to past due moment Temple interval, with sections on Enoch, Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, a Genesis remark, the remodeled Pentateuch, targums on Leviticus and activity, the Temple Scroll, the hot Jerusalem, an Apocryphon of Joshua, the psalms, quite a few works of knowledge, Tobit, Ben Sira, the Epistle of Jeremiah, and the Greek fragments from cave 7. The bankruptcy at the group Scrolls offers with the Damascus rfile, the guideline of the group and its appendages, a Hybrid Rule, the guideline of battle, the Thanksgiving Hymns, Florilegium, Testimonia, Melchizedek, the pesher commentaries on Habakkuk, Nahum, and Psalm 37, Ordinances, Calendar texts, a few Works of the legislations, the Angelic Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and the phylacteries. by way of the Scrolls and Jewish background, Callaway discusses the textual content known as compliment for Jerusalem and King Jonathan, the Copper Scroll, the documentary texts (which might or is probably not from Qumran), the background of the Qumran group, and a few similarities to early Christian notion and language. as well as clarifying discussions of the entire works pointed out above, the writer hopes that The useless Sea Scrolls for a brand new Millennium may help readers comprehend the Scrolls now not because the manufactured from an intensive, separatist group, yet quite because the literary historical past of a few of the maximum Jewish minds that lived within the moment Temple interval. Endorsements: "Phillip Callaway takes his readers during the tales of discovery, conveying with a funky and authoritative contact the main theories and concerns that the Scrolls have engendered, and top us into the guts of the scrolls themselves. His account is readable, trustworthy, undogmatic, updated, and strongly instructed for college students and non-specialists alike." --Philip Davies college of Sheffield "If you're looking for a clean consultant to the lifeless Sea Scrolls that introduces you to lots of the significant compositions in a transparent and sympathetic approach, then this is often the e-book for you. Callaway offers quite a lot of perspectives in regards to the Scrolls, and but total he sees them now not because the items of a maverick minority yet a great deal as a part of the Judaism in their time. As such he argues that they should be taken heavily via all who comprehend themselves as by any means the heirs of that formative interval thousand years ago." --George J. Brooke, collage of Manchester writer Biography: Phillip R. Callaway studied the useless Sea Scrolls with Hartmut Stegemann and labored on the Qumran Institute on the collage of Marburg and the collage of Gottingen, Germany. He obtained the PhD in faith from Emory collage. He has released greatly at the useless Sea Scrolls and is the writer of The historical past of the Qumran neighborhood: An research (1988) and the coauthor of the entire international of the lifeless Sea Scrolls (2002)."

By Donald K. McKim

ISBN-10: 0664238351

ISBN-13: 9780664238353

This moment variation of the Westminster Dictionary of Theological phrases presents a complete advisor to just about 7,000 theological phrases, 1,000 extra phrases than the 1st variation. McKim's succinct definitions conceal a huge variety of theological experiences and comparable disciplines: modern theologies, bible study, church historical past, ethics, feminist theology, international theologies, hermeneutics, liberation theology, liturgy, ministry, philosophy, philosophy of faith, postcolonial theology, social sciences, spiritually, worship, and Protestant, Reformed, and Roman Catholic theologies.

This new version additionally contains cross-references that hyperlink readers to different comparable phrases, generic scholarly abbreviations and abbreviations for canonical and deuterocanonical texts, an annotated bibliography, and a brand new introductory part that teams jointly phrases and ideas, displaying the place they healthy inside specific theological different types. No different unmarried quantity offers the busy scholar, and the theologically skilled reader, with such easy accessibility to such a lot of theological definitions.

By J. Gresham Machen

ISBN-10: 0023734809

ISBN-13: 9780023734809

This booklet is meant essentially for readers who're starting the examine of the Greek testomony both with none prior acquaintance with the Greek language or with an acquaintance so imperfect renewed process ordinary guideline is required. KEY subject matters: offers details at the first declension, the second one declension, masculine nouns of the 1st declension, 3rd declension, imperfect heart and passive indicative, the important temper, the correct demanding, conjugations of I supply, I position, I permit pass, I convey, I wreck, I reason to face and that i understand.

By Michael David Coogan; Bruce Manning Metzger

ISBN-10: 0195176103

ISBN-13: 9780195176100

This crucial alphabetical consultant deals nearly 325 articles that describe humans and areas that seem within the New testomony and Hebrew Bible, from prophets, apostles, and teams (such as Hebrews, Angels) to kingdoms and nations and towns and mountains the place biblical occasions happened.