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  • A Table in the Presence of My Enemies

    Banqueting and Battling in Ancient Israel

    by Matthew Wade Umbarger ...
    Series series Lectio Sacra
    Psalm 23, the most beloved of the Psalms, contains a perplexing riddle. What can it possibly mean that God prepares a table in the presence of the psalmist's enemies? Matthew Umbarger proposes that Psalm 23:5 makes the most sense when read according to its cultural context of prebattle covenant banquets. Beginning with ancient Mesopotamian mythology, Umbarger traces a conceptual trajectory of the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Unseen Realm (Expanded Edition)

    Discovering the Supernatural World of the Bible

    by Michael Heiser ...
    New edition of a bestseller (over 175k copies sold), featuring more content from Michael S. HeiserIf it's weird, it's important.To celebrate its tenth anniversary, The Unseen Realm Expanded Edition features a deluxe hardcover format and new content from Heiser never before available in print, further unveiling the unseen realm.Talking snakes. Giants. A heavenly council. Imprisoned spirits. Your ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Read the Bible

    A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

    by James L. Kugel ...
    James Kugel’s essential introduction and companion to the Bible combines modern scholarship with the wisdom of ancient interpreters for the entire Hebrew Bible.As soon as it appeared, How to Read the Bible was recognized as a masterwork, “awesome, thrilling” (The New York Times), “wonderfully interesting, extremely well presented” (The Washington Post), and “a tour de force...a stunning narrative” ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Exploring the Origins of the Bible

    Canon Formation in Historical, Literary, and Theological Perspective

    by Lee McDonald, Craig Evans ...
    Series series Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology
    How did the Bible we have come to be? What do biblical scholars mean when they talk about canon, the Septuagint, the Apocrypha, or the Masoretic Text? All this biblical study is interesting, but does it really matter? Leading international scholars explain that it does. This thought-provoking and cutting-edge collection will help you go deeper in your understanding of the biblical writings, how ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood

    How God's Word Consistently Affirms Gender Equality

    by Philip Barton Payne ...
    A biblical defense of egalitarianism that relies on Scripture to affirm gender equality in the church and in the home."Biblical womanhood" is the idea that the Bible teaches God-ordained male leadership and female submission in the home and subordination in the church. Some say this hierarchy of authority is sufficiently evidenced by examples of male leadership (and lack of female leadership) in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Read the Bible

    History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What It Means for Faith Today

    by Steven L McKenzie ...
    McKenzie argues that to comprehend the Bible we must grasp the intentions of the biblical authors themselves--what sort of texts they thought they were writing and how they would have been understood by their intended audience. In short, we must recognize the genres to which these texts belong. McKenzie examines several genres that are typically misunderstood, offering careful readings of specific ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Psalms as Christian Lament

    by Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, Erika Moore ...
    The Psalms as Christian Lament, a companion volume to The Psalms as Christian Worship, uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Bruce Waltke, James Houston, and Erika Moore examine ten lament psalms, including six of the seven traditional penitential psalms, covering Psalms 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 44, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Apocalyptic Imagination

    An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

    by John J. Collins ...
    One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre.After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts — the early Enoch literature, the book of ... Read more

    $62.80 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Isaiah, Chapters 1–39

    by John N. Oswalt ...
    The first of John N. Oswalt's two-part study of the book of Isaiah for the NICOT series, this commentary on chapters 1û39 combines theological acumen, literary sensitivity, philological expertise, and historical knowledge to present a faithful and accurate reading of one of the Old Testament's most important books.In the introduction to this work, Oswalt considers Isaiah's background, unity of ... Read more

    $98.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Genesis 1-15, Volume 1

    by Gordon John Wenham, David Allen Hubbard, Glenn W. Barker, John D. W. Watts, Ralph P. Martin ...
    Series series Word Biblical Commentary
    Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.This commentary series delivers the best in biblical scholarship from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation.It emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence, resulting in judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Bible As It Was

    by James L. Kugel ...
    This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous, ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.Was the snake ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

    by David Gunn, John W. Rogerson, Anthony Gelston ...
    The Eeerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary compliments succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus