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  • What Are Biblical Values?

    What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues

    by John Collins ...
    An illuminating exploration of the Bible and many of our most contentious contemporary issuesMany people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in biblical values, and they use scriptural passages to support their claims. But the Bible was written over the course of several hundred years and contains contradictory positions on many issues. The Bible seldom provides simple ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Early Judaism

    A Comprehensive Overview

    Edited by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow ...
    Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods ... Read more

    $59.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Invention of Judaism

    Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series Book 7 - Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
    Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism’s adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity. For 600 years prior, from the Babylonian Exile to the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, there was ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. The approach is ecumenical, in the sense that it seeks ... Read more

    $59.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy

    On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

    by John J. Collins ...
    A highly regarded expert on the Jewish apocalyptic tradition, John J. Collins has written extensively on the subject. Nineteen of his essays written over the last fifteen years, including previously unpublished contributions, are brought together for the first time in this volume. Its thematic essays organized in five sections, Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy complements and enriches ... Read more

    $37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The "Dead Sea Scrolls"

    A Biography

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus, and they continue to inspire veneration and conspiracy theories to this day. John Collins tells ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    The Writings

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.The third edition is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images. An index has ... Read more

    $25.99 USD 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

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    Prophecy

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.The third edition is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images. An index has ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apocalypticism as a Worldview in Ancient Judaism

    by John J. Collins ...
    How did apocalyptic concerns shape ancient Jewish life and literature?In this compelling study, renowned scholar John J. Collins examines the apocalyptic worldview that emerged in Jewish thought during the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods. He reconstructs this perspective through carefully contextualized readings of ancient Jewish apocalyptic literature.According to Collins, defining features ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    The Torah/Pentateuch

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks in colleges and seminary classrooms. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments.The third edition is presented in a new and engaging format with new maps and images. An index has ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. The approach is ecumenical, in the sense that it seeks ... Read more

    $58.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus