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Summary: Offers an examination of the texts that did not make it into the canonical bible, as well as the diverse reasons for their omission and why some of them are relevant to the lives of modern people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 HOFSummary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREFrankel, Ellen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222.107 FRAJefferson, Thomas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 226.1 JEFEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: When Biblical scholar Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages, he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. For almost 1500 years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were influenced by the cultural, theological and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 225.486 EHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 225.486 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: When Biblical scholar Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages, he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. For almost 1500 years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were influenced by the cultural, theological and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 225.486 EHRCline, Eric H.
Contents: Introduction -- The Garden of Eden -- Noah's ark -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Moses and the Exodus -- Joshua and the Battle of Jericho -- The ark of the covenant -- The ten lost tribes of Israel -- Epilogue.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 221.67 CLILarson, Kirby.
Summary: Wanting to share a tea party with a new next-door neighbor, a little girl and her doll, Bitty Baby, overcome their trepidation about making new friends with someone who is different by remembering the story about Bitty Baby and a hedgehog.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LarCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC LARLevine, Amy-Jill
Summary: "The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler, explore how Jews and Christians can learn from and understand each other better by exploring how they read many of the same Bible stories through different lens"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 LEVLevine, Amy-Jill
Summary: "Two thousand years after his birth and death, Jesus of Nazareth continues to be of vital interest. Yet much of the scholarship around Jesus focuses on his religious significance. Jesus for Everyone examines his most famous teachings from a fresh perspective, exploring how they have continued to shape ethics and civilization in the West for two millennia. Even for those who reject faith, Jesus'...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Pagels, Elaine H.
Summary: A world-renowned scholar of religion and bestselling author of "The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief," and" Reading Judas" explores the strangest and most controversial book in the Bible: the Book of Revelation.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 228 PAGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 228.06 PAGRoss, Hugh (Hugh Norman)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NavPress 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222.1106 ROSBorg, Marcus J.
Summary: The authors show how the apostle was slowly but steadily "deradicalized" to fit Roman social norms in regards to slavery, patriarchy, and patronage. In truth, Paul was an appealing apostle of Jesus whose vision of life "in Christ"--one of his favored phrases--is remarkably faithful to the message of Jesus himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 227.06 BORBorg, Marcus J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Miles, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232 MILSchmid, Konrad
Summary: "The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they transformed on the journey from folk tale to holy writ? Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter unearth the history,in the process overturning assumptions about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.7 ASIAsimov, Isaac
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books Distributed by Crown Publishers 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.95 ASIBarton, John
Summary: "In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.9 BAREvans, Rachel Held
Summary: If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read. What she discovered changed her--and it will change you too. Drawing on the best in recent scholarship and using...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 EVAMeeks, Wayne A.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241.09 MEEKirsch, Jonathan
Contents: Something rich and strange -- Spooky knowledge and last things -- The history of a delusion -- The Apocalyptic invasion -- "Your own days, few and evil" -- To begin the world over again -- The godless Apocalypse.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 228 KIRMiles, Jack
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1995