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Bible N.T Criticism, Textual Bible N.T Criticism, Textual History Bible N.T Manuscripts Bible New Testament Criticism, interpretation, etc Christian education Christian literature, Early Christianity Origin Church history Primitive and early church Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Theology History Early church, ca. 30-600Ehrman, Bart D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.908 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 229.9206 EHRJackson, Robert H.
Summary: "Robert H. Jackson was one of the giants of the Roosevelt era: an Attorney General, a still-revered Supreme Court Justice, and, not least important, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's close friends and advisers. His intimate memoir of FDR, written in the early 1950s before Jackson's untimely death, has remained unpublished for fifty years. Here is that newly discovered memoir." "Written with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. JACEastman, P. D. (Philip D.)
Summary: Such entries as American ants, birds on bikes, and cow in car present the letters from A to Z.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: BRDAbrams, Jonathan P. D.
Summary: "The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture--from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire. The music that we would later know as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 ABRJames, P. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JamesJames, P. D.
Summary: P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it. She examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens's Bleak House, and bringing us into the present with such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 JAMJames, P. D.
Summary: The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS JAMEhrman, Bart D.
Contents: Major Christian Apocrypha discussed, dates and contents -- Recouping our losses -- Forgeries and discoveries. The ancient discovery of a forgery : Serapion and the Gospel of Peter ;The ancient forgery of a discovery : the Acts of Paul and Thecla ; The discovery of an ancient forgery : the Coptic Gospel of Thomas ; The forgery of an ancient discovery? : Morton Smith and the secret Gospel of Mark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 229.9206 EHRAbrams, Jonathan P. D.
Summary: "The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation Since its final episode aired in 2008, HBO's acclaimed crime drama The Wire has only become more popular and influential. The issues it tackled, from the failures of the drug war and criminal justice system to systemic bias in law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 ABRAgin, D. P.
Summary: Biologist Dan Agin marshals new scientific evidence to argue that the fetal environment can be just as crucial as genetic hard-wiring or even later environment in determining our intelligence and behavior. Stress during pregnancy, for example, puts children at far greater risk of anxiety disorders. Nutritional deprivation during early fetal development may elevate the risk of late onset...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.24 AGIJames, P. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1987
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 JAMAbrams, Jonathan P. D.
Summary: "When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college--as young basketball prodigies were expected to do--but instead enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would continue until the NBA instituted an age limit in 2005, requiring all players...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 ABRJames, P. D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction James 2001Ehrman, Bart D.
Summary: "A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong-and why that matters. You'll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: "Even though early Christianity is one of the most studied fields in the entire discipline of religious studies, numerous controversies continue to puzzle both scholars and laypeople. This course examines 24 of these controversies to show why they have fascinated students of the Christian religion and to attempt to resolve them with academic rigor."--page 1 of course guidebook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: 225 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a series of twelve lectures that provide an introduction to the New Testament for people who recognize or appreciate its cultural importance or have religious commitments to it. This course is historical and does not presuppose faith or deny faith. The four Gospels, the book of Acts, the 21 epistles and the book of Revelation are studied in terms of the factors which eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 225.09 Ehrman 2005Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 225.09 HISEhrman, 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...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: In The Triumph of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, a master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, shows how a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 EHREhrman, Bart D
Contents: Guided tours of heaven and hell -- The fear of death -- Life after death before there was life after death -- Will justice be done? : the rise of postmortem rewards and punishments -- Death after death in the Hebrew Bible -- Dead bodies that return to life : the resurrection in ancient Israel -- Why wait for the resurrection? : life after death right after death -- Jesus and the afterlife --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 236 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Discussion of how Christianity was shaped. Who exactly were the Apostolic Fathers? Why were they given that name? Most important, what windows into the shaping of Christianity's canon, church hierarchy, and creed are opened for us with an understanding of works that include the letters of 1 Clement or Ignatius, the Didache of the Apostles, or the Letter to Diognetus? Provides anwers to these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHREhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 1Call number: CD 230 EHR Part 2
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Summary: Provides a historical context to foster a fuller understanding of contemporary events and people in the New Testament. Discuses distinguishing characteristics between the Greco-Roman cults and Judaism and Christianity, Jesus as a historical figure, and each of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001