Jefferson, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 232.901 SPOSummary: Have you ever had a burning question that seemed off limits or inappropriate to ask about Christianity, the Bible, or Jesus? You Can't Ask That! gathers 50 of the most provocative, challenging, or otherwise taboo questions that many of us have wondered about but few have actually asked. Edited by Christian Piatt, who once had a bible thrown at his head for asking too many questions during a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chalice Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 YOULoveday, Simon
Summary: 'The Bible for Grown-Ups' neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible - a book that is too large to swallow whole, yet too important in our history and culture to spit out. Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew's account of the birth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 LOVBorg, Marcus J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.61 BORSchmid, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 SCHAsimov, Isaac
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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,...
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Bible is far from boring, but sometimes it can feel that way to kids. Spark their excitement for God's Word with this craze-mazing collection of infographic spreads designed to make the Bible come alive for kids and adults alike. These colorful creations visually depict the key concepts, important people, and most unusual facts from the Bible in a new and exciting way."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest Kids/Harvest House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 220.6 BIBPlotz, David.
Contents: Genesis: God's first try -- Exodus: Let my complaining, whining, no-goodnik people go! -- Leviticus: Lovers and lepers -- Numbers: the source of all Jewish comedy -- Deuteronomy: The Bible's 5th Beatle -- Joshua: Why so many Bible hookers? -- Judges: The meathead and the left-handed assassin -- 1 Samuel: The Bible's Bill Clinton -- 2 Samuel: God's favorite king -- 1 Kings: Kings of pain -- 2...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 221.6 PLOSpong, John Shelby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.601 SPOSummary: Penn and Teller debunk a number of dubious enterprises, including PETA, the war on drugs, the myth of monogamy, twelve-step programs, the FCC's crusade against profanity, the New Age movement, the anti-aging industry, recycling, Biblical claims, the exercise industry, and hypnosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENBrown, William P.
Summary: All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life’s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine. But William Brown argues that if read properly, what the Bible does most fundamentally is arouse a sacred sense of life-transforming wonder. In this book Brown helps readers develop an orientation toward the biblical text that embraces wonder. He explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 BROJacobs, A. J.
Summary: Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220 JACCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 220 JacGomes, Peter J.
Summary: The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today from the preacher to Harvard University, a man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America. "The theme of this book," writes Peter Gomes in his introduction, "is the risk and the joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh. It is around this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 GOMMacArthur, John
Contents: Observing how God cares for you -- Avoiding anxiety through prayer -- Casting your cares on God -- Living a life of faith and trust -- Knowing others are looking out for you -- Dealing with problem people -- Having peace in every circumstance -- Doing all things without complaining -- Learning to be content -- Appendix: Psalms for the anxious -- Discussion guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C Cook 2012
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Summary: Welcome to A.S.K - Ask. Seek. Knock. We all have questions about Jesus, the Bible, the Christian faith and our culture today. The great news is that Jesus gives answers. These questions were gathered from teenagers in fifteen countries in five different continents. All of them are real questions from real teenagers. 52 short chapters. Each contains a question, a Bible passage, a Bible verse, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CF4K 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 248.83 ROBWildman, Terry M.
Summary: Terry Wildman writes of a justice long-denied, not only for Native peoples who have suffered the loss of lands, livelihood, and life as the American empire spread across the continent, but also for those who struggle for life and liberty to this very day. Like the prophets of Israel, he seeks to correct our eyesight-to set before us God's vision and God's truth and to expose things that we, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Great Thunder Publishing 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 WILLevine, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 LEVNikondeha, Kelley
Summary: "Looking back to the women of Exodus as well as to women around the world today, this book presents a paradigm for women that highlights the biblical mandate to join the liberation work in our world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 222.12 NIKCline, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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Contents: Jesus and Judaism -- From Jewish sect to gentile church -- The New Testament and anti-Judaism -- Stereotyping Judaism -- With friends like these -- Distinct canons; distinct practices -- Quo vadis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl 2014