Religion / Biblical Studies

Bible Code II: The Countdown

by Michael Drosnin

The Bible code-the ancient code encrypted in the Bible that may reveal our future-was made known to the world by investigative reporter Michael Drosnin. Now he reveals startling new predictions warning that...

What Jesus Meant

by Garry Wills

In what are billed “culture wars,” people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Garry Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program. He was far more...

The Genesis Enigma: Why the First Book of the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate

by Andrew Parker

"The single Darwinian bicentenary publication most liable to reconcile religion and science."

-Booklist (starred review)

Andrew Parker is known within the scientific community as the man who best explained...

That's in the Bible?: The Ultimate Learn-As-You-Play Bible Quiz Book

by Wick Allison

This engaging, easy-to-use, and fun guide to learning more about the Bible features hundreds of questions and detailed, frequently surprising answers organized in the form of the Good Book itself. It is filled...

What Paul Meant

by Garry Wills

All through history, Christians have debated Paul s influence on the church. Though revered, Paul has also been a stone on which many stumble. Apocryphal writings by Peter and James charge Paul, in the second...

Biblical Literacy: The Most Important People, Events, and Ideas of the Hebrew Bible

by Joseph Telushkin

As he did so brilliantly in his bestselling book, jewish literacy,Joseph Teluslikin once again mines a subject of, Jewish history and religion so richly that his book becomes an inspiring companion and a fundamental...

Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire

by Jennifer Wright Knust

Bible scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addresses the big questions that dominate today's discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible: Is premarital sex a sin? When, and in what contexts, is sexual...

Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time

by Kristin Swenson

Based on the most recent scholarship, Bible Babel is a lively and very readable introduction to the Bible—what it is, where it comes from, and what's in it.

Why does the film Magnolia end in a downpour of frogs?...

A Pilgrim's Guide to Rome and Assisi: With Other Italian Shrines

by Raymond Goodburn

This book in the Pilgrim's Guide series includes thorough descriptions of all the pre-Christian and Christian eras, as well as dealing with the wealth of art and architecture that present-day tourists in Rome...

A Pilgrim's Guide to The Holy Land: Israel and Jordan

by Raymond Goodburn

This is the third edition of this popular guide book to the biblical sites in both Israel and Jordan. It has been revised and rewritten, with new pictures, illustrations, maps, and plans. The Pilgrim Books team...

The First to Follow: The Apostles of Jesus

by John R. Claypool

This book is about those apostles, their relationships with Jesus, and with each other, and what the dynamics of that community can teach us.

Where God Was Born

by Bruce Feiler

At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the...

Biblical Literacy

by Timothy K. Beal & Timothy Beal

Whether watching political candidates quote Jesus or tracking court cases on how the stories of Adam and Eve should be taught in schools, we are surrounded by the legacy of the Bible in our contemporary world....

Jesus

by John Dominic Crossan

The Controversial, Bestselling Account of What We Can Know About the Life of Jesus

Friendships of Purpose: A Shared Study of Ephesians

by Edna Ellison

An interactive Bible study that reveals the remarkable blessings available to believers and the gifts and heritage of God's children. Readers will also explore how they can, in response to the blessings, walk...

Four Horsemen, Four Hearts: Responding to the Gospel in Revelation 6

by Paul Haynes & Curtis Ritttenour

Set one object beside another of a similar color and it has one appearance. Set it beside an object of a different color and it seems to transform in appearance. Author Paul Haynes lays two sets of biblical...

The Gospel of Thomas

by Marvin Meyer & Marvin W. Meyer

A fresh, authoritative English translation, with an informative introduction, fascinating explanatory notes, and the Coptic text, with interpretation by Harold Bloom, our pre–eminent literary critic.

The Gospels of Mary

by Marvin Meyer, Esther A. De Boer & Marvin W. Meyer

Mary Magdalene, Jesus's Closest Disciple

Marvin Meyer, one of the foremost scholars of the Gnostic Gospels:

• translates and introduces the Gnostic and New Testament texts that together reveal the story and importance...

Good As New: A Radical Retelling of the Scriptures

by John Henson

This radical new translation conveys the early Christian scriptures in the idiom of today. It follows principles of cultural and contextual translation, and returns to the selection of books the the early Church...

The Jews of North Africa: From Dido to De Gaulle

by Sarah Taieb-Carlen & Amos Carlen

This book explores the history of North African Jews, detailing the Islamic conquest of 698 and life under French colonization from 1830 to 1962, and explaining the effects of these rules on the Jewish population....