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  • The First Family

    Innocence, Awareness, Estrangement, and the Nature of Eden

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    Series series Natus Books
    The Biblical story of Eden is one of innocence, suffering, estrangement, displacement, self-consciousness, awakening, and separation. But it is also a story of hope, about the gaining wisdom and self-knowledge. It is about the costs of maturation and a reckoning with our own mortality. In THE FIRST FAMILY, author Bruce Chilton presents a vision of a near, knowable Eden, an Eden that may have been ... Read more

    $11.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Herods

    Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel. Although he ruled over a rich, strategically crucial land, his royal title did not derive from heredity. His family came from the people of Idumea, ancient antagonists of the Israelites.Yet Herod did not rule as an outsider, but from a family committed to Judaism going back ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Berenice

    Queen in Roman Judea

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    Series series Ancient Lives
    The life story of the Judean queen Berenice, descendant of Herod the Great, who became a player on the stage of Roman conquest and politicsBerenice (born ca. 28) was the most notorious Jewish woman in the Roman Empire of her time. Multiple marriages, rumors of incestuous relations with her brother (Agrippa II of the Herodian dynasty), and her scandalous liaison with Titus, the Roman general and ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Forgotten Compass

    Marcel Jousse and the Exploration of the Oral World

    Edited by Werner H. Kelber, Bruce D. Chilton ...
    Series Book 19 - Biblical Performance Criticism
    As form criticism arose, the French anthropologist Marcel Jousse developed a hermeneutical paradigm, global in scope and prescient in its vision but opposed to the philological paradigm of biblical studies. While the philological methodology came to define modernity's biblical hermeneutics, Jousse's rhythmically energized paradigm was marginalized and largely forgotten. Although Jousse has left ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary Magdalene

    A Biography

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance in Christianity.Throughout history, Mary Magdalene has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms—witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, the devoted companion (and ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Rabbi Paul

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    A brilliant new biography of Saint Paul, whose interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus transformed a loosely organized, grassroots peasant movement into the structured religion we know todayWithout Paul, there would be no Christianity. His letters to various churches scattered throughout the Roman Empire articulated, for the first time, the beliefs that make up the heart of Christian ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Aramaic Jesus

    Tradition, Identity, and Christianity's Mother Tongue

    by Bruce D. Chilton ...
    Aramaic, one of the great international languages of antiquity, left an indelible mark on the New Testament. Jesus and his first followers knew it because for centuries Aramaic had been a primary means of communication in the Middle East, and it remained current long after their time. Usage of Aramaic within Jesus’ movement, initially with or without recourse to other languages, helped provide the ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Abraham's Curse

    The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    "When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son..." --The Book of GenesisThe story of Abraham's acceptance of God's command to sacrifice his son Isaac is one of the most disturbing of all biblical ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Rabbi Jesus

    An Intimate Biography

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    Beginning with the Gospels, interpretations of the life of Jesus have flourished for nearly two millennia, yet a clear and coherent picture of Jesus as a man has remained elusive. In Rabbi Jesus, the noted biblical scholar Bruce Chilton places Jesus within the context of his times to present a fresh, historically accurate, and revolutionary examination of the man who founded Christianity.Drawing ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Christianity: The Basics

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    Series series The Basics
    Christianity: The Basics is a compelling introduction to both the central pillars of the Christian faith and the rich and varied history of this most global of global religions. This book traces the development of Christianity through an exploration of some of the key beliefs, practices and emotions which have been recurrent symbols through the centuries:Christ, the kingdom of heaven and ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse

    The Philosophy of Religious Argument

    by Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner ...
    The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse argues that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their own purposes and tasks, Greek philosophical modes of thought and argument. The authors explore how the earliest intellectuals of Christianity and Judaism shaped a tradition of articulated conflict and reasoned argument in the search for religious ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Judaism in the New Testament

    Practices and Beliefs

    by Bruce Chilton, Jacob Neusner ...
    Judaism in the New Testament explains how the writings of the early church emerged from communities which defined themselves in Judaic terms even as they professed faith in Christ. These two extremely distinguished scholars introduce readers to the plurality of Judaisms of the period. They show, by examining a variety of texts, how the major figures of the New Testament reflect distinctly Judaic ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD