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  • The First Family

    Innocence, Awareness, Estrangement, and the Nature of Eden

    by Bruce Chilton ...
    Series series Natus Books
    Explore the timeless story of Eden and its profound impact on humanity.In The First Family, Bruce Chilton delves into the biblical narrative of Eden, examining its themes of innocence, suffering, and self-discovery. Chilton presents a compelling vision of Eden as not merely a lost paradise, but a knowable reality that continues to shape our understanding of ourselves and our relationship with the ... 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

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $30.79 CAD

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • The Way of Jesus

    To Repair and Renew the World

    by Bruce D. Chilton ...
    The way of Jesus means that despite our tears and scars, we can become vessels of divine light.A young man loses his wife while their baby escapes without injury. In abject grief he reaches out to a friend for solace. What words of comfort are even possible? How can Jesus repair and renew these lives in this world?Author Bruce Chilton begins in the everyday. He shows how following Jesus not only ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Resurrection Logic

    How Jesus' First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead

    by Bruce D. Chilton ...
    Death does not speak the final word. Resurrection does. Christianity stands or falls with this central confession: God raised Jesus from the dead.Bruce Chilton investigates the Easter event of Jesus in Resurrection Logic. He undertakes his close reading of the New Testament texts without privileging the exact nature of the resurrection, but rather begins by situating his study of the resurrection ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Visions of the Apocalypse

    Receptions of John's Revelation in Western Imagination

    by Bruce D. Chilton ...
    John's Revelation has led to countless diverse and divergent interpretations. Readers' cryptic notions of violent end-time scenarios, strict prophetic truths, and encouragement for the faithful have undeniably colored the book's reception through the centuries. In Visions of the Apocalypse, Bruce Chilton maps the ways in which the text has been read through the centuries and introduces these main ... Read more

    $38.49 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