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Product: Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner's Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven
Brand: Abingdon Press
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Product: The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
Description: The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture’s beauty and power.
Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross.

Comparing various interpretations – historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible’s ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.
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Product: Light of the World Leader Guide: A Beginner's Guide to Advent
Description: In Light of the World: A Beginner’s Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the story of the birth of Jesus. Join her as she traces the Christmas narrative through the stories of Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary, the journey to Bethlehem, and the visit from the Magi. These stories open conversations around connections of the Gospel stories to the Old Testament, the role of women in first-century Jewish culture, the importance of Mary’s visitation and the revolutionary implications of Mary’s Magnificat, the census and the stable, and the star of Bethlehem and the flight to Egypt.
The Leader Guide contains everything needed to guide a group through the four-week study including session plans, activities, and discussion questions, as well as multiple format options.
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Product: A Very Big Problem
Brand: Flyaway Books
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Product: Who Is My Neighbor?
Brand: Westminster John Knox Press
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Product: Spiritual Direction 101: The Basics of Spiritual Guidance
Brand: Apocryphile Press
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Product: Maybe God Is Like That Too
Brand: Sparkhouse Family
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Product: Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent
Brand: Abingdon Press
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Product: Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
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Product: The New Testament: Methods and Meanings
Brand: Abingdon Press
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Product: Who Counts?: 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons
Brand: Westminster John Knox Press
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Product: The Gospel of Luke (New Cambridge Bible Commentary)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Product: The New Testament You Never Knew Study Guide with DVD: Exploring the Context, Purpose, and Meaning of the Story of God
Brand: Zondervan
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Product: The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Brand: Oxford University Press
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Product: The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
Brand: HarperOne
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Product: Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner's Guide to Holy Week
Brand: Abingdon Press
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