The theme of ‘The Book of Job’ is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight. Now, ‘The Book of Job’ has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli poetry, and the ‘Tao Te Ching’ have been widely praised. This is the first time ever that the Hebrew verse of Job has been translated into verse in any language, ancient or modern, and the result is a triumph..
Category: Bible
The 10 Commandments: The Significance of God’s Laws in Everyday Life
The Ten Commandments are the first direct communication between a people and God. Designed to elevate our lives above mere frantic, animal existence to the sublime levels humanity is capable or experiencing, they are the blueprint of God’s expectations of us and His plan for a meaningful, just, loving, and holy life. Each commandment asserts a principle, and each principle is a moral focal point for real-life issues relating to God, family, sex, work, charity, property, speech, and thought. Written in collaboration with Rabbi Stewart Vogel, the book incorporates lively discussion of the Bible and the Judeo-Christian values derived from it. Filled with passion, emotion, and profound insights, it will move, enlighten, inspire, entertain, and educate you on the meaning each commandment has in our daily lives..
Reversed Thunder : The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus
In this fresh and masterful translation, Marvin Meyer presents one of the world’s best-loved sacred texts. Honed over the last twenty years through a dozen versions, Meyer’s Thomas promises to remain the definitive translation for decades to come. Widely regarded by scholars as containing many of the original sayings of Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945 among the gnostic texts at Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Reportedly dictated by Jesus to his brother, Judas Thomas the Twin, founder of the churches of the East, Thomas reveals a Jesus who merges with the wisdom of the sophists, with Diogenes, Plato, and Socrates. In his interpretation, Harold Bloom writes about the Jesus who touches him, the uncanny voice he hears in the Gospel of Thomas, free of the dogmatic cast that has held Jesus in ecclesiastical captivity since the canonical Gospels were written. ‘Seeing what is before you is the whole art of vision for Thomas’s Jesus’, he writes. ‘Nothing mediates the self for the Jesus of the Gospel of Thomas. Everything we seek is already in our presence, and not outside our self. What is most remarkable in these sayings is the repeated insistence that everything is already open to you. You need but knock and enter’. Through Marvin Meyer’s lucid rendering of Christ’s Zen master-like sayings we witness a gospel that, as Bloom puts it, ‘spares us the crucifixion, makes the resurrection unnecessary, and does not present us with a God named Jesus. No dogmas could be founded upon this sequence (if it is a sequence) of apothegms. If you turn to the Gospel of Thomas, you encounter a Jesus who is unsponsored and free’..
Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth
The Niv Harmony of the Gospels: With Explanations and Essays : Using the Text of the New International Version
Who Wrote The Bible?
Focusing on the central books of the Old TestamentGenesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and DeuteronomyBible scholar Richard Elliott Friedman draws upon archeological evidence to make a convincing argument for the identities of their various authors. In the process he paints a vivid picture of the world of the Bible, its politcs, history, and personalities. Indispensable reading for scholar and general reader alike..