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Author
Publisher
Deseret Book Company
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Focuses on some of the remarkable women of the Old Testament whose struggles and life situations are not unlike the women of today. Features full-color illustrations that reveal something about each woman's life and the customs associated with her culture as well as a "Points to Ponder" section at the end of each chapter.
Author
Language
English
Description
The author recalls how, after becoming very familiar with the Biblical Old Testament in its original Hebrew growing up, an encounter with an English language version led her on a ten-year project of examining various translations of the Old Testament andtheir histories.
Author
Series
Women of Genesis volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In Sarah, author Orson Scott Card uses his fertile imagination and uncanny insight into human nature to flesh out a unique woman—one who is beautiful, tough, smart, and resourceful in an era when women get short shrift in life as well as in the historical record. Sarah takes on vivid reality as a woman desirable to kings, a devoted wife, and a faithful follower of the God of Abraham, chosen to experience an incomparable miracle. Set in the
...Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (231 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Egypt and the Sinai with one of the biggest sets ever constructed for a motion picture, this epic tells the story of the life of Moses. Once favored in the Pharaoh's household, Moses turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom.
7) Jonah
Author
Language
English
Description
When most people think about the book of Jonah, they think about a children's story. Others think about a story they've heard so many times there could not possibly be anything new to learn from it. Well strap in, because this study is designed to prove all those assumptions wrong!
In the book of Jonah we find a professional holy man, a lifer in the faith who is about to have the God he thinks he understands challenge him with an assignment that...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
133 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
BYU professor Dr. Kerry Muhlestein encourages readers to discover the eternal principles hidden in the pages of the Old Testament and come to understand this important truth: our Father in Heaven is a God of love, and He will patiently guide His lost sheep back into the fold.--
9) Moses
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retells the story of Moses, from his birth and trip in a boat of bulrushes to his bringing of the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai.
10) Bondage: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
A retelling of events that leads to Moses's flight into the wilderness.
11) Abide in Christ
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in 1888, "Abide in Christ" is Andrew Murray's beautiful and inspiring spiritual guide to a deeper and more meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ. While born in South Africa in 1828, as Murray's father was a Dutch Reformed Church missionary sent from Scotland, Murray grew up educated in Scotland and later the Netherlands. He returned to South Africa in 1848 after his ordination, pastored several churches all over South Africa, and was an...
Author
Series
Biblical Novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna the Prophetess is the dramatic chronicle of the only woman to be called prophetess in the scriptures. When Anna's great-niece Julia is exiled to Jerusalem as punishment for her refusal to marry a man old enough to be her father, Anna shares the story of her early days of courtship with her husband. Although Julia's parents admonished her to observe firsthand how lonely Anna's life is, Julia instead discovers that her great-aunt's life is far...
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Series
Language
English
Description
This volume, a part of the Old Testament Library series, explores the books of Ezra and Nehemiah
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
Author
Language
English
Description
Isaiah's servant songs reveal a true and better Adam
In Charged with the Glory of God, Caroline Batchelder provides a synchronic, theological, and canonical reading of the four Servant Songs in Isaiah (42:1–9; 49:1–13; 50:3–11; 52:13–53:12), showing how they relate to one another and the message of the prophetic book.
Reading Isaiah as a compositional unity in conversation with other texts such as Genesis results in a coherent presentation...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This book, a volume in the Old Testament Library series, explores the books of Haggai and Zechariah.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Justice, only justice" is Deuteronomy's terse summary of what Yahweh requires of the people of God. What Deuteronomy reveals is that the competence to be God's people, to know God, and to do God's will comes only through hearing the transforming Word of God in Scripture.
Deuteronomy sets the scene for hearing God's Word in the wilderness as Moses addresses a new, in-between generation of "all Israel." The people of God are no longer in Egypt, nor...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Life and Witness of Jeremiah introduces the general reader to the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah. As such it provides an overall sketch of his life and times and serves as a portal into his thought world.
Jeremiah is among the most eloquent and passionate prophets in the Hebrew Bible. For readers who enjoy evocative poetry and harrowing accounts of near-death experiences, Jeremiah merits careful reading. One of the primary purposes in writing this book...
Author
Language
English
Description
Get to grips with one of the least-read and least-understood parts of the Old Testament with this helpful study of the Minor Prophets
CHAPTER ONE: HOSEA- ISRAEL'S UNFAITHFULNESS AND GOD'S FAITHFUL LOVE
CHAPTER TWO: HOSEA- LOVE BEYOND DEGREE
CHAPTER THREE: HOSEA- BOOK OF SALVATION
CHAPTER FOUR: JOEL- THE PROPHET OF THE DAY OF THE LORD
CHAPTER FIVE: JOEL- WHY DOES GOD ALLOW IT?
CHAPTER SIX: AMOS- SCOURGE OF THE COMPLACENT
CHAPTER SEVEN: AMOS- MAN'S...
Author
Language
English
Description
This excellent source on one of the most important prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible is a commentary that is succinct, yet thorough in covering the whole book with attention to literary and hermeneutical issues in a rather straightforward way. Carol Dempsey takes her readers on an informative and insightful study of the book of Isaiah and discusses how Isaiah was God's poet of light. He was there to shed light on the injustices of his time, give...
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