The Cultural World of the Bible: An Illustrated Guide to Manners and Customs 4th Edition
In this new edition of a successful book (over 120,000 copies sold), now updated throughout, a leading expert on the social world of the Bible offers students a reliable guide to the manners and customs of the ancient world. From what people wore, ate, and built to how they exercised justice, mourned, and viewed family and legal customs, this illustrated introduction helps readers gain valuable cultural background on the biblical world. The attractive, full-color, user-friendly design will appeal to students, while numerous pedagogical features--including fifty photos, sidebars, callouts, maps, charts, a glossary of key terms, chapter outlines, and discussion questions--increase classroom utility. Previously published as Manners and Customs in the Bible.
2. Manners and Customs in the Bible: Revised Edition
• How did the Exile change Israel's religious life?
• Why would Lot even think of throwing his daughters to a mob?• What exactly were the differences between Herodians, Sadducees, Pharisees, and Essenes?
Lots of questions crop up when you read the Bible. For answers, you need insight into the Bible's culture, its people and how they lived.
What people wore, what they ate, what they built, how they exercised justice, how they mourned, how they viewed family and legal customs-all are "manners and customs" and all vary from period to period throughout Israel's history.
Fortunately, this book is a lot more than just nice pictures-although there are a lot of those, too. Each chapter furnishes an introduction to the political and physical setting of the period in Israel's history and outlines the basic structure of its social world. Then specific scenes drawn from the biblical text are studied in a way that sheds light on the daily life of the people of that time. Drawing from a variety of sources to recreate the society of ancient Israel-extrabiblical sources and archaeological data as well as the biblical text itself-Dr. Matthews helps the reader to see the ancient world of Israel as never before. Once seen in this way, it will never look the same again.
Now in a new, revised edition, Dr. Matthews offers even more helpful insights into the biblical world. Over a hundred Scripture passages have been placed alongside the text to complement the discussion and to keep the relevant biblical passages in view. More than twenty new illustrations and photos help to give an even better "feel" for the world of Abraham, David, Jesus, and Paul.
The New Manners and Customs of Bible Times
A classic resource on biblical cultures---now even better! This updated edition features a reader-friendly format with colorful photography and artwork; detailed maps, diagrams, and charts; Bible review sections at the end of each chapter; Scripture and topic indexes; and even helpful tips for visits to the Holy Land.
Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary: New and Enhanced Edition
Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary is the most comprehensive and up-to-date Bible dictionary available. With a fresh new look and updated photographs, this new and enhanced edition is a wealth of basic study information with more than 7,000 entries plus more than 500 full-color photographs, maps, and pronunciation guides.
Features include:
- Cross-references to major translations
- More than 7,000 up-to-date entries
- More than 500 full-color photographs and maps
- Enlarged type size for easier reading
- Visual Survey of the Bible from The Open Bible
Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Manners And Customs How The People Of The Bible Really Lived
The most comprehensive, up-to-date, accurate information on life in Bible times available in one volume for the general reader. How the peope of the Bible really lived. Traces everyday Bible life from Geness to Revelation. More than 400 full color and black & white photographs.
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