People from the Bible
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0819214604
ISBN 13
9780819214607
Category
Bible
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Pages
180
Description
The men and women who fill the pages of the Bible are among the most familiar of all characters. Have you ever stopped to think what they might have looked like?
There are kings and generals, revolutionaries and wild-eyed visionaries. There are powerful queens and simple village women, businessmen and intellectuals, poets, priests and fishermen. Whatever their position, each had a distinctive personality and must have had a distinctive appearance.
In this book a group of talented portrait artists have combined the advice and academic knowledge of archaeologists and anthropologists, bible researchers and the observations of ancient historians with the author's expert insight into lives and deeds. The result is startling: this is probably the most authoritative interpretation ever made of how 100 unique people from the Bible might have appeared, men and women who were involved in the greatest story of all.
-100 superb portraits
-209 biographies of Old Testament people
-115 biographies of New Testament people
-Four maps showing the Biblical World in both Old and New Testament times
-An Index of over 800 people and places
This book is the product of a unique collaboration between artists and biblical experts. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of the people from the Bible.
The authors are renowned experts in biblical studies. The biographies which form the text are both factual and fascinating, and explain the actions and motives of each person in clear, modern English. The book itself has been arranged in biblical order to allow the reader to follow the story of the Bible from its simple beginnings through to the complex world of Palestine and the Roman Empire.
The Authors
Dr. Martin Woodrow is the pen-name of a well-known Hebrew scholar who lectures in Hebrew and Bible criticism at a major university in Britain. He works from original texts, and the translations quoted are his own.
Professor E.P. Sanders is the Dean of Ireland's Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford, and is also a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford and Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books on the New Testament and its setting in Judaism and is regarded as one of the world's leading New Testament scholars.
Taken from the inside flaps.
There are kings and generals, revolutionaries and wild-eyed visionaries. There are powerful queens and simple village women, businessmen and intellectuals, poets, priests and fishermen. Whatever their position, each had a distinctive personality and must have had a distinctive appearance.
In this book a group of talented portrait artists have combined the advice and academic knowledge of archaeologists and anthropologists, bible researchers and the observations of ancient historians with the author's expert insight into lives and deeds. The result is startling: this is probably the most authoritative interpretation ever made of how 100 unique people from the Bible might have appeared, men and women who were involved in the greatest story of all.
-100 superb portraits
-209 biographies of Old Testament people
-115 biographies of New Testament people
-Four maps showing the Biblical World in both Old and New Testament times
-An Index of over 800 people and places
This book is the product of a unique collaboration between artists and biblical experts. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to have a better understanding of the people from the Bible.
The authors are renowned experts in biblical studies. The biographies which form the text are both factual and fascinating, and explain the actions and motives of each person in clear, modern English. The book itself has been arranged in biblical order to allow the reader to follow the story of the Bible from its simple beginnings through to the complex world of Palestine and the Roman Empire.
The Authors
Dr. Martin Woodrow is the pen-name of a well-known Hebrew scholar who lectures in Hebrew and Bible criticism at a major university in Britain. He works from original texts, and the translations quoted are his own.
Professor E.P. Sanders is the Dean of Ireland's Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford, and is also a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford and Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books on the New Testament and its setting in Judaism and is regarded as one of the world's leading New Testament scholars.
Taken from the inside flaps.
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