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John the Baptist in History and Theology
An analysis that challenges the conventional Christian hierarchy of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth While the Christian tradition has subordinated John the Baptist to Jesus of Nazareth, John himself would likely have disagreed with that ranking. In this eye-opening new book, John the Baptist in History and Theology, Joel Marcus makes a powerful case that John saw himself, not Jesus, as the proclaimer and initiator of the kingdom of God and his own ministry as the center of God's saving action in history. Although the Fourth Gospel has the Baptist saying, "He must increase, but I must decrease," Marcus contends that this and other biblical and extrabiblical evidence reveal a continuing...
The Magdalene
This is the story of Mary of Magdala, and her unique relationship with Jesus. She learns Jesus secret: he believes he must die to fulfill his calling as the Messiah. Can she accept this, and give him her strength? This is Marys story, but it is also the story of the man of Galilee, who loved people, healed them, died for them, and changed the face of the world.
Missing Relatives and Lost Friends
Researchers on the trail of elusive ancestors sometimes turn to 18th- and early 19th-century newspapers after exhausting the first tier of genealogical sources (i.e., census records, wills, deeds, marriages, etc.). Generally speaking, early newspapers are not indexed, so they require investigators to comb through them, looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. With his latest book, Robert Barnes has made one aspect of the aforementioned chore much easier. This remarkable book contains advertisements for missing relatives and lost friends from scores of newspapers published in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia, as well as a few from New York and the District of Columbia. The newspaper issues begin in 1719 (when the "American Weekly Mercury" began publication in Philadelphia) and run into the early 1800s. The author's comprehensive bibliography, in the Introduction to the work, lists all the newspapers and other sources he examined in preparing the book. The volume references 1,325 notices that chronicle the appearance or disappearance of 1,566 persons.
Forced Into Heaven's War
This book is a master-epic written for readers who enjoy an all-encompassing experience. The greatest war of all time is taking place among gods and demons- Zeus, Odin, Loki, the Christian God, Lucifer, Arachnid and many more- to which our heroes-John, Jasmine, Ho-Young and Marcus- are forced into. The thrilling and nail-biting adventures of our heroes into the mystical space of Labyrinth, where powers of Gods and Demigods do not work, begin when angel Michael reach our heroes, with mysterious ancestry, to fight on the side of the Christian God against Lucifer. Read this venture of a lifetime and keep a score yourself; see who wins.
The First Christmas
“Who could argue with the message the authors draw from the Bible’s Christmas stories? Light in the darkest time of the year, hope in a period of creeping despair—these are powerful and universal themes that can give everyone a stake in Christmas.” —USA Today In The First Christmas Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan—top Jesus scholars and authors of The Last Week—help us see the real Christmas story buried in the familiar Bible accounts. Basing their interpretations on the two nativity narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Borg and Crossan focus on the literal story—the inner truth rather than the historical facts—to offer a clear and uplifting message of hope and peace. With The First Christmas readers get a fresh, deep, and new understanding of the nativity story, enabling us to better appreciate the powerful message of the Gospels.
