Product Description: In the centuries around the beginning of the Common Era, both the Jewish faith and the early Christian church drew upon a wealth of spiritual stories and sacred writings that were nonetheless never included in the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament...read more

Product Description: From his miraculous birth to his death on the cross, this comprehensive and vivid account fully chronicles the life of Jesus Christ and traces the changing interpretations of his roles as teacher and prophet, revolutionary and mystic...read more

Product Description: Transmitting the essence of the sacred scriptures and the New Testament, this version of the Bible uses several illustrations of the main themes and scenes, from creation to the apocalypse. The rigorous, objective, and accessible explanations highlight the historical, social, archaeological, and mythical contexts of the greatest story ever told...read more

Product Description: A work of challenging profundity, charged with the deepest emotions and containing some of the most compelling stories ever told, the Bible has had an immeasurable impact on Western culture. For countless generations, it has been a powerful means of spiritual guidance, an unmatched source of inspiration to artists, a comfort in suffering, and a focal point for reflection on the mysteries of life...read more

Product Description: In the years leading up to the Common Era, the Jewish people drew faith from hundreds of sacred writings, many of which claimed to contain the words of prophets, kings and patriarchs—even Adam. Similarly, the early Christians produced a wealth of texts that the established Church dismissed or branded heretical: they range from legends about the boy Jesus to the mystical Gnostic gospels...read more

Amazon.com Review: Jesus Christ: The Jesus of History, The Christ of Faith by J.R. Porter is a beautifully illustrated overview of Jesus' life, social and political context, and teachings, and the variety of ways Jesus' contemporaries and later followers have interpreted his significance...read more

In the centuries around the beginning of the Common Era, the Jewish people drew faith and inspiration from hundreds of sacred writings. Many of the texts claimed to be the very words written by prophets, kings and patriarchs - even Adam himself. This is a collection of these ancient texts, pairing translated extracts with commentaries.

Product Description: The Bible has had an immeasurable impact on Western culture. The New Illustrated Companion to the Bible distills the essence of this great work in 350 beautiful color illustrations, commentaries on the major stories, places, characters and events of the Bible, from the Garden of Eden and the suffering of Job to the Last Supper and the Book of Revelation...read more

A treasury of profound and beautiful scriptures not included in the Bible - from awesome visions of the future to vivid accounts of the 'missing years' of Jesus

Product Description: First published in 1991. Nutrition is a major environmental factor in regulating plant growth, and is therefore of significant practical concern to agriculturalists and ecologists. In order to achieve efficient plant production, it is essential to gain a full understanding of the basic principles underlying the three-way interaction between the plant, its nutrition and its environment...read more