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Line in the Sand
Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2012
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149 kr
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‘The very grubby coalface of foreign policy … I found the entire book most horribly addictive’ Independent‘One of the unexpected responses to reading this masterful study is amazement at the efforts the British and French each put into undermining the other’ SpectatorA fascinating insight into the …
Empires of faith : the history of the middle east
Av Raina Abouzeid, Jon B. Alterman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
285 kr
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Mellanöstern har alltid varit en central plats för handel och erövringar. Läget har medfört enorma rikedomar, kulturellt utbyte och intellektuell vitalitet – men också konflikter, instabilitet och ihållande geopolitiska spänningar. Att förstå regionens förflutna är avgörande för att förstå dess …
Empires of Faith
Av Mark Ronan, Ali Ansari m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
139 kr
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The Middle East has always been a central site for trade and conquests. Its location has brought enormous wealth, cultural exchange and intellectual vitality – but also conflicts, instability and enduring political tensions. Understanding the region’s past is crucial to understanding the present …
History and Ideology in the Old Testament
Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium
Av James Barr
E-bok, 2000
413 kr
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The end of the millennium sees biblical study in a state of transition. The traditional position of historical approaches is widely questioned and `historical criticism'' is regarded as passé. There is a search for approaches - literary or sociological - that are less tied to history. On the other …
Holy Scripture
Canon, Authority, Criticism
Av James Barr
Häftad, 1983
821 kr
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The Sprunt Lectures delivered at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, February 1982. The men of the Bible did not themselves have a Bible to be their supreme guide and authority. This book discusses the way in which the canon of scripture was formed and the effects that it has.
Biblical Faith and Natural Theology
The Gifford Lectures for 1991: Delivered in the University of Edinburgh
Av James Barr
Häftad, 1994
1811 kr
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Do people know about God just by being human beings? Or do they need special divine assistance, through the Bible and the church? `Natural Theology' is the idea that human beings `by nature', that is just through being human, know something of God; or that perhaps they gain such knowledge from …
History and Ideology in the Old Testament
Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium
Av James Barr
Inbunden, 2000
2810 kr
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The end of the millennium sees biblical study in a state of transition. The traditional position of historical approaches is widely questioned and 'historical criticism' is regarded as passé. There is a search for approaches literary or sociological that are less tied to history. On the other hand …
History and Ideology in the Old Testament
Biblical Studies at the End of a Millennium
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2005
839 kr
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The end of the millennium sees biblical study in a state of transition. The traditional position of historical approaches is widely questioned and `historical criticism' is regarded as passé. There is a search for approaches - literary or sociological - that are less tied to history. On the other …
Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr
Volume I: Interpretation and Theology
Inbunden, 2013
2899 kr
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This is the first volume of a three volume collection which collates the most important published papers of James Barr (1924-2006). The papers deal with questions of theology (especially biblical theology), biblical interpretation and ideas about biblical inspiration and authority, and questions to …
Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr
Volume II: Biblical Studies
Inbunden, 2013
3269 kr
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This is the second volume of three volume collection which collates the most important published papers of James Barr (1924-2006). The papers deal with questions of theology (especially biblical theology), biblical interpretation and ideas about biblical inspiration and authority, and questions to …
Bible and Interpretation: The Collected Essays of James Barr
Volume III: Linguistics and Translation
Inbunden, 2014
2899 kr
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This is the third volume of a three volume collection which collates the most important published papers of James Barr (1924-2006). The papers deal with questions of theology (especially biblical theology), biblical interpretation and ideas about biblical inspiration and authority, and questions to …
Bible in the Modern World
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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The problems which Professor Barr examines have been borne in upon him over the years as a teacher of Old Testament to theological students, but more recently by active participation in a variety of international and ecumenical colloquia where the Bible as a whole has been under discussion... As we …
Escaping from Fundamentalism
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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This is a pastoral rather than a controversial book. Its main aim is not to show fundamentalists that they are wrong, but rather to help those who have grown up in the world of fundamentalism or have become committed to it but in the end have come to feel that it is a prison from which they must …
Fundamentalism
Av James Barr
Häftad, 1981
473 kr
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James Barr has never been an uncontroversial writer, and this book, eirenic though its purpose was, has proved no exception. It was widely noticed on its first appearance and led to a lively discussion, not least in evangelical circles. At the same time it was welcomed by reviewers as an important …
Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality
The Read-Tuckwell Lectures for 1990
Av James Barr
Inbunden, 2012
286 kr
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In this book, Professor Barr presents a reading of the story of the Garden of Eden, not as a tale of the origins of sin and death, but as a tale of a chance of immortality, briefly accessible to humanity but quickly lost. Old Testament scholars have long been aware that the traditional reading of …
Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2012
422 kr
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This book applies, in a more specialist area, a similar treatment to that used by Professor Barr in The Semantics of Biblical Language, and like the earlier volume criticizes much of previous scholarship. In recent Old Testament studies, increasing reliance has been placed on the resources of …
Semantics of Biblical Language
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2012
413 kr
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Behind the academic and innocently descriptive title of this book is to be found one of the most explosive works of biblical scholarship to be published this century. Certainly many of those who read it on its first appearance were never the same again, and it signalled the end of what had hitherto …
Scope and Authority of the Bible
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2002
381 kr
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This volume brings together seven essays which are representative of the author's style, approach to and outlook on contemporary biblical topics. Characterized throughout by openness of thought and iconoclasm, this collection serves as an introduction to one of the most important issues - the …
Concept of Biblical Theology
An Old Testament Perspective
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2003
667 kr
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Barr views Old Testament theology and New Testament theology as sub-sections of 'biblical theology' as opposed to 'doctrinal' or 'philosophical' theology. e Barr guides the reader through the various supportive and opposing arguments with his own conclusion that elements of biblical theology still …
Biblical Words for Time
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2012
381 kr
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A comprehensive study of word studies around time and eternity in Hebrew and Greek.
Setting the Desert on Fire
T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2009
289 kr
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T. E. Lawrence’s classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom made the Arab revolt a legend and helped turn him into the mythical “Lawrence of Arabia.” Setting the Desert on Fire is both a masterly account of the intrigue behind the revolt and its startling consequences for the present-day Middle East and a …
Line in the Sand – The Anglo–French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914–1948
The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2013
426 kr
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In the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region between them to the birth of Israel, A Line in the Sand is a gripping narrative of the last gasp of …
Setting the Desert on Fire
T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-18
Av James Barr
Häftad, 2007
207 kr
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_______________‘Packs as much punch as one of Lawrence's train-blowing explosives' - Sunday Times‘Barr's cogent, vividly written book puts Lawrence centre stage but does not lose sight of the uprising's larger historical context' - Financial Times‘[Barr] introduces fresh materials to give new …
Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament
Av James Barr
Inbunden, 2001
711 kr
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In this expanded version of James Barr’s classic work, three additional articles by the author are added. They are (1) “Philology and Exegesis: Some General Remarks, with Illustrations from Job,” (2) “Ugaritic and Hebrew sbm?” and (3) “Limitations of Etymology as a Lexicographical Instrument in …
Correct and Authentic Narrative of the Indian war in Florida
With a Description of Maj. Dade's Massacre, and an Account of the Extreme Suffering, for Want of Provision, of the Army--having Been Obliged to eat Horses' and Dogs' Flesh, &c, &c
Av James Barr
Inbunden, 2023
342 kr
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Setting the Desert on Fire
T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-18
Av James Barr
E-bok, 2011
169 kr
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_______________ ''Packs as much punch as one of Lawrence''s train-blowing explosives'' - Sunday Times ''Barr''s cogent, vividly written book puts Lawrence centre stage but does not lose sight of the uprising''s larger historical context'' - Financial Times ''[Barr] introduces fresh materials to …
