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The story of the destruction of Sodom and its sister city of Gomorrah is of compelling interest today because of the current debate in the churches over homosexuality. In the course of this debate, these two chapters of Genesis have been degraded from a story of God’s justice and providence to a dia...

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The Bible mentions Egypt over 700 times, and it is clear that the Israelites had a long and complex relationship with the Egyptians. The Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for many years, but they eventually escaped and made their way to the Promised Land. The Egyptians also had a significant impact...

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This version has been prepared to meet the special needs of the deaf. Whether it is published as the English Version for the Deaf or the Easy-to-Read Version, the text is the same. Hearing persons learn English largely through oral conversation. However, for the deaf, this experience with language i...

The 6th edition of this Bible Encyclopedia (January 2016) contains 694 pages (8.5X11) of information, over 5,500 entries, and over 6,000 cross references. The new edition contains almost 1,000 new words and updated entries. Twenty-five years of research have gone into this one-of-a-kind reference t...

The translator of the Gospels, James A. Kleist, SJ, felt that the Bible should use a diction that keeps pace with modern developments in the English language. This edition was translated directly from the Greek, using the text of Joseph M. Bover, in his Novi Testamenti Biblia Graeca et Latina (Madr...

The book of Judges describes the period when the Israelites were settling into the Promised Land following the Exodus from Egypt. Because the conquest was not complete, warfare was frequent, and resulted in the hero stories preserved in Judges. These heroes were known as "judges", meaning, not peopl...

If you read Matthew, Mark, and Luke in a row, you get a “haven’t I read this before” feeling, because they are so similar to each other. In many places, they even have identical wording! For this reason, Bible scholars lump them together with the term “synoptic gospels.” The word “synoptic” means “t...

It is an abridgment of the King James Version, edited by Roy B. Chamberlin and Herman Feldman with the counsel of an advisory board of Biblical scholars. Some reasons why the resolve of many people to know the Bible has so often come to naught are as follows: its overwhelming length, its somber form...

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Introduction Why should we have some understanding of how the Bible came to us? Young children often think that milk comes in cartons from the grocery store. As they grow up they learn that milk comes from cows on the farm. Likewise many Christians have become so used to having Bibles that they have...