Boring’s Introduction to the New Testament, was a very interesting book. It detailed just about everything you would want to know about the New Testament and then some. He left no stone unturned in taking you deep into the history of every book and just about every writer that wrote the books of the New Testament. Boring is a very detailed writer, he takes you beyond what you think that you might know and in his own way breaks it down in a kind of complex way. The title explains the subject just barely, by me never having read this book I thought that it would be a little shallow. When the instructor informed us that this review was limited to eight hundred to one thousand words, so I kept reading and reading and I started to think how I was going to put all of it into such a minimum amount of words. The book was very technical and it took you deep into the history as far as talk of cannons and a deep history. However, as mentioned earlier the title does not give this book any justice. I thought it was just going to go from Mathew to Revelation giving some commentary on each book. Not only did it do that that it gave sometimes complicated complex breakdown of every chapter. For example in the beginning Boring broke down how testament = covenant = contract, this in itself put some thoughts really rolling in my mind as it relates to this writing. My take on the book was it was a little dry and long. In some cases it may have had to much detail. I feel that Boring in some cases
I really enjoyed the book because I love reading very interesting and right at the
In Chapter 2 of Encountering the New Testament the author talks about a few of the different practices that unified the Jews as well the different religious groups that had different beliefs. Judaism was unified in the beliefs that they had been chosen by God, they were waiting for the messiah to come, they respect the synagogues, they shared the same laws and traditions of elder. Although these beliefs were unifying there were seperate religious groups and leaders that held different beliefs. Probably the most well known group of religious leaders were the Pharisees. The Pharisees were a small group of religious leaders that believed in God, and the coming messiah. Although many of the Pharisees did live good lives many of them were
I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested
The book to me was interesting. The author use make history sounds more exciting than the
I don’t really recommend this book to anyone and I have a few reasons why. One reason is because I felt that there was too much going on in the book and it was very confusing. Another reason is because the book is very long and takes a lot of pages (more than half the book) to get started. My last reason is if the book is too hard and confusing to you, you can't even look up summary notes on the book because there's nothing on it.
This is a very interesting book because of the unique style in which William chose to present his secondary hand of information. Features of this book that fascinates me extremely, is the excessive use of biblical terms and the
information seemed a little repetitive at times. Other than that, the book was a good
I found this book to be well written and researched, the downside of it was it felt more like an essay. The background stories and information was repeated several times, repetition can be good but to much just makes it seem like you ran out of things
Personally, I did like the book. I’m not normally a reader but, this book was very intriguing and had a lot of interesting turns to it, it kept me wanting to know the end. I, at first, didn’t want to read the book, and was going to pick the smallest book I could find, but after reading about the story behind this author and the book itself I went out and picked it up an haven’t stopped reading it since. It starts kind of slow
Theissen is very knowledgeable in his Bible history and he displays it well throughout the book. He speaks about many episodes in Jesus’ life that we know to be true based on the Bible, and he interweaves them with his own fictitious character’s storyline. This really gives the reader a sense of what someone might have seen, heard and thought about Jesus during that timeframe, and it gives the reader a better chance to relate emotions with biblical history. Although the book is fictitious in nature, Theissen does a great job at elaborating how it might have been back in time for someone to become a new follower of Christ. He highlighted the many questions they may have faced not only on a personal basis, but on a public one as well.
I thought that S.E Hinton did an amazing job at making the details in the book stand out. She also made the ideas of people interesting by combining details. All problems and all things were stated exactly as it should be. It was easy to picture and tell who everyone was with the details she had given. I think she did a very good job
I really liked the book. It was very enjoyable to read. I would recommend it to my friends, because I think they
This first volume contains 39 books, and 929 chapters: almost identical to the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible. Interpretation of the scriptures are more about God ‘The Father’, himself, but lays the foundation for the second volume the New Testament. Originally written in Greek about 45 AD, this volume contains 27 books and 260 chapters. Its scriptures tell the story of the life of Jesus, believed by Christians to be the Messiah, Son of God in human form, and sent by God to fulfill the promises and prophesies of the Old Testament.
The book is very well organized in it's content. Organized from the old covenant to the new covenant tell stories that happen biblical and show ground with very colorful map with a layer of how the land was divided then and how the land was divided at the time. The book is full of colorful photos, maps, illustrations and images of archaeological artifacts and places.
The first 39 books of the larger work called the Bible, is called the Old Testament. The Bible itself is arguably the best selling and most read book of all time, yet it’s well known to be quite challenging to read through and understand. The Old Testament portion of the Bible, notably the most difficult portion of the Bible for most to study and follow, yields 39 books from multiple authors, and spans over 4000 years of crucial world and church history. If that were not enough to take on, the Old Testament comes our way through multiple styles of authorship and formats, including but not limited to, books of history, law, proverbs, ethics,