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A Short History of Life on Earth
Compact Time builds a scientific case that the Earth, with all its living creatures, is actually thousands of years old, not the millions so widely ac...
The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bibl...
Fourth Edition
An indispensable guide for exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues behind the Old Testament. The purpose of studying the Old Testam...
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With the aid of 300 photographs, The Illustrated History of World War II tells the full story of the war and the individuals who led it. In addition, ...
Noted scholar John Walton follows the three-tiered NIV Application Commentary format (Original Meaning, Bridging Contexts, and Contemporary Significan...
A Critical Guide
Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe, considering questions such as How can ev...
From Ancient Context to Enduring Belief
The Old Testament was written for us, but not to us. Inviting us to leave our modern Christian preconceptions behind, John Walton contends that we wil...
Reading the Biblical Text in Its Cultural and Literary Context
Some people believe that a battle of cosmic proportions is raging as Satan and his demons seek to destroy Christians and undermine God's plans. Others...
An Indian perspective into native and Euroamerican diplomacy in the South First published in 1939, McGillivray of the Creeks is a unique mix of primar...
God's Purpose, God's Plan
As one of the most prominent themes in Scripture, the covenant is crucial to all Christian theological systems, from dispensationalism to covenant the...
Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites
Perhaps no biblical episode is more troubling than the conquest of Canaan. But do the so-called holy war texts of the Old Testament portray a divinely...
This unique commentary provides historical, social and cultural background for each passage of the Old Testament. From Genesis through Malachi, this s...
Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible
Much of the Old Testament seems strange to contemporary readers. However, as we begin to understand how ancient people viewed the world, the Old Testa...
This volume is a revised, updated, and expanded edition of a very popular tool for pastors, teachers, and students for the study of the Old Testament....
Labor, Class, and the International System explores the interface between the labor process, class structure, and the global requirements of accumulat...
De Consolatione Philosophiae
A Survey of Parallels Between Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Texts
This book surveys within the various literary genres (cosmologies, personal archives and epics, hymns, and prayers) parallels between the Bible and An...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
Genesis-Deuteronomy
John H. Walton and Victor H. Matthews provide an accessible passage-by-passage commentary on the archaeological and cultural background of the first f...
The Political Condition from Above and Below
Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas—planning, demography, or economics—and has emphasized e...
We often turn to the book of Job when we encounter suffering. But what if the book is not only about Job's suffering? Written by two respected comment...
Principles and Practices for Old Testament Interpretation
The church has often lost its way in reading the Old Testament for lack of sound principles of interpretation. John Walton offers a consistent approac...
Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends twenty propositions supporting a literary and theolo...
State, Culture, and Rebellion in California
"Walton first uses his magnifying glass to capture images of struggle in a California valley during a century and a half of transformation, then inver...
Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
To modern eyes, what we call the biblical law, or Torah, seems either odd beyond comprehension (not eating lobster) or positively reprehensible (execu...
Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate
What if reading Genesis 2–3 in its ancient Near Eastern context shows that the creation account makes no claims regarding Adam and Eve's material or...
Community and Memory in Monterey
"John Walton never writes predictable books, and Monterey, California, is not a predictable place; the pairing is perfect. Although rooted in Monterey...
Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate
The Genesis flood account has been probed and analyzed for centuries. But what might the biblical author have been saying to his ancient audience? In ...
The ancient Near Eastern mode of thought is not at all intuitive to us moderns, but our understanding of ancient perspectives can only approach accura...
Strategic Human Resource Development looks at the emerging role of human resource development and provides frameworks and guidelines for practitioners...
Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities
This book is a detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America, two in Mexico and two in Colombia. John W...
The Work, Tradition, and Purpose
* Focuses on the roots of historical and comparative sociology and social movements to give students a concise introduction to the method and substanc...
An Elementary Text-book for Schools and Colleges
Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority
Walton and Sandy summarize what we know of orality and oral tradition as well as the composition and transmission of texts in the ancient Near East an...
The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction
Private detectives and detective agencies played a major role in American history from 1870 to 1940. Pinkerton, Burns, Thiels, and the smaller indepen...