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  Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament

  by Bart D. Ehrman

  We may think of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament as the only sacred writings of the early Christians, but this is not at all the case. Lost Scriptures offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings from the first centuries after Christ--texts that have been for the most part lost or neglected for almost two millennia. Here is an array of remarkably varied... (more)
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  The Nag Hammadi Library

  by James M. Robinson, Richard Smith

  This revised, expanded, and updated edition of The Nag Hammadi Library is the only complete, one-volume, modern language version of the renowned library of fourth-century manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945. First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library launched modern Gnostic studies and exposed a movement whose teachings are in many ways as relevant today as they were sixteen centuries ago. James M.... (more)
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  The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

  by Geza Vermes

  The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence before and during the time of Jesus, the Scrolls have transformed our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, early Judaism, and the origins of Christianity. This fully revised edition of the classic... (more)
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  The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language

  by Eugene H. Peterson

  Heart-Racing. Thought-Provoking. Life-Changing. If you find reading the Bible uneventful, "old hat," or downright confusing, then it's time for The Message. Join the millions of readers who have been drawn to God through Eugene Peterson's best-selling Bible paraphrase. Translated directly from the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts into today's American idiom, The Message is designed as a reading Bible. With... (more)
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  Bible Jesus Read, The

  by Philip Yancey

  The Old Testament is God's biography, the story of his passionate encounters with people and also a prequel to the story of Jesus. This book explores the sometimes shocking and cryptic writings in an effort to know God better.
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  NIV Study Bible (New International Version)

  by New York Bible Society

  The Zondervan NIV Study Bible is the #1 bestselling study Bible in the bestselling NIV translation. And now it includes for 2008 a 25% revision to the over 20,000 in-text study notes and a library of study resources at your fingertips. This edition also includes a 130-page topical index for more in-depth study. Excellent for home school use.
• MissionariesJulian Pettifer, Richard Bradley

  

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  Missionaries

  by Julian Pettifer

  BBC-TV presenters Pettifer and Bradley collaborated on the six-part series Missionaries and on this mesmerizing book based on it. Vividly written and finely detailed stories about evangelists reach back 2000 years and move forward to modern times, showing how Christianity spread around the world. Catholic or Protestant, supported by churches or independent, the missionaries depicted here chiefly represent selfless... (more)
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  Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Penguin Classics)

  by Andrew Louth

  The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form... (more)
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  Cruden's Complete Concordance

  by Alexander Cruden

• A Journey Through the Old Testament: The Story of How God Developed His People in the Old TestamentElmer Towns

  

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  A Journey Through the Old Testament: The Story of How God Developed His People in the Old Testament

  by Elmer Towns

  Dr. Elmer Towns uniquely re-creates Old Testament history in sequence, through the lives of nearly 50 key individuals, from Lucifer and Adam to Zechariah and Malachi. Not only will A Journey Through the Old Testament enable each reader to better understand the people and events leading up to the birth of Christ, but it will show the common desires, difficulties, and frustrations of those who walked this earth so... (more)
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  The Fathers of the Church

  by Mike Aquilina

  Text: English, French (translation)
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  Gorbachev

  "An excellent compendium of Christian creeds. Especially valuable are the informative notes and comments by the editor which introduce both creedal sections and individual creeds".----Presbyterian Journal.
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  Lost Christianities/ Lost Scriptures

  by Bart D. Ehrman

  The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look... (more)
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  Lectures in Systematic Theology

  by Henry Clarence Thiessen

  In this comprehensive introduction to systematic theology, Thiessen addresses a wide range of substantive issues in sections on theism, bibliology, theology, angelology, anthropology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.
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  The history of the church from Christ to Constantine

  by Eusebius, Andrew Louth

  Beginning with persecution at the beginning of the fourth century and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, the author demonstrates the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity in its struggle against persecutors and heretics.