Product Overview
Go deeper in your study of God's Word with the Saint Mary's Press Essential Guide to Biblical Life and Times. This book by Martin C. Albl includes 50 in-depth articles on important biblical cultural topics, several helpful charts, a topical index, and an index of key scriptural passages.
Paperback | 168 pages
List of Articles:
Afterlife
Agriculture
Anointing
Atonement
Canaanite Religion
Chosen People
Cosmology
Covenant
Creation
Crucifixion
Dance and Music
Death and Burial Customs
Dress and Hair
Dwellings
Family
Festivals
Fishing
Food and Drink
Food Laws
Holiness
Honor and Shame
Hospitality
Human Nature
Jewish Sects
Languages
Marriages
Meals
Money
Names
Number Symbolism
Poverty and Wealth
Priests and Levites
Prophets
Punishment
Purity
Resurrection
Sabbath
Sacrifices and Offerings
Sexuality
Sheep, Goats and Shepherds
Sickness and Health
Sin
Slavery
Spiritual Powers
Synagogues and Prayer
Taxes and Tithes
Temple
Torah
War
Women