Isbn: 9798250642057 - the rest of the story: the bible unredacted (7 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Most modern Bibles do not match the one the early Church used. That is not a provocative claim-it is a historical fact.Every Christian assumes the Bible they carry is an exact, unmediated replica of the library used by the earliest followers of Jesus. But if you were to travel back to the first, second, or third century and walk into a Christian gathering, the Scriptures you would find would look significantly different from the ones in your pews today. The collection was larger, it was written in Greek, and it contained a wealth of prophetic and historical wisdom that most modern believers have never even heard of.The 400 years of silence between Malachi and Matthew weren't silent at all. We just stopped printing the record.For more than a thousand years, Christians read, cherished, and preached from books like Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the Maccabees. These writings were preserved in the earliest Christian Bibles, affirmed by church councils, and formed the very theological vocabulary of the Apostles themselves. When the New Testament writers quoted the Old Testament, the majority of their quotations aligned with or reflected this Greek tradition (the Septuagint), relying on its specific, inspired wording to prove the deity of Christ.Yet today, these same writings are often missing entirely from Protestant Bibles, dismissed as "Apocrypha."In The Rest of the Story: The Bible Unredacted, you will discover exactly what happened between the Scriptures of the apostolic world and the smaller, 66-book Bibles familiar to many Christians today. Moving far beyond dry academic footnotes, this book reads like a historical mystery, tracing the journey of how our canon finalized.Inside this book, you will discover: The Origins of the Septuagint: How a translation in ancient Alexandria became the undisputed Scripture of Paul, the Apostles, and the early martyrs.The Conflict of Two Canons: The fierce, world-altering debate between St. Jerome and St. Augustine over the "Hebrew Truth" versus the Greek apostolic tradition.The Missing Connective Tissue: How the excised books illuminate the New Testament-revealing the true historical anchor for the "Hall of Faith" in Hebrews 11, the origins of the Feast of Dedication in John 10, and the exact Greek phrasing Matthew used for the Virgin Birth.The Industrial Canon: How Martin Luther's theological shifts were ultimately finalized in printed Bibles by 19th-century societies, where the removal of the Deuterocanonical books was accelerated by severe economic pressures.This book utilizes a unique "Fourfold Lens"-looking at the historical text through historical, linguistic, theological, and devotional perspectives. It doesn't just tell you how competing textual traditions diverged; it shows you exactly what was lost, taking you deep into the histories of Tobit, Judith, and the Maccabees, alongside a dedicated redactions section featuring the missing text of Daniel, Esther, Job's longer ending, and Psalm 151.You are not holding a book about adding to Scripture. You are holding a guide to restoring what was always there. Reclaim the lost history. Restore the apostolic context. Read the rest of the story. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Most modern Bibles do not match the one the early Church used. That is not a provocative claim-it is a historical fact.Every Christian assumes the Bible they carry is an exact, unmediated replica of the library used by the earliest followers of Jesus. But if you were to travel back to the first, second, or third century and walk into a Christian gathering, the Scriptures you would find would look significantly different from the ones in your pews today. The collection was larger, it was written in Greek, and it contained a wealth of prophetic and historical wisdom that most modern believers have never even heard of.The 400 years of silence between Malachi and Matthew weren't silent at all. We just stopped printing the record.For more than a thousand years, Christians read, cherished, and preached from books like Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and the Maccabees. These writings were preserved in the earliest Christian Bibles, affirmed by church councils, and formed the very theological vocabulary of the Apostles themselves. When the New Testament writers quoted the Old Testament, the majority of their quotations aligned with or reflected this Greek tradition (the Septuagint), relying on its specific, inspired wording to prove the deity of Christ.Yet today, these same writings are often missing entirely from Protestant Bibles, dismissed as "Apocrypha."In The Rest of the Story: The Bible Unredacted, you will discover exactly what happened between the Scriptures of the apostolic world and the smaller, 66-book Bibles familiar to many Christians today. Moving far beyond dry academic footnotes, this book reads like a historical mystery, tracing the journey of how our canon finalized.Inside this book, you will discover: The Origins of the Septuagint: How a translation in ancient Alexandria became the undisputed Scripture of Paul, the Apostles, and the early martyrs.The Conflict of Two Canons: The fierce, world-altering debate between St. Jerome and St. Augustine over the "Hebrew Truth" versus the Greek apostolic tradition.The Missing Connective Tissue: How the excised books illuminate the New Testament-revealing the true historical anchor for the "Hall of Faith" in Hebrews 11, the origins of the Feast of Dedication in John 10, and the exact Greek phrasing Matthew used for the Virgin Birth.The Industrial Canon: How Martin Luther's theological shifts were ultimately finalized in printed Bibles by 19th-century societies, where the removal of the Deuterocanonical books was accelerated by severe economic pressures.This book utilizes a unique "Fourfold Lens"-looking at the historical text through historical, linguistic, theological, and devotional perspectives. It doesn't just tell you how competing textual traditions diverged; it shows you exactly what was lost, taking you deep into the histories of Tobit, Judith, and the Maccabees, alongside a dedicated redactions section featuring the missing text of Daniel, Esther, Job's longer ending, and Psalm 151.You are not holding a book about adding to Scripture. You are holding a guide to restoring what was always there. Reclaim the lost history. Restore the apostolic context. Read the rest of the story. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…