Book Notes

Eerdmans Handbook to the Bible

David Alexander and Pat Alexander, eds. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1992)

The paperback edition of a popular 1973 book, with extensively revised text, over 500 illustrations, maps and charts. In 690 colorful pages, it relates the Bible to current issues as well as giving its historical context, discusses both Old and New Testaments book by book and contains indexes for themes, names, places an events.

In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early Church

Paul L. Maier (San Francisco: Harper/San Francisco, 1991)

More than any other religion, Christianity claims to be based on a series of specific historical events. This revised, updated one-volume edition of three brief histories for the general reader incorporates archaeology, linguistics and even law not to prove or disprove the authenticity of events or individuals mentioned in the New Testament but to explain the cultural context of pivotal events in the life of Jesus and in the early church.

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