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Title: Manners and Customs in the Bible: Revised Edition by Victor Harold Matthews ISBN: 0-943575-77-X Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.97 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Help In Understanding Daily Life in Biblical Times
Comment: While the Bible is a fascinating book to read and study, it is easy to forget that the Bible was written over a long period of time. Though historians differ about exact dates, Abraham probably lived anywhere between 1,250 and 1,500 years prior to the birth of Christ, David probably lived about 750 to 1,000 years before Christ's birth, and between 587 B.C. and the writing of the New Testament, life changed almost daily. This is why understanding the daily life of different periods in Biblical history, and knowing that there were often vast differences in customs and practices in the differing periods, is so essential to understanding scripture. Life in Biblical times changed quickly just as much as life in our own day changes rapidly.
Biblical scholar Victor Matthews attempts to explain the life and customs in different Biblical periods in his book MANNERS AND CUSTOMS IN THE BIBLE. The book is divided into five major sections: The Patriarchal Period (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and his sons), The Exile and Settlement (Moses, Joshua, and the Judges), The Monarchy, Exile and Return, and the Intertestamental and New Testament Era (The Persians, Greeks, and Romans). Nearly two thirds of the book covers the period prior to the writing of the New Testament, but this is actually a plus since there are many other resources that cover the New Testament. Readers get bits of information about warfare, government policies, family life, gender roles, marriage customs, business and trade, and a host of other small subjects that make the book interesting to browse through and a must have for scripture study.
Though the book is set up in chronological order, it is not really a comprehensive history of the Bible, but a supplement that enriches a historical text. It has a scriptural index which will help people involved in preaching and in research.
Certainly this book will be helpful for people who preach and conduct Bible studies, but it will also be of interest to anyone who wants to see how our day and age is both similar to, and differs from people of Biblical times.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I thought that this would be about daily living but it is mostly about the politics through the different eras.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderfully informative though emphasis on Higher Criticism.
Comment: Mr. Matthews offers a good overview of the period between the beginning and finishing of the Scriptures, uncluding the Maccabean period. It is amazing how much better one can understand the Scriptures when you have read this book. The social customs and manners of burial, marriage, food preparation, farming, traveling, city-builing, etc. are all covered in this volume. It is very good for those just beginning to study the Scripture, or those that have studied for some time without a clear understanding of the customs of the peoples written about. Despite all this praiseworthy detail, however, Mr. Matthews shows his true colors as a Higher Critic of the Scriptures. This means he denies the infallibility, inspiration, and preservance of the Scriptures. New and old Christians be ware of this, for once these doctrines are denied you may as well throw the book of God's Word away (if that may be said reverently). With this warning in mind, I would highly recommend the purchase of this book for any Christian or otherwise.
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Title: New Manners and Customs of Bible Times by Fred H. Wight, Ralph Gower ISBN: 0802459544 Publisher: Moody Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Daily Life at the Time of Jesus by Miriam Feinberg Vamosh ISBN: 0570052920 Publisher: Concordia Publishing House Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Manners And Customs How The People Of The Bible Really Lived by Howard Frederic Vos ISBN: 0785211942 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 15 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: The Social World of Ancient Israel by Victor Matthews, Don Benjamin ISBN: 0913573892 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Holman Bible Atlas: A Complete Guide to the Expansive Geography of Biblical History by Thomas C. Brisco, Thomas V. Brisco ISBN: 1558197095 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.97 |
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