The Oxford essential guide to ideas & issues of the Bible

The outer archives are busy

by Bruce Manning Metzger, Michael D. Coogan

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An examination of the concepts in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament, with 270 articles covering sin, grace, baptism, marriage, divorce, abortion, alcohol, adultery, and many other issues and ideas.

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