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A single book as large as a door. A devil staring from one page; a vision of heaven on the next. For eight centuries the Codex Gigas-nicknamed the "Devil's Bible"-has lured rumor and reverence in equal measure. Giant on Vellum tells its full, human story: from a modest Benedictine house in Bohemia to Rudolf II's Prague of marvels, from the last convulsions of the Thirty Years' War to a midnight rescue from the flames of Stockholm's Tre Kronor. This...

What would the Devil want you to believe? In twenty-nine chapters you can find out. He also has his Ten Demonments and eight Bebaditudes. Of course, the Devil has to share space in the book with commentary from a Christian enlisted by the publisher. Excellent source for Christian apologetics.

In Even the Devil Quotes Scripture, Robyn J. Whitaker looks to the Bible as a guide to interpreting the Bible, and her findings breathe new life into our understanding and use of Scripture. As it turns out, the uses of Scripture within Scripture are flexible, open to frequent reinterpretation, and rarely literal. For instance, Ezra and Nehemiah reinterpret laws about whether Jews can marry foreigners in the wake of the Babylonian exile. Their contradiction...

A quarter of the world must die. A victim of Jerusalem Syndrome jumps to his death from the top of the Western Wall, his body smashed on the ancient stones of Jerusalem. Another disembowels himself under the scrawled figure of the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse with the chilling words, 'God told me to do it.' Morgan Sierra travels to Israel to investigate the deaths and becomes embroiled in an international conspiracy to release an ancient curse. As...

Inside A Forgotten Monastery, One Monk Made A Deadly Pact-And Created The Most Terrifying Book In Human History.This cinematic horror novel uncovers the cursed legend of the Codex Gigas, The Devil's Bible-a massive 700-page manuscript believed to be written in a single night with the Devil's own hand.Follow the final thirty nights of Gabriel, the tormented scribe forced to complete a supernatural book that demands more than ink. As the pages come...

Throughout the ages, Satan has been seen as God's implacable enemy, fiercely determined to keep as many human beings as he can from entering the heavenly kingdom. But according to Henry Ansgar Kelly, this understanding dates only from post-biblical times, when Satan was reconceived as Lucifer, a rebel angel, and as the serpent in the garden of Eden. In the Bible itself, beginning in the book of Job and continuing through the New Testament, Satan is...

This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work. After introductory chapters on O'Connor's markings in her own Roman Catholic Bible, her book reviews in diocesan newspapers, and her impatience with her wayward readers, Michaels looks first at her two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and then at seventeen...

In this bold and compelling work, Gregory Boyd undertakes to reframe the central issues of Christian theodicy. By Boyd's estimate, theologians still draw too heavily on Augustine's response to the problem of evil, attributing pain and suffering to the mysterious "good" purposes of God. Accordingly, modern Christians are inclined not to expect evil and so are baffled but resigned when it occurs. New Testament writers, on the other hand, were inclined...

Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, says Eugene Peterson, isn't growth in Christ equally essential? Yet the American church by and large does not treat Christian maturity and character formation with much urgency. In Practice Resurrection Peterson brings the voice of Scripture - especially Paul's letter to the Ephesians - and the voice of the contemporary Christian congregation together to unpack the crucial...

"Why do I still struggle if I'm faithfully following God?" We all face challenges. On any given day, the problems of real life can take our breaths away. Our marriages, finances, relationships, and health are regular struggles, and that's just the beginning. Doesn't the Bible say the war has already been won? So why do we still battle? In a down-to-earth, let’s-get-real approach, popular Bible teacher Havilah Cunnington cuts through the confusion...