Hamada – Understanding the Arab World

CELC

220.893 H

Hamada

Author     Hamada, Louis Bahjat.
Title     Understanding the Arab world / Louis Behjat Hamada.
Publisher     Nashville, Tenn. : T. Nelson Publishers, c1990.
Descrip.     216 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliog.     Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-195) and indexes.
Subject Arabs in the Bible.
Arabs.
Hamada, Louis Bahjat.
Arabs — Missions.
Christianity and other religions — Islam.
Islam — Relations — Christianity.
Jewish-Arab relations — Religious aspects — Christianity.
Terrorism — Religious aspects — Christianity.
Protestantism and Zionism — Controversial literature.
ISBN     0840731620

Dyer – Rise of Babylon

CELC

236.9 D

Dyer

Author     Dyer, Charles H., 1952-
Title     The rise of Babylon : sign of the end times / Charles H. Dyer with Angela Elwell Hunt.
Publisher     Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House Pub., c1991.
Descrip.     236 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Bibliog.     Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
Subject     Bible — Prophecies — Babylonia.
Bible — Prophecies — Hussein, Saddam.
Alt Author     Hunt, Angela Elwell, 1957-
ISBN     0842356185

Peters – Voice, the Word, the books

CELC

208.2 P

Peters

2007

Personal Author:

Peters, F. E. (Francis E.)

Title:

The voice, the Word, the books : the sacred scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims / F.E. Peters.

Publication info:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.

Physical description:

x, 292 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: the voice from Sinai — Sacred words, sacred book — Book shaping: the making of a canon — Reciters, rhapsodes, and scribes: how the Bible reached us — The reporters: the good news and how we got it — The poet in performance: the composition of the Quran — The book in mortal hands — In other words — Picturing the Word — Giving voice to the Word — Epilogue: three books side by side.

Summary:

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all believe that their Scriptures preserve God’s words to humanity, and that those words were spoken uniquely to them. InThe Voice, the Word, the Books, F. E. Peters leads readers on an extraordinary journey through centuries of written tradition to uncover the human fingerprints on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran, sacred texts that have enriched millions of lives.

Subject term:

Monotheism–Comparative studies.

Subject term:

Judaism–Sacred books.

Subject term:

Christianity–Sacred books.

Subject term:

Islam–Sacred books.

ISBN:

9780691131122 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $29.95

ISBN:

0691131120 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $29.95