Scripture Languages, Scripture Study

The Text of the Old Testament

Würthwein. 1995 English translation. softcover, 293 pages. €5. This classic introduction to textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is now entirely updated in the light of new critical editions of the texts and recent contributions and findings in the various areas of history of the text-especially the Masoretic text, the Septuagint, the Peshitta, and the Dead Sea Scrolls-and of textual…

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Scripture Languages

The Analytical Hebrew & Chaldee Lexicon

Benjamin Davidson. Samuel Bagster & Sons, London, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 784 pages. Weighs 1,160 grams. €10.  Every word and inflection of the Hebrew Old Testament arranged alphabetically and with grammatical analyses, also tables of paradigms. The book your professors don’t want you to have. Hebrew words change from their root dramatically – if you don’t have these changes…

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Catholic Theology, Scripture Study

Upon This Rock. Stephen Ray

St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church. Ignatius Press. softcover, 331 pages, index. Autographed copy! (no other marks). €10. Ray, a former Evangelical Protestant and Bible teacher, goes through the Scriptures and the first five centuries of the Church to demonstrate that the early Christians had a clear understanding of the primacy of Peter…

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Catholic Theology, Saints' Lives, Scripture Study

Mary and the Fathers of the Church

The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought. Luigi Gambero, Ignatius Press, 1999. Softcover, 439 pages. €10. Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight centuries. Focusing on the lives and works of over thirty of the most famous Church Fathers and early Christian writers,…

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Catholic Theology, Scripture Languages, Scripture Study, Scritto in italiano, Written in Italian

Il vangelo secondo Giovanni, Zumstein

Paperback. 2 vol., 1,042 pagine. excellent condition. weighs 1.4 kilo. €40 for i 2 volume. Diverso per molti e rilevanti aspetti dai vangeli sinottici, in particolare per l’ampio respiro teologico, il Vangelo di Giovanni è uno dei più importanti testi biblici. Maestro incontestato della materia, Jean Zumstein propone un commentario, in due volumi, a un tempo scientifico e pastorale con…

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Catholic Theology, Scripture Study

Manual of Patrology. Cayre

Society of St. John the Evangelist, Desclée & Company, 1935. 2 vol hardcover.  742pp + 916pp. weighs 1,313 grams. €20.  1st volume has a loose front cover. Underlining in both volumes, much more in the 1st volume, because this is set up in chronological order,  and everyone wants what the earliest of the earliest of the Church Fathers had to…

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Catholic Theology, Scripture Study

Patrology, Quasten

4 volumes, softcover. weighs 2.9 kilo. Not much, but occasional underlining in pencil. €65. for the set. This monumental series places at the disposal of the English reading public a solid introduction to early Christian literature. It is the first work of its kind written originally in English. The first volume appeared in 1950. Reviewers were unanimous in heaping praise…

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