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Free Books on Greek & Hebraic Thought

December 1, 2014 6 Comments

As I research my next book, I’ve been reading up on Jesus’ Hebraic, Jewish culture and how it contrasts with the Western culture in which we live. I keep bumping into great books I haven’t seen before. I thought I’d share a couple that are free to read or download because they are out of copyright.

The Syrian Christ

Syrian ChristAbraham Rihbany 

If you liked Ken Bailey’s books about Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes, here’s a free ebook that you’ll enjoy. Rihbany shares oodles of insights on the gospels from a Middle Eastern perspective from living a lifetime in Lebanon. (Bailey quotes from this book.)

Rihbany wrote this book in 1916, so it’s a bit outdated – read it with a grain of salt. But it has lots of little “ah-hahs” for your next Bible study discussion.

Read/Download The Syrian Christ at this link.

 

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The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church

Greek IdeasEdwin Hatch

Here’s how this provocative book begins:

It is impossible for anyone, whether he be a student of history or not, to fail to notice a difference of both form and content between the Sermon on the Mount and the Nicene Creed… The one belongs to a world of Syrian peasants, the other to a world of Greek philosophers.

Hatch then goes on to explains how Christianity interacted with the Greek world as the church grew and often absorbed its ideas, sometimes to its detriment. Hatch was an eminent scholar who died shortly before this book was published in 1888. If you’ve studied the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), you’ve likely used his massive concordance.

I thought this book was balanced, scholarly, but quite readable. And free!

Read/Download The Influence of Greek Ideas at this link.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Biblical Thinking, Biblical Worldview, Greek Thought

Comments

  1. Margaret Bosanquet says

    December 1, 2014 at 6:30 am

    Thank you Lois.

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  2. Cynthia Prentice says

    December 5, 2014 at 5:05 pm

    Thank you Lois!

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  3. Sonia says

    December 9, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    Thank you very much for posting the links to these writings!!

    Reply
  4. Kevin Moore says

    December 12, 2014 at 10:08 am

    Lois, thank you for these links. I will be able to direct our Bible Basics class members to them for their own perusal. Thank you again!

    Reply
  5. Dr Max Debono-De-Laurentis says

    December 26, 2014 at 9:32 am

    Thank you for posting these two valuable resources and bless you for all the other work you are doing

    Reply
  6. richard messina says

    February 5, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Ronnie my dearly beloved brother Thank You very much for hooking me into ourrabbijesus.com… Now i have some more reading and learning ahead, wow its wonderful !!!

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