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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The corners are bumped. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned but clear of any markings. "This work has been in preparation for a number of years – – – which may account for some repetition here and there. Certainly there can be no claim to finality or definitiveness for it. It represents only one more slight effort in furthering our understanding of the magnitude and significance of Chronicles in the light of recent study and discoveries, archaeological and linguistics...." - Preface from I Chronicles: Introduction, Translation, And Notes

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is some staining also on the cover boards. The corners are bumped considerably on the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the front end page of the book. The pages are yellowing but clear of any markings. "Like my commentary on the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, which appeared three years ago, the present treatment of the books of Samuel is concerned to examine and expand the material not only with regard to its individual details, but also with regard to its place within the whole book, and, where possible, with regard to its place within Holy Scripture. This seems to me to be a standpoint of which, at a time of predominately literary-critical work on the Old Testament, has been too much neglected, understandable though this neglect may be, and one which should now come into its own, particularly in a series like the Altes Testament Deutsch...." - Preface To The… Read More

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is bumping on the corners. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowed and tanned but clear of any markings. "The biblical book of Chronicles is actually one book which, because of its length when translated from Hebrew into Greek, was divided into what we know as I and II Chronicles. The division into two volumes has been retained here, but the interrelatedness of the two precluded two separate introductions that would, by avoiding repetition, tend to mislead the reader into thinking that I and II Chronicles or two distinct works...." - Translator's Note from The Anchor Bible's II Chronicles: Introduction, Translation, And Notes

This book is in very good condition. There is minimal to no wear on the front, back and edges of the cover boards.The corners have been bumped. The previous owners name is stamped on the inside of the front cover board and his seal is affixed to the front page. The pages are crisp and clean from any markings. The pages are starting to yellow. "...This is not the first time that a Book of Common Prayer has been Made available for use in congregational worship in Italy. More than a century ago, forms of worship which had been prepared by members of the Italian Reformed Church were reviewed by Lord Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin, and others. These services were then issued with the approval of the Bishop of Salisbury, to whom the Archbishop of Canterbury, acting for the Lambeth Conference of 1878, had entrusted spiritual oversight of the reformed congregation in Italy...." - Introduzione from Il Libro della Preghiera Comune e l' Ammminisrazione dei Sacramenti e gli altri riti e cerimonie della Chiesa… Read More

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the cover, edges and corners. The inside is clean of all markings. First Soft Cover Edition. "This book is designed to enable the reader with the help of faithful reproductions, to look at French Impressionist painting with a new vision, reinforced by the revolutionary experience and artistic tolerance and curiosity of our own times." - Impressionists & Impressionism

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards. The previous owner signed the inside front cover board. The pages are beginning to yellow, but the pages are free from markings. "'For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, should follow his steps.' It was Friday morning and the Rev. Henry Maxwell was trying to finish his Sunday morning sermon. He had been interrupted several times and was growing nervous as the morning wore away, and the sermon grew very slowly toward a satisfactory finish. "Mary,' he called to his wife, as he went upstairs after the last interruption, 'If any one comes after this, I wish you would say I am very busy and cannot come down unless it is something very important.' " - Chapter One from In His Steps

This book is in good condition. There is a considerable amount of wear on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. The edges are worn and the corners are bumped significantly. There are various stains on the front, back and spine of the cover boards. The previous owners name is affixed to the inside of the front cover board. and his seal is stamped on the front end page. The book is yellowed and tanned, but clear of all markings. "This volume seeks to discover the distinctive character of each book of the New Testament. In the Introduction, the purposes and methods of New Testament study are discussed, and the approach and scope of this book is explained.The author assumes that the New Testament books will be read, so that the reader will come to know of their writers. The outlines of the books of the New Testament are intended to help the reader master their structure and content; for this reason, they usually appear before the statement of critical problems and the comments of scholars on… Read More

This book is in good condition. There is severe wear on the front, back, edges, and spine of the cover boards. There is also water stains on the cover boards. There is severe bumping and fraying on the cover boards. The previous owner has signed the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowing, but the pages are clear of any markings. "Training in adjustment counseling seems clearly to consist in two highly related aspects. One is the matter of the counselor's attitudes. A second is the matter of his skills. While they may be separated for some purposes of discussion they remain in fact interdependent. Neither can be fully appreciated apart from the other. The techniques or skills which the counselor employs are expressions and implementations of the latter's values and perceptions of reality.... - " Chapter One from An Introduction To Therapeutic Counseling

This book is in very good condition. There is little to no wear on the front, back, spine, and edges of the cover boards. There is little to no bumping on the corners of the cover boards. The previous owners name is affixed to the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowing but clear of any markings. "Anyone trying to discern the plan underlying the structure the second and larger half of the book of Isaiah must stand back and survey it as a whole. Otherwise he will lose his way in the details, the considerable number of problems of literary criticism which occur, and the apparent stumbling blocks, if not contradictions, in the composition. Such a survey must accept, as an established conclusion of scholarship, that the previous history of two blocks of tradition, chs. 24-27 and 36-39, is distinct and separate...." - In Place of a Preface from The Old Testament Library's Isaiah 13-39: A Commentary

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is slight bumping on the corners of the cover boards. There is some staining on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The lettering on the outside of the cover boards is fading. The previous owners name is affixed to the inside of the front cover board and the previous owners seal is stamped on the front end page. "This commentary follows a consistent course in the critical approach which it adopts. Over a decade I have arrived at the view which differs fundamentally from previous literary assessments of the book of Isaiah. My understanding of the so-called memorial of the prophet Isaiah on his activity at the time of the Syro-Ephraimite war (6.1-9.6) is fundamental in this respect. Once one allows that this is a composition aimed at coming to terms with the exile in the sixth century, the rest follows almost automatically. Perhaps, therefore, I may be excused for having… Read More

This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is bumping on the corners of the cover boards. There are stains on the front and back of the cover boards. The previous owners name is written on the inside of the front cover board. The pages are yellowing but clear of any markings. "The time of Deutero-Isaiah's activity lay for certain between the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 and the downfall of the Babylonian empire in 539. All the evidence points to a day towards the end of this period, probably sometime after 550, the year which solve the beginning of the victorious campaign of Cyrus. And attempt has been made to mark off different stages in the prophet's work (Begrich), but this remains very doubtful...." - Introduction from The Old Testament Library's Isaiah 40-66: A Commentary