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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
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At age forty-five, Dr. Neil Taylor is an eligible bachelor, living a seemingly satisfied existence as a deacon of his church and director of Kingdom Builder's Academy. Despite outward appearances, however, Neil harbors secret pains that have caused him to erect a well-constructed wall of defense around his heart.
Everything changes when Shaylynn Ford, a beautiful young mother, strolls through the doors of his office. There's a marked difference in...
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Song of Solomon (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Toni Morrison
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night...
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To have a lifelong goal of becoming like Christ involves change, and change isn't always easy. But the more a person knows of God's purposes for him or her, the more that person can experience God's joy and participate in His plan. The LifeChange studies on books of the Bible promise a life-changing encounter with God's Word that can help you grow in Christlikeness. Each LifeChange study helps you . . .Understand the book's historical context, purpose,...
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The Song, so called, here consists of words to be read aloud. It is a collection of parts intended for recitation. A large section of the "Song", in "remastered" form, is a story in a form that can be re-enacted. It is "remastered", like getting a good "master" copy for music, because it is put back in the form it was intended to be in. Will this be accepted in proven religion? I present this book as a challenge to those that have never considered...
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Comprehensive, accessible, and fully illustrated-this commentary on Song of Solomon is a must-have resource.
You want a deeper understanding of the Scriptures, but the notes in your study Bible don't give you enough depth or insight. This commentary was created with you in mind.
Each volume of The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary is a nontechnical, section-by-section commentary on one book or section of the Bible that provides reliable and readable...
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General editor Lloyd J. Ogilvie brings together a team of skilled and exceptional communicators to blend sound scholarship with life-related illustrations.
The design for the Preacher's Commentary gives the reader an overall outline of each book of the Bible. Following the introduction, which reveals the author's approach and salient background on the book, each chapter of the commentary provides the Scripture to be exposited. The New King James...
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Radio messages from J. Vernon McGee delighted and enthralled listeners for years with simple, straightforward language and clear understanding of the Scripture. Now enjoy his personable, yet scholarly, style in a 60-volume set of commentaries that takes you from Genesis to Revelation with new understanding and insight. Each volume includes introductory sections, detailed outlines and a thorough, paragraph-by-paragraph discussion of the text. A great...
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This past summer, five days before Lorrie's mother passed on to heaven, the Holy Spirit led her to a time of intimacy in the Song of Solomon. She was drawn into a deep personal intimacy with the Lord who ministered to her heart the healing balm of Gilead. At the leading of the Holy Spirit, she recorded in her journal her intimate times with Jesus each morning. The book you hold in your hands contains some of these precious, personal times with Jesus.
Here,...
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Discover the most profound poem of love and meaning, "The Song of Songs", where we explore what beauty, diligence, passion and other valuable themes mean. We will travel to the ancient world to hear female singers in male, female and choral form performing their many Songs. You will learn how an idealized image of life is created through the flirting, marrying and working together of love between two people. Explore The Song of Songs now!
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In American churches, the Song Of Solomon is traditionally thought of as an allegory of the love between Jesus, and the church.
In Hebrew tradition, it is an allegory about the love of God for the Hebrew people, or "Jehovahas Wife" While both interpretations can be considered accurate, there is a third and mostly overlooked interpretation, and that is that it is a poetic representation of the earthly life, ministry, crucifixion, death burial, and...
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The five wisdom books of the Old Testament are distinctly different from each other, but have as a unifying theme a contrast between "the righteous" and "the ungodly," and not simply between "the wise" and "the fool." Job is a dialogue that wrestles with why a righteous person suffers. Psalms, the most beloved book of the Old Testament, is a hymnbook. Proverbs contains practical, everyday philosophy. Ecclesiastes is a monologue about the apparent...
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A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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This is another volume in the series of Bible Commentaries of Matthew Henry.
In this Volume, the entire text of the Song of Solomon is commented with notes of each chapter are easy to read and understand providing explanation and interpretation of Biblical text.
This Commentary will help you better understand the Holy Bible and and explains Bible passages.
Sunday school preparation, Churches, theological seminaries and Bible schools will find an...
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The world needs leaders who are prepared to dismantle injustice.
Through the story told in the Song of Solomon, you will learn to use the one tool that heals both victim and oppressor: God's love.
This once popular interpretation of the Song of Solomon details a young woman's struggle between submitting to King Solomon as his sex slave and accepting her beloved Shepherd's invitation to come away. The scholars who subscribed to this interpretation...
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Sex is worth celebrating. It is one of God's loveliest gifts to the human race. But the loveliness of sex is ruined whenever it is found outside the proper context of marriage. And God knows what powerful temptations come our way in the area of sex.
The Song of Solomon is a celebration of sex and love within marriage, as this book explains. Jonathan Bayes draws out the practical advice implicit in the Song for husbands, for wives, and for courting...
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The Kiss of Peace: A Contemporary Exploration into Song of Solomon
Individual or Small Group Bible Study Take a journey through The Kiss of Peace: A Contemporary Exploration into Song of Solomon and step into the vignette as if you're an actor in a play. Discover your stage names, Love, and Beloved Solomon, and realize you are the Bride of Christ and Jesus Christ is your Groom. Find relevancy in reading Song of Solomon as a love-letter, and receive...
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Kay Arthur, whose books in the New Inductive Study Series have sold more than 1.4 million copies, joins Pete De Lacy in this look at three short, not-to-be-missed gems of the Old Testament: Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, and Lamentations. By learning and practicing the techniques of observation, interpretation, and application, readers will discover for themselves the signs of divine inspiration in these unique books and understand how to walk with...
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He: "Thou art all fair my love; there is no spot in thee."
She: "This is my beloved and this is my friend."
Ah, such sweet words coming from a nameless shepherd, aptly dubbed "Beloved" as he described his future wife. His heart-ravishing girlfriend called him her beloved and friend.
Who wouldn't want to have such an intimate relationship with someone like these two? Well, guess what? If you are a Christian, you already have such a pounding,...
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Sharon Jaynes, bestselling author, Bible teacher, and cofounder of Girlfriends in God, teaches women how to enjoy God's sacred gift of sexual intimacy without guilt or regret by exploring the beautiful picture given in the Song of Solomon.
Everywhere we turn in our sex-saturated culture we are bombarded by destructive and unrealistic depictions of romance and intimacy. The problem, according to Bible teacher Sharon Jaynes, is not that culture focuses...