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Amanda Hope Haley, a crazy-fun Scripture-loving author and speaker who studied biblical archaeology at Harvard (what?!), invites you to jump head-first into adventure! You’ll enjoy this redhead’s lively way of helping you to think critically, frame the Bible’s historical events, and live life in fuller context. We’re all looking for memorable ways to grow, and that begins with rolling up our sleeves and getting in the dirt. So let’s get going!
God’s name is not “Jehovah.” It is actually YHWH and pronounced “Yahweh.” The Divine Name was translated into German before it came into English, and Germans pronounce Ys like Js and Ws like Vs; that made His name Jahveh. Then in the 13th century, some other Christians changed the vowels to match the vowels in the word Adonai (E-O-A) to produce “Jehovah.”
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When we first encounter the Bible, we are taught its stories—Adam and Eve, Moses and the Red Sea, David and Goliath, Jonah and the whale, and more. When a story lacks the details we crave, we fill in the blanks–with what we’ve seen in movies, read in books, and been told by our Sunday school teachers. But there’s a better way to encounter the whole story of Scripture: uncovering and understanding the ancient world and the people who experienced biblical events.
In Stones Still Speak, Harvard-trained archaeologist and theologian Amanda Hope Haley scrapes back 2,000 years of misguided cultural interpretations to reveal God’s Word in its historical, archaeological, and literary contexts. Far from a dry academic exercise, this process explains how our misunderstandings developed and revitalizes the Scripture you thought you knew, with the greater purpose of encouraging a more intentional, rigorous study of the Bible in your daily life.
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Copper the basset hound travels the world with his friend, Amanda, while she digs on archaeological sites. On this trip to Bethlehem, the ancient city where Jesus was born, this adventurous dog follows his nose to an ancient stone manger. There he meets a new friend who tells him all about life in first-century Judaea and the night a special baby was born in the house Amanda’s excavating.
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