Stones Still Speak
Untangling the Sunday School Stories You Learned from the Biblical History You Haven’t
Uncover the story: Read the first chapter today!
Untangling the Sunday School Stories You Learned from the Biblical History You Haven’t
Uncover the story: Read the first chapter today!
and not just the secularized interpretations promoted by films, art, and pop culture?
When we read the Bible, we might imagine Adam and Eve eating an apple, David fighting a giant, Jonah bobbing inside a whale belly, or Jesus being born in a barn because those are the images we’ve seen in films, admired in art galleries, and colored in Sunday school pamphlets.
But none of those visualizations match the biblical text. What if we could separate generations-old human interpretations from what the Scripture itself says?
We can encounter the whole story of Scripture, instead of relying on popular-but-flawed traditions, when we:
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Amanda Hope Haley is a lover of the Bible—its God, words, people, and history. Writing and speaking as the Red-Haired Archaeologist®, she teaches how artifacts contextualize Scripture. She hopes to see Bible lovers work together to learn history, interpret Scripture, and apply God’s Word to their lives.
Amanda earned an MTS in Hebrew Scripture and Interpretation from Harvard University. She contributed to The Voice Bible as a translator, writer, and editor, and she has been a collaborator for popular Christian authors. She and her husband, David, live in Tennessee with their basset hound, Copper.
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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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