Author: Neil R. Lightfoot
Publisher: Baker Books
Keywords: bible
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 080101252X
ISBN-13: 9780801012525

How and when did the books of the Bible originate? In what sense are these books different from other books? How have these books been preserved and transmitted to us? Why do we have so many different translations of the Bible? How We Got the Bible provides factual, accessible answers to questions like these. A classic guide for Bible students, it has sold more than 300,000 copies during its forty years in print. Now, in this new edition, each chapter has been revised and chapters have been added, including two on the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate. This thorough revision will tempt fa

Author: Neil R. Lightfoot
Publisher: MJF Books
Keywords: bible
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2005
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1567317227
ISBN-13: 9781567317220

This is a factual account of how the Bible has been preserved and handed down to our generation. This volume, a profitable study of the numerous translations of the Bible, is necessary to understand the heritage and origins of varying versions.

Author: J. B. Lightfoot
Publisher: Crossway Books
Keywords: commentaries, classic, crossway, philippians
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1994-10-05
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0891078002
ISBN-13: 9780891078005

For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentaries present the very best work on individual Bible books, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness for today’s believers. Many Christians consider the apostle Paul’s letter to the Philippians a special treasure. Its grand themes of spiritual joy and vitality, the self-humbling Savior who gave his life for us, the good news of a salvation that is superior to

Author: David Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: emerge, languages, new
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521676290
ISBN-13: 9780521676298

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different, complementary roles in language change. Lightfoot makes an important distinction between ’external language’ (language as it exists in the worl

Author: David Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: emerge, languages, new
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2006-02-06
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0521859131
ISBN-13: 9780521859134

New languages are constantly emerging, as existing languages diverge into different forms. To explain this fascinating process, we need to understand how languages change and how they emerge in children. In this pioneering study, David Lightfoot explains how languages come into being, arguing that children are the driving force. He explores how new systems arise, how they are acquired by children, and how adults and children play different, complementary roles in language change. Lightfoot makes an important distinction between ’external language’ (language as it exists in the worl

Author: Cynthia Lightfoot PhD
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Keywords: taking, risk, adolescent, culture
Number of Pages: 187
Published: 1997-03-14
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1572302321
ISBN-13: 9781572302327

An in-depth exploration of the relationship between adolescent risk-taking and peer group culture, based on extensive interviews with teens themselves, this elegantly written book shows that taking risks is a natural and necessary part of growing up. The author proposes that risks are declarations of the self, worn like badges of autonomy, or defiance, or group membership. With a broad interpretive approach locating human action within the symbolic forms, communicative practices, and shared idioms of culture, Cynthia Lightfoot elucidates the cultural and psychological processes through which r

Author: Kent G. Lightfoot
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: encounters, california, frontiers, colonial, legacy, missionaries, merchants, indians
Number of Pages: 355
Published: 2006-11-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520249984
ISBN-13: 9780520249981

California’s earliest European colonists--Russian merchants and Spanish missionaries--depended heavily on Native Americans for labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of the past--including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations--to present a vivid new view of how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. Kent Lightfoot’s innovative work, which incorporates the holistic methods of historical anthropology, explores the