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Questions on Love and Charity Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23-46
ISBN: PB: 9780300195415, Yale University Press, June 2016
432 pp., 21x14 cm
A fresh translation of quaestiones from the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner. This volume provides direct access to the medieval theologian's deepest thinking about the supreme goal of human life – blessedness-and the virtue...
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Religious Crisis and Civic Transformation How Conflicts over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church
ISBN: PB: 9781611689099, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive rights and the protection of life in West Germany. According to Tichenor, Catholic women in Wes...
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Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300198836, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theatres and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we expla...
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Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...
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Sin A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300168099, ISBN: HB: 9780300149890, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spannin...
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Critique of Christian Origins A Parallel English-Arabic Text
ISBN: HB: 9780842527156, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, May 2010
249 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the "Critique of Christian Origins" Abd al-Jabbar – the leading Muslim intellectual of the late tenth century – develops what might be considered the first Islamic history of Christianity, analyzing the Bible, church rituals, and miracles. Unlike...
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Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen Women in Judges and Biblical Israel
ISBN: HB: 9780300140859, Yale University Press, December 2007
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Some of the Bible's most memorable characters are the women in the book of "Judges". From Deborah and Jael to Delilah and Samson's mother, these women led the Israelites in battle, used their wits to defeat the enemy, their wiles to seduce mighty men...
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Matthew
ISBN: PB: 9780300139785, Yale University Press, December 2007
568 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This is volume twenty-six of "The Anchor Bible", a new translation done book-by-book with accompanying introduction, notes, and comments. Matthew is the most familiar of the gospels, best known for its parables, miracle narratives, and the long Sermo...
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Habakkuk
ISBN: HB: 9780300139730, Yale University Press, December 2007
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The book of "Habakkuk" (one of the twelve Minor Prophets) is an intensely personal testimony played out against a highly political backdrop. Writing as his land and his fellow Israelites were being invaded and plundered by the Chaldeans, "Habakkuk" q...
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Hosea
ISBN: PB: 9780300139693, Yale University Press, December 2007
720 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
"Hosea", volume 24 in the "Anchor Bible" series of new, book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testaments" and "Apocrypha" is a collaboration by world-renowned scholars Francis I. Andersen and David Noel Freedman. The authors' treatment of "Ho...
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