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Women Studies

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Hamori Esther J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...

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Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

Hempton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300198256, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine cr...

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Calvinism A History

Hart D. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300148794, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history – from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the so...

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Conversions Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300192445, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges to...

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Introduction to the Bible

Hayes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780300181791, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book examines the small library of 24 separate books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles – books that preserve the efforts of diverse individuals over the span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of thei...

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Philosophy

Putting On Virtue The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

Herdt Jennifer A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226327198, ISBN: HB: 9780226327242, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
472 pp., 25x15 cm

Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocriti...

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Miracles at the Jesus Oak Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167023, Yale University Press, October 2011
336 pp., 21x14 cm

In the tradition of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "The Great Cat Massacre", "Miracles at the Jesus Oak" is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of ordinary people. In the musty archive of...

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Sunday A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167030, Yale University Press, October 2011
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The mere mention of Sunday will immediately conjure up a rich mixture of memories, associations and ideas for anyone of any age. Whatever we think of Sunday, it occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with s...

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History of Art

Christianity

Art of Worship Paintings, Prayers and Readings for Meditation

Holtam Nicholas, Chartres Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781857095319, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2011
120 pp., 20x15 cm, 47 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated book, the Reverend Nicholas Holtam – vicar of London's internationally renowned church St Martin-in-the-Fields – presents his favourite paintings from the National Gallery, London, alongside religious commentary, Bible...

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