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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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Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss
ISBN: PB: 9780300209358, Yale University Press, November 2014
376 pp., 21x14 cm
Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifu...
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Cult of the Saints Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Enlarged Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226175263, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly c...
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Politics of Religion in Early Modern France
ISBN: HB: 9780300207699, Yale University Press, October 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to...
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Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
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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Crusader States
ISBN: PB: 9780300208887, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 figures, 21 maps, 15 black&white illus.
When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's p...
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£19,99
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"When You Were Gentiles" Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence
ISBN: HB: 9780300197938, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul's letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the anci...
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£54,00
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Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus
ISBN: HB: 9780300149456, Yale University Press, June 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika, or...
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£35,00
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Judges 1-12 A New Translation
ISBN: HB: 9780300190335, Yale University Press, May 2014
592 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this bountiful new commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical Book of Judges provides a literary and theological analysis of some of Scripture's most stirring narratives and verses...
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Christians, Muslims and Jesus
ISBN: PB: 9780300205275, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
<p>Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theologi...
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