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Daemons are Forever Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium

White David Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226714905, ISBN: HB: 9780226692401, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...

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Divine Bodies Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity

Moss Candida R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179767, Yale University Press, July 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm

When people talk about the resurrection they often assume that the bodies in the afterlife will be perfect. But which version of our bodies gets resurrected – young or old, healthy or sick, real-to-life or idealized? What bodily qualities must be rec...

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Dangers of Christian Practice On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin

Winner Lauren F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215823, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculat...

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Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Divas in the Convent Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Monson Craig A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226535197, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 32 halftones, 4 line illus.

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella – and des...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Daniel, Esther, and Jeremiah The Additions

Moore Carey A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300140002, Yale University Press, December 2007
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.

This volume provides a translation, commentary and introduction to several apocryphal texts, including Susanna, Bel and the Snake and the additions to Esther and Jeremiah.

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Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Death of the Messiah, from Gethsemane to the Grave Volume 1: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels

Brown Raymond E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300140095, Yale University Press, December 2007
912 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown, S. S. , Ph. D. , was internationally regarded as a dean of New Testament scholars. He was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He re...

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Death of the Messiah, from Gethsemane to the Grave Volume 2: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels

Brown Raymond E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300140101, Yale University Press, December 2007
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown, S. S. , Ph. D. , was internationally regarded as a dean of New Testament scholars. He was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He re...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Deuteronomy 1-11

Weinfeld Moshe, Seely David R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139433, Yale University Press, December 2007
484 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

"Deuteronomy 1-11" is here presented in a groundbreaking new translation, with a comprehensive introduction and thorough commentary by world-renowned Israeli biblical scholar Moshe Weinfeld. The "second law", Deuteronomy portrays Moses as the founder...

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