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Job A New Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780300255249, ISBN: HB: 9780300162349, Yale University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 21x14 cm
The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greenstein's characterization, is "a Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary streams" which "dazzles like Shakespeare with unrivaled...
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£12,99
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Jewish Christianity The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide
ISBN: HB: 9780300180138, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of i...
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John Henry Newman Fighter, Convert and Cardinal
ISBN: PB: 9781904955788, Signal Books, February 2017
208 pp., 19.9x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! John Henry Newman was in many ways the Catholic Church's Duke of Wellington in Victorian times-except that he fought his campaigns and won his battles with his pen rather than the sword. Similar in appearance, both were very gr...
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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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£55,00
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Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...
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£43,50
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Julian of Norwichologian, Theologian
ISBN: PB: 9780300192551, ISBN: HB: 9780300163919, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm
For centuries readers have comfortably adopted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner remedies this misapprehension, offering a sensitive new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues th...
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John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.
One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...
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£42,00
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Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" A Casebook
ISBN: PB: 9780300140385, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.
Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of "Sinners", accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon. With an introduction aimed at students and teachers and...
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Jonah
ISBN: PB: 9780300139709, Yale University Press, December 2007
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
Were Jonah's experiences true to the history of ancient Israel? Were they meant to be read comically, philosophically, allegorically, symbolically, or realistically? And is God godly when acting beyond the comprehension of prophets, let alone ordinar...
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Joshua
ISBN: PB: 9780300139440, Yale University Press, December 2007
612 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
"Joshua" began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright's death, Professor Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finis...
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