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Lives of Objects Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9780226707587, ISBN: HB: 9780226707440, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Our lives are filled with objects – ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When these are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they change. An object out...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Literary Theory and the New Testament
ISBN: HB: 9780300219913, Yale University Press, January 2020
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary t...
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£50,00
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Liberty in the Things of God The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom
ISBN: HB: 9780300226638, Yale University Press, July 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In the ancient world Christian apologists wrote in defense of their right to practice their faith in the cities of the Roman Empire. They argued that religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and cannot be coerced by external for...
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£18,99
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Little History of Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780300228816, Yale University Press, August 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Ri...
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£9,99
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Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library A Select Catalogue
ISBN: HB: 9781851242979, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2013
640 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 colour illus.
The liturgical psalter is one of the most important medieval Christian books and the most frequently and richly illuminated of medieval liturgical manuscripts. In its simplest form the psalter included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed...
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£150,00
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Life of the Virgin Maximus the Confessor
ISBN: HB: 9780300175042, Yale University Press, May 2012
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Long overlooked by scholars, this seventh-century "Life of the Virgin", attributed to Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest complete Marian biography. Originally written in Greek and now surviving only in Old Georgian, it is now translated for the f...
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£25,00
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Lamentations
ISBN: HB: 9780300139471, Yale University Press, December 2007
175 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
The poetry found in the "Book of Lamentations" is an eloquent expression of one man's, and one nation's, despair. The poet is deep in mourning as a result of the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in the sixth century b. c. e. He looks to Israel's...
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£35,00
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Letter of James
ISBN: PB: 9780300139907, Yale University Press, December 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"The Letter of James" is one of the most significant, yet generally overlooked, New Testament books. Because Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, disliked this letter for its emphasis on good deeds, the book has come to be viewed as b...
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£30,00
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Letter to Philemon
ISBN: HB: 9780300140552, Yale University Press, December 2007
138 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The apostle Paul's letter to his friend and fellow Christian Philemon, which focuses on the question of slavery, has long inspired debate. Onesimus, one of Philemon's slaves and a Christian himself, has left his master's house and sought refuge with...
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£45,00
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Letter to Titus
ISBN: PB: 9780300140262, Yale University Press, December 2007
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
"The Letter to Titus", one of the three "Pastoral Epistles" of the New Testament, has over the last twenty years become the ground of intense controversy – theologically, sociologically, even politically. For this letter (like its companions, "I and...
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