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What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues
ISBN: PB: 9780300255218, ISBN: HB: 9780300231939, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 21x14 cm
Many people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in biblical values, and they use scriptural passages to support their claims. But the Bible was written over the course of several hundred years and contains contradictory po...
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Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis
ISBN: PB: 9780300255331, ISBN: HB: 9780300241419, Yale University Press, October 2020
200 pp., 21x14 cm
Evangelicalism is arguably America's most controversial religious movement. Nonevangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what "evangelical" means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white R...
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When Christians Were Jews The First Generation
ISBN: PB: 9780300248401, Yale University Press, September 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jes...
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World of the Crusades
ISBN: HB: 9780300217391, Yale University Press, May 2019
520 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 160 colour illus., 14 maps
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliqua...
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Calvin's Exegesis of Job from Medieval and Modern Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9780226529240, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Through countless retellings, from the Talmud to Archibald MacLeish and since, the story of Job has become a fixture in the cultural imagination of the West. In this study, Susan E. Schreiner analyzes interpretations of the Book of Job by Gregory the...
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Where the Gods Are Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World
ISBN: HB: 9780300209228, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, a...
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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge
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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War, Peace, and Prosperity in the Name of God The Ottoman Role in Europe's Socioeconomic Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226388434, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables
Differences among religious communities have motivated – and continue to motivate – many of the deadliest conflicts in human history. But how did political power and organized religion become so thoroughly intertwined? And how have religion and relig...
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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?
ISBN: HB: 9780300178692, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity's fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how an...
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Warrior, Dancer, Seductress, Queen Women in Judges and Biblical Israel
ISBN: HB: 9780300140859, Yale University Press, December 2007
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Some of the Bible's most memorable characters are the women in the book of "Judges". From Deborah and Jael to Delilah and Samson's mother, these women led the Israelites in battle, used their wits to defeat the enemy, their wiles to seduce mighty men...
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