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On Faith and Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300216172, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 21x14 cm
Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Lar...
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Once a Peacock, Once an Actress Twenty-Four Lives of the Bodhisattva from Haribhatta's "Jatakamala"
ISBN: PB: 9780226485966, ISBN: HB: 9780226485829, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Written in Kashmir around 400 CE, Haribhatta's Jatakamala is a remarkable example of classical Sanskrit literature in a mixture of prose and verse that for centuries was known only in its Tibetan translation. But between 1973 and 2004 a large portion...
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£56,50
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – March
ISBN: HB: 9780842529983, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
218 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Yaysmawurk' is an Armenian liturgical collection of brief saints' lives arranged according to the day on which they were celebrated in the annual church calendar. The first Yaysmawurk' was translated from an existing Greek liturgical collection,...
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One True Life The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions
ISBN: HB: 9780300180121, Yale University Press, May 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and problems inherent in engaging rival philosophical claims to what is true. Juxtaposing the Roman Stoics Se...
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – February
ISBN: HB: 9780842529402, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, November 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – January
ISBN: HB: 9780842528641, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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Offence: The Hindu Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497385, Seagull Books, November 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. Though historically the practice of Hinduism does promote the idea of an inclusive and tolerant way of life, in the pa...
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Offence: The Christian Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497040, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, harboring humane values, freedom, democracy and the right to irrationality, belief and non-belief. The atheist Communis...
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Offence: The Muslim Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497033, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within...
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Obadiah
ISBN: HB: 9780300139716, Yale University Press, December 2007
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
"Obadiah" exemplifies the classic Israelite prophetic tradition. This brief but volatile diatribe encompasses many of the great prophetic themes, such as divine judgment against Israel's enemies, the day of Yahweh, Zion theology, Israel's possession...
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