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Christianity

Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition

Layton Bentley, Brakke David

ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, October 2020
744 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...

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Biography & Memoires

Cartoon Art

Stan Lee A Life in Comics

Leibovitz Liel

ISBN: HB: 9780300230345, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created – Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four – occupy Hollywood's imagination and production schedules, generate billions at t...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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Literary Criticism

Primo Levi The Matter of a Life

Lang Berel

ISBN: HB: 9780300137231, Yale University Press, December 2013
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Formation of the Jewish Canon

Lim Timothy H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300164343, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emer...

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Philosophy

Why X Matters

Why Niebuhr Matters

Lemert Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300192544, Yale University Press, July 2013
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In what way does he inform the thinking of political lead...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Numbers 1-20

Levine Baruch A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140774, Yale University Press, December 2007
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, maps

Baruch A. Levine has written a masterful study of the first half of the "Book Of Numbers" for the "Anchor Bible Commentaries". "The Book of Numbers" – from the numbering or census of the people in the opening chapters – is a much-neglected part of th...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Numbers 21-36

Levine Baruch A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139426, Yale University Press, December 2007
624 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, maps

"The Book of Numbers" is an account of how the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after receiving the Ten Commandments of Mount Sinai. Through this time of testing, while facing an uncertain future, the people complained repeatedly to Moses and to...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Jeremiah 1-20

Lundbom Jack R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139631, Yale University Press, December 2007
960 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Jeremiah, long considered one of the most colorful of the ancient Israelite prophets, comes to life in Jack R. Lundbom's "Jeremiah 1-20". From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 b. c. e. , which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments ag...

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