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Judaism

Genius Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism

Stern Eliyahu

ISBN: PB: 9780300205923, ISBN: HB: 9780300179309, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm

Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna", was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. In this book Eliyahu Stern offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experie...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Judges 1-12 A New Translation

Sasson Jack M.

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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Christianity

Islam

Christians, Muslims and Jesus

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300205275, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theologi...

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Christianity

Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Christianity

Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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Europe

Christianity

Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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Christianity

First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity

Wilken Robert Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300198386, Yale University Press, December 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the...

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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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Christianity

Philosophy

Common Faith Second Edition

Dewey John, Alexander Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...

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Hinduism

Restatement of Religion Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism

Sharma Jyotirmaya

ISBN: HB: 9780300197402, Yale University Press, September 2013
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third installment of his comprehensive history of "India's religion" and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna...

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