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God's Library The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
ISBN: PB: 9780300248609, Yale University Press, January 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While b...
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Islamist Terrorism in Europe A History
ISBN: PB: 9781849049504, ISBN: HB: 9781849044059, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 2012 Toulouse and Montauban shootings and the grisly murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 are stark reminders of the terrorist threat posed by militant Islamist extremism in Europe. Whereas the death of Osama bin Laden a...
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Possessions and Family in the Writings of Luke Questioning the Unity of Luke's Ethics
ISBN: HB: 9788763544948, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, August 2017
169 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Recent decades have seen substantial questioning of the unity of the books of Luke and Acts. With this volume, Stefan Nordgaard takes a close look at that question, with a specific eye toward Luke's attitude toward possessions and family. He clearly...
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£30,00
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Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...
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£43,00
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Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...
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£19,99
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Mahabharata A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
ISBN: PB: 9780226051659, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
216 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
"The Mahabharata" tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to des...
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£13,00
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua and Six Sermons
ISBN: PB: 9780300177862, Yale University Press, November 2011
524 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This newly edited version of John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua sheds new light on Newman's celebrated account of his passage from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church and repositions his narrative within the context of transform...
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£20,00
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In the Shadow of Shari'ah Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9781850659266, Hurst Publishers, April 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Recent events in Pakistan, and more widely in the Islamic world, have sparked an unprecedented level of interest in the relationship between Islam and democracy. Studies of Islamic law (Shari'ah) lie at the heart of this trend,...
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Introduction to Rabbinic Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300140149, Yale University Press, December 2007
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This is a commentary on the history of rabbinical teachings in the Christian era – on the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more.
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£34,00
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2 Peter, Jude
ISBN: PB: 9780300139921, Yale University Press, December 2007
300 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Jerome H. Neyrey gives us a thoroughly up-to-date and comprehensive study of two of the most obscure books of the New Testament. Written after the death of Jesus and his Apostles, the Epistles of "2 Peter" and "Jude" offer a glimpse into the turbulen...
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