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Clark, Kelly James (ed.)

The Victorian era was the first great “Age of Doubt” and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectua...

Drawing on the most recent, groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine ...

Drawing on the most recent, groundbreaking archaeological research, Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey re-narrate the history of ancient Palestine ...

The question of Christianity's relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christia...

Moss, Candida R.

Now in paperback with a new postscript, this updated edition of Paula Fredriksen’s critically acclaimed Augustine and the Jews traces the social an...

Nongbri, Brent

This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Ro...

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history — from sixteenth-century Zurich and ...

A leading biblical scholar places charity back at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition, arguing for its biblical roots It has long been ackno...

Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One col...

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-rangin...

Siddiqui, Mona

Britton, Karla Cavarra

This new translation of First Corinthians includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning...

Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. T...

Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive philosopher known as an »athei...

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, p...

Dahl, Robert A

Deuteronomy 1–11 is here presented in a groundbreaking new translation, with a comprehensive introduction and thorough commentary by world-renowned...

Hays, Richard B

It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant i...

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah, treated here as one larger work, continue the story of Israel’s experience begun in the biblical books of I and II ...

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, cultural...

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, cultural...

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Tim...

In this towering work, André Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years as well on as hi...

In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to un...

In this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western c...

Relics were everywhere in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, blood, milk, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorn...

The Menil's collection of Byzantine and related icons is widely regarded as one of the most important in the United States. Comprising more than s...

In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bib...

Tibi, Bassam

Rubin, Barry

Why are words so important to so many Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the inte...

Oz, Amos Oz-Salzberger, Fania

Written for observant and non - observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter...

Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, award-winning author Marcus Tanner describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimi...

In the final nine chapters of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus increasingly struggles with his disciples' incomprehension of his unique concept of sufferi...

In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used...

The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was nei...

Pelikan, Jaroslav

For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign - a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of...

This lively history of the rise of Methodism charts the development of the movement from its unpromising origins in England in the 1730s to its maj...

This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the...