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Hasidism Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781684580170, ISBN: HB: 9781684580163, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2020
275 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Hasidism has attracted, repelled, and bewildered philosophers, historians, and theologians since its inception in the eighteenth century. In "Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World", Ariel Evan Mayse and Sam Berrin Sh...
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£21,00
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£72,00
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Having the Spirit of Christ Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups
ISBN: HB: 9780300245622, Yale University Press, February 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of his earliest followers. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be e...
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£50,00
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How to Read Buddhist Art
ISBN: PB: 9781588396730, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 200 colour illus.
For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. "How to Read Buddhist Art" introduces this compl...
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£18,99
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How the Gospels Became History Jesus and Mediterranean Myths
ISBN: HB: 9780300242638, Yale University Press, September 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient – and modern – people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways. In this eye-opening work, M. David Litwa explores how and why what later became...
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Hezbollah Mobilisation and Power
ISBN: HB: 9781849046312, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Almost thirty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we lo...
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£25,00
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Horn, Sahel and Rift Fault-lines of the African Jihad
ISBN: HB: 9781849044141, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of...
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£25,00
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How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study
ISBN: HB: 9780300234886, Yale University Press, January 2019
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has sparked controversy and debate in recent years. The scarcity of clear evidence allows for the possibility of many views, though these are often clouded by theological and political biases. This impressi...
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£30,00
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Holy Resilience The Bible's Traumatic Origins
ISBN: PB: 9780300240009, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr. The Bible's ability to speak to suffering is a major reason why the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity have retained their relevance for thousands of years. In...
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£15,99
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History of German Jewish Bible Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780226477725, ISBN: HB: 9780226477695, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Heretics and Believers A History of the English Reformation
ISBN: PB: 9780300234589, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history – the first major overview for general readers in a generation – argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neit...
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