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Jewish Question Again
ISBN: PB: 9781734643503, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, November 2020
85 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Anti-Semitism is on the rise. How is this still possible? Once again, we are witness to a surge in right-wing authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and white supremacism, and the racist, xenophobic, and misogynist violence they spread. Like historic ne...
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Job A New Translation
ISBN: PB: 9780300255249, ISBN: HB: 9780300162349, Yale University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 21x14 cm
The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greenstein's characterization, is "a Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary streams" which "dazzles like Shakespeare with unrivaled...
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Jewish Christianity The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide
ISBN: HB: 9780300180138, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of i...
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£45,00
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Jihad and Dawah Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah
ISBN: HB: 9781849047104, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah (JuD), since the early 1990s. Linking the group's narratives to the process of Islamisation...
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£35,00
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Jihad and Death The Global Appeal of Islamic State
ISBN: HB: 9781849046985, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How has ISIS been able to muster support far beyond its initial constituency in the Arab world and attract tens of thousands of foreign volunteers, including converts to Islam, and seemingly countless supporters online? In this...
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John Henry Newman Fighter, Convert and Cardinal
ISBN: PB: 9781904955788, Signal Books, February 2017
208 pp., 19.9x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! John Henry Newman was in many ways the Catholic Church's Duke of Wellington in Victorian times-except that he fought his campaigns and won his battles with his pen rather than the sword. Similar in appearance, both were very gr...
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Jihadism Transformed Al-Qaeda and Islamic State's Global Battle of Ideas
ISBN: HB: 9781849046473, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jihadist narratives have evolved dramatically over the past five years, driven by momentous events in the Middle East and beyond; the death of bin Laden; the rise and ultimate failure of the Arab Spring; and most notably, the r...
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£35,00
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Joshua 1-12 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300149753, Yale University Press, July 2015
600 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 black&white maps
An acknowledged expert on the Hebrew Bible, Thomas Dozeman offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the book of Joshua and explores the nature, function, and causes of the religious violence depicted therein. By blending the distin...
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£55,00
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Judges 1-12 A New Translation
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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£55,00
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Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...
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£43,50
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