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Judaism

Jewish Ceremony for Newborn Girls The Torah's Covenant Affirmed

Siegel Sharon R.

ISBN: PB: 9781611684179, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This engaging book offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, philosophy, and social trends that underpin modern welcoming ceremonies for newborn girls in the Jewish community. Sharon R. Siegel traces the arc of these ceremonies from their em...

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Biography & Memoires

Christianity

Julian of Norwichologian, Theologian

Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300192551, ISBN: HB: 9780300163919, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

For centuries readers have comfortably adopted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner remedies this misapprehension, offering a sensitive new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues th...

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Judaism

Jacob Unexpected Patriarch

Zakovitch Yair

ISBN: HB: 9780300144260, Yale University Press, November 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

A powerful hero of the Bible, Jacob is also one of its most complex figures. Bible stories recounting his life often expose his deception, lies, and greed, then puzzlingly attempt to justify them. In this book an eminent biblical scholar looks at Jac...

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Judaism

Jewish Studies

Judaism A Way of Being

Gelernter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300168150, Yale University Press, April 2011
248 pp., 20.6x14 cm, 4 colour illus.

Written for observant and non-observant Jews and anyone interested in religion, this remarkable book by the distinguished scholar David Gelernter seeks to answer the deceptively simple question: What is Judaism really about? Gelernter views Judaism a...

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John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Islam

Jihadis' Path to Self-Destruction

Lahoud Nelly

ISBN: HB: 9781849040624, Hurst Publishers, September 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Are violent jihadis an enduring feature of modern international affairs, or do they hold in their own doctrines the seeds of self-destruction? Historical precedent suggests the latter. Jihadi ideologues have formulated an indiv...

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Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" A Casebook

Kimnach Wilson H., Maskell Caleb J. D., Minkema Kenneth P.

ISBN: PB: 9780300140385, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of "Sinners", accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon. With an introduction aimed at students and teachers and...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Jonah

Sasson Jack M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139709, Yale University Press, December 2007
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.

Were Jonah's experiences true to the history of ancient Israel? Were they meant to be read comically, philosophically, allegorically, symbolically, or realistically? And is God godly when acting beyond the comprehension of prophets, let alone ordinar...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Joshua

Boling Robert G., Wright Ernest G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139440, Yale University Press, December 2007
612 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.

"Joshua" began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright's death, Professor Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finis...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Judith

Moore Carey A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139952, Yale University Press, December 2007
316 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

"Judith" is Volume 40 in the acclaimed anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testaments" and "Apocrypha". In the "Apocrypha", Judith is the saint who murdered for her people. She offered herself to Holofernes, the A...

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