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Politics of Religion in Early Modern France

Bergin Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300207699, Yale University Press, October 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to...

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Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Hale Williams Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780226215303, ISBN: HB: 9780226899008, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings

In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its con...

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Christianity

Crusader States

Barber Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300208887, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 figures, 21 maps, 15 black&white illus.

When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God's favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God's p...

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"When You Were Gentiles" Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Paul's Corinthian Correspondence

Concannon Cavan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197938, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the Corinthians to Paul's letters. Based on surviving written materials and archaeological research, this book offers a textured portrait of the anci...

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Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus

Davis Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149456, Yale University Press, June 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika, or...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Judges 1-12 A New Translation

Sasson Jack M.

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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Islam

Christians, Muslims and Jesus

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300205275, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theologi...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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Empire of Religion Imperialism and Comparative Religion

Chidester David

ISBN: PB: 9780226117430, ISBN: HB: 9780226117263, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in "Empire of Religion", documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparati...

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