The apostle Paul's letter to his friend and fellow Christian Philemon, which focuses on the question of slavery, has long inspired debate. Onesimus, one of Philemon's slaves and a Christian himself, has left his master's house and sought refuge with...

"The Letter to Titus", one of the three "Pastoral Epistles" of the New Testament, has over the last twenty years become the ground of intense controversy – theologically, sociologically, even politically. For this letter (like its companions, "I and...

In A. D. 49, Paul traveled to Thessalonica, a major city in northern Greece, to preach the gospel. A small group of manual laborers responded positively to his message, resulting in the formation of a church. After spending less than three months wit...

At the beginning of his academic career, author Jacob Milgrom determined to make his lifework a probing study of the "Laws of the Torah". Here, with "Leviticus 1-16", the first of three volumes on Leviticus, he has reached the pinnacle of his long pu...

This volume is a new translation, introduction and commentary on the book of law that shaped the religion in Israel.

Jacob Milgrom, a rabbi and Bible scholar, has devoted the bulk of his career to examining the laws of the Torah. His incisive commentary on Leviticus, which began with "Leviticus 1-16", continues in this last volume of three. It provides an authorita...

For sale in CIS only! Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, the few reliable works of history that have appeared on Kashmir insist ahistorically on the existence of a unique Kashmir cultural identity. This text question...