Ezra
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300149692,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
504 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
504 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A new translation and commentary on the biblical book of Ezra by the renowned author of two award-winning biblical commentaries.
The book of Ezra is a remarkable testament to a nation's ability to survive and develop a distinctive identity under im...
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Three Powers in Heaven
The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways
ISBN: HB: 9780300263329,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions.
How, when, and why did Christianity and Judaism become separate religions? This book reinterprets the parting of the wa...
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Queens of the Wild
Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
ISBN: PB: 9780300273342,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
256 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
256 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day.
In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christia...
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Holy War
The Untold Story of Catholic Italy's Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
ISBN: PB: 9781805260240,
ISBN: HB: 9781787384774,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2023
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 illus.
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 illus.
For sale in CIS only!
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022
That Mussolini wished to conquer Abyssinia is well known; that Italy's Catholic Church also sought the eradication of the venerable Ethiopian Orthodox Church is not.
In 1935, Fascist Italy...
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Syriac World
In Search of a Forgotten Christianity
ISBN: HB: 9780300253535,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 68 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 68 black&white illus.
A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity over three thousand years.
Syriac is often referred to as the third main language of Christianity, along with Latin and Greek, and it remains a foundational classical, literary, and religious language t...
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Micah
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300159950,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
A new translation and commentary on the biblical book of Micah that proposes a convincing new theory of its composition history.
While the biblical book of Micah is most famous for its images of peace – swords forged into to plowshares, spears turn...
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50.00 GBP
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New Testament
A Translation (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300265705,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
648 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
648 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The second edition of David Bentley Hart's critically acclaimed New Testament translation.
David Bentley Hart's translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a "remarkable feat" and as a "strange, disconcerting, radical v...
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Secret Gospel of Mark
A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate over Its Authenticity
ISBN: HB: 9780300254938,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
240 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
240 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in Christian history.
In 1958, at the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Saba just outside Jerusalem, Columbia University scholar Morton Smith claimed to...
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30.00 GBP
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Journeys to Heaven and Hell
Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300271041,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
A New York Times best-selling scholar's illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell.
From classics such as the Odyssey and the Aeneid to fifth-century Christian apocrypha, narratives that described guided...
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16.99 GBP
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Dissolution of the Monasteries
A New History
ISBN: PB: 9780300269956,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
720 pp., 20,3x13,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
720 pp., 20,3x13,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years – exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England.
Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious...
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