An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance. Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era – tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft...

The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed importance in American life, and it remains ongoing. So Gary Dorrien argues in his groundbreaking trilogy of books on the history of Black social Christianity. Following his Grawemeyer Award-winni...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder – told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle. Usama Bin Laden's greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda's secrets. At great risk to themsel...

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...

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...

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...