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...

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...

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...

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...

A new translation and commentary on I Maccabees that offers a fresh interpretation of the author's values and purpose. First Maccabees, composed in the second century BCE, chronicles four decades of clashes between Hellenistic Syria and Judea, from...

The extraordinary story of the Popish Plot and how it shaped the political and religious future of Britain. In 1678, a handful of perjurers claimed that the Catholics of England planned to assassinate the king. Men like the "Reverend Doctor" Titus O...

A leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening Before the early twentieth century, scientists and theologians knew almost nothing about time's enormity and the correspo...

A new translation and commentary on the extracanonical Coptic text that describes Judas' special status among Jesus' disciples. Since its publication in 2006, "The Gospel of Judas" has generated remarkable interest and debate among scholars and gene...