Among the predominantly Hebrew collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls are twenty-nine compositions penned in Aramaic. While such Aramaic writings were ...

The Elephant Talks to God is an endearing collection of whimsical tales in which a young elephant forages for answers to that age-old existential p...

The first monograph to examine the eschatological discourse of First Thessalonians. It also represents the first analysis of fundamental representa...

The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages cover...

The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages cover...

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...

"This is a wonderful anthology . Its texts not only span the whole of Luther's reforming career, but also cover the theological, political, and soc...

"This is a wonderful anthology . Its texts not only span the whole of Luther's reforming career, but also cover the theological, political, and soc...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequentl...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequentl...

An evocative and thought-provoking collection of poetry that reveals more to the reader with each reread. Clara Joseph covers a wide range of theme...

This volume is a festschrift in honor of Steven Fraade, the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University. The contributions to...

It is necessary to enter into some explanation as regards the contents of this work, originally published in 1880. It does not fall in with its pla...

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books-- Great Learning , Analects , Mencius , and Maintaining Perfect Ba...

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books-- Great Learning , Analects , Mencius , and Maintaining Perfect Ba...

Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion's cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By "religion" he...

For most of the front pages that follow, my inspiration has been twofold - to elaborate some touching story from my everyday life experience, howev...

"Written by a group of internationally acclaimed researchers in empirical theology and religious studies, this book presents the reader with a stat...

Often the birth of a child can prompt parents to turn more intentionally to God. They think about nurturing their child's faith, but soon discover ...

Children are denied basic human rights worldwide. The cultural and social disadvantage is an ethical and political scandal! A closer look reveals t...

Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This ...

For many decades, Sr Veronica Brady, IBVM, has been a gadfly to political and ecclesiastical princes and their entourages. For those parched for re...

In recent decades New Testament scholarship has developed an increasing interest in how the Gospel of John interacts with literary conventions of g...

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (T12P), one of the longest texts of the so-called Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, presents the fictitious far...