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Subtle Insights Concerning Radical Sacrifice
Knowledge and Practice Terry Eagleton
Sa’d ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi Terry Eagleton pursues the concept of
Translated, with an Introduction and Commentary, sacrifice through the history of human
by Y. Tzvi Langermann Translated, with an Introduction
thought, from antiquity to modernity, in
and Commentary, by Y. Tzvi Langermann
religion, politics, and literature. He sheds
Written in the mid-thirteenth century for
skewed perceptions of the idea, honing in
the newly appointed governor of Isfahan,
on a radical structural reconception that
this compact treatise includes an acces-
relates the ancient world to our own in
sible set of essays on ethics, psychology,
terms of civilization and violence.
political philosophy, and the unity of God.
Paperback available in April 2020
Ibn Kammuna, a Jewish scholar writing
Paper 2020 216 pp.
in Baghdad, argued the commonality
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of all monotheisms, both prophetic and
philosophical.
WORLD THOUGHT IN TRANSLATION
New
HC - Paper over Board 2019 216 pp. Why We Believe
978-0-300-20369-1 $85.00 Evolution and the Human Way of Being
Agustín Fuentes
Against the Academics Why are so many humans religious? Why
St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, do we daydream, imagine, and hope? This
Volume 1 fascinating and urgent book argues that
Translation, Annotation, and Commentary by
belief—the ability to commit passionately
Michael P. Foley
and wholeheartedly to an abstract idea—is
central to the human way of being in the
The first four works written by St. Au-
world.
gustine of Hippo after his conversion to
FOUNDATIONAL QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE
Christianity are the influential “Cassiciacum
dialogues.” In this first dialogue, expertly Hardcover 2019 280 pp. 8 b/w illus.
translated by Michael Foley, Augustine and 978-0-300-24399-4 $28.00
his interlocutors explore the history and
teachings of Academic skepticism. & The New Cosmic Story
Hardcover 2019 352 pp. Inside Our Awakening Universe
978-0-300-23851-8 $60.00 John F. Haught
In this inviting and thought-provoking
On the Happy Life book a foremost thinker on the intersec-
St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, tion of science and religion argues that an
Volume 2 adequate understanding of cosmic history
Translation, Annotation, and Commentary by
cannot be based on science alone. It must
Michael P. Foley
also take into account the implications of
the awakening of interiority and religious
The first four works written by St. Augustine
awareness.
of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity
Hardcover 2017 240 pp.
are the influential “Cassiciacum dialogues.”
In this second dialogue, expertly translated 978-0-300-21703-2 $25.00
by Michael Foley, Augustine discusses the
nature of happiness, concluding that the On Faith and Science
truly happy life consists of “having God” Edward J. Larson and Michael Ruse
through faith, hope, and charity. A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and a
Hardcover 2019 232 pp. philosopher of science share their unique
978-0-300-23852-5 $60.00 perspectives on the often contentious
relationship between science and religion,
in an accessible and enlightening historical
survey of the key debates and controver-
sies surrounding cosmology, geology,
evolution, neurobiology, the environment,
and more.
Hardcover 2017 312 pp.
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New Books by David Bentley Hart:
The Essential Works of New
Thomas More
That All Shall Be Saved
Thomas More Edited by Gerard B. Wegemer
Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
and Stephen W. Smith
David Bentley Hart
In this book, Wegemer and Smith assem-
ble More’s most important works for the David Bentley Hart makes the case that
first time in a single volume.This volume nearly two millennia of dogmatic tradition
includes a comprehensive selection of key have misled readers on the crucial matter
works on theology, political philosophy, of universal salvation. On the basis of the
and law, as well as his poetry and prose. earliest Christian writings, theological
HC - Paper over Board tradition, scripture, and logic, Hart argues
2020 1,520 pp. 102 b/w illus. that if God is the good creator of all, he is
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the savior of all, without fail.
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Restless Secularism 978-0-300-24622-3 $26.00
Modernism and the Religious Inheritance
Now available in paperback
Matthew Mutter
Through a study of Wallace Stevens, & The New Testament
Virginia Woolf, and other major writers, this A Translation
thoughtful and provocative survey of mod- David Bentley Hart
ernist literature explores how modernism From one of our most celebrated writers
understood the far-reaching consequenc- on religion comes this fresh, bold, and
es of secularism for key fields of experi- unsettling new translation of the New
ence: language, aesthetics, emotion, and Testament. David Bentley Hart has pro-
material life. duced a pitilessly literal translation, one
HC - Paper over Board 2017 336 pp. that captures the texts’ sometimes raw,
978-0-300-22173-2 $85.00 astonished, and halting prose.
Paper 2019 648 pp.
& Before Religion 978-0-300-24844-9 $22.00
A History of a Modern Concept
Brent Nongbri & The Experience of God
Surveying representative episodes from a Being, Consciousness, Bliss
two-thousand-year period, while constantly David Bentley Hart
attending to the concrete social, political, Are those who ferociously debate the exis-
and colonial contexts that shaped relevant tence of God even arguing about the same
works of philosophers, legal theorists, thing? What is God? A revered religious
missionaries, and others, Brent Nongbri scholar brings reason to the discussion,
offers a concise and readable account of exploring how the world’s major religions
the emergence of the concept of religion. define God and demolishing misconcep-
Paper 2015 288 pp. tions that confuse the conversation.
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& Atheist Delusions
The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable
Our e-book editions are
Enemies
available from most major David Bentley Hart
e-book stores, including Hart dismantles distorted religious “histo-
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Richard Dawkins, and counters their
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polemics with a brilliant account of Christi-
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the most revolutionary movement in all of
Western history.
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& Seven Ways of Looking & An Introduction to the New
at Religion Testament
The Major Narratives The Abridged Edition
Benjamin Schewel Raymond E. Brown; Edited and Abridged by
Benjamin Schewel organizes and evaluates Marion L. Soards
the prevalent narratives of religious history A third the length of the original, this
that scholars are advancing today. Ranging long-awaited abridgement of Raymond
from Martin Heidegger to Muhammad Brown’s classic and best-selling master-
Iqbal, and from Daniel Dennett to Charles piece maintains its essence without tam-
Taylor, he offers an incisive, broad, and pering with the insights, conclusions, or
original perspective on religion in the centrist interpretation of the scholar widely
modern world. acknowledged in his lifetime as a paragon
Hardcover 2017 248 pp. of New Testament studies.
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Christianity and the New Spirit 978-0-300-17312-3 $28.00
of Capitalism
Kathryn Tanner An Introduction to the New
In this significant reimagining of Max Testament
Weber’s classic The Protestant Ethic and Raymond E. Brown
the Spirit of Capitalism, Kathryn Tanner
This gifted communicator conveys the
provocatively reverses Weber’s thesis,
heartfelt concern of a beloved teacher
arguing that Christianity can offer a direct
for his students, as he walks the reader
challenge to the largely uncontested
through the basic content and issues of
growth of finance-dominated capitalism.
the New Testament. Those opening to the
Hardcover 2019 256 pp.
New Testament for the first time and those
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more in a primer to the Christian Bible.
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On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, 978-0-300-14016-3 $75.00
and Sin
Lauren F. Winner The House of the Mother
In this bracing book, Lauren Winner The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical
provocatively exposes the violent history of Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
the Eucharist and prayer, and argues that Cynthia R. Chapman
the violence those practices have done is Drawing on twenty years of research,
characteristic of and intrinsic to them. Cynthia Chapman challenges traditional
Hardcover 2018 240 pp. 1 b/w illus. scholarship on Israelite kinship, arguing
978-0-300-21582-3 $28.00 that maternal kinship bonds played key
social, economic, and political roles for
sons who aspired to inherit their father’s
household. This revelatory work offers a
Our e-book editions are new critical angle on social life in ancient
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Literary Theory and the New & Kinship by Covenant
Testament A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment
Michal Beth Dinkler of God’s Saving Promises
In this important and illuminating book, Scott W. Hahn
Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary lit- Canonical scriptures were created over
erary theory to enhance our understanding many centuries by disparate authors work-
and interpretation of the New Testament ing in a variety of genres. Even so, they
texts. Her indispensable work asserts the are unified by an overarching concern for
need for a nuanced literary approach to the divine covenants and what they mean
fuel fresh thinking about New Testament for God’s people, shows Scott Hahn in this
texts as both ancient and literary. deeply researched volume.
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Ezekiel 38-48 How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?
A New Translation with Introduction and A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study
Commentary
Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten
Stephen L. Cook How old is the Hebrew Bible? The question
The final sections of Ezekiel comprise has been debated for centuries, and has
some of the most challenging texts of not been immune from theological or
scripture. This welcome and innovative political bias. Drawing on key linguis-
translation from Stephen L. Cook offers a tic, textual, and historical research, two
new approach to these passages, which scholars provide compelling evidence that
detail God’s utopian temple and the end- will create a new standard for the historical
time assault of Gog of Magog on Israel. study of the Bible.
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Amos New
A New Translation with Introduction and Jewish Christianity
Commentary
The Making of the Christianity-Judaism
Göran Eidevall Divide
Based on a synthesis of new research Matt Jackson-McCabe
and perspectives, this much-needed new
In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-
translation and commentary challenges
McCabe argues that the modern concept
traditional ideas of the genesis, form, and
of Jewish Christianity represents an
meaning of the book of Amos.
enduring legacy of Christian apologetics.
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He skillfully shows how a category that
Hardcover 2017 312 pp. 3 b/w illus. began as a way to reimagine the apolo-
978-0-300-17878-4 $65.00 getic notion of an authoritative “original
Christianity” continues to cause problems
in the contemporary study of Jewish and
Christian antiquity.
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Among the Gentiles A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the
Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity Historical Jesus, Volume V
Luke Timothy Johnson Probing the Authenticity of the Parables
An acclaimed scholar presents a John P. Meier
fundamentally new conception of the In this eagerly anticipated fifth volume of
relationship between Christianity and the A Marginal Jew, the foremost authority
Paganism of Greece and Rome. on the historical Jesus challenges the
Winner of the 2011 Grawemeyer Award long-standing consensus on the parables
in Religion in the Synoptic Gospels. With his signature
THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY rigor and insight, John Meier argues that
Paper 2010 480 pp. only four of the parables can be attributed
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Matthew within Sectarian
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Judaism
John Kampen
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the
In this masterful study of what has long
been considered the “most Jewish”
Historical Jesus, Volume IV
gospel, John Kampen deftly argues that Law and Love
the Gospel of Matthew advocates for a John P. Meier
distinctive Jewish sectarianism. Never In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume
before has a scholar so exhaustively in the Marginal Jew Series, John P. Meier
employed the contents of the Dead Sea corrects misconceptions about Mosaic Law
Scrolls in the service of reading Matthew. in Jesus’ time and addresses the teachings
THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce,
Hardcover 2019 344 pp. oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and
978-0-300-17156-3 $65.00 the various love commandments in the
Gospels.
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& Alexander to Constantine
Cloth 2009 752 pp. 2 maps
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible,
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Volume III
Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey
This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive
Ancient Christian Martyrdom
introduction is destined to become the Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions
standard book on biblical archaeology Candida R. Moss
from Alexander the Great’s conquest to In this innovative study, Candida Moss
Constantine’s reign. offers a radically new history of martyr-
THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY dom in the first and second centuries that
Paper 2014 400 pp. challenges traditional understandings of
17 color + 170 b/w illus. + 10 maps the spread of Christianity and rethinks the
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Philo of Alexandria New
An Intellectual Biography Becoming Diaspora Jews
Maren R. Niehoff Behind the Story of Elephantine
Anyone grappling with multiculturalism Karel van der Toorn
today, as well as historians and students of The colony that lived at Elephantine Island
classics, Jewish studies, and early Christi- in the fifth century bce is an icon of the
anity, will profit from this pioneering intel- Jewish diaspora, but their story is hardly
lectual biography of one of the Hellenistic familiar. Karel van der Toorn studies an
world’s most prolific philosophers. unexplored papyrus to shed light on their
Winner of the Polonsky Prize for Originality history.
and Creativity sponsored by Hebrew THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY
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& A Social History of Hebrew
Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
William M. Schniedewind
Saul M. Olyan
An ambitious and strikingly original
The study of friendship in the Hebrew study of classical Hebrew, from its origins
Bible, long overlooked by scholars, offers through the Rabbinic period, this book
a rich way to understand the constellation combines linguistics and social history
of social relationships represented in to view the story of the ancient Israelites
biblical texts. In this original, comprehen- through the lens of their language.
sive analysis, biblical scholar Saul M. Olyan
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draws on a wide range of texts to provide a
Cloth 2013 280 pp.
complex cross disciplinary view of biblical
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friendship.
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Hardcover 2017 208 pp. Revelation and Authority
978-0-300-18268-2 $50.00 Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
Benjamin D. Sommer
The Temple in Early Christianity Biblical scholar Benjamin Sommer’s illumi-
Experiencing the Sacred nating study of Pentateuchal theology and
contemporary Jewish thought offers a bold
Eyal Regev
and thought-provoking view of biblical
A full-scale discussion and interpretation
revelation and the authority of God’s law
of the importance of the Jewish Temple
that bolsters the theologies of thinkers
in the thought and practice of Jesus and
such as Abraham Joshua Heschel and
early Christianity, this work will enable both
Franz Rosenzweig.
Jews and Christians to better understand
Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award
their respective faiths and how each grows
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out of this once crucial institution.
Paper 2018 440 pp.
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Hardcover 2019 496 pp.
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Apocalypse as Holy War
Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters
of Paul
Emma Wasserman
In a world that rebels against God, a
For a full listing of titles cataclysmic battle between good and evil
is needed to reassert God’s dominion. This
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What Are Biblical Values? Job
What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues A New Translation
John J. Collins Edward L. Greenstein
In this eye-opening book, one of the Edward Greenstein’s new translation of
world’s leading biblical scholars examines Job is a major reinterpretation of this text
what the Bible actually says, what values by one of the world’s foremost authorities
the Bible actually affirms, on several key on the book. Drawing on nearly a half
issues, including the right to life, gender, century of study and through painstaking
the role of women, the environment, analysis, Greenstein offers a provocative,
slavery and liberation, violence and zeal, highly insightful, and beautiful take on this
and social justice. canonical text.
Hardcover 2019 296 pp. Hardcover 2019 248 pp.
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& Charity The Ten Commandments
The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition A Short History of an Ancient Text
Gary A. Anderson Michael Coogan
The acclaimed author of Sin: A History here In this lively and provocative book, a
turns his attention to the essential role of leading biblical scholar investigates the
charity in the Judeo-Christian tradition, history of the Ten Commandments, their
how it has been clouded in modern times, inconsistencies, their afterlives, and more
and what the Bible asserts about alms- to arrive at surprising conclusions.
giving and its relation to the goodness of Paper 2015 192 pp. 9 b/w illus.
God’s creation. 978-0-300-21250-1 $18.00
Paper 2014 pp.
978-0-300-19883-6 $20.00
Divine Bodies
Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament
Bedouin Culture in the Bible and Early Christianity
Clinton Bailey Candida R. Moss
This groundbreaking book sheds original Drawing upon previously unexplored
light on significant points of convergence evidence in ancient medicine, philosophy,
between Bedouin and early Israelite cul- and culture, this illuminating book both
tures, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible. revisits central texts and mines virtual-
Bailey compares Bedouin and biblical ly ignored passages in the Gospels to
sources, identifying overlaps in economic show how the resurrection of the body
activity, material culture, social values, so- addresses larger questions about identity
cial organization, laws, religious practices, and the self.
and oral traditions. Hardcover 2019 208 pp.
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How the Bible Became Holy
Holy Resilience Michael L. Satlow
The Bible’s Traumatic Origins Synthesizing an enormous body of scholar-
David M. Carr ly work, Professor Satlow’s groundbreaking
A provocative reinterpretation of the study offers provocative new assertions
Bible’s origins by an eminent biblical schol- about how an ancient collection of seem-
ar suggests that catastrophic trauma gave ingly obscure Israelite writings became
birth to the holy scriptures of Judaism and the founding texts of both Judaism and
Christianity, and examines how the Bible’s Christianity, considered holy by followers
ability to speak to human suffering has en- of each faith.
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Having the Spirit of Christ Now available in paperback
Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early
Christ Groups
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The First Generation
Giovanni B. Bazzana
Paula Fredriksen
The earliest Christian writings are filled
with stories of possession and exorcism, How did a group of charismatic Jewish
which were crucial for the activity of the missionaries, working to prepare their
historical Jesus and for the practice of his world for God’s coming kingdom, end up
earliest followers. This book approaches becoming the foundation of the gentile
possession from a different angle by using church? In this electrifying history, Paula
a comparative lens that includes contem- Fredriksen uncovers the social and spiritual
porary ethnographies of possession across dynamics embedded in the New Testa-
cultures. ment documents, revealing the story of
when Christians were Jews.
Hardcover 2020 336 pp.
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& Paul
Christ’s Associations
The Pagans’ Apostle
Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City
Paula Fredriksen
John S. Kloppenborg
History sees Paul as a founder of Chris-
Drawing on the author’s decade of re-
tianity. But Paul saw himself as Christ’s
search on associative practices throughout
messenger, living and working in history’s
the ancient world, this innovative study
final hour. By situating Paul in his complex
sheds new light on the structure of early
social world of Jews and pagans, angels
Christian groups. John S. Kloppenborg
and demons, gods and humans, Paula
situates the Christian associations in a
Fredriksen offers a compelling new portrait
broad historical context and reshapes the
of the apostle.
perception of Christ groups in the first
Winner of the 2018 Prose Award in Theology
three centuries of the Common Era.
and Religious Studies
Hardcover 2019 536 pp. 27 b/w illus.
Paper 2018 336 pp.
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New
& Augustine and the Jews
Star Stories A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
Constellations and People
Paula Fredriksen
Anthony Aveni
Fredriksen’s provocative book traces the
A world expert on cultural understandings social and intellectual forces that led to
of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an the development of Christian anti-Juda-
unconventional atlas of the night sky. Per- ism and shows how and why Augustine
fect reading for all storytellers, this book challenged this toxic tradition.
of indigenous and non-Western constella-
Paper 2010 528 pp.
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of mythologies, showing how different
cultures can produce varying tales about
the patterns in the sky.
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How the Gospels Became History The Christians Who Became Jews
Jesus and Mediterranean Myths Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the
M. David Litwa Roman City
Like most ancient—and modern—people, Christopher Stroup
early Christians made efforts to present This innovative work explores the depic-
their myths in the most believable ways. In tion of Jewish and Christian identity in
this eye-opening book, M. David Litwa ex- Acts of the Apostles by analyzing ethnicity
plores how and why what later became the within a broader context. Examining Acts
four canonical gospels take on a historical through a new lens, Christopher Stroup
cast that remains vitally important for many shows that the text presents Jewish identity
Christians today. in multiple, complex ways, in order to legit-
Hardcover 2019 312 pp. imate the Jewishness of Christians.
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That One Should Disdain
Hardships One True Life
The Teachings of a Roman Stoic The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival
Traditions
Musonius Rufus; Translated by Cora E. Lutz;
With an Introduction by Gretchen Reydams- C. Kavin Rowe
Schils In a unique, cross-disciplinary merging of
At a time of renewed interest in Stoicism, philosophy and biblical studies, a New
this collection of Musonius Rufus’s lectures Testament scholar reconceives the
and sayings, as recorded by his contempo- relationship between Stoic philosophy
raries, offers readers access to the thought and early Christianity as a rivalry between
of one of history’s most influential and strong truth-seeking traditions and main-
remarkable Stoic teachers. tains that a commitment to one particular
Available in February 2020
form of philosophical life offers the surest
Hardcover 2020 160 pp.
path to existential truth.
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God’s Library Mary in Early Christian Faith and
Devotion
The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian
Manuscripts Stephen J. Shoemaker
Brent Nongbri
For the first time the full story of the emer-
gence and development of the Marian
In this bold and groundbreaking book,
cult in early Christianity comes to light in a
Brent Nongbri vividly shows that the
fascinating work of theological scholarship
earliest Christian books are more than just
that challenges many conventional beliefs
carriers of texts or samples of handwriting.
surrounding the subject of Mary, Mother
They are three-dimensional archaeological
of God.
artifacts with fascinating stories to tell, if
Cloth 2016 304 pp.
we’re willing to listen.
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Winner of the 2019 George A. and Jean S.
DeLong History Book Prize
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the origins of religious freedom and liberty
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1870–1945 The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker
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Between 1870 and 1945, a number of Dmitry Shumsky
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Moses Mendelssohn’s Hebrew New
Writings Theodor Herzl
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Annotated by Edward Breuer and David Sorkin Derek Penslar
Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was How did Theodor Herzl, a cosmopolitan
one of the most influential thinkers of the and assimilated European Jew, become
Enlightenment and a writer whose Hebrew the leader of the Zionist movement?
writings have not been widely available Drawing on a vast body of Herzl’s writings,
in English. Generously annotated, this historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzl’s
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Jewish Materialism Rav Kook
The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s
Mystic in a Time of Revolution
Eliyahu Stern
Yehudah Mirsky
Set against the revolutionary backdrop of
This insightful biography of Abraham
mid-nineteenth-century Europe, this orig-
Isaac Kook, the first chief rabbi of Jewish
inal, revisionist account of Jewish moder-
Palestine and the founding theologian of
nity unearths the path that led a group of
religious Zionism, recounts the extraor-
scientists, rabbis, communal leaders, and
dinary events of his life and examines his
political upstarts to reconstruct the core
teachings and complicated legacy.
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twentieth-century revolutionary politics.
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The Genius
Moses
Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern
A Human Life
Judaism
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Eliyahu Stern
In this compelling book an eminent Jewish
This book offers a new narrative of modern
scholar offers draws on an array of modern
Jewish history based on the life and legacy
literary and psychoanalytic materials to
of the most influential modern rabbinic
enrich our understanding of the baby set
figure, the eighteenth-century rabbi Elijah
adrift on the Nile who became the leader
ben Solomon, known as the Vilna Gaon.
and lawgiver of his people.
Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie
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Heyman Prize
Paperback available in March 2020
Paper 2014 336 pp.
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Jabotinsky
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and ‘30s sets aside stereotypes that have
miscast him and reveals the full extent
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Hayim Nahman Bialik New
Poet of Hebrew Who Is an Evangelical?
Avner Holtzman The History of a Movement in Crisis
This eloquent biography investigates Thomas S. Kidd
the dramatic life of the most venerated In this illuminating book, Thomas Kidd
Hebrew poet. Bialik achieved widespread draws on his expertise in American reli-
success in the Hebrew reading community gious history to renarrate the arc of evan-
worldwide, and especially in Jewish Pales- gelicalism. It is a must-read for those trying
tine. This studied account reveals both the to better understand the shifting religious
full glory and profound tragedy of Bialik’s life. and political landscape of America today.
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Benjamin Franklin
Martin Buber The Religious Life of a Founding Father
A Life of Faith and Dissent Thomas S. Kidd
Paul Mendes-Flohr As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin rejected
In this accessible biography, Mendes-Flohr his Calvinist upbringing in favor of deism.
situates Buber’s life and legacy in the intel- As an adult, he wrote prodigiously about
lectual and cultural life of German Jewry the evolution of his faith, yet maintained
and in the broader European intellectual close ties with devout Christians. Thomas
life of the first half of the twentieth century. S. Kidd’s rich biography explores the com-
JEWISH LIVES plex spiritual life of one of America’s most
Hardcover 2019 440 pp. 9 b/w illus. beloved figures.
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Soldier, Leader, Statesman
Itamar Rabinovich
American Dharma
Buddhism Beyond Modernity
In this insider’s account of Rabin’s life,
peace policies, and contributions, one of Ann Gleig
his closest aides provides extraordinary Recent decades have witnessed Buddhist
insights into the valiant efforts to resolve communities both continuing the mod-
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Oslo ernization of Buddhism and questioning
Accords, and the bitter consequences of its limitations. In this fascinating portrait
Rabin’s sudden death. of a rapidly changing religious landscape,
JEWISH LIVES Ann Gleig illuminates developments in
Paper 2018 304 pp. American Buddhism during a period she
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tion of Buddhism to the West.
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Menasseh ben Israel
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Rabbi of Amsterdam
Steven Nadler
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New New
World of Trouble The Trials of Thomas Morton
A Philadelphia Quaker Family’s Journey An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the
through the American Revolution Battle for a New England
Richard Godbeer Peter C. Mancall
This fascinating account of the American Peter C. Mancall’s account of Thomas
Revolution as experienced by a Philadelphia Morton—a lawyer and fur trader in colonial
Quaker couple, Elizabeth and Henry Drinker, Massachusetts who worked to create a
offers a rare firsthand look at how that con- society beneficial to both natives and colo-
flict affected colonists’ personal lives. nists—sheds new light on the tensions that
THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY defined the early American experience.
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& American Religion, Polygamy
American Politics An Early American History
An Anthology Sarah M. S. Pearsall
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Jon Butler the Mormons, polygamy played a broad
The contentious history of religion in role in debates surrounding politics,
American politics is explored in an an- domesticity, and the moral imperatives
thology of primary documents covering a of American society.
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America’s Religious Wars
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Esther Wheelwright Kathleen M. Sands
Ann M. Little
Approaching religion as a symbolic vehicle
Esther Wheelwright (1696–1780) was born for many American conflicts, Kathleen
among New England Protestants, was raised Sands explores the ways religion-talk sig-
by Native Americans, and came of age in a nals deep disagreements about the foun-
French-Canadian convent. Ann Little’s dations of our society while making those
absorbing biography explores one of colo- disagreements even harder to resolve.
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New Books by Gary Dorrien:
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A History
& Breaking White Supremacy
Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black
This comprehensive survey of Catholic
Social Gospel
history in what became the United States
Gary Dorrien
spans the period from the arrival of the first
Spanish missionaries to the present. Distin- Acclaimed scholar Gary Dorrien continues
guished historian Leslie Tentler focuses on the magisterial story he began with his
Catholics’ participation in American politics Grawemeyer Award winner, The New Ab-
and Catholic intellectual life in this engag- olition. Shifting his focus to Martin Luther
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the internationalist social gospel and its
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They Knew They Were Pilgrims
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American Liberty
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John G. Turner
Gary Dorrien
Drawing on original research using
This magisterial investigation of Chris-
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widespread use in modern politics, asking describes the early history of the black
us to reevaluate our national narratives and social gospel from its nineteenth-century
their reliance on a literary past. founding to its close association in the
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Books by Stephen Batchelor: An Autobiography or The Story
of My Experiments with Truth
New
A Critical Edition
The Art of Solitude
M. K. Gandhi; Translated by Mahadev Desai;
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rations of solitude. In a hyperconnected Best Spiritual Books of the 20th Century.”
world that is simultaneously plagued by This first critical edition by leading Gandhi
social isolation, he reminds us how to scholar Tridip Suhrud offers an unprec-
enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at edented window into one of the world’s
the heart of human life. most widely read books.
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Everyday Mysticism
Secular Buddhism A Contemplative Community at Work
Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World in the Desert
Stephen Batchelor Ariel Glucklich
From the classroom to the workplace to A noted religion scholar invites readers
the hospital room, mindfulness medita- into Neot Smadar, a dynamic farming com-
tion in the West has become a common munity and spiritual oasis that has thrived
practice. Many of its Western practitioners, for a quarter century in Israel’s arid Negev
however, do not identify as Buddhist. In desert by putting ancient Buddhist and
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