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  • Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature

    by Luisa Banki, Katra Byram, Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Elke Heckner, Tess Scholfield-Peters, Naomi Sokoloff, Liat Steir-Livny, Dana Mihailescu, Sue Vice, Victoria Aarons1, Alan L. Berger2 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies. The contributors to this volume present a two-fold perspective: that the past continues to live in the lives of the third generation and that artistic responses to trauma assume a variety of genres, including ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Humanist Messenger for Peace

    by Alan L. Berger ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Americans
    Elie Wiesel: Humanist Messenger for Peace is part biography and part moral history of the intellectual and spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, author, university professor, and Nobel Peace Prize winner.In this concise text, Alan L. Berger portrays Wiesel’s transformation from a pre-Holocaust, deeply God-fearing youth to a survivor of the Shoah who was ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue

    After the Flood, before the Rainbow

    by Mary C. Boys, James Carroll, Donald J. Dietrich, Irving Greenberg, David Patterson, John T. Pawlikowski, John K. Roth, Elie Wiesel, Alan L. Berger, Amy-Jill Levine0 ...
    This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church has undergone a “reckoning of the soul,” beginning with its landmark document Nostra Aetate and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Elie Wiesel

    Teacher, Mentor, and Friend

    by Carol Rittner ...
    Elie Wiesel, plucked from the ashes of the Holocaust, became a Nobel Peace laureate, an activist on behalf of the oppressed, a teacher, an award-winning novelist, and a renowned humanist. He moved easily among world leaders but was equally at home among the disenfranchised. Following his Nobel Prize, Wiesel established the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity; one of their early initiatives was the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Quick Read, G. K. Chesterton ...
    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 6 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 16 minutes"Heretics" is a collection of 20 essays written by G. K. Chesterton and published in 1905. In these essays, Chesterton engages in extensive arguments against ... Read more

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  • The Book of "Genesis"

    A Biography

    by Ronald Hendel ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    During its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to almost every important claim about reality, humanity, and God in Judaism and Christianity. And it continues to play a central role in debates about science, politics, and human rights. With clarity and skill, acclaimed biblical scholar Ronald Hendel provides a panoramic history of this iconic book, exploring its impact on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Bible Doesn't Say That

    40 Biblical Mistranslations, Misconceptions, and Other Misunderstandings

    by Joel M. Hoffman ...
    A "witty and accessible look at Scripture" that explores what the Bible meant before two millennia of mistranslations and misinterpretations ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In this fascinating book, acclaimed translator and biblical scholar Dr. Joel M. Hoffman walks the reader through dozens of mistranslations, misconceptions, and other misunderstandings about the Bible. In forty short, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • For the Glory of God

    How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery

    by Rodney Stark ...
    Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture. Continuing his project of identifying the widespread consequences of monotheism, Stark shows that the Christian conception of God resulted--almost inevitably and for the same reasons--in the Protestant Reformation, the rise of modern science, the European ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Jewish Jesus

    How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

    by Peter Schäfer ...
    How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquityIn late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Inheriting Abraham

    The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own imagesJews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Jesus and Muhammad

    Parallel Tracks, Parallel Lives

    by F. E. Peters ...
    Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad, the first such in-depth comparison in print. Like a detective, Peters compiles "dossiers" of what we do and do not know about the lives and portraits ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • The Story of Hebrew

    by Lewis Glinert ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish stateThis book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most ... Read more

    $24.49 USD