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  • Creating Judaism

    History, Tradition, Practice

    by Michael Satlow ...
    How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting snapshots of Judaism from around the globe and throughout history, Satlow explores the links between vastly ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • How the Bible Became Holy

    by Michael L Satlow ...
    In this startling reinterpretation of biblical history, a leading scholar shows how the Bible became the sacred text it is todayIn this sweeping narrative, Michael Satlow tells the fascinating story of how an ancient collection of obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith. Drawing on cutting-edge historical and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Enchanted World

    The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity

    by Michael L. Satlow ...
    Uncovering the vibrant spiritual life of Late AntiquityIn Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary people, religion was not found in temples, synagogues, and churches, but in lived experience as they interacted with the supernatural in a world of uncertainty and danger. In An Enchanted World, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Judaism and the Economy

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Michael L. Satlow ...
    Judaism and the Economy is an edited collection of sixty-nine Jewish texts relating to economic issues such as wealth, poverty, inequality, charity, and the charging of interest. The passages cover the period from antiquity to the present, and represent many different genres. Primarily fresh translations, from their original languages, many appear here in English for the first time. Each is ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Gift in Antiquity

    Edited by Michael Satlow ...
    Series Book 16 - Ancient World: Comparative Histories
    “The Gift in Antiquity is an exciting and learned dialogue with Marcel Mauss’s The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, published ninety years ago. The essays engage Mauss’s model, offering critique and nuance, and sometimes push Mauss’s insights far beyond what he had imagined. While many anthologies are useful for the one or two essays they contain, this volume offers a ... Read more

    $113.00 USD

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  • The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

    by Thomas Troward ...
    First published in 1909, “The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science” is the ground-breaking and influential work on the power of the mind by English author and jurist Thomas Troward. Largely credited with helping to create the New Thought Movement and the philosophy of the Science of the Mind, Troward’s work is cited by Ernest Holmes, Joseph Murphy, Emmett Fox, and others as a major influence on ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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  • The Azusa Street Mission and Revival

    The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement

    by Cecil M. Robeck ...
    In The Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. brings to bear expertise from decades of focused study in church history to reveal the captivating story of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, which became known as the Azusa Street Mission.Sometimes the largest blaze begins with the tiniest spark.At the dawn of the twentieth century, William J. Seymour, the son of Louisiana ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Literature and the Gods

    by Roberto Calasso ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature.From the banishment of the classical divinities ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Essential Gnostic Scriptures

    by Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer ...
    The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Reading Greek

    Text and Vocabulary

    by Joint Association of Classical Teachers ...
    Series series Reading Greek
    First published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume contains a narrative adapted ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • This Is My God

    by Herman Wouk ...
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author shares a "valuable, wise, and quietly moving" meditation on orthodox Judaism ( Chicago Tribune ).Renowned for his sweeping historical novels such as The Cain Mutiny and The Winds of War, Herman Wouk now presents a brilliantly distilled examination of his own religious faith. A miracle of brevity, This Is My God guides readers through the world's oldest practicing. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Augustine's Confessions

    A Biography

    by Garry Wills ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD