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Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages by Sharon Farmer 9780816638949
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Exposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval cultures.Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period,... -
The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America by James Darsey 9780814719244
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a... -
A Former Jew: Paul and the Dialectics of Race by Love L. Sechrest 9780567689627
Booksplease Price: $71.80Sechrest describes Pauline Christianity as a nascent ancient racial group, drawing on a Jewish understanding of race in Second Temple Judaism. With analysis of nearly five thousand Jewish and... -
Queer Diasporas by Cindy Patton
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Queer Diasporas presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Speaking from a diverse... -
The Letters of Paul, Sixth Edition: Conversations in Context by Calvin J. Roetzel 9780664239992
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $53.55This is the sixth edition of the classic textbook that has been introducing Paul and his writing to seminary and undergraduate students for over forty years. Roetzel... -
St. Paul among the Philosophers by John D. Caputo
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48In his epistles, St. Paul sounded a universalism that has recently been taken up by secular philosophers who do not share his belief in Christ, but who regard his project as centrally important for... -
The New Yoder by Peter Dula 9780718892463
Booksplease Price: $65.34The work of John Howard Yoder has become increasingly influential in recent years. Moreover, it is gaining influence in some surprising places. No longer restricted to the world of theological... -
Lacan and the Matter of Origins by Shuli Barzilai
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83Lacan and the Matter of Origins traces the development of Lacan's thinking about the role of the mother in psychical formation. It examines the conceptual struggle throughout his work over issues of... -
Dinah's Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity by Helena Zlotnick 9780812217971
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The status of women in the ancient Judaism of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts has long been a contested issue. What does being a Jewess entail in antiquity? Men in ancient Jewish culture are... -
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered by Galit Hasan-Rokem 9780814340479
RRP: $76.05Booksplease Price: $61.91At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor... -
The Early Christian Book by William E. Klingshim 9780813215310
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29From the very beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on the ways in which books were produced, used, treasured, and... -
Three Powers in Heaven: The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways by Emanuel Fiano 9780300263329
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $114.17A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions How, when, and why did Christianity and Judaism diverge into separate... -
Mapping Jewish Identities by Laurence J. Silberstein 9780814797693
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35Is Jewish identity flourishing or in decline? Community leaders and scholarly researchers continually seek to determine the attitudes, beliefs, and activities that best measure Jewish identity. At... -
The Message of Paul the Apostle within Second Temple Judaism by Frantisek Abel 9781978706125
Booksplease Price: $178.80Noting that a traditional understanding of Paul as "convert" from Judaism has fueled false and often dangerous stereotypes of Judaism, and that the so-called "new perspective on Paul" has not... -
The Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture Laurence J. Silberstein 9780415913164
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space. Laurence J. Silberstein analyzes the phenomenon of postzionism and provides an... -
Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freuds Myth by Robert A. Paul 9780300206036
Booksplease Price: $60.04Freud's major cultural books, Totem and Taboo and Moses and Monotheism, have long been viewed as failed attempts at historical reconstruction. This book, by an anthropologist and practicing... -
The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies: Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography by Dale B. Martin
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the... -
God is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran Navid Kermani 9780745651675
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.08The melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas. In this important new book, the prominent German writer and... -
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond by Ania Loomba 9780822335238
Booksplease Price: $76.99An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its... -
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between by Marianne Constable
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $43.76For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the "wrong places"-sites and spaces in... -
Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens by Erin G. Carlston 9780231136723
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $190.61Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring... -
Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction by Rose L. Levinson 9781498519410
Booksplease Price: $85.33Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of... -
Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens by Erin G. Carlston 9780231136730
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $51.87Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring... -
Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction by Rose L. Levinson 9780739177723
Booksplease Price: $129.85Death of a Holy Land: Reflections in Contemporary Israeli Fiction, by Rose Levinson, uses the work of four contemporary Israeli authors as a lens into present-day Israel. Discussing the novels of... -
Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery by Sander L. Gilman 9780822321118
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $65.62Why do physicians who've taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her... -
Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud Ayelet Hoffmann Libson (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts) 9781108427494
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $167.97This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of... -
Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud by Ayelet Hoffmann Libson
Booksplease Price: $62.63This book examines the emergence of self-knowledge as a determining legal consideration among the rabbis of Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. Based on close readings of... -
A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics' by Antti Marjanen 9789004170384
Booksplease Price: $154.95The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as "heretics": Basilides, Sethianism,... -
Reading Renunciation: Asceticism and Scripture in Early Christianity by Elizabeth A. Clark
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $91.24A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, Reading Renunciation uses contemporary literary theory to unravel the writing strategies of the early Christian authors. Not a... -
Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud by Dr Michal Bar-Asher Siegal 9781107557109
Booksplease Price: $62.63This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels and connections between Christian monastic texts (the Apophthegmata... -
Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity Navid Kermani 9781509538713
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.71What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice... -
Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash by Richard Hidary 9781316628355
Booksplease Price: $62.63Training in rhetoric - the art of persuasion - formed the basis of education in the Roman Empire. The classical intellectual world centered around the debate between philosophers, who boasted... -
On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions by Jay Geller
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $33.68Through a symptomatic reading of Freud's corpus, from his letters to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, this book demonstrates how "circumcision"-the fetishized signifier... -
Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash by Richard Hidary 9781107177406
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $184.10Training in rhetoric - the art of persuasion - formed the basis of education in the Roman Empire. The classical intellectual world centered around the debate between philosophers, who boasted... -
Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity by Matthew Thiessen 9780190912703
RRP: $63.36Booksplease Price: $51.38Winner of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought on Jewishness, circumcision, and... -
The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians Bruce Longenecker 9781108836968
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $124.80In his letter to the Galatians, Paul sets out an astute vision of what God has done in Christ against the backdrop of a world out-of-joint, a world engulfed in identity-distorting domination systems... -
The Message of Paul the Apostle Within Second Temple Judaism by Frantisek Abel 9781978706149
Booksplease Price: $73.73Noting that a traditional understanding of Paul as "convert" from Judaism has fueled false and often dangerous stereotypes of Judaism, and that the so-called "new perspective on Paul" has not... -
Between Jews and Heretics: Refiguring Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho by Matthijs den Dulk
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho is the oldest preserved literary dialogue between a Jew and a Christian and a key text for understanding the development of early Judaism and Christianity. In... -
The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians Bruce Longenecker 9781108819480
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.71In his letter to the Galatians, Paul sets out an astute vision of what God has done in Christ against the backdrop of a world out-of-joint, a world engulfed in identity-distorting domination systems... -
Wonder Beyond Belief: On Christianity by Navid Kermani 9781509514847
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.91What happens when one of Germany's most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Kermani is awestruck by a religion full of sacrifice...