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Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian

In 362/363 the Roman emperor Julian composed a treatise titled Against the Galileans in which he set forth his reasons for abandoning Christianity and returning to devotion to the traditional Greco-Roman …

Elaine Pagels

Miracles and Wonder

"Over the past two thousand years, countless personalities have been projected onto the enigma we know as Jesus: a first-century rabbi, capable of miraculous healing, or a magician faking cures; a Pr…

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 5, Community

"This final volume focuses on the theme of community within early Christian writings-how Christians joined, managed, conceptualized and policed the community. It will be an invaluable resource for st…

What's in a Divine Name?

Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and tar…

Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

Judah D Galinsky

The Making of a Medieval Bestseller

This study is a history of a medieval bestseller--Rabbi Isaac of Corbeil's handbook of accessible religious law relevant to Jews living in the Diaspora in medieval times. Galinsky describes how it came in…

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute

After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

Mary Beard,

Die Kaiser von Rom

Der New York Times-Bestseller von Mary Beard über die römischen Kaiservon Augustus bis Caligula, von Nero, bis Vespasian. Nach ihrem Bestseller >>SPQR<< , in dem über den Senat und das Volk vo…

Yaron Eliav

A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institutio…

Philip Matyszak

Rome Before Rome

An in-depth exploration of the myths and legends of early Rome, highlighting the enigmatic origins of the Romans and how the first seeds of this vast empire were sown.

Jed W Atkins

The Christian Origins of Tolerance

This book presents an account of tolerance that differs from the standard liberal narrative. Jed Atkins recovers tolerance's beginnings in a forgotten North African Christian tradition from the first five…

Erica Weaver

The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Æth…

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume Two

Winner of the 2020 Biblical Foundations Book Award, ReferenceThe T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at sch…

El-Sayed El-Aswad

Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume One

This award-winning reference resource, with over 400 contributors from diverse academic backgrounds, provides the most complete guide to the literary, historical, and geographical contexts of early Judais…

Barbara Thompson (1944-2022)

Everlasting Flame

Roberta Mazza

Stolen Fragments

"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact - a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines …

Antonios Thodis

Beginning Again with the Classical Orders

On the Corinthian Column at the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae reconsiders well-established understandings of the ancient Greek Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic architectural orders. Antonios Thodis ex…

Sarah Bowden

Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …