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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 …

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…

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…

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 …

St. Radegunde of Poitiers' Treatise of Consolation to Lepers

This book presents the first English translation of an important early work on the subject of disability and human suffering. Dating from about the sixth century AD, and previously unidentified or attribu…

Unruly Books

This volume explores the idea of the unruly book, from books now known by their titles alone to books that subverted structures of power and gender. The contributors show how these books functioned as &qu…

Barbara Thompson (1944-2022)

Everlasting Flame

Olivia Church

Pagan Portals - Osiris

Dip below the Nile's surface to the realm of ancient Egypt's green-faced God of life, death, and rebirth. Known to the Greeks as Osiris, Wesir is one of ancient Egypt's most enduring deities, worshipped f…

Brett Kaufman

Phoenicia, Carthage, and Popular Government in the Pre-Classical Mediterranean

From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people's will. Yet today, while Phoenician influence on the Graeco-Roman worlds ha…

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…

Steven B Cowan, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan

Life After Death

Presents four distinct perspectives on life after death.

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 …

Stephen Harrison,

The Neo-Latin Verse of Urban VIII, Alexander VII and Leo XIII

"A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poem…

Michael J Lichens

Weird Catholic Handbook

Dive into the fascinating and overlooked aspects of the Catholic faith with Weird Catholic Handbook by Michael Lichens. This book takes you on a Chestertonian romp through the peculiar and intriguing elem…

Carl P E Springer,

The Latin Verse of Martin Luther

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of …

The Renaissance Papacy's Projects of Religious Reform between Ancient Christianity and "Catholic Orientalism"

Within the framework of a research project aimed at a systematic reconstruction of the ideology of Papacy in the years 1431-1549 (PRIN 2022 2022BXT33X) this volume takes the Renaissance Church as an insti…

Christopher D. Wallis

Tantra Illuminated: The Philosophy, History, and Practice of a Timeless Tradition

Tantra Illuminated takes the reader on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West s discovery of Tantra 100 y…

Robert Morkot

A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt

Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates how, under the pharaohs of the New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070 BCE), Egypt rose to be the larg…