Alfred Edersheim (1825-1889) was born and reared in a Jewish home in Vienna. He was given a New Testament while studying medicine at the University of Pest (Budapest) and soon afterwards came to be...
Sexed Texts explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts that are often discussed separately, although in practice are cl...
Speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, is practiced in many different religions around the world. Dismissed as meaningless gibberish by some observers, it has been the subject of only a few fragmenta...
A man takes the Qur'an in his hand, carefully pronouncing each syllable of Arabic, repeating the language of Allah. A family gathers together to read the story of Christ's passion. A young nun pore...
This book is a collection of the 2004, 2005 and 2006 annual reports as well as some additional statistics on 2007 compiled by Moscow's SOVA Center for Information and Analysis. The reports are devo...
We know more about Paul of Tarsus than we know about any other New Testament author. During his lifetime he was also one of the most controversial figures in early Christianity. He was a Pharisee, ...
Life-Changing Attitudes Mark the Lives of Inspiring Women from Yesterday to Today
A godly woman is marked by a godly attitude. Dorothy Kelley Patterson looks to the Bible for the timeless principl...
This volume investigates the plots of the Genesis stories. Rather than fragmenting Genesis into hypothetical sources and reading each in
isolation from the others, as has often been the case in sch...
Today, there is renewed interest in the history and traditions of the patriarchal period. Recent publications have sought, among other things, to show that the biblical patriarchs were a literary, ...
""Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels will open the next stage in Synoptic studies. Mack and Robbins have returned synoptic criticism to the road it missed when Bultmann and Dibelius decided to i...
Using the catastrophic failure of the drugs prohibition policy in Ireland as a case study, this book exposes the illusory foundations of the monolithic and seemingly invincible international system...
In democracies throughout the industrialised world, political systems are everywhere beginning to unravel, and thinking people - even amongst our leaders - are uncertain of the reason why. Whilst m...