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The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives
This volume provides an introduction and essays on the four key sections of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of top female biblical scholars: Part...
$19.00
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A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Third Edition
A leading introduction to the Hebrew Bible John J. Collins's A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most popular introductory textbooks...
$49.00
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Women and the Christian Story: A Global History
For most of its history, Christianity has told its stories from the perspective of men. Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski foregrounds the story of Christian women for a new era. Be they powerful or nameless, saintly or flawed, women across two millennia and six continents are allowed to speak fully to their part in the spread of a global faith.
$39.00
Available October 18, 2022
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Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice: A Handbook for Teachers, Wayfarers, and Guides
This book provides a handbook of resources to aid the study and practice of pilgrimage for leaders and pilgrims. The first part of the book explores aspects of the pilgrimage phenomenon: philosophy, theology, anthropology, psychology, medieval literature, art history. The second part addresses specific pilgrimage experiences and contexts.
$24.00
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Women Reformers of Early Modern Europe: Profiles, Texts, and Contexts
This volume provides an expansive view of women negotiating their faith, voice, and agency in the religious scene of the sixteenth-century Reformations. Biographical chapters are accompanied by "in her voice" text samples, images, theme articles, and recommended readings. Features the work of thirty-four international experts in the field.
$45.00
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The Community Rules from Qumran: A Commentary
The Community Rule is an important document to emerge from Qumran. For fifty years after its discovery scholars relied predominantly on the well-preserved Cave 1 copy. Since the early 1990s, ten additional copies have become available. This is the first commentary to treat all the manuscript and the first in English since A. R. C. Leaney's in 1966.
$38.00
Available January 17, 2023
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The Promise of Not-Knowing: A New New Testament Reading
In The Promise of Not-Knowing, David Fredrickson challenges readers and interpreters of the New Testament to engage the text not simply for its usefulness or practicality, but rather to explore the text with a sense of mystery, expecting and hoping to have one's world shaken by the otherness that haunts the familiar.
$34.00
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Interconnections of Asian Diaspora: Mapping the Linkages and Discontinuities
This book paints a portrait of the widespread dispersion and establishment of distinctively Asian Christian communities in their places of settlement. The essays argue that migration has made Asian Christianity more global and explores how Asian-diaspora communities are playing a decisive role in transforming and advancing Christian faith.
$26.00
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The Prophets: Introducing Israel's Prophetic Writings
This textbook introduces the rise of prophecy in ancient Israel, possible ancient Near Eastern parallels, the messages of individual prophets, and the significance of the compositional and editorial history of the prophetic writings. The Prophets guides students into leading questions in contemporary scholarship and surveys different contemporary approaches to the messages of the prophets. This textbook includes numerous images, charts, and maps to enhance the experience of the students.
$49.00
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The Emergence of Islam, 2nd Edition: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective
Now in an updated second edition, Gabriel Said Reynolds tells the story of Islam in this brief survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Qur'an juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam.
$39.00
Available March 7, 2023
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Charging Interest: Medieval Wisdom for a Modern Financial Crisis
Charging Interest explores the explosive tract written by Martin Luther which summarizes his views on poverty caused by an economic system that stopped caring for the well-being of God's children. Luther exhorts clergy to ex-communicate those causing poverty through their ruthless economic behavior or risk God's judgment alongside the perpetrators.
$19.99
Available March 28, 2023
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Nuestra fe: Una introducción a la teología cristiana, segunda edición revisada
Esta segunda edición, corregida y aumentada, recorre temas centrales – como la trinidad, cristologÃa, escatologÃa, y pneumatologÃa – entrelazándolos con toques especÃficos de la tradición protestante desde una perspectiva latina atenta al estado actual de nuestras sociedades y culturas.
$29.00
Available April 4, 2023
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Letters to a Young Theologian
In this volume, Van der Westhuizen has assembled an outstanding and diverse array of theologians who offer their wisdom and reflection on what it means to be a theologian. Each contributor's brief letter considering the vocation is as unique as its author. Together the letters form a rich symphony on the art and craft of being a theologian.
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Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America
The book bears witness to the role enslaved, Black-bodied people played in building the US, its physical and fiscal infrastructure, and the nation's capital, and calls for a substantial monument on the National Mall to affirm and document their contributions. This book will impact lives by adding significantly to the burgeoning and in-depth conversations on racial disparity, race relations, history-making, reparations, and monument erection and removal.
$28.00
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A Reformation Reader: Primary Texts with Introductions, 3rd Edition
A classroom staple for nearly 30 years, this new third edition presents over 100 carefully selected primary documents edited for even greater concision to capture the energy and moment of that tumultuous time. The saving of space results in a shorter book that now includes even more readings!
$49.00
Available May 9, 2023
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Understanding Zionism: History and Perspectives
Understanding Zionism introduces the rise and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and the impact of Zionism on government and society in Israel. The book examines special topics, such as the phenomenon of Christian Zionism, movements of opposition to Zionism, and frameworks regarding the future direction(s) of Zionism.
$27.00
Available May 23, 2023
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The Bible: An Introduction, Third Edition
Without presuming either prior knowledge of the Bible or a particular attitude toward it, Jerry L. Sumney uses straightforward language to lead the reader on an exploration of the Bible, showing how critical methods help readers understand the text and history. Filled with maps, charts, illustrations, and four-color photographs to enhance the student's experience with the text. This third edition offers a number of revisions and a new section on the deuterocanonical books.
$59.00
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Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition
M. Shawn Copeland demonstrates how Black women's historical experience casts a different light on our theological ideas about being human. This new edition incorporates recent theological, historical, and political scholarship; engages with current social movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo; and presents a new chapter on the body.
$26.00
Available June 7, 2023
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Theological Anthropology: Revised and Expanded Edition
The book gathers and translates texts from early Christianity that explore the diversity of theological approaches to the nature and ends of humanity. Readers will gain a sense of how early Christians reflected on humanity and human nature in different theological movements and their legacies in late antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages.
$24.00
Available June 13, 2023
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Judges 1: A Commentary on Judges 1:1 – 10:5
This groundbreaking volume presents a new translation and detailed interpretation of the book of Judges, drawing on archaeology and iconography, textual versions, biblical parallels, and extrabiblical texts, as well as a thorough review of modern scholarship. Full literary and redactional analyses are included. Notably, archaeology is used to show how a story of the Iron II period employed visible ruins to narrate supposedly early events from the so-called "period of the Judges."
$85.00
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