Yale University Press Religion 2012 Catalog

Religion
Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS 2012
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The Open Yale Courses Series is designed to bring the depth and breadth of a Yale education to a wide variety of readers. Based on Yales Open Yale Courses program (http://oyc.yale.edu), these books bring outstanding lectures by Yale faculty to the curious reader, whether student or adult. Covering a wide variety of topics across disciplines in the social sciences, physical sciences, and humanities, Open Yale Courses books offer accessible introductions at affordable prices.
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Introduction to the Bible

Christine Hayes
This introduction to the 24 short books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles examines the struggles of generations of biblical writers to make sense of their own and their nations experiences over a span of many centuries.
Paper 2012 448 pp. 10 b/w illus. + 6 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18179-1 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18827-1
New Testament History and Literature

Dale B. Martin
In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, a distinguished Yale professor presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements.
Paper 2012 464 pp. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18085-5 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18219-4
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Death
Shelly Kagan
What am I to make of the fact that I am going to die? In this thought-provoking book, philosopher Shelly Kagan confronts myriad questions relating to our mortality and invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about death.
The Moral Foundations of Politics

Ian Shapiro
What sorts of governments merit the allegiance of their people? When should allegiance be withdrawn? This accessible book explores major answers and discusses why democracy supplies the most reliable basis for political legitimacy.
Paper 2012 304 pp. 8 graphs ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18545-4 $18.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-12869-7
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Theory of Literature
Paul H. Fry
Political Philosophy
Steven B. Smith
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Among the Gentiles

Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
Alexander to Constantine
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III
The Composition of the Pentateuch

Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
Luke Timothy Johnson

An acclaimed scholar presents a fundamentally new conception of the relationship between Christianity and the Paganism of Greece and Rome.
Winner of the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion, given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Paper 2010 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16810-5 $22.00 Cloth 2009 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14208-2 $32.50 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15649-2
Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey

This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive introduction is destined to become the standard book on biblical archaeology from Alexander the Greats conquest to Constantines reign.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2012 400 pp. 17 color + 170 b/w illus. + 10 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14179-5 $40.00
Joel S. Baden
Interweaving historical and methodological discussions with detailed textual case studies, Joel S. Baden addresses the question of the composition of the Pentateuch and provides a fresh and comprehensive argument for the Documentary Hypothesis.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2012 392 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15263-0 $65.00
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Ancient Christian Martyrdom

Candida R. Moss
The Good and Evil Serpent

James H. Charlesworth
Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions

In this innovative study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2012 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15465-8 $40.00
How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized

This pathbreaking book explores in plentiful detail the symbolic meanings of the serpent from 40,000 BCE to the present, and from diverse regions in the world. In doing so it emphasizes the utter creativity of the biblical authors use of symbols and argues that we must, today, reexamine our own archetypal conceptions with comparable creativity.
Tied winner of the 2011 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category sponsored by Christianity Today International The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2010 744 pp. 102 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14082-8 $45.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-14273-0
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4

Law and Love
John P. Meier
In this eagerly anticipated fourth volume in the Marginal Jew Series, John P. Meier corrects misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus time and addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.
The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library Cloth 2009 752 pp. 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14096-5 $55.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15602-7
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The Bible
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The Shadow of a Great Rock

Harold Bloom
A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Bloom yields to the King James Bibles literary splendorand invites readers to join in his surrender.Booklist, starred review A fascinating, intellectually nimble tour de force.Yvonne Zipp, Washington Post Long an admirer of the King James Bible, celebrated critic Harold Bloom here offers a singular appreciation of its beauty and importance as a literary masterpiece.
Paper 2012 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18794-6 $17.00 Cloth 2011 320 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16683-5 $28.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18794-6
The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis

Calum Carmichael
In this work Calum Carmichaela legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bibleshows how each law and each narrative in Numbers, the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative incidents in Genesis. The book continues Carmichaels process of demonstrating how every law in the Pentateuch is a response to a problem arising in a biblical narrative, not to an inferred societal situation.
Cloth 2012 216 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17918-7 $55.00
Tyndales New Testament

Translated by William Tyndale
In a modern-spelling edition and with an introduction by David Daniell
Printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled into England for distribution, Tyndales masterly translation of the New Testament outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity direct access to the word of God for the first time. Despite its suppression, it ultimately formed the basis of all English biblesincluding much of the King James Versionuntil after the Second World War. Now for the first time Tyndales translation is published in modern spelling so that this remarkable work of English prose by one of the great geniuses of his age is available to todays reader.
Paper 1996 466 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06580-0 $25.00
Sex and Religion in the Bible

Calum Carmichael
In this unique book, one of the most original voices in biblical studies today focuses on the themes of marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love in the Bible to illuminate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of biblical views about sex and religion.
Cloth 2010 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15377-4 $65.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15378-1
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In Gods Shadow
Michael Walzer
Tyndales Old Testament

Translated by William Tyndale
Edited by David Daniell
This book makes available William Tyndales sixteenth-century English translation of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the historical books of the Old Testament, translations that laid the foundation for all subsequent English bibles. This edition includes modernized spelling, Tyndales introduction and notes, and an introduction by David Daniell that explores Tyndales astonishing achievements in translating Hebrew into English of force and beauty.
Cloth 1992 688 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-05211-4 $70.00
Politics in the Hebrew Bible

In this eagerly awaited book, political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile.
Cloth 2012 256 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18044-2 $28.00
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Ancient Religion & Christianity
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Augustine and the Jews

A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos

Guy MacLean Rogers
Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World

In a groundbreaking reinterpretation of ancient polytheism, Guy MacLean Rogers rethinks and de-naturalizes Roman imperial history and the transition to Christianity.
Cloth 2012 528 pp. 2 color + 27 b/w illus. + 11 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17863-0 $45.00
Paula Fredriksen
Fredriksens provocative book traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian antiJudaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition.
Paper 2010 528 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16628-6 $20.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17250-8
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries

Ramsay MacMullen
In this book, MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed.
From Jesus to Christ

Paula Fredriksen
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come

Norman Cohn
The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, Second Edition

How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by placing the various canonical images of Jesus within their historical contextthe Hellenistic and Judaic cultures from which the Christian communities grew.
Paper 2000 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08457-3 $15.95
The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith; Second Edition

In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faiththe belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are victorious over the forces of evil.
Christianizing the Roman Empire

(A. D. 100400)
Ramsay MacMullen
How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In this book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secularrather than an ecclesiasticalviewpoint.
Voting About God in Early Church Councils

Ramsay MacMullen
In this original book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian doctrine was determined by majority vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into council chambers, where rank and file bishops engage in debate, then vote to establish a single Christian orthodoxy.
Cloth 2006 192 pp. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11596-3 $35.00
A New History of Early Christianity

Charles Freeman
This stimulating history of early Christianity, the first full account for over forty years, revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion, and gives a new slant on a familiar story.
Paper 2011 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17083-2 $25.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-16658-3
The First Urban Christians

Wayne A. Meeks
The Social World of the Apostle Paul, Second Edition

With a new introduction by the author
In this classic work, Wayne A. Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianitythe letters of Paulto describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians.
Co-winner of the 1986 Annual Award for Excellence given by the American Academy of Religion Paper 2003 320 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09861-7 $22.50 Available as e-book 978-0-300-16091-8
Ancient Religion & Christianity/History of Christianity
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The First Thousand Years

Robert Louis Wilken
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

Second Edition
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The Crusader States

Malcolm Barber
This original and wide-ranging history of twelfth-century life in the crusader statesJerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessaexplores the military battles and cultural clashes as East and West struggled for dominance.
Cloth 2012 496 pp. 15 b/w illus., 2 figs, + 21 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11312-9 $38.00
A Global History of Christianity

Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of a global Christianity over the first thousand years of its history and shows how it constituted one of the most profound revolutions the world has known.
Robert Louis Wilken

This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

Seeking the Face of God
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Christianity and Classical Culture
The Unity of Christ

Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition
Robert Louis Wilken

In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world.
The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism
Christopher A. Beeley
Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathersamong them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandriaand reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity.
Cloth 2012 408 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00
Jaroslav Pelikan
In this erudite and informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first coherent account of the lives and writings of the so-called Cappadocians, showing how they managed to be Greek and Christian at the same time.
Gifford Lectures Series Paper 1995 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-06255-7 $22.50 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15815-1
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Paul the Convert

Alan F. Segal
The Late Medieval English Church

G.W. Bernard
The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee

In this revisionist account of Pauls work, Alan Segal argues that Pauls life can be better understood by taking his Jewishness seriously, and that Jewish history can be illuminated greatly by examining Pauls writings.
Paper 1992 384 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-05227-5 $23.00
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

Historian George Bernard presents a bold, provocative challenge to our understanding of the late medieval church and the Protestant Reformation.
History of Christianity
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Holy Bones, Holy Dust

Charles Freeman
How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

As Freeman delves into practices across Europe, he demonstrates great ease in synthesizingand keeping accessible many various strains of religious thought. . . . Its no easy feat to encapsulate these subjects, and yet Freeman . . . pulls it off with great authority and insight.Nick Owchar, Los Angeles Times
Paper 2012 324 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18430-3 $23.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18430-3
The Age of Doubt

Christopher Lane
Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Important reading for all who want to better understand the way our culture has unfolded while uncovering the roots of our religious skepticism. Lane creates a very readable volume in which these struggles of faith and doubt come to life . . . . Compelling reading.Bryan Berghoef, Englewood Review of Books
Paper 2012 248 pp. 19 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18807-3 $18.00 Cloth 2011 248 pp. 19 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14192-4 $26.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-16881-5
Ten Popes Who Shook the World

Eamon Duffy
Which Catholic popes have had the greatest impact on history? Eamon Duffy selects ten profoundly influential popes, from St. Peter to John Paul II, and explores their amazing lives and accomplishments.
Saints and Sinners

A History of the Popes; Third Edition
Eamon Duffy
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the present day. In this new edition, the final chapter has been expanded to cover the last years of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI.
Paper 2006 496 pp. 16 pp. color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11597-0 $22.00
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The End of Byzantium

Jonathan Harris
Harris interrogates the evidence sensitively. . . . What Harriss lucid narrative demonstrates is that there was no clear East-West, Muslim-Christian split. Times Literary Supplement.
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The Life of the Virgin

Maximus the Confessor
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Stephen J. Shoemaker

This first English translation of the earliest complete Life of the Virgin provides a rich and crucial source for understanding the history of Marian piety.
Cloth 2012 232 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17504-2 $35.00
The Stripping of the Altars

Eamon Duffy
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Traditional Religion in England, 14001580, Second Edition

This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay peoples experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award Paper 2005 700 pp. 141 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10828-6 $23.00
The Watchful Clothier

Matthew Kadane
The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist

The recently discovered diary of eighteenth-century English clothier Joseph Ryder provides an illuminating, real-life perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism in the 1700s.
The Lewis Walpole Series in EighteenthCentury Culture and History Cloth 2013 312 pp. 15 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16961-4 $45.00
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Francis of Assisi
Andr Vauchez
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint

Translated by Michael F. Cusato
The most authoritative biography of Francis of Assisi in more than a generation, this book brings the medieval saint to life and explores the abundance of writings by contemporaries who set down their memories of him.
Cloth 2012 416 pp. 2 maps ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17894-4 $35.00
History of Christianity
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Calvin
Bruce Gordon
This brilliant new portrait of Protestant reformer John Calvin reveals his human complexity, the sources of his convictions, and how he inspired and transformed the sixteenth-century world.
Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17084-9 $25.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15981-3
Conversions
Craig Harline
Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

Compelling . . . A beautiful book, illuminating in a time when almost half of Americans report switching religions.Publishers Weekly (starred review)
New Directions in Narrative History Paper 2013 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19244-5 $23.00 Cloth 2011 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16701-6 $27.50
Octavia, Daughter of God

Jane Shaw
The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers

This book uncovers the little-known story of the Panacea Society, a post-World War I utopian community of remarkable English women led by Octavia, whom they believed was the daughter of God.
Cloth 2011 432 pp. 58 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17615-5 $35.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18063-3
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The Serpent and the Lamb

Steven Ozment
Miracles at the Jesus Oak

Craig Harline
Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

This spirited retelling of the lives and works of Cranach, the artist, and Luther, the reformer, recognizes for the first time how their combined successes gave birth to modern German art and the Protestant Reformation.
Paper 2013 344 pp. 77 b/w + 11 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19253-7 $20.00 Cloth 2012 344 pp. 77 b/w + 11 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16985-0 $35.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17838-8
Savonarola
The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet
Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

In the musty archive of a Belgian abbey, historian Craig Harline happened upon a vast collection of documents written in the seventeenth century by people who claimed to have experienced miracles and wonders. Craig Harline recasts these testimonies into engaging vignettes that open a window onto the believers, unbelievers, and religious movements of the Age of Reformation.
Donald Weinstein
This deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican provides the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola, his charismatic vision, and his fate as a failed prophet.
Mother of God
Miri Rubin
The Conversion of Scandinavia
A History of the Virgin Mary

This sweeping, global history explores how the Virgin Mary, scarcely mentioned in the Gospels, rose to become our most prominent female figure. The book is groundbreaking in scope, encompassing sixteen centuries and a wealth of historical sources and visual materials from Christian cultures around the world.
Paper 2010 560 pp. 29 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16432-9 $26.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15613-3
Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe
Anders Winroth
Drawing on painstaking analysis and paleographic reconstruction of archeological and literary sources, Anders Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages.
Cloth 2012 256 pp. 24 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17026-9 $38.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17809-9
Sunday
A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl
Craig Harline
Through a fascinating blend of stories and analysis, historian Craig Harline examines Sundayfrom its ancient beginnings among the early Christians to brunch and football in America today.
Paper 2011 480 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16703-0 $22.00
Religion in America
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Sarah Osborns World

The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
The Great Agnostic

Susan Jacoby
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

In this thought-provoking biography, the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in the American secular tradition and demonstrates why his arguments matter today more than ever.
A Religious History of the American People

Second Edition
Sydney E. Ahlstrom
With a new foreword and concluding chapter by David D. Hall
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion Paper 2004 1,216 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10012-9 $42.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17328-4
Catherine A. Brekus
A charismatic leader among eighteenthcentury American evangelical Christians, Sarah Osborn recorded the details of her life and spiritual quest for more than thirty years. Her eloquent writings open a new window on the roots of the evangelical movement.
New Directions in Narrative History Cloth 2013 448 pp. 23 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18290-3 $35.00
A Republic of Mind and Spirit

Catherine L. Albanese
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Building a New Jerusalem

Francis J. Bremer
New Worlds
John Lynch
A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion

Co-winner of the 2007 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Studies category Paper 2008 640 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13615-9 $30.00 Cloth 2007 640 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11089-0 $42.00
A Religious History of Latin America

John Lynch presents a brilliant capstone work encompassing the Latin American peoples reception of Christianity from the Spanish Conquest and the arrival of evangelists to the dictators and repressive regimes of the twentieth century.
Cloth 2012 384 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16680-4 $35.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18374-0
John Davenport, a Puritan in Three Worlds

An illuminating biography of John Davenport, the English Puritan clergyman who cofounded the colony of New Haven and was a central figure in seventeenth-century Puritanism in England and New England.
The Puritan Origins of the American Self

With a New Preface
Sacvan Bercovitch
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With a New Preface by the Author

Endowed by Our From Peace to Freedom Creator

New
Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 16571761
The Birth of Religious Freedom in America
The Book of Mormon

The Earliest Text
Brycchan Carey
This book shows how Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and how the Society of Friends became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade.
Cloth 2012 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18077-0 $35.00
Michael I. Meyerson
Rejecting the extreme arguments of todays debates, this book examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom and how it can inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.
Edited by Royal Skousen

Translated by Joseph Smith
Theology
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Before Religion
Brent Nongbri
A History of a Modern Concept

Spanning two thousand years of history, this concise, gripping narrative shows how religion was an invention of modernity.
Cloth 2013 288 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15416-0 $35.00
Dissertation on Predestination and Grace

G. W. Leibniz
Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Michael J. Murray;
Additional Contributions by George Wright
The Courage to Be
Second Edition
Paul Tillich
With an introduction by Peter J. Gomes
In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the worlds most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter J. Gomes that reflects on the impact of this book in the years since it was written.
Named one of the Books of the Century by the New York Public Library The Terry Lectures Series Paper 2000 238 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08471-9 $12.95 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17002-3
On Evil
Terry Eagleton
In this accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.
Paper 2011 192 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17125-9 $16.00 Cloth 2010 192 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15106-0 $25.00
This important work by G W. Leibniz presents his reflections on predestination and election, the problem of evil, and many other topics that illuminate the development of his theology and philosophy.
The Yale Leibniz Series Cloth 2011 226 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15155-8 $100.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15571-6
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Why Niebuhr Matters

Charles Lemert
A gifted and creative expositor, Lemert provides careful analyses of Niebuhrs most important works. . . . Highly recommended.Choice
Why X Matters Series Paper 2013 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19254-4 $16.00 Cloth 2011 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17542-4 $26.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17833-3
Sin
A History
Gary A. Anderson
In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition.
Winner of the 2010 Christianity Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category Paper 2010 272 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16809-9 $22.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15487-0
Atheist Delusions
David Bentley Hart
The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies

In this provocative book, David Bentley Hart dismantles distorted religious histories offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion. He counters their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.
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Julian of Norwich, Theologian

Denys Turner
This is the best book I have seen on Julian, and one of the most energizing ventures in theology in the last several years.John Wilson, Books and Culture
The Christian Imagination
Theology and the Origins of Race
Willie James Jennings

Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianitys highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies.
Paper 2011 384 pp. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17136-5 $25.00 Cloth 2010 384 pp. 2 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15211-1 $35.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-16308-7
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Judaism
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The Poetry of Kabbalah

Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition
Jews and Words

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
Prize-winning novelist Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salberger, a historian of ideas, blend storytelling, humor, and scholarship in this entertaining father-daughter conversation about the essential role of words and books throughout Jewish history.
Cloth 2012 248 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15647-8 $25.00
Israel
An Introduction
Translated and Annotated by Peter Cole

Co-edited and with an Afterword by Aminadav Dykman
Cole presents the first English-language collection of poems from the Kabbalistic tradition. These otherworldly poems span three continents and more than 1,500 years of Jewish mystical tradition.
The Margellos World Republic of Letters Cloth 2012 544 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16916-4 $30.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18361-0
Barry Rubin
There have been many hundreds of books for and against Israel but no volume presenting the essential information about its domestic politics, its society, as well as its cultural life and its economy. This gap has now been filled.Walter Laqueur, author of A History of Zionism
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The Genius
Eliyahu Stern
Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism

This book offers a new narrative of modern Jewish history based on the life and legacy of the most influential modern rabbinic figure, the eighteenthcentury rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, known as the Vilna Gaon.
Cloth 2013 336 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17930-9 $45.00
Radical Judaism
Arthur Green
Rethinking God and Tradition

How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may yet be viewed as dwelling places of the sacred.
The Franz Rosenzweig Lecture Series Paper 2010 208 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15232-6 $26.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15233-3
New
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 19732005
Edited by Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz
From literature to visual arts, from popular culture to spiritual works, this book encompasses the diversity of Jewish civilization around the world since 1973.
Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Cloth 2012 1,232 pp. 169 color + 58 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13553-4 $150.00
Judaism
A Way of Being
David Gelernter
The distinguished scholar David Gelernter presents a highly original guide to Judaism as a way of life and the fundamentals of Jewish belief.
Paper 2011 248 pp. 4 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16815-0 $20.00 Cloth 2009 248 pp. 4 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15192-3 $26.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15646-1
New in paper
The Music Libel Against the Jews

Ruth HaCohen
A brilliant, wide-ranging study. . . . An arresting critical account of centuries of Christian rejection of Jewish music as noise, and the responses to it.Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
Winner of the 2012 Polonsky First Prize in the research category for creativity and originality in the humanistic disciplines Paper 2013 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19477-7 $38.00 Cloth 2011 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16778-8 $55.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-17799-2
New
Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity

Lee I. Levine
Historical Contexts of Jewish Art

This masterful survey of Jewish visual culture in the Late Roman and Byzantine eras examines two thousand years of archaeological and artistic material.
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Islam
Asian Religions/ Comparative Religion
New in paper
New in paper
New in paper
A Quiet Revolution
Leila Ahmed
The Veils Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

An important book. It provides a thorough history of the resurgence of the veil both in the Muslim world and in the U.S. and adds significant nuance to the complex issues that surround the veil. Ahmeds work will no doubt continue to inspire a new generation of Muslim feminists.Los Angeles Times
The Taming of the Demons

Jacob P. Dalton
Abrahams Children
Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism

A very fluent, erudite and compelling race through the history of Tibetan civilization. . . . Jacob Dalton has done a great service to the field.George Fitzherbert, Times Literary Supplement
Paper 2013 384 pp. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18796-0 $27.50 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 7 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15392-7 $40.00
Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
Edited by Kelly James Clark

Well-crafted, insightful, and evocative. . . . This book would work well in church discussion groups, community study circles, and college religious studies classes.Matthew Braddock, Englewood Review of Books
Confucius
New
A Life of Thought and Politics
The Spirit of Mary

Sarah Jane Boss
An intriguing and insightful anthology of Marian writing taken from both Eastern and Western traditions over two millennia of Christian history, alongside illuminating introductions to the texts.
The Spirit of ... Paper 2012 224 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16926-3 $15.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18102-9
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Ann-Ping Chin
In this absorbing book, Annping Chin presents an original account of the life and legacy of Chinas greatest moral thinker. Accurate information on Confucius is elusive, but Chins extensive research yields not only a new portrait of the sage but also a masterful survey of his influential teachings.
Islamism and Islam

Bassam Tibi
This critically important book clarifies what is widely misunderstood in the West: Islam and contemporary Islamism are distinctly different. The former is a religious faith, the latter a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law.
New in paper
The Spirit of Zoroastrianism

Translated and edited by Prods Oktor Skrvo
An introduction to the ideas and writings of Zoroastrianism, expertly translated, introduced, and edited by one of the worlds foremost authorities on this religion.
The Spirit of ... Paper 2012 280 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17035-1 $15.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18101-2
Islam
A Thousand Years of Faith and Power
The Message and the Book

John Bowker
Sacred Texts of the Worlds Religions

Grand in its historical sweep and extensive in geographical extent, this richly textured book is detailed, engaging, clear and original. Anyone wishing to understand the worlds religions should read this book.Gavin Flood, Oxford University
Paper 2013 416 pp. 37 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-19233-9 $22.00 Cloth 2012 416 pp. 37 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17929-3 $30.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-18317-7
Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair

This engrossing book explores the first millennium of Islamic culture, shattering stereotypes and enlightening readers about the events and achievements that have shaped contemporary Islamic civilization.
Paper 2002 304 pp. 4 b/w + 50 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09422-0 $16.95 Available as e-book 978-0-300-12757-7
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Science & Religion
New in paper
New in paper
Thinking in Circles
Mary Douglas
The New Universe and the Human Future

How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World
Science and Religion in Quest of Truth

John Polkinghorne
I found this survey of science and theology to be readable, scholarly, wellorganized, and insightful as always. . . . A fine introductory survey that will be helpful to a wide variety of readers. John Haught, author of Making Sense of
Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life
An Essay on Ring Composition

Mary Douglas explores ring composition a literary style unfamiliar todayacross cultures and examines its function in the Iliad, the Bibles Book of Numbers, and Tristram Shandy.
The Terry Lectures Series Paper 2010 192 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16785-6 $24.00 Cloth 2007 192 pp. 14 b/w illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11762-2 $35.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-13459-7
Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack

This book is in every sense of the word, a prophetic book. Its message ranks right up there with those of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Joel. Like the prophets, it is at times poetic, demanding, grounded, soaring, empowering, and always awe-inspiring.Matthew Fox, Tikkun
Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Award for the science/cosmology category; Winner of the 2012 Spirit of Rustum Roy Award, as awarded by The Chopra Foundation The Terry Lectures Series Paper 2012 256 pp. 72 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-18124-1 $20.00 Cloth 2011 256 pp. 72 color illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16508-1 $28.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-16732-0
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Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History

Ahmad Dallal
Dallals account of Islamic scientific introspection is fascinating to read as history, and instructive in its exploration of issues that remain familiar today in various formulations of conflict between science and religion.Tom Siegfried, Science News
The Terry Lectures Series Paper 2012 256 pp. 2 line illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17771-8 $20.00 Cloth 2010 256 pp. 2 line illus. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0 $27.50 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15914-1
Journey of the Universe

Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker
This exhilarating book explores the history of the universe from diverse perspectivesthe sciences and the humanitiesand offers a profoundly hopeful view of humankinds opportunity to create a vibrant future for Earth and all its inhabitants.
New
The Scientific Buddha

His Short and Happy Life
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

This illuminating book explores the dissonance between Buddhist teachings as practiced in Asia and in the West, and demonstrates how Western notions of the Buddha have long misrepresented the traditional teachings of the religion.
The Terry Lectures Series Cloth 2012 168 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15912-7 $25.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-15913-4
Absence of Mind
Our e-Book editions are available from most major e-Book stores, including the Amazon Kindle Store, B&Ns nook store, Google Editions, Kobo, and Sony. Marilynne Robinson
The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization.
The Terry Lectures Series Paper 2011 176 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-17147-1 $16.50 Cloth 2010 176 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14518-2 $24.00 Available as e-book 978-0-300-16647-7
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Available Spring 2013
Index
Abrams & Primack, 13 Ahlstrom, 9 Ahmed, 12 Albanese, 9 Anderson, 10 Baden, 3 Barber, 6 Beeley, 6 Bercovitch, 9 Bernard, 6 Bloom & Blair, 12 Bloom, 4 Boss, 12 Bowker, 12 Brekus, 9 Bremer, 9 Carey, 9 Carmichael, 4 Charlesworth, 3 Chin, 12 Clark, 12 Cohn, 5 Cole, 11 Dallal, 13 Dalton, 12 Douglas, 13 Duffy, 7 Eagleton, 10 Fredriksen, 5 Freeman, 5, 7 Gelernter, 11 Gordon, 8 Green, 11 HaCohen, 11 Harline, 8 Harris, 7 Hart, 10 Hayes, 2 Jacoby, 9 Jennings, 10 Johnson, 3 Kadane, 7 Kagan, 2 Lane, 7 Leibniz, 10 Lemert, 10 Levine, 11 Lopez, Jr., 13 Lynch, 9 MacMullen, 5 Martin, 2 Meeks, 5 Meier, 3 Meyers & Chancey, 3 Meyerson, 9 Moore & Gertz, 11 Moss, 3 Nongbri, 10 Oz & Oz-Salzberger, 11 Ozment, 8 Pelikan, 6 Polkinghorne, 13 Robinson, 13 Rogers, 5 Rubin, B., 11 Rubin, M., 8 Segal, 6 Shapiro, 2 Shaw, 8 Shoemaker, 7 Skrvo, 12 Skousen, 9 Stern, 11 Swimme & Tucker, 13 Tibi, 12 Tillich, 10 Turner, 10 Tyndale, 4 Vauchez, 7 Walzer, 4 Weinstein, 8 Wilken, 6 Winroth, 8
Calvinism
A History
Transient Apostle
D. G. Hart
Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
Timothy Luckritz Marquis
The Devil Within

Brian P. Levack
Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
Divine Love
Islamic Literature and the Path to God
William C. Chittick
Solomons Secret Arts

The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
Paul Monod
What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

Ziony Zevit
Christians, Muslims and Jesus

Mona Siddiqui
Gandhi
A Spiritual Biography
Arvind Sharma
Christian Beginnings
From Nazareth to Nicaea
Thomas Aquinas
A Portrait
Geza Vermes
Denys Turner
American Zion
The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War
Utopia
Second Edition
Thomas More
Eran Shalev
Translated and introduced by Clarence H. Miller and with an afterword by Jerry Harp
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Ancient Religion & Christianity ........5-6
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Introduction to the Bible

New Testament History and Literature

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Among the Gentiles

Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III

The Composition of the Pentateuch

Luke Timothy Johnson

Eric M. Meyers and Mark A. Chancey

Ancient Christian Martyrdom

The Good and Evil Serpent

Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions

How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4

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The Shadow of a Great Rock

A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis

Tyndales New Testament

Sex and Religion in the Bible

Tyndales Old Testament

Politics in the Hebrew Bible

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Ancient Religion & Christianity

Augustine and the Jews

The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos

Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World

Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries

From Jesus to Christ

Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come

The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, Second Edition

The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith; Second Edition

Christianizing the Roman Empire

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A New History of Early Christianity

The First Urban Christians

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The First Thousand Years

The Christians as the Romans Saw Them

The Crusader States

A Global History of Christianity

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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

Christianity and Classical Culture

The Unity of Christ

Robert Louis Wilken

The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism

Paul the Convert

The Late Medieval English Church

The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee

Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

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Holy Bones, Holy Dust

How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

The Age of Doubt

Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty