Symbol and theology in early Judaism

In he fifth and sixth centuries C.E., new mode of talking about God took shape, both in synagogue art and in rabbinic writing. This new approach appealed not to proportional but to symbolic modes o…

Words of delight: a literary introduction to the Bible, c.1-5

In our study of Scripture, observes John F. Brug, we often tend to focus on the doctrinal content of the Bible at the expense of its emotional impact. In this book, the author emphasizes that the B…

Reading the classics with C.S. Lewis

An underlying conviction of this book is that while many continue to read Lewis for his fictional, apologetical, and theological writings, they underappreciate this fact: Lewis's mind was nurtured …

Everyman's Talmud: the major teachings of the rabbinic sages

The some readers of this book, the Talmud represents little more than a famous Jewish book. But people want to know more than a book that, they are told, defines Judaism. The author of this book is…

The undergraduate's companion to American writers and their web sites

Welcome to literary research in the 21st century! Never have so many useful literary research resources in so many different forms been more readily accessible to the literature student - that is, …

Wildlife in the kingdom come: an explorer looks at..

Theologians are unique animals, but you have never encountered species quite as strange as the wildlife in the Kingdom Come. This illustrated bestiary introduces you to such fabulous creatures as t…

I am in fact a hobbit: an introduction to the life and work..

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0-86554-851-x

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254p.; 23 cm.

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823.912 BRA i

Seeming knowledge: Shakespeare and skeptical faith

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978-1-932792-95-9

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xvii,348p.; 24 cm.

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822.33 COX s

The classical tradition: Greek and Roman influences on Western literature

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0-19-500206-7

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xxxviii,763p.; 20 cm.

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809 HIG c

The Cambridge companion to the Talmud and.., c.1-2

This book guides beginning students of rabbinic literature through the range of historical interpretive and culture critical issues that contemporary scholars use when studying rabbinic texts. The …