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Reformations Heretics and Believers The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 A History of the English Reformation CARLOS M. N. EIRE PETER H. MARSHALL In this lively, page-turning history of Peter Marshall argues that sixteenth- Western civilization’s transition from the century England was already open to com- Middle Ages to modernity, the author peting ideas of “reform,” and King Henry investigates the Protestant and Catholic VIII’s actions opened a Pandora’s Box from Reformations and reveals how their legacy which pluralism and diversity flowed and continues to shape our world and define rooted themselves in English life. who we are today. Available in May 2017 Cloth 2016 920 pp. 155 b/w illus. Hardcover 2017 480 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11192-7 $40.00 978-0-300-17062-7 $35.00

& Eastern Orthodox Christianity Now available in paperback The Essential Texts BRYN GEFFERT AND THEOFANIS G. STAVROU Earthly Mission Specifically designed for students, the first The Catholic Church and World Development source reader for the English-speaking ROBERT CALDERISI world on the Eastern Orthodox church In this lively investigation of the Catholic and traditions combines lively introduc- Church, the author weighs the Church’s tions and short narratives translated from various missteps and poor decisions against primary sources to provide a comprehen- its positive contributions to education, sive, coherent, and fascinating history of health, and social justice. Eastern Orthodoxy. Paper 2016 288 pp. Paper 2016 480 pp. 48 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20542-8 $27.50 978-0-300-19678-8 $29.95 Cloth 2013 288 pp. 978-0-300-17512-7 $35.00 Russia’s Path toward Enlightenment John Knox Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500–1801 JANE DAWSON G. M. HAMBURG In this definitive new biography of John A top intellectual challenges the long- Knox, Jane Dawson shatters the myths, accepted academic belief that modern misconceptions, and stereotypes surround- Russian culture is wholly derived from ing the controversial leader of the Protestant Western European ideas. Examining a Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. broad range of writings—many prior to Paper 2016 384 pp. 11 b/w illus. 1750—G. M. Hamburg charts the develop- 978-0-300-21970-8 $32.50 ment of a distinctly Russian path toward enlightenment before Peter the Great’s The Rise of Thomas Cromwell opening to the West. Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, HC - Paper over Board 2016 912 pp. 1485–1534 978-0-300-11313-6 $125.00 MICHAEL EVERETT This meticulously researched book argues Thomas Cranmer that Cromwell was neither a fervent A Life evangelical or Machiavellian politician, DIARMAID MACCULLOCH but instead was an exceptionally skilled Now with a new Introduction, this prize- administrator for Henry VIII. winning biography provides the definitive Paper 2016 376 pp. 16 b/w illus. account of Thomas Cranmer, archbishop 978-0-300-22351-4 $30.00 of Canterbury, King Henry VIII’s guide Cloth 2015 376 pp. 16 b/w illus. through three marriage annulments, and 978-0-300-20742-2 $40.00 ultimately a martyr for his Protestant faith. Available in April 2017 Paper 2017 704 pp. 44 b/w illus. 978-0-300-22657-7 $35.00

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Martin Luther & The Stripping of the Altars Visionary Reformer Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580, SCOTT H. HENDRIX Second Edition This new, definitive biography provides a EAMON DUFFY fresh, bold, and insightful perspective on This prize-winning account of the pre- Martin Luther, focusing on his personal Reformation church recreates lay people’s relationships and political motivations, experience of religion in fifteenth-century rather than on his theology alone. England. For this edition, Duffy has written Paper available in January 2017 a new Preface reflecting on recent develop- Paper 2017 368 pp. 25 b/w illus. ments in our understanding of the period. 978-0-300-22637-9 $25.00 Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Hardcover 2015 368 pp. 16pp. b/w Year Award; 978-0-300-16669-9 $35.00 Paper 2005 700 pp. 141 b/w illus. 978-0-300-10828-6 $25.00 Recent & Classic Titles & Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor The Moral Culture of the Scottish EAMON DUFFY Enlightenment A controversial reassessment of Mary 1690–1805 Tudor’s efforts to eradicate Protestantism THOMAS AHNERT and restore Catholicism in mid-sixteenth- Upending decades of Enlightenment century England, written by a leading scholarship, Thomas Ahnert argues that authority on the history of Christianity. the champions of the Scottish Enlighten- Paper 2010 280 pp. 30 color illus. ment were more reliant on religion, and 978-0-300-16889-1 $20.00 more skeptical of the power of reason alone, in achieving “enlightenment.” & The Voices of Morebath the lewis walpole series in eighteenth-century culture Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village and history EAMON DUFFY Cloth 2015 224 pp. This delightful book offers a rare glimpse of 978-0-300-15380-4 $65.00 life in a remote sixteenth-century English village during the dramatic changes of the & Medieval Foundations of the Reformation, showing how a tiny Catholic Western Intellectual Tradition community rebelled, was punished, and MARCIA L. COLISH reluctantly accepted Protestantism under This magisterial book provides an analysis the demands of the Elizabethan state. of the course of Western intellectual Paper 2003 260 pp. 26 b/w + 16 color illus. history between A.D. 400 and 1400, 978-0-300-09825-9 $20.00 surveying the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Meister Eckhart Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures. Philosopher of Christianity yale intellectual history of the west series KURT FLASCH; TRANSLATED BY ANNE SCHINDEL AND Paper 1999 448 pp. 24 b/w illus. AARON VANIDES 978-0-300-07852-7 $29.00 Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and Saints and Sinners legacy of medieval German theologian, A History of the Popes; Fourth Edition philosopher, and alleged mystic Meister Eckhart, effectively arguing for the need to EAMON DUFFY understand Eckhart’s ideas as a “philosophy This engrossing book encompasses the of Christianity” rather than as a theology or extraordinary history of the papacy and has a way into mysticism. been expanded to cover the resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of Francis I. Cloth 2015 344 pp. 978-0-300-20486-5 $38.00 Paper 2015 500 pp. 16 pp. color illus. 978-0-300-20612-8 $23.00

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Holy Bones, Holy Dust & Medieval Christianity How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval A New History Europe KEVIN MADIGAN CHARLES FREEMAN A rich and wide-ranging guide to the Chris- This intriguing, beautifully illustrated tian medieval world, this book encompass- book encompasses 1,000 years of holy es new research findings on topics such relics across Europe, deepening our as the role of women, the lives of ordinary understanding of the medieval world by parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and revealing how they were used in religion Muslims, “popular” Christianity, saints, and also in business, politics, and warfare. mystics, pilgrimages, and many more. Paper 2012 324 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. Paper 2015 512 pp. 47 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18430-3 $25.00 978-0-300-21677-6 $27.50

Calvin & Utopia BRUCE GORDON Second Edition This brilliant new portrait of Protestant THOMAS MORE; TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY reformer John Calvin reveals his human CLARENCE H. MILLER; WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY complexity, the sources of his convictions, JERRY HARP and how he inspired and transformed the Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller sixteenth-century world. The book cap- does justice to the full range of More’s tures a man at once arrogant, charismatic, rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a unforgiving, generous, and shrewd. new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus contextualizes More’s life and Utopia 978-0-300-17084-9 $27.50 within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance. Evangelical Disenchantment Paper 2014 232 pp. 1 b/w illus. Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt 978-0-300-18610-9 $8.95 DAVID HEMPTON This engaging and at times heartbreaking & The Age of Reform, 1250–1550 book looks at evangelicalism through the An Intellectual and Religious History of Late lives of nine public figures who embraced Medieval and Reformation Europe this religious tradition, but later repudi- STEVEN OZMENT ated it. The author recounts the faith jour- In this book, Steven Ozment elucidates neys of George Eliot, Vincent van Gogh, with great clarity the complex philosophi- James Baldwin, and others to understand cal and theological issues that inspired better their negotiations of faith and antagonistic schools, traditions, and evangelicalism itself. movements from Aquinas to Calvin. Paper 2013 246 pp. 9 b/w illus. Paper 1981 458 pp. 978-0-300-19825-6 $22.00 978-0-300-02760-0 $29.00

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& The Huguenots A Spiritual Economy GEOFFREY TREASURE Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus This majestic account encompasses the THOMAS R. BLANTON, IV entire Huguenot experience in sixteenth- Biblical scholar Thomas Blanton provides and seventeenth-century France, from a comprehensive interdisciplinary explora- hopeful beginnings and rising political tion of gift giving in the letters of Paul of influence to Catholic reprisals and the Tarsus, the first-century Jewish evangelist repressive edict that forced hundreds of who had a significant impact on both thousands to flee the country. Greco-Roman and modern conceptions of Winner of the 2014 National Huguenot Society award gift exchange. Paper 2014 488 pp. 45 b/w illus. Available in January 2017 978-0-300-20866-5 $27.50 Hardcover 2017 240 pp. 978-0-300-22040-7 $85.00 The Origins of Reasonable Doubt Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial Raised on Christian Milk JAMES Q. WHITMAN Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early In this enlightening book, Whitman Christianity digs deep into the history of the law to JOHN DAVID PENNIMAN discover that “reasonable doubt” was Placing food within the moral, medical, originally not intended to protect the and social context of Greco-Roman antiq- accused but to make convictions easier. uity, this study explores how nourishment He discusses the troubling implications came to function as a tactile symbol of of the way we use this doctrine today. intellectual and religious formation in yale law library series in legal history and reference early Christianity. Paper 2016 288 pp. 8 b/w illus. Available in June 2017 978-0-300-21990-6 $28.00 Hardcover 2017 288 pp. Cloth 2008 288 pp. 8 b/w illus. 978-0-300-22276-0 $85.00 978-0-300-11600-7 $50.00 Mary in Early Christian Faith and & The First Thousand Years Devotion A Global History of Christianity STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN For the first time the full story of the Beginning with the life of Jesus, Wilken emergence and development of the narrates the dramatic spread and develop- Marian cult in early Christianity comes to ment of a global Christianity over the first light in a fascinating work that challenges thousand years of its history and shows many conventional beliefs surrounding how it constituted one of the most the subject of Mary, Mother of God. profound revolutions the world has known. Cloth 2016 304 pp. Paper 2013 416 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-21721-6 $38.00 978-0-300-19838-6 $22.00 Now available in paperback & The Conversion of Scandinavia Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe & The Lost World of Byzantium ANDERS WINROTH JONATHAN HARRIS Drawing on painstaking analysis and pa- A concise, accessible, and action-packed leographic reconstruction of archeological history of one of the medieval world’s and literary sources, Anders Winroth pres- greatest empires by a leading scholar who ents a radically new interpretation of the illuminates the very heart of Byzantine conversion of Scandinavia from paganism civilization and its remarkable influence to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. on its neighbors and on the modern world. Paper 2014 256 pp. 24 b/w illus. Paper 2016 280 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-20553-4 $32.00 978-0-300-22353-8 $20.00 Cloth 2015 298 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17857-9 $38.00 Ancient Religion & 6 History of Christianity Early Christianity 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com

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& Cosmos, Chaos and the & From Jesus to Christ World to Come The Origins of the New Testament Images of The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith; Christ, Second Edition Second Edition PAULA FREDRIKSEN NORMAN COHN How did Jesus of Nazareth become the In this engrossing book, Cohn investigates Christ of the Christian tradition? In this the origins of apocalyptic faith—the belief exciting book, Paula Fredriksen answers in a perfect future, when the forces of this question by placing the various good are victorious over the forces of evil. canonical images of Jesus within their Paper 2001 256 pp. historical context—the Hellenistic and 978-0-300-09088-8 $28.00 Judaic cultures from which the Christian communities grew. “When You Were Gentiles” Paper 2000 288 pp. Specters of Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and 978-0-300-08457-3 $15.95 Paul’s Corinthian Correspondence CAVAN W. CONCANNON & A New History of Early Concannon makes a significant contribu- Christianity tion to Pauline studies by imagining the CHARLES FREEMAN responses of the apostle Paul’s first audi- This stimulating history of early Christian- ence to his Corinthian correspondence, ity, the first full account for over forty focusing on issues of ethnicity, civic iden- years, revisits the extraordinary birth of a tity, politics, and empire to present a robust world religion, and gives a new slant on a portrait of the civic, discursive, and lived familiar story. landscapes of ancient Roman Corinth. Paper 2011 400 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. Cloth 2014 320 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17083-2 $27.50 978-0-300-19793-8 $65.00 & Pagan Britain Christ Child RONALD HUTTON Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus In this enthralling account of paganism STEPHEN J. DAVIS in Britain from the Paleolithic Age to the In this highly innovative book, Stephen arrival of Christianity, the author explores Davis adds a crucial dimension to our new evidence concerning pagan beliefs understanding of Christian history by ex- and rituals and the meanings of such amining how readers in antiquity and the sacred sites as Stonehenge and Avebury. medieval world would have made sense of Paper 2015 496 pp. 103 b/w illus. the young Jesus portrayed in the so-called 978-0-300-20546-6 $35.00 Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Cloth 2014 432 pp. 3 b/w illus. & The Treasures of Darkness 978-0-300-14945-6 $45.00 A History of Mesopotamian Religion THORKILD JACOBSEN & Augustine and the Jews A recreation of the spiritual life of ancient A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism Mesopotamia demonstrating that the PAULA FREDRIKSEN roots of Western civilization lie in the Fredriksen’s provocative book traces the ancient Near East. social and intellectual forces that led to Paper 1978 282 pp. the development of Christian anti-Juda- 978-0-300-02291-9 $32.00 ism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition. Paper 2010 528 pp. Our e-book editions are available 978-0-300-16628-6 $20.00 from most major e-book stores, including the Amazon Kindle & = recommended for course use store, B&N’s Nook store, Google editions, Kobo, and Sony

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& Corruption and the & Christian Beginnings Decline of Rome From Nazareth to Nicaea RAMSAY MACMULLEN GEZA VERMES Written in an informal and lively style, In this deeply learned and beauti- this book—the culmination of years of fully written book, Geza Vermes tells the research and thoughtful analysis—pro- enthralling story of how a revolutionary, vides a fascinating, fresh line of investi- anticonformist Jewish subsect became the gation and shows convincingly that the official state religion of the Roman Empire. decline of Rome was a gradual, insidious Paper 2014 288 pp. process rather than a climactic event. 978-0-300-20595-4 $22.00 Paper 1990 331 pp. 17 b/w illus. 978-0-300-04799-8 $29.00 & The Spirit of Early Christian Thought The World’s Oldest Church Seeking the Face of God Bible, Art, and Ritual at Dura-Europos, Syria ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN MICHAEL PEPPARD In this eloquent introduction to early In his fresh reassessment of the wall Christian thought, Wilken examines the paintings on the third-century house- tradition that such figures as St. Augus- church at Dura-Europos, Syria, award- tine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in winning scholar Michael Peppard argues place. These early thinkers constructed for a radically different interpretation of a new intellectual and spiritual world, the paintings’ central motifs. Wilken shows, and they can still be heard Cloth 2016 336 pp. 9 color + 46 b/w illus. as living voices in the modern world. 978-0-300-21399-7 $50.00 Paper 2005 398 pp. 978-0-300-10598-8 $22.00 One True Life The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions & The Christians as the C. KAVIN ROWE Romans Saw Them In a unique, cross-disciplinary merging of Second Edition philosophy and biblical studies, a New ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN Testament scholar reconceives the This book, which includes a new preface relationship between Stoic philosophy by the author, offers an engrossing por- and early Christianity as a rivalry between trayal of the early years of the Christian strong truth-seeking traditions. movement from the perspective of the Cloth 2016 344 pp. Romans. 978-0-300-18012-1 $40.00 Paper 2003 238 pp. 978-0-300-09839-6 $15.95 & Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100–332 B.C.E. & The Other God DANIEL C. SNELL Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar In this sweeping overview of life in the an- Heresy cient Near East, Snell surveys the history YURI STOYANOV of the region from the invention of writing This important book offers the first five thousand years ago to Alexander the comprehensive history of religious dual- Great’s conquest in 332 B.C. ism, the doctrine that cosmos and man Paper 1998 296 pp. 16 b/w illus. are constant battlegrounds for the forces 978-0-300-07666-0 $28.00 of good and evil and their supernatural protagonists. Paper 2000 490 pp. Our e-book editions are available 978-0-300-08253-1 $21.00 from most major e-book stores, including the Amazon Kindle store, B&N’s Nook store, Google editions, Kobo, and Sony Ancient Religion & 8 Early Christianity 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com

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& The Experience of God Life After Faith Being, Consciousness, Bliss The Case for Secular Humanism DAVID BENTLEY HART PHILIP KITCHER Are those who ferociously debate the exis- In this enlightening book the philosopher tence of God even arguing about the same Philip Kitcher assesses the possibilities thing? What is God? A revered religious of a genuinely meaningful life without scholar brings reason to the discussion, religion. He shows convincingly how a exploring how the world’s major religions secular worldview answers the concerns define God and demolishing misconcep- all people share, including the problem of tions that confuse the conversation. mortality, living an ethical life, and finding Paper 2014 376 pp. fulfillment. 978-0-300-20935-8 $17.00 the terry lectures series Paper 2015 200 pp. Atheist Delusions 978-0-300-21685-1 $18.00 The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Cloth 2014 200 pp. Enemies 978-0-300-20343-1 $25.00 DAVID BENTLEY HART In this provocative book, David Bentley & The Death and Resurrection Hart dismantles distorted religious “histo- of the Beloved Son ries” offered up by Christopher Hitchens, The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary Judaism and Christianity critics of religion. He counters their polem- JON D. LEVENSON ics with a brilliant account of Christianity The near-sacrifice and miraculous restora- and its message of human charity as the tion of a beloved son is a central but most revolutionary movement in all of largely overlooked theme in both Judaism Western history. and Christianity, celebrated in biblical Paper 2010 272 pp. texts on Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Joseph, and 978-0-300-16429-9 $20.00 Jesus. In this highly original book, Jon D. Levenson explores how this notion of child & An Interpretation of Religion sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond Human Responses to the Transcendent, between the two religions. Second Edition Paper 1995 276 pp. 978-0-300-06511-4 $28.00 JOHN HICK Discussing a wide range of Western and Eastern religions, one of the world’s Spiritual Defiance most prominent philosophers of religion Building a Beloved Community of Resistance presents an interpretation of religions ROBIN MEYERS as culturally conditioned responses to a What can be done to address the crisis of universal divine reality. the faithful today? A leading voice of pro- Paper 2005 464 pp. gressive Christianity urges a return to the 978-0-300-10668-8 $40.00 authentic spirit of resistance that marked Jesus’s ministry. & The Christian Imagination Paper 2016 168 pp. Theology and the Origins of Race 978-0-300-21981-4 $16.00 Cloth 2015 168 pp. WILLIE JAMES JENNINGS The winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawe- 978-0-300-20352-3 $26.00 meyer Award, Willie James Jennings, delves deep into the late medieval soil & Before Religion in which the modern Christian imagina- A History of a Modern Concept tion grew to reveal how Christianity’s BRENT NONGBRI highly refined process of socialization has Spanning two thousand years of history, inadvertently created and maintained this concise, gripping narrative shows how segregated societies. religion was an invention of modernity. Paper 2011 384 pp. 2 b/w illus. Paper 2015 288 pp. 978-0-300-17136-5 $27.50 978-0-300-21678-3 $25.00

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& Belief in God in an Age of Biblical Truths Science The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-First JOHN POLKINGHORNE Century John Polkinghorne brings unique DALE B. MARTIN qualifications to his exploration of the How can a modern person, informed by possibilities of believing in God in an age science and history, continue to recite the of science: he is internationally known as traditional creeds and confessions of the a theoretical physicist and as a theologian. Christian church? In this groundbreaking In this thought-provoking book, Polking- work, one of today’s best-known New horne focuses on the collegiality between Testament scholars answers this question, science and theology, contending that the challenging the historical realism that has inquiries of these “intellectual cousins” dominated the discipline for more than are parallel. two centuries.

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Thomas Aquinas & How the Bible Became Holy A Portrait MICHAEL L. SATLOW DENYS TURNER Professor Satlow’s groundbreaking study Leaving few traces of his personal life offers provocative new assertions about behind, Thomas Aquinas has long stymied how an ancient collection of seemingly the efforts of biographers. Undeterred, obscure Israelite writings became the master teacher Denys Turner uncovers re- founding texts of both Judaism and vealing details about the elusive saint and Christianity, considered holy by followers achieves an illuminating new portrait. of each faith. Paper 2014 312 pp. Paper 2015 368 pp. 25 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20594-7 $20.00 978-0-300-17192-1 $25.00 Cloth 2014 368 pp. 15 b/w illus. Julian of Norwich, Theologian 978-0-300-17191-4 $35.00 DENYS TURNER This provocative book casts Julian of In God’s Shadow Norwich in a new light, revealing for the Politics in the Hebrew Bible first time the subtlety, consistency, and MICHAEL WALZER originality of her theological thought, and A highly distinguished political thinker showing her to be among the medieval offers important insights on the political era’s foremost thinkers. views of the writers of the Bible and in- Paper 2013 288 pp. vestigates how they illuminate important 978-0-300-19255-1 $29.00 moral issues in our own time. Cloth 2011 288 pp. Cloth 2012 256 pp. 978-0-300-16391-9 $50.00 978-0-300-18044-2 $30.00 Religious Thought The Bible 13 1.800.405.1619/yalebooks.com

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The Composition of the Pentateuch The Formation of the Jewish Canon Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis TIMOTHY H. LIM JOEL S. BADEN A leading Hebrew Bible scholar and Joel S. Baden addresses the question of expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls presents a the composition of the Pentateuch and complete account of the formation of the provides a fresh and comprehensive argu- Jewish canon. ment for the Documentary Hypothesis. Cloth 2013 304 pp. Cloth 2012 392 pp. 978-0-300-16434-3 $45.00 978-0-300-15263-0 $85.00

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A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the A Social History of Hebrew Historical Jesus, Volume V Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period Probing the Authenticity of the Parables WILLIAM M. SCHNIEDEWIND JOHN P. MEIER A strikingly original study, this book In this eagerly anticipated fifth volume of combines linguistics and social history the series, Meier challenges the long- to view the story of the ancient Israelites standing consensus on the parables in the through the lens of their language. Synoptic Gospels. Cloth 2013 280 pp. Cloth 2016 464 pp. 2 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17668-1 $35.00 978-0-300-21190-0 $55.00 Also Available: Revelation and Authority Volume IV: Law and Love Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Cloth 2009 978-0-300-14096-5 $85.00 BENJAMIN D. SOMMER Volume III: Companions and Competitors Sommer’s illuminating study of Penta- Cloth 2001 978-0-300-14032-3 $85.00 teuchal theology and contemporary Volume II: Mentor, Message, and Miracles Jewish thought offers a bold and thought- Cloth 1994 978-0-300-14033-0 $85.00 provoking view that bolsters the theologies Volume I: The Roots of the Problem and the Person of thinkers such as Abraham Joshua Cloth 1991 978-0-300-14018-7 $85.00 Heschel and Franz Rosenzweig. & Alexander to Constantine Cloth 2015 440 pp. Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume III 978-0-300-15873-1 $50.00 ERIC M. MEYERS AND MARK A. CHANCEY & Revelation This comprehensive introduction is A New Translation with Introduction and destined to become the standard book on Commentary biblical archaeology from Alexander the Great’s conquest to Constantine’s reign. CRAIG R. KOESTER A landmark study, this new translation and Paper 2014 400 pp. 17 color + 170 b/w illus. commentary focuses on Revelation’s deep 978-0-300-20583-1 $27.50 engagement with social, religious, and Cloth 2012 400 pp. 17 color + 170 b/w illus. economic issues, addresses its volatile 978-0-300-14179-5 $40.00 history of interpretation, and sets new directions for its continued appreciation. Ancient Christian Martyrdom the anchor yale bible commentaries Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions Paper 2015 928 pp. 38 b/w illus. CANDIDA R. MOSS 978-0-300-21691-2 $65.00 Candida Moss offers a radically new history Cloth 2014 928 pp. 38 b/w illus. of martyrdom in the first and second 978-0-300-14488-8 $125.00 centuries that challenges traditional under- standings of the spread of Christianity and Ruth of Christian martyrdom itself. A New Translation with Introduction and Cloth 2012 272 pp. Commentary 978-0-300-15465-8 $50.00 JEREMY SCHIPPER Reflecting the latest research in biblical The Responsive Self scholarship, Jeremy Schipper’s fresh Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the translation of the book of Ruth encourages Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods readers to consider the roles gender, status, SUSAN NIDITCH ethnicity, and sexual desire play throughout Niditch draws from biblical literature the text. to argue that personal religion was as the anchor yale bible commentaries relevant to the ancient Israelites as it is to Cloth 2016 240 pp. believers today. 978-0-300-19215-5 $75.00 Cloth 2015 200 pp. 978-0-300-16636-1 $50.00

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& A Little History of Religion & The Message and the Book RICHARD HOLLOWAY Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions For curious readers of all ages and beliefs, JOHN BOWKER this rich and colorful history explores This magisterial guide introduces the religion from humanity’s earliest days to great faiths of the world through their our own contentious times. Richard Hol- most important writings. Surveying 400 loway illuminates the beliefs of major and key religious books, the author engagingly minor religions, the sources of religiously discusses the content, core tenets, and motivated violence, the place of faith in a significance of each. secular world, and much more. Paper 2013 416 pp. 37 color illus. Hardcover 2016 256 pp. 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19233-9 $25.00 978-0-300-20883-2 $25.00 Cloth 2012 416 pp. 37 color illus. 978-0-300-17929-3 $30.00 Holy Rus’ The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia Abraham’s Children JOHN P. BURGESS Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious A noted theologian offers a fascinating, Conflict vivid, and on-the-ground account of the EDITED BY KELLY JAMES CLARK resurgent Orthodox Church, the largest In a world troubled by conflict, both and most significant nongovernmental religious and secular, can we find a path organization in Russia today, while exam- toward tolerance and respect for those of ining its potential to become one of the other faiths? Prominent Christian, Jewish, best hopes for a more just and democratic and Muslim thinkers defend religious liberty, Russian society. drawing on the sacred writings of their Available in February 2017 personal faiths. Hardcover 2017 272 pp. 10 b/w illus. Paper 2012 312 pp. 978-0-300-22224-1 $30.00 978-0-300-17937-8 $20.00

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History of Christianity...... 3-6 World Religions...... 16

Ancient Religion & Asian Religions…...... 17 Early Christianity……...... 6-8 Islam...... 18 Religion in America...... 9-10 Judaism...... 18-19 Religious Thought...... 11-13 Jewish Lives...... 20 The Bible...... 13 Also of Interest…...... 21-22 The Anchor Yale Bible Series...... 14-15

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