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Judges Defining Christ by Klaas Spronk The Church of the East This commentary presents a new ap- and Nascent Islam proach to the old problems of the dating by Marijke Metselaar of the book of Judges and the reconstruc- Defining Christ describes the theological tion of the way different sources were developments of the Church of the East used. It wants to show that the book of in the Persian Empire in the seventh Judges can be read as the work of one century, when Arab groupings were literary talented author living in the early seizing power. This Church defined and Hellenistic period. With materials from emphasized the difference between the different sources, the book is written as divine and human nature of Christ in an introduction to the history of the kings such a way that it had already come in strong conflict with other Christian of Israel as can be found in the books of Samuel and Kings, with a clear denominations. Now, it also had to deal with new rulers who recognized view on leadership and on the relation between the leader and YHWH. Christ as a unique human being, but rejected the belief in his divinity. The Next to the reconstruction of the historical background of the book and its book investigates to what extent the leaders of this Church adapted their author, much attention is paid to the history of interpretation, from the statements concerning Christ to the rapidly changing circumstances and earliest retellings to the newest interpretations. views. Most attention is thereby given to the 106 letters of Isho’yahb III, 582p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Historical Commentary on the Old written between about 625 and 659. These letters shed an interesting Testament 7) paperback, 9789042940352, $105.00. Special Offer $84.00 light on this period and for a better understanding they are set in the PDF e-book, 9789042940369, $132.00 context of wider theological and political developments. 476p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Late Antique History and Religion 19) hardcover, 9789042938052, $132.00. Special Offer $106.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938069, $165.00

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70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] Discovering Practical Theology Unlocking the Future Exploring Boundaries Women and the Diaconate by Annemie Dillen and Stefan Gärtner edited by Hildegard Warnink Religion takes different shapes in late-mod- This book discusses from various angles ern society. Pastoral care, church and religion the position of women within the Roman are also in transition. Practical theology Catholic Church, and, more specifically, explores these new challenges. This book with regard to the diaconate. Theological, introduces the readers to the field of this historical, pastoral, canonical, and legal discipline in dialogue with the metaphor of considerations are taken into account. The ‘boundaries’. Theoretical insights in practical book makes clear that this old discussion theology and its methodology are combined is as lively today, as only the ordination of with discussions about specific topics and case studies from the field of pas- women to the priesthood is currently closed toral and spiritual care, with special attention for Catholic contexts. Practical for further debate. The thoughts developed in this book can offer stepping theologians are presented as cross-border workers, whose work is to reflect stones to a future which may do right thoroughly to the Church, to women, on ambiguous places and borderlands ‘in between’ positions, disciplines, and and to the well-being of all Christian faithful. fixed identities. Specific attention goes to questions on hope and power in 121p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Onclin Chair 14) paperback, relation to pastoral care, on chaplaincy in prisons and hospitals, on children 9789042942417, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 and theology. PDF e-book, 9789042942424, $63.00 251p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs 47) paperback, 9789042941069, $55.00. Special Offer $44.00 Contra Latinos PDF e-book, 9789042941076, $55.00 et Adversus Graecos John Plousiadenos (1423?–1500) The Separation between Rome A Time-Space Geography of his Life and Constantinople from the Ninth and Career to the Fifteenth Century by Eleftherios Despotakis edited by Alessandra Bucossi After the Union of the Churches in 1439 and Anna Calia and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, The division between the Latin and Greek the island of Crete was considered both churches is one of the fields of research that by the pope and by Cardinal Bessarion as best represents the complexity and richness the ideal place for the spread of the new of the medieval world and opens the way to philo-Catholic reality. This is also the period a deeper understanding of contemporary religious and political issues. This during which Crete provided the West with volume, planned as a journey from the ninth to the fifteenth century and scholars, scribes and texts. Through an interdisciplinary approach involving through three different linguistic areas (Greek, Latin, and Slavic languages), archival documents in Latin and manuscript evidences in Greek, this study contains twenty-five contributions ranging from large images of the main aims to portray the Uniate Cretan scribe and theologian John Plousiadenos points of difference between churches (e.g., papal primacy and Filioque) (1423?–1500) and to explore the political, religious and intellectual context to new editions of texts (e.g., Letter by John Dokeianos to John Moschos). within which he lived and acted. The appendix of this book includes, among The new analyses proposed by this volume portray a lively community of other materials, the editio princeps of two Greek texts (the Prayer to the well-known and young scholars who are radically changing the history of the Holy Spirit and the Pattern for the Catholic Confession) composed by John Schism between Orthodox and Catholic Churches through new discoveries Plousiadenos. and revaluations of texts and events. 240p (Peeters Publishers, April 2020, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 284) 602p (Peeters Publishers, April 2020, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 286) hardcover, 9789042937871, $113.00. Special Offer $91.00 hardcover, 9789042937857, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937888, $142.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937864, $173.00

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The Geopolitics of Pope Francis Religion and State edited by Jan De Volder in Secular Europe Today The reformist Pope Francis has also devel- Theoretical Perspectives and Case Studies oped an outspoken political agenda; he has edited by Jelle Creemers become an idiosyncratic and remarkable and Hans Geybels world leader. This volume collects contribu- In recent decades, political and academic tions on different aspects of the geopolitical discourse has increasingly focused on the arena. Its aim is to provide insights into the potential negative influence of religion and pope’s geopolitical approach and to help us historical attitudes of benevolence of states understand the opportunities and challeng- towards religion are replaced by suspicion es, as well as the strengths and weaknesses, and historical relations are questioned. In this of the Vatican’s international policy in the era of Pope Francis. cross-disciplinary volume, ten scholars critically scrutinize these developments. 243p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia 77) 174p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia 79) paperback, 9789042940659, $73.00. Special Offer $59.00 paperback, 9789042940192, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940680, $92.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940208, $85.00

L’éthique de l’ère postmoderne Buddha Mind – Christ Mind et crise de la théologie A Christian Commentary on the by Katikishi Muzembe Bodhicaryāvatāra For the author, theology must succeed in by Perry Schmidt-Leukel acquiring new protocols of its teachings and The Bodhicaryāvatāra (“Entering the Course commitments through appropriate strate- towards Awakening”) is one of the most gies for its reinsertion into the dynamics of widely translated Buddhist texts. After the new ethical order, whose main features many commentaries by Buddhist scholars are democracy and human rights; the rule throughout the centuries, this is the first of justice and good governance of the earth; commentary from a Christian perspective, and against the structures of tyranny, cheat- exploring the deep resonances between the ing, and crime in all their forms. French text. “spirit of awakening” and the “spirit of Christ”. 379p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia 72) 612p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Christian Commentaries on Non-Christian paperback, 9789042935174, $95.00. Special Offer $76.00 Sacred Texts 9) paperback, 9789042938489, $112.00. Special Offer $90.00 PDF e-book, 9789042937239, $119.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938496, $140.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 3 Le Psautier Il libro del profeta Amos Quatrième livre (Ps 90–106) Seconda edizione rivista by Roland Meynet by Pietro Bovati and Roland Meynet The composition of the fourth book of This commentary constitutes a systematic Psalms does not pale in comparison to the and coherent interpretation of the entire other four books already analyzed in this book of Amos, based on strict principles of series. Its three major sections each include composition. Unlike the so-called classical five Psalms organized concentrically; they commentaries, which continue to propose are articulated by two short sections that fragmentary readings based on analyses form the focal points of the ellipse that the of individual verses or, at most, of short book as a whole draws. The book is caught and isolated pericopes, this commentary up in this tension between the desires of God and man, each going out to shows how the literary work that bears the name of the prophet of Tekoa is meet the other, in a “today” the fragility of which places every man between organically constructed; its understanding therefore requires a systematic the morning when the grass blossoms and the evening when it dries up, comparison between its different parts. The reader, following the analysis of between the time of the fathers, the time of sin and forgiveness, and the time the rhetorical composition and the observation of the relationships between of salvation and the end that the central section contemplates. French text. the textual elements, will be able to appreciate the relevance, originality, and 281p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Rhetorica Biblica et Semitica 23) truth of the interpretation of the individual pericopes and of the entire book. paperback, 9789042941892, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 It is hoped that this study can serve as a model that encourages hermeneutic PDF e-book, 9789042941908, $68.00 attention to the phenomena of Semitic literary composition as an indispensable basis for an adequate acceptance of the biblical tradition. Italian text. Le Psautier 490p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Rhetorica Biblica et Semitica 21) Deuxième livre (Ps 42/43–72) paperback, 9789042941342, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941359, $100.00 by Roland Meynet Like the first, third and fifth books, the sec- La composizione letteraria ond book of the Psalter forms a very elabo- rate composition. Indeed, it is not only each del Vangelo di Matteo of its thirty psalms that is well composed, it by Francesco Graziano is also each of the sequences that join two Commentators have always believed or three psalms and the five sections orga- that the First Gospel presents an organic nized according to a concentric architecture structural project while at the same time around the five mid-voice psalms (Ps 56- trying to disprove this in a varied range 60). Two complementary movements structure and animate the whole book. of hypotheses. With the aid of the study On the one hand, evil and violence are everywhere, as are enemies. On the Biblical-Semitic rhetoric, which pays at- other hand, salvation is for all those who trust in God, in his faithfulness and tention to the composition of biblical texts in his truth. And the action of grace resounds throughout, until the end. It is through the structure of typical literary echoed not only in the mouths of the sons of Israel saved by their God, but also expression of the Semitic cultural area, this volume attempts to clarify the on the lips of all other peoples. They, who at the beginning of the book were confusion raised by the use of different criteria often external to the text. The presented as the enemies of the chosen people, will join Israel at the end in the result proposed here is a first analytical look at the rhetorical composition of same blessing, the one promised to Abraham: “and through your offspring all the Gospel, hoping that its study, with its different levels of textual architec- nations on earth will be blessed” (Gen 22:18). French text. ture, will give the reader a key to its meaning. Italian text. 420p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Rhetorica Biblica et Semitica 20) 387p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Rhetorica Biblica et Semitica 22) paperback, 9789042941168, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00 paperback, 9789042942042, $78.00. Special Offer $63.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941175, $93.00 PDF e-book, 9789042942059, $98.00

4 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Why Read the Bible in the Original Languages? by Takamitsu Muraoka A comparison of multiple translations of the Bible in any language shows that they differ in hundreds of places, pointing to the continuing disagreement among Bible scholars and translators in their analysis and understanding of those places. To learn Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, the original languages of the Bible, is admittedly not everybody’s cup of tea. Knowledge of them does not necessarily provide a solution to these difficulties. However, there are not a few things in the biblical text which can be missed if it is read only in translation. A range of linguistic issues touching on the three original languages are discussed in the light of actual examples. Matters of culture and rhetoric are also taken up. A special chapter is devoted to the Septuagint as a bridge between the two Testaments. The book is easily accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. 111p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020) paperback, 9789042942004, $24.00. Special Offer $20.00 PDF e-book, 9789042942011, $30.00 Terror, Trump & Trauma Moral Realism edited by Sabine Dievenkorn and the Existence of God Socially and politically, many things have Improving Parfit’s Metaethics changed for women in recent years. Power by Martin Jakobsen relations have shifted. Worldwide, women Can there be an objective morality without have been pushed back into pre-feminist God? Derek Parfit argues that it can and offers places. The European Society for Women in a theory of morality that is neither theistic Theological Research dedicates its current nor naturalistic. This book provides a critical journal to the theological reflections on assessment of Parfit’s metaethical theory, religious experiences, social border- identifying some problems and arguing that situations, and traumatic events, which theological resources can help solve them. in Europe are not only symbolically linked to the last US presidential elections. 262p (Peeters Publishers, April 2020, Studies in Philosophical Theology 67) 329p (Peeters Publishers, September 2019, Journal of the European Society paperback, 9789042942141, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 of Women in Theological Research 27) paperback, 9789042940062, $63.00. PDF e-book, 9789042942158, $107.00 Special Offer $51.00

Down Town / Down Soul Modernity, Melancholy Early Modern Mysticism, and Predestination the Self & the Political Cultural Historical, Philosophical and edited by Marc De Kesel Psychoanalytical Perspectives on the and Inigo Bocken Modern Religious Subject It is just as possible to live deep down in the by Herman Westerink innermost of the soul in the heart of ‘down What is the relation between faith and de- town’ as it is in the quiet of a monastery cell. spair? Can one distinguish spiritual despair ‘Town’ and ‘soul’ are not in contradiction to from melancholia? What is the role played each other. Part One presents studies on the by the doctrine of predestination in faith ‘mystical’ character of the inner life. Part Two practices that include despair and desire? reflects upon the relationship between the mystical and the political, while This book explores such questions through a reading of a variety of sources Part Three returns to the soul and its abysmal—’mystical’—condition. with the use of philosophical and psychoanalytical theories and perspectives. 250p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Studies in Spirituality Supplements 180p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Studies in Spirituality Supplements 33) 34) paperback, 9789042941441, $82.00. Special Offer $66.00 paperback, 9789042939844, $83.00. 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In or- of many of the major subjects in patristic der to include the full catechetical teachings studies, from Tertullian to Maximus the of the fourth-century hagiopolite tradition, Confessor by way of Origen, John Chrysos- the study examines the history of liturgy arguments against Cyrillian author- tom, Jerome and Augustine. One theme of the conference, which was held ship of the Mystagogic Catecheses. Using codicological and textual critical in conjunction with the European Research Council COMPAUL project, was analysis to support the claim of Cyrillian authorship, it argues for a different the tradition and reception of the letters of the Apostle Paul. This is reflected preferred manuscript tradition than that presented in the critical edition. in several papers, including an examination of patristic evidence for the Looking at the scholarly literature regarding Cyril’s sacramental theology, the authorship of Ephesians and an analysis of exegetical techniques employed in study constructs a new model for Cyril’s sacramental theology based upon his the Greek catena tradition on Galatians. Two longer contributions, by plenary doctrine of theosis, which has not been examined with sufficient academic speakers Frances Young and Jennifer Strawbridge, offer an extended consid- rigor to date. eration of the early Christian exegesis of particular Pauline Epistles. 353p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Studia Patristica Supplements 8) 403p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020) paperback, 9789042940413, $144.00. paperback, 9789042939233, $103.00. Special Offer $83.00 Special Offer $116.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940420, $180.00 PDF e-book, 9789042939240, $129.00 YHWH contre Marduk Égalité femme-homme et genre La création dans le Deutéro-Isaïe Approches théologiques et bibliques (Is 40–55) edited by Denise Couture, Anne by Éric Bellavance Létourneau, and Étienne Pouliot The theme of the creation of the world is A closer, cross-cutting look at gender equal- of paramount importance in understand- ity and the gender issue is on the agenda in ing the argument and rhetoric set forth by today’s globalized world. The field of current Deutero-Isaiah (Is 40–55). For this prophet, religious studies, particularly in exegesis it is a question of convincing the Judean and theology, is part of this project in order exiles that their God was indeed at work and to bring these two issues together at their that he was therefore responsible for the roots. In this volume, exegetes as well as fall of Babylon (539 BC) and their liberation. The stakes were immense: who, theologians question the binarity of genders, including the binary spirit YHWH or Marduk, the head of the Babylonian pantheon, had called, guided, that tacitly or explicitly presides over the very definition of multiple sexual and helped the Persian king Cyrus in his conquest of Babylon? This study, identities. The authors thus take up the great challenge of equality for women inspired by postcolonial approaches, analyzes in depth the Isaian texts where and men, from the recognition of its “inescapable” character to its complete the theme of the creation of the world is addressed, and shows that they set questioning. They patiently explore the diversity of biblical representations of up a counter-narrative to the official version of the conquest of Babylon, the gender and human sexuality, revealing the unsuspected traits of characters. Cyrus Cylinder. French text. 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6 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Studies on Jewish and Christian Historical Summaries from the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods by Atar Livneh This volume surveys the brief accounts of Israelite history written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek between the third century BCE and the first century CE and found in compositions that did not enter the Hebrew biblical canon. Engaging in a detailed discussion of over forty texts, it demonstrates the affinities this category exhibits with “biblical” summaries and the influence it betrays of Hellenistic and early Roman literary conventions. The new topics with which it deals, the focus it places on individual figures, and the interest it displays in the temporal axis of history reflect a process of cross-fertilization. The reviews of Israelite history from this period are thus hybrid artifacts that blend the conventions of the “biblical” historical summaries with those of other literary models. 197p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology 95) paperback, 9789042939677, $80.00. Special Offer $64.00; PDF e-book, 9789042939684, $100.00

Sabbath in the Making The Call of the Wilderness A Study of the Inner-Biblical The Narrative Significance of Interpretation of the Sabbath John the Baptist’s Wherebaouts Commandment by Marco Rotman by Ottilia Lukács Several geographical settings are associated This study aims to offer a more accurate with John the Baptist in the first-century description of the literary and redaction texts in which he figures. This study focuses history of the Sabbath commandments in on the significance of these and others. It the Bible from the perspective of the inner- does so from a narrative-critical rather than a biblical interpretation, and to understand historical angle. The geographical settings in the theological and intellectual endeavor of which the Baptist appears contribute to the scribes, who were responsible for the different redactional layers. characterization of the Baptist in relation other main characters and themes. 359p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & 334p (Peeters Publishers, January 2020, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology 97) paperback, 9789042940536, $84.00. Special Offer $68.00 Theology 96) paperback, 9789042940376, $85.00. Special Offer $68.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940543, $84.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940383, $107.00

Life Preservation in Genesis The Quest for the Memory of Jesus and Exodus A Viable Path or a Dead End? An Exegetical Study of the Tēbâ by Tuomas Havukainen of Noah and Moses This study is focused on the active interna- by Joshua Joel Spoelstra tional field of study in which various theories Suggestive of an intertextual relationship, of memory (e.g. social/collective memory tēbâ is exegetically investigated to identify and individual memory) and ancient media its source language and meaning to thereby studies (e.g. study of oral tradition and his- determine its biblical appropriation and tory) are applied to historical Jesus research. theological signification. The multivocality of The main purpose of the monograph is to tēbâ intimates God’s enshrined protection of study whether the memory approach consti- a person from threat of death unto renewed life. tutes a coherent methodological school of thought. 432p (Peeters Publishers, April 2020, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & 342p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology 98) paperback, 9789042940710, $93.00. Special Offer $75.00 Theology 99) paperback, 9789042941250, $84.00. Special Offer $68.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940727, $117.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941267, $84.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 7 La topographie de la Jérusalem antique Essais sur l’urbanisme fossile, défenses et portes. IIe s. av. – IIe s. ap. J.-C. by Dominique-Marie Cabaret Jerusalem has had an eventful history and an urban evolution described by historians of antiquity. For 130 years, attempts have been made to retrace the ramparts, understand the sieges, reconstruct the great buildings and decipher the city’s urban planning. From the illustrious monuments that have disappeared—the temple of Herod, the Capitoline temple of Hadrian, the long Christian basilica of Justinian— to the surviving ones—the wall of the Temple, the Holy Sepulchre of Constantine, the Dome of the Rock— ancient authors relentlessly scrutinized Jerusalem. Now the author is challenging those views. On the background of the ancient texts, it is with an engineering background that he conducted his investigations. French text. 384p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Cahiers de la Revue Biblique. Series archaeologica 2) paperback, 9789042942431, $105.00. Special Offer $84.00; PDF e-book, 9789042942448, $132.00 La Bible en face Le christianisme devant l’islam Études textuelles et littéraires offertes Théologiens en dialogue en hommage à Adrian Schenker, edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin à l’occasion de ses quatre-vingts ans This book initiates a dialogue between Chris- edited by Innocent Himbaza tian and Muslim theologians on how the and Clemens Locher former view Islam and the issues it raises for Adrian Schenker has devoted more than 50 them. It provides a brief historical overview, years to biblical research. He has distin- then offers a vision of the Quran as a pare- guished himself especially in the field of netic writing. Then, entering into dialogue, textual criticism and the history of the Old two Muslim theologians share their insights Testament text. To stimulate the dynamics of from reading the previous texts. One offers dialogue, several contributions in this volume enter into discussion with the his critical reflections, the other demonstrates an example of what a Muslim positions reflected in Adrian Schenker’s numerous publications. French text. approach to the central dogmas of Christianity could be. French text. 388p (Peeters Publishers, January 2020, Cahiers de la Revue Biblique 95) 177p (Peeters Publishers, April 2020, Cahiers de la Revue Théologique de paperback, 9789042940437, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 Louvain 45) paperback, 9789042942202, $49.00. 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8 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Networks of Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible edited by Danilo Verde and Antje Labahn This volume focuses on the relationship and interplay between different metaphors in the texts of the Hebrew Bible. Biblical metaphors very often come in chains, especially in poetry, in which individual metaphors may interact in a number of ways. They often create families of metaphors that form a genuine repertoire of images to think and talk about a specific target domain from multiple viewpoints. The same source domain often inspires clusters of thoughts about a wide variety of realities. The same “root metaphor” may run throughout an entire book or a section of a book, emerging on the surface level of the text in many ways and interacting with other metaphors along the text continuum. This volume investigates biblical metaphors not as “isolated events of discourse” but as constantly intertwining and shaping a network of multiple interactions between the figures. 405p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 309) paperback, 9789042942103, $107.00. Special Offer $86.00; PDF e-book, 9789042942110, $134.00

Ecclesia semper reformanda Writing, Rewriting, and Overwriting Renewal and Reform beyond Polemics in the Books of Deuteronomy and edited by Peter De Mey the Former Prophets and Wim François Essays in Honor of Cynthia Edenburg This volume deals with the ongoing need for edited by Ido Koch, Omer Sergi the renewal and reform of the Churches, a and Thomas Römer desideratum encapsulated in the well-known Most of the contributions gathered in this adage, Ecclesia semper reformanda. It focuses volume pursue the question of the composi- on the themes that were at the forefront of tion and revision of the books of Deuter- the theological controversies which raged onomy and the Former Prophets. Additional during the transitional period between the contributions deal with the history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, some of which are still unresolved. text of other books, from Genesis to Chronicles. 487p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum 417p (Peeters Publishers, November 2019, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Lovaniensium 306) paperback, 9789042941427, $118.00. Special Offer $95.00 Theologicarum Lovaniensium 304) paperback, 9789042940000, $107.00. PDF e-book, 9789042941434, $148.00 Special Offer $86.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940017, $134.00 The Anthropological Turn, Christian From Servant of YHWH to Being Humanism, and Vatican II Considerate of the Wretched Louvain Theologians Preparing the Path The Figure David in the Reading for Gaudium et spes (1942–1965) Perspective of Psalms 35–41 MT by Dries Bosschaert by Willem A. M. Beuken Quid est autem homo? What is the human This study attempts an investigation of person? 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The Latin sermons edit- in a flexible way, so that this dignity of all ed and translated in this volume, preached Christians becomes more focused for them. by Robert Rypon (c. 1350-1421/22) and In order to explore the theological founda- collected in a single manuscript, are both tions of such ritualization, he takes as his representative and exceptional instances starting point the concept of the “ritualized of the preaching during this period. Rypon agent” of Catherine Bell, a specialist in ritual was an English Benedictine monk educated at Oxford and a member of studies, who believes that a subject who puts into practice the rituality that Durham priory, where he served a number of important roles. He preached constitutes him- or herself allows them to be shaped by their context and in regularly not only to his monastic community but to lay and clerical audi- turn shape it. An analysis of the ritualized agent is put in interaction with the ences at Durham cathedral and in parishes around Durham and Northumbria. thinking of four postmodern sacramental theologians in order to articulate Many of his analogies, metaphors, and exempla are original or distinctive in what a “Christian ritualistic agent” might be. This approach makes it possible their development, but he applies all of them to traditional homiletic con- to articulate what happens in a Christian who ritualizes the priesthood of the cerns. He also artfully employs the complex scholastic sermon form popular baptized in the liturgy. French text. with preachers trained at the universities. His sermons open a window onto 286p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Liturgia Condenda 31) paperback, the world of preaching and the religious culture of late medieval England. 9789042940390, $80.00. 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10 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Scala Magna of Shams al-Ri’āsah Abū al-Barakāt Volume I: Introduction, Text, Translation by William F. Macomber and Notes Among the different kinds of “ladders”, there was the classified vocabulary, 277p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Corpus of which several anonymous examples have survived in the manuscripts. Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores These “ladders” group together Bohairic words relating to, for example, Arabici 55) paperback, 9789042918993, geographical features, meteorological phenomena, birds, beasts, creeping $128.00. Special Offer $103.00 things, palm trees, fruits, vegetables and so on. The “ladder” edited here PDF e-book, 9789042942226, $160.00 is ascribed in the manuscripts to a named author, Shams al-Ri’asah Abu al-Barakat Ibn Kabar (died 10 May, 1324). He served as secretary to the Volume II: Apparatus of Variant Mamluk official Baybars al-Mansuri. Besides this “ladder”, he composed an Readings, Indexes ecclesiastical encyclopedia, “The Lamp (that Illuminates) the Darkness and 485p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Corpus the Elucidation of the Liturgy”, and a collection of sermons for feasts and special occasions. His “ladder” is Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores commonly called the Great Ladder, presumably because it is the most complete example of the classified Arabici 56) paperback, 9789042942233, vocabulary. In addition, it attempts to organize the different classifications in a more logical order than is $199.00. Special Offer $160.00 usual for the anonymous classified vocabularies. It is divided into ten books. PDF e-book, 9789042942240, $249.00

Another Athanasius La versione siriaca della Vita Four Sahidic Homilies Attributed to di Giovanni il Misericordioso di Athanasius of Alexandria: Leonzio di Neapolis Two Homilies on Michael the by Guido Venturini Archangel, the Homily on Luke Leontius Bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus 11:5–9 and the Homily on Pentecost composed the biography of the Patriarch of by Ibrahim Saweros Alexandria John the Merciful (610-619) in Many Coptic literary texts are circulated the middle of the seventh century. The work under the name of Athanasius of Alexandria, was widespread not only in the Byzantine the Alexandrian Archbishop and Theologian Empire, but also in other literary traditions. (ca. 296/298–2 May 373). Although there The Syriac version of the Life is an important are strong evidences that most of these texts are falsely attributed to him, indirect witness of the Greek original and is interesting for the study of the they are of extreme importance for the study of Coptic Christianity. The four reception of Byzantine hagiographic texts in the Syrian Orthodox context. homilies, edited and translated in this two volumes book, present ‘Another The first volume presents an introduction to the manuscript tradition. It is Athanasius’ to those who knew the history of their pseudo-author. This cor- followed by the edition, accompanied by a critical apparatus. The second vol- pus of texts reveals the mental image of Athanasius in the Coptic mentality ume includes the Italian translation and a study of the differences between through centuries after his death. the Greek text and the Syriac version. Italian text.

Text Text 121p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum 181p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Coptici 51) paperback, 9789042940093, $112.00. Orientalium, Scriptores Syri 263) paperback, 9789042940475, $132.00. Special Offer $90.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940109, $140.00 Special Offer $106.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940499, $165.00 Version Version 105p (Peeters Publishers, October 2019, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum 188p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Coptici 52) paperback, 9789042940116, $99.00. Orientalium, Scriptores Syri 264) paperback, 9789042940482, $119.00. Special Offer $80.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940123, $124.00 Special Offer $96.00; PDF e-book, 9789042940505, $149.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 11 Reading the Political in Jewish and Christian Texts edited by Julia A. Snyder and Korinna Zamfir “Anti-imperial” readings of ancient texts are popular, but are they right? What does it mean to engage in “political” interpretation of ancient texts? What can Biblical scholars learn from Classicists about the emperor cult? These are a few of the questions addressed in this volume. Highlighting the work of scholars in Eastern and Western Europe, it offers fresh perspectives on “political” aspects of early Jewish and Christian texts. Contributions include exegetical studies with literary and historical interests, as well as critical hermeneutical reflection. Essays analyze texts from the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and New Testament, plus Josephus and extra-canonical Christian literature. 350p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Biblical Tools and Studies 38) hardcover, 9789042940338, $110.00. Special Offer $88.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940345, $138.00 Analyse de la réponse du lecteur aux origines de Jésus en Matthieu Des polythéismes 1–2 aux monothéismes by Sébastien Doane Mélanges d’assyriologie offerts The role of the real reader as a creator of à Marcel Sigrist meaning has been underestimated in Bible edited by Uri Gabbay studies. The analysis of the reader’s response and Jean Jacques Pérennès examines the reception of literary works and Marcel Sigrist is known in the world of assyriolo- the reader’s role in interpretation. Inspired gists for his major contribution to the knowledge by Stanley Fish and Robert Hurley, this book of the Ur III period, owing in particular to the moves from theoretical readers (implicit, transcription of thousands of tablets that he pub- model, ideal) to real readers. What are the effects felt when reading Mt 1-2? lished in various books. This volume, written in Through an innovative methodological approach, this book answers the ques- English and French by renowned colleagues, is a token of their esteem and gratitude. tion by describing the effects of this text in a sequential reading. French text. 549p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Etudes Bibliques 82) paperback, 323p (Peeters Publishers, September 2019, Etudes Bibliques 81) paperback, 9789042941939, $115.00. Special Offer $92.00 9789042938915, $103.00. Special Offer $83.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941946, $144.00 PDF e-book, 9789042938922, $129.00

Die sieben Sendschreiben Apk 2–3 “I miei servi, I profeti” Studien zu ihrer Entstehung und Un paradigma profetico nello sviluppo ihrem Verhältnis zum apokalyptischen letterario di Geremia Hauptteil Apk 4–22 by Nicola Agnoli by Thomas Witulski Starting from the recurring theme of “my The present study deals with a central and re- servants, the prophets,” this study offers a peatedly raised question within the research hermeneutical key to its complicated process on the New Testament Apocalypse of John. of formation, identifiable in the progres- Based on a newly accentuated definition of sive definition of the prophetic paradigm the method of literary criticism, the texts of expressed by the literary formula as the fruit the seven epistles are subjected to a compre- of continuous reflection on the possibility of hensive literary critical analysis. German text. communicating the divine word. Italian text. 458p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Biblical Tools and Studies 39) hardcover, 419p (Peeters Publishers, May 2020, Etudes Bibliques 83) paperback, 9789042940611, $120.00. Special Offer $96.00 9789042942080, $109.00. Special Offer $88.00 PDF e-book, 9789042940628, $150.00 PDF e-book, 9789042942097, $137.00

12 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Eastern and Oriental Christianity A Critical Edition in the Diaspora of the Hexaplaric Fragments edited by Herman Teule of Job 22–42 and Joseph Verheyden by John D. Meade This volume contains a selection of papers A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Frag- read at an international colloquium on the ments of Job 22-42 contains the estab- way Eastern and Oriental Christianity has lished text of all the preserved readings accommodated itself to a Diaspora situation. of Origen’s Hexapla in Greek, Syriac, Latin, The colloquium was held at the KU Leuven and Armenian for Job 22-42 with variant in December 2016. Contributors focused on author attributions and variant readings liturgical issues, ecclesiological and juridical presented in a series of apparatuses. In questions, the way the Orthodox churches are trying to adapt to these and most entries, the editor has supplied notes in the form of brief commentary other challenges of modern West-European and North American society as on the readings. This edition of hexaplaric fragments surpasses previous edi- this was addressed in the recent Council of Crete, and the attitude of Middle tions in two ways: the edition contains more readings of Aquila, Symmachus, Eastern Diaspora Christians towards Islam. In an epilogue, one also gets an and Theodotion and the critical text of each reading is based on the most inside view on a recent initiative to establish a theological seminar for Syriac up-to-date manuscript evidence for the hexaplaric readings of Job. 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Skira by the Blessed Mar Ephrem and Peter De Mey translated with an introduction This volume offers a collection of essays on and notes by Andrew Hayes the Ukrainian-Canadian Metropolitan Maxim Ephrem the Syrian’s six Metrical Discourses Hermaniuk and the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic on Faith reflect on issues central to or arising Church during the Second Vatican Council. from the Arian controversy as it manifested A number of essays describe the historical in the Syriac-speaking churches: the unique context of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic status of the Son of God, the distinction Church during and after the Council. Other essays focus on Met. Hermaniuk’s between creator and creation, and especially contributions during the Council, from his speeches on episcopal collegiality, the problem of human audacity in the quest ecumenism, and the importance of the Eastern Christian Churches, to his for knowledge of God. Like Ephrem’s other works, these discourses are replete work on the various conciliar commissions. Concluding sections of the volume with biblical language and brimming with creative symbolism. Being less then assess Hermaniuk’s efforts to promote the reception of the Council in his terse and allusive in style than many of his other poems, they also serve as church. Two appendices include Met. Hermaniuk’s commentary on Orienta- a crucial exposition of some of his most fundamental ideas and a relatively lium ecclesiarum, plus an essay on the participation of the Ukrainian bishops accessible introduction to his thought as a whole. This is the first complete at the Council. English translation of the whole collection. 263p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Eastern Christian Studies 31) paperback, 154p (Peeters Publishers, March 2020, Eastern Christian Texts in Translation 4) 9789042940758, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 paperback, 9789042939349, $48.00. 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The Christian interpretation of the Holy Spirit as a mother bird with hovering Bible, previously assigned to teachers, passes wings within early Syriac sacramental litur- now into the hands of the powerful bishop gies, proto-monastic rites of initiation, hymnody, and teaching on prayer and of Alexandria. This evolution is particularly noticeable in the “Commentar- spiritual states of inspiration and contemplation. The author traces these in- ies on Isaiah and on the Twelve Prophets.” Through a detailed analysis of his fluences into the Greek writings of the fourth-century Mesopotamian ascetic exegetical method, this study seeks to highlight the originality of the Cyrilline teacher and writer of the ‘Macarian Homilies’. By demonstrating a cultural approach and to underscore Cyril’s role in the renewal of the Alexandrian and religious dialogue between the Cappadocians and Macarian and Syriac tradition. After going through the most characteristic affinities with Origen, teaching on the Holy Spirit, Julie Hopkins demonstrates that the agency and grammarian and allegorist, particular attention is given to the emergence of functions of the Syriac feminine Holy Spirit were appropriated by Gregory of a post-Origen exegesis in the commentaries of Cyril. French text. Nyssau in his mystical writings as a powerful verbal icon, even though the 444p (Peeters Publishers, December 2019, Traditio Exegetica Graeca 17) gender was lost in translation. hardcover, 9789042938267, $144.00. Special Offer $116.00 96p (Peeters Publishers, February 2020, ESWTR Studies in Religion 1) PDF e-book, 9789042938274, $180.00 paperback, 9789042941137, $23.00. Special Offer $19.00 PDF e-book, 9789042941229, $29.00 Commencements Définitions, suivies de douze Actes de Vatopédi III études De 1377 à 1500 edited by Olivier-Thomas Venard by Ch. Giros, R. Estangüi Gómez, and Bieke Mahieu V. Kravari, J. Lefort and K. 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14 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Prepare, Succeed, Advance Make-Believe A Guidebook for Getting a PhD God in 21st-Century Novels in Biblical Studies and Beyond by David Dickinson (2nd Edition) Despite repeated predictions of the death by Nijay K. Gupta of the novel, thousands of works of fiction What if you had a guidebook that you could are published and read in Britain each year. turn to at each stage of your academic jour- Although Western society is less religiously ney to help you navigate through the process observant than it was, many 21st-century of getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and novelists persist in pursuing theological, succeeding in the academic world? Prepare, religious and spiritual themes. Make-Believe Succeed, Advance is precisely intended to seeks to explain why. With chapters offering fill that need. From theory to practice, you will find discussions and answers analyses of novels from several genres—so-called literary fiction, historical to the most pertinent and pressing questions that prospective and current fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and dystopia—David Dickinson discusses a doctoral students are faced with. Alongside the questions about the process, wide spectrum of novelists. Authors who are avowedly atheistic and authors there are also smaller matters. This guidebook tackles all of these ques- who have a vested interest in perpetuating biblical stories are both featured. tions and many more in three parts: “Prepare” focuses on getting into a PhD Well-known writers such as Rushdie, McEwan, McCarthy, and Martell rub program; “Succeed” guides you through the doctoral program, especially the shoulders with some you may be meeting for the first time. Appealing to writing of the dissertation; and “Advance” treats issues that relate to success literature students and people who simply enjoy reading, whether Christian in the academic world. or not, this study of God in novels invites us to open our minds and allow 180p (The Lutterworth Press, April 2020) paperback, 9780718895563, $27.00. aspects of our culture to shape our understanding of God and to change our Special Offer $22.00; PDF e-book, 9780718848156, $22.00 ways of talking about the divine. 180p (The Lutterworth Press, January 2020) paperback, 9780718895471, $30.00. Special Offer $24.00; PDF e-book, 9780718847999, $24.00; EPUB Christianity and the e-book, 9780718848002, $23.99; MOBI e-book, 9780718848019, $23.99 Christian Church of the First Three Centuries 2 Corinthians by Ferdinand Christian Baur, A Short Exegetical and Pastoral edited by Peter C. Hodgson Commentary Christianity and the Christian Church of the by Anthony C. Thiselton First Three Centuries, the first volume in In this clear, and practical commentary, Baur’s five-volume history of the Christian Anthony Thiselton brings to bear his intimate Church, is the most influential and best knowledge of Paul’s theology, the ancient known of his many groundbreaking publi- city of Corinth, and Paul’s epistles to the cations in New Testament, early Christian- church of that city. 2 Corinthians is not only ity, church history, and historical theology. In it, Baur discusses such matters critical and exegetical, but also has a focus as the entrance of Christianity into world history, the teaching and person of on practical and pastoral reflection. Jesus, the tension between Jewish Christian and gentile Christian interpreta- 172p (James Clarke & Co., March 2020) paperback, 9780718895532, $27.00. tions and their resolution in the idea of the Catholic Church, the opposition Special Offer $22.00; PDF e-book, 9780718848125, $22.00 of Gnosticism and Montanism to Catholicism, the development of dogma or doctrine in the first three centuries, Christianity’s relation to the pagan world and the Roman state, and Christianity as a moral and religious principle. 470p (James Clarke & Co., June 2020) paperback, 9780227177297, $57.00. Special Offer $46.00; PDF e-book, 9780227907306, $46.00

www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 15 Personal Reality Alexei Khomiakov The Emergentist Concept of Science, The Mystery of Sobornost’ Evolution, and Culture. Volume 1 edited by Artur Mrowczynski- by Daniel Paksi Van Allen, Teresa Obolevitch Western civilization was built on the concept and Pawel Rojek of God. Today modern science, based on Alexei Khomiakov (1804–1860), a great the critical method and so-called objective Russian thinker, one of the founders of the facts, denies even the existence of our soul. Slavophile school of thought, nowadays Modern critical science has liberated us might be seen as one of the precursors of from the old dogmas but failed to establish critical thought on the dangers of mod- our freedoms, values, and beliefs. However, ern political ideas. The pathologies that human knowledge is not objective but personal. We are the children of evolu- Khomiakov attributes to Catholicism and Protestantism—authoritarianism, tion. Everybody sees the world from his own personal point of view, anchored individualism, and fragmentation—are today the fundamental characteris- into his or her body. We use our evolutionary skills and cultural heritage to tics of modern states, of the societies in which we live, and to a large extent, recognize and acknowledge the personal facts of our reality, freedom, and of the alternatives that are brought forth in an attempt to counter them. most important natural beliefs, respect and speaking the truth. In reality, Khomiakov’s works, therefore, might help us take on the challenge of rescu- even science itself is based on our personal knowledge. Only our false concep- ing Christian thought from modern colonization and offer a true alternative, a tual dichotomies paralyze our thinking. God or matter? There is a third choice: space for love and truth, the living experience of the church. Alexei Khomia- the emergence of life and human persons. This is the only way to defend our kov serves as a step on the path toward recovering the church’s reflection on freedoms and the Christian moral dynamism of free Western societies. its own identity as sobornost’, the community that is the living body of Christ. 288p (James Clarke & Co., April 2020) paperback, 9780227177167, $30.00. 260p (James Clarke & Co., April 2020) paperback, 9780227177266, $38.00. Special Offer $24.00; PDF e-book, 9780227907177, $24.00 Special Offer $31.00; PDF e-book, 9780227907276, $31.00

Church and World Theology as Repetition Eusebius’s, Augustine’s, John Macquarrie in Conversation and Yoder’s Interpretations by Stephen Foster of the Constantinian Shift Theology as Repetition revisits and argues for by Simon P. Schmidt a revival of John Macquarrie’s philosophical Church and World looks to the fourth century, theology. Macquarrie was a key twentieth- at the beginning of which people were per- century theological voice and was consid- secuted for being Christians, and persecuted ered a foremost interpreter and translator for not being Christians by the end. The of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy. He then change during the century raised fundamen- somehow fell from view. Macquarrie devel- tal questions about the relationship between oped a new style of theology, grounded in church and state and nature of good government. Simon P. Schmidt offers an a dialectical phenomenology that is a relevant voice in responding to recent academic investigation of how three paradigmatic theologians interpreted trends in theology. The first part situates Macquarrie in relation to thinkers this so-called Constantinian shift: Eusebius of Caesarea (ca. 260–339), Augus- from the radical theology of the 1960s through to the postmodernists of the tine of Hippo (354–430), and John Howard Yoder (1927–1997). Surprising late twentieth century, while the second part explores the intersection of key similarities between the theology of Eusebius and Yoder become apparent, themes in Macquarrie’s theology with the thinking of Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, along with the underlying theological structures of how to interpret what it and representative postsecular and postmodern figures, including Emmanuel looks like to be a community that follows Christ. Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Marion. 184p (James Clarke & Co., June 2020) paperback, 9780227177259, $30.00. 208p (James Clarke & Co., April 2020) paperback, 9780227177129, $30.00. Special Offer $24.00; PDF e-book, 9780227907269, $24.00 Special Offer $24.00; PDF e-book, 9780227907139, $24.00

16 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Notes from a Wayward Son Luther as Heretic A Miscellany Ten Catholic Responses to by Andrew Walker Martin Luther, 1518–1541 This ‘miscellany’ puts readers around the table with a edited by M. Patrick Graham teacher who has provided the church with wisdom and and David Bagchi passion, allowing us to hear an important contribution The publication of Martin Luther’s to the ongoing conversation about the relationship be- Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 tween the gospel and culture. Andrew Walker’s ‘ecclesial immediately elicited responses intelligence’ and broad interdisciplinary approach to from dozens of Roman Catholics theology and sociology will undoubtedly capture the in Germany and beyond. While imagination of many who are curious about the church’s Luther’s works and those of his mission in the modern West. Notes from a Wayward Son represents a broad sampling leading supporters have been available in English translation for of Walker’s writings from a distinguished forty-five-year career - from explorations of many years, those of most of his Catholic opponents have not. In Pentecostalism and Charismatic Renewal to Eastern Orthodoxy, C.S. Lewis, and Deep order to address this imbalance, win a fairer hearing for the Cath- Church; from the impact of modernity on the ecclesia to mission and ecumenism in the olic opposition, and make it possible for students to understand West today. In a world and a church often driven by the latest fashions, Walker’s is a voice both sides of the sixteenth-century religious debates, translators to which we will want to listen! have drawn on the rich resources of the Kessler Reformation Col- Contents: Journey into the Spirit: Pentecostalism, Charismatic, and Restorationist lection at the Pitts Theology Library to present here introductions Christianity — 1. Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity; 2. The Devil You Think You to and translations of ten Catholic pamphlets. Luther as Heretic Know: Demonology and the Charismatic Movement; 3. Thoroughly Modern: Sociological begins with an essay sketching the larger background for these Reflections on the Charismatic Movement from the End of the Twentieth Century; 4. The publications. The editors’ goal is that this book will prove useful Restorationist Movement in Great Britain; 5. Crossing the Restorationist Rubicon: From for teaching and research and will foster a deeper understand- House Church to New Church; 6. Pentecostal Power: The “Charismatic Renewal Move- ing of the sixteenth-century theological discussions by allowing ment” and the Politics of Pentecostal Experience. Mere Christianity and the Search for today’s readers to hear voices that have been mostly silent in the Orthodoxy — 7. Notes from a Wayward Son; 8. Under the Russian Cross: A Research Note English-speaking world for centuries. on C.S. Lewis and the Eastern Orthodox Church; 9. Young Jack; 10. Scripture, Revelation, Contents: Introduction; Johann Tetzel: Rebuttal Made by Brother and Platonism in C.S. Lewis; 11. Reflections on C.S. Lewis, Apologetics, and the Moral Johann Tetzel; Johann Eck: Response on Behalf of Hieronymus Tradition: Interview with Basil Mitchell. Orthodox Perspectives — 12. The Prophetic Role Emser; Hieronymus Emser: To the Bull in Wittenberg; Augustin of Orthodoxy in Contemporary Culture; 13. Homiletics and Biblical Fidelity: An Ecclesial Alveldt: A Sermon in which Brother Augustin of Alveldt Expresses Approach to Orthodox Preaching; 14. Interview with Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh; His Complaint; Wolfgang Wulffer: Against the Unholy Rebellion 15. Obituary of Metropolitan Anthony of Sorouzh; 16. Open or Shut Case? An Orthodox of Martin Luder; Augustin Alveldt: Against the Wittenberg Idol View on Inter-communion. Ecumenical Thoughts on Church and Culture — 17. The Third Martin Luther; Johannes Cochlaeus: The Seven-Headed Luther; Schism: The Great Divide in Christianity Today; 18. Sectarian Reactions: Pluralism and the Konrad Wimpina and Others: Against Martin Luther’s Confession; Privatization of Religion; 19. Harmful Religion; 20. Knowing God Personally: Reflections Paul Bachmann: Response to Luther’s Open Letter to Albert of on the Feminist Concept of Patriarchy; 21. The Gospel in a Culture of False Gods: Interview Mainz; Johann Eck: Address at Regensburg. with Bishop Lesslie Newbigin. Journalism and Other Media — 22. The Crisis of Christmas; 246p (James Clarke & Co., April 2020) paperback, 9780227177181, 23. Galloping Consumption; 24. The True Tragedy of Creationism; 25. Chuckling in The $38.00. Special Offer $31.00 Shack; 26. Who WIll Stand Up for Edward Irving?; 27. 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Come Out from among Them, Towards Reconciliation and Be Ye Separate, Saith the Lord Understanding Violence and Separationism and the Believers’ the Sacred after René Girard Church Tradition by Paul Gifford edited by William H. Brackney Why do humans sacralise the causes for and Evan L. Colford which they fight? Who will decipher for Believers’ Churches have their origin in the us the enigma of ‘sacred violence’? Paul Radical Reformation of the sixteenth cen- Gifford shows that the culture theorist and tury. Over the past 450 years, the movement fundamental anthropologist René Girard has has included the Brethren, Mennonites, in fact decoded the obscurely ‘foundational’ Hutterites, various types of Baptists, and the complicity between violence and the sacred, Restoration Movement. The Believers’ Churches together have been charac- showing why it is everybody’s problem and the Problem of Everybody. René terized by a strong personal faith in Christ, a call to discipleship and Christian Girard’s mimetic theory, especially his neglected writings on biblical texts, activism, a high view of the authority of Scripture, and profession of faith in can be read as an anthropological argument continuous with Darwin, shed- believers’ baptism. The Believers’ Churches have represented their beliefs in ding formidable new light to a vast array of dark and knotted things: from various ecumenical settings, missionary gatherings, and theological conver- the functioning of the world’s oldest temple to today’s terrorist violence, from sations. In the late 1950s, representatives of the several Believers’ Churches the Cross of Christ to the Good Friday Agreement. Such insights illuminate began to meet in a series of conferences to explore their common views on superbly (‘from below’) the ways of creation, revelation, redemption—which doctrine, history, and ethics. Topics at the conferences have included baptism, is to say, ultimately, the Christian enterprise and vocation of Reconciliation. the Lord’s Supper, the nature of the church, and religious voluntarism. In Here is a novel and exciting resource for scanning the hidden ‘sacrificial’ logic 2016, the 17th Believers’ Church Conference was held at Acadia University and that still secretly shapes cultural, social, and political life today. Girard puts us sponsored by Acadia Divinity College. The theme was ‘The Tendency Toward ahead of the game in the key dialogues required if we are to avoid autogen- Separationism Among the Believers’ Churches’. This volume includes the pa- erated apocalypses of human violence in the world of tomorrow. pers presented at the conference and examines the theme from an immediate 164p (James Clarke & Co., March 2020) post-Reformation perspective, with analyses provided by leading historians, hardcover, 9780227177082, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 theologians, and social science specialists. paperback (September 2020), 9780227177075, $30.00. Special Offer $24.00 256p (James Clarke & Co., April 2020) paperback, 9780227177242, $34.00. PDF e-book, 9780227907092, $79.00; EPUB e-book, 9780227907108, $78.99 Special Offer $28.00 PDF e-book, 9780227907252, $28.00

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Desert Transformations Studies in the Book of Numbers by Christian Frevel Classical Pentateuch research mainly dealt with the books of Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy and it is only in recent decades that the literary and theological meanings of Moses’ fourth book has been rediscovered. In this volume, Christian Frevel lets the interplay between narrative and legislative material—which is often not understood—emerge into new light, examining the texts of the Book of Numbers as inner-biblical interpretations and tradition-bound innovations. Cloaked in the Israelites’ 40-year long sojourn in the desert, the Book of Numbers presents a tightly-woven fabric of texts which reflect the social and cultic orders, discuss questions of leadership and explore the meaning of the Promised Land to Israel’s existence. 595p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 137) hardcover, 9783161539671, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00

The Ark and the Cherubim Translating Empire by Raanan Eichler Tell Fekheriyeh, Deuteronomy, The most important objects in the Hebrew and the Akkadian Treaty Tradition Bible are a wooden box, styled in English by C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton “the ark of the covenant,” and two statues This volume offers a data-driven approach of winged creatures, “the cherubim,” that to translation practice in the Iron Age. The surmount it. Raanan Eichler attempts to un- authors build on and reinforce Crouch’s derstand these objects using the full gamut conclusions in her former work about Deu- of data and tools available to the modern teronomy and the Akkadian treaty tradition, scholar. The study features an abundance of employing Hutton’s “Optimal Translation” visual comparative material, much of it in theory to analyze the Akkadian-Aramaic color, with a particularly close examination of the finds from the tomb of Tut- bilingual inscription from Tell Fekheriyeh. ankhamen. The author proposes solutions to a number of unsolved puzzles. 357p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 135) 390p, illus (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament) hardcover, 9783161590269, $181.00. Special Offer $145.00 hardcover, 9783161554322, $189.00. Special Offer $152.00 Women in the Wilderness Jeremiah Studies The ‘Female Legislation’ of the Book From Text and Contexts to Theology of Numbers (Num 5,11–31; 27,1–11; by Georg Fischer 30,2–17) Research on the Book of Jeremiah has gained by Francesco Cocco momentum in the past forty years and led to new results. The differences between the MT How were legal issues featuring women and the LXX have received more attention treated and resolved in the Book of Num- than ever. The extent of Deuteronomistic bers? Francesco Cocco studies a trio of texts thinking and of redactions marks the debate and finds the prominent place afforded to on the composition of the book. This col- women quite peculiar and, it seems, at odds lection of studies from the past ten years with the notions of autonomy, freedom, imparts insights into the recent discussions about the Book of Jeremiah. self-determination, or whatever other synonym can be married conceptually 420p (Mohr Siebeck, June 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 139) to the idea of women in leading roles. hardcover, 9783161589188, $209.00. Special Offer $168.00 241p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 138) hardcover, 9783161588563, $132.00. Special Offer $106.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 19 Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Alphanumeric Cosmology Die Bedingungen des Bundes From Greek into Arabic Studien zur konditionalen The Idea of Stoicheia Through Struktur alttestamentlicher the Medieval Mediterranean Bundeskonzeptionen by Juan Acevedo by Joachim J. Krause Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic Modeled on human contracts, in particular journey to track the origin and adventures political treaties, the theological notion of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at of YHWH’s covenant describes Israel’s least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to relationship with its God as one designed Fibonacci, simultaneously meant “element,” with deliberation. In light of this, Joachim J. “letter,” and “numeral.” Focusing on this triple Krause inquires into the conditional structure meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and of the various concepts of covenant in the Hebrew Bible. German text. Arabic—especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faith—a metaphysical 274p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 140) study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a hardcover, 9783161591327, $160.00. Special Offer $128.00 shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Studien zum Dodekapropheton II Indo-Arabic numerals broke the “marriage” of letter and numeral. Gesammelte Aufsätze zu Joel, Obadja, 360p (Mohr Siebeck, June 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe) Jona, Micha und Nahum paperback, 9783161592454, $112.00. Special Offer $90.00 by Jörg Jeremias, edited by Judith Das Moselied des Gärtner and Friedhelm Hartenstein Deuteronomiums Jörg Jeremias has strongly influenced research on the Book of the Twelve in recent Untersuchungen zu Text und decades. His commentaries on Hosea and Theologie von Dtn 32,1–43 Amos as well as his contributions on the by Petra Schmidtkunz Beginnings of the Dodekapropheton have set This analysis of the Song of Moses (Deut. standards in the field. By combining exegeti- 32:1–43) combines classical exegesis with cal perspectives on the individual books with insights gained into the genesis an enquiry into the textual pragmatics of of the Dodecapropheton as a whole, the collection is an excellent source of the composition. As a result, the Song can be methodological impulses for research on the Book of the Twelve. German text. characterized as a religious exhortation, ad- 380p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 133) dressing the community of YHWH’s followers hardcover, 9783161582684, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 in Persian-period Yehud (fifth century BC). German text. 430p (Mohr Siebeck, July 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe Eschatologische Fortschreibungen im Buch Hiob 124) paperback, 9783161582936, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00 by Sonja Feldmar The Book of Job in the Old Testament poses the question, paradigmatically, of Der Geist Gottes im Alten Testament a meaningful relationship with God in view of unjust suffering. In this work, by Mareike Verena Blischke Sonja Feldmar studies those passages which were added during the later In the Old Testament, God’s spirit is the power which constitutes the relation- stages of writing, a process which took several hundred years, and provides ship between God and man. In this work, Mareike Verena Blischke traces the an answer which had not been thought of up to that point: the hope of a rela- development from first king Saul’s selective possession of God’s spirit to the tionship with God which transcends death and compensates for the suffering outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all mankind in the prophetic texts. German text. in this life. German text. 332p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe 316p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe 112) paperback, 9783161575242, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 111) paperback, 9783161568664, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00

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The Pillars of the First Temple Death Warning in the (1 Kgs 7,15–22) Garden of Eden A Study from Ancient Near Eastern, The Early Reception History Biblical, Archaeological, and of Genesis 2:17 Iconographic Perspectives by Chris W. Lee by Daniel Prokop This book examines the early Jewish recep- The columns referred to as Jachin and Boaz tion of the divine death warning in relation are certainly one of the most controversial to its interpretative association with the features of the First Temple of Jerusalem. introduction of physical death to humanity. This volume examines their appearance and It begins by examining the meaning of Gen the meaning by investigating the epi- 2:17 in its original context, then tracing its graphic evidence from Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria-Palestine, defines the interpretation in subsequent literature and providing an exegetical analysis relationship between the six different descriptions in the Hebrew Bible, and of allusions and references to the death warning in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the compares the most important textual witnesses of 1 Kgs 7,15-22. Book of Ben Sira, 1 Corinthians, and Romans. 271p (Mohr Siebeck, April 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe 230p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe 116) paperback, 9783161593222, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 115) paperback, 9783161588587, $105.00. Special Offer $84.00

Prophetic Polyphony The Song of Deborah Allusion Criticism of Isa 41,8–16.17– in the Septuagint 20; 43,1–7; 44,1–5 in a Dialogical by Nathan LaMontagne Approach This work examines first the text of Judges by Peter A. Heasley 5, and discusses the problems with the Uniting the study of allusion with that of consensus that the Greek texts represent only literary form in a prophetic book, Peter A. one original translation. It then establishes a Heasley treats three passages long compared text-critical base text from which the rest of in form criticism and overlooked in allusion the work proceeds. After examining the Greek studies. Through the specific method of allu- text’s relationship to the Hebrew, the author sion criticism that he develops, he demon- also looks at the way the translation preserves strates how the author of these Salvation Oracles composes them using the poetic structure and analyzes the meaning of the text in Hellenistic Judaism. stylistic patterns of the very passages to which they allude. 151p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe 388p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. 110) paperback, 9783161555176, $76.00. Special Offer $61.00 Reihe 113) paperback, 9783161592423, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Massekhet Menahot Eigensinn und Entstehung der Hebräischen Bibel Volume V/2. Text, Translation, and Commentary Erhard Blum zum siebzigsten Geburtstag by Dvora Weisberg edited by Joachim J. Krause, Wolfgang Oswald and Kristin Weingart Tractate Menahkot in the Babylonian Talmud considers the proper composi- The thirty-two contributions in this volume are dedicated to the main exeget- tion, formation, and presentation of offerings of grain and flour brought to ical and literary-historical problems of the Hebrew Bible as well as questions the Jerusalem Temple. Dvora Weisberg’s commentary focuses attention on of history, linguistics, and hermeneutics. They are divided into seven sections: the tractate’s treatment of women and gender issues, considering the ways Pentateuch, Major Prophets, Minor Prophets, Writings, Historical Questions, that the Talmud presents women’s engagement with the sacrificial system Linguistic Questions, and Hermeneutical Questions. English and German text. and with key religious symbols. 638p (Mohr Siebeck, March 2020, Forschungen zum Alten Testament 136) 328p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, A Feminist Commentary on the Babylonian hardcover, 9783161563843, $279.00. Special Offer $224.00 Talmud 5.2) hardcover, 9783161583322, $153.00. Special Offer $123.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 21 Orientalische Religionen in der Antike Rom und Protestantismus

Foreign Women – Women in Foreign Lands Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE edited by Angelika Berlejung and Marianne Grohmann The volume presents a collection of papers read during three workshops held from 2016 to 2018. Scholars from different disciplines and methodological approaches explored gender-specific constructions of foreignness/strangeness in the Old Testa- ment, Egypt, and Mesopotamia from their particular perspectives. They showed that when combined, strangeness/foreignness and gender can take on very different forms. Various processes of the “othering” of women are of importance, which differ from the “othering” of men. The contributions investigate specific questions, individual female figures and individual phenomena as model cases. The basic question was when, where, how and for what purpose the categories of foreignness and gender were connected and activated in literary tradition. 299p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 35) hardcover, 9783161575907, $160.00. Special Offer $128.00

Un YHWH venant du Sud? Schrift und Material De la réception vétérotestamentaire Praktische Verwendung religiöser des traditions méridionales et du lien Text- und Bildträger als Artefakte entre Madian, le Néguev et l’exode im Alten Ägypten (Ex–Nb; Jg 5; Ps 68; Ha 3; Dt 33) edited by Joachim Friedrich Quack by Fabian Pfitzmann and Daniela C. Luft In this study, Fabian Pfitzmann tries to give Texts and images do not exist independently the debate on the origins of YHWH a new of their carrier objects: they facilitate their direction. His aim is not to work on the his- distribution and use. However, the charac- torical origins of YHWH, but to understand teristics of carriers were adapted to the use, how the traditions that speak of a YHWH as was the selection of texts and images. This coming from the south articulate with other Old Testament traditions. The interplay of interdependencies is considered theoretically and on the basis of author tries to understand the southern theophanic texts as traces of multiple ancient Egyptian sources. German text. discourses on the origins of YHWH. French text. 350p (Mohr Siebeck, July 2020, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike) 520p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 39) hardcover, 9783161551291, $168.00. Special Offer $135.00 hardcover, 9783161591228, $196.00. Special Offer $157.00 Petrusliteratur und Gott Unterwegs Petrusarchäologie Die traditions- und religionsgeschicht- Römische Begegnungen lichen Hintergründe des Habakukliedes edited by Martin Wallraff and Jörg Frey by Judith E. Filitz Peter was a central figure of emerging Christi- Habakkuk’s prayer is one of the most anity that has shaped an important branch of mysterious texts in the Old Testament. To early Christian literature and has been linked understand its theology, a closer look at to an early local tradition in Rome. However, its background as well as its formation is both lines of reception have only been linked necessary. Judith E. Filitz shows how the text occasionally, and at a relatively late point in reveals a theology of the divine presence time. This volume deals with this from the that describes a God able to stay close by perspective of New Testament texts and early church history. German text. being on the move. German text. 321p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, Rom und Protestantismus – Schriften des 585p (Mohr Siebeck, March 2020, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 36) Melanchthon-Zentrums in Rom 4) paperback, 9783161558894, $62.00. hardcover, 9783161592652, $202.00. Special Offer $162.00 Special Offer $50.00

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Authoritative Writings in Early Judaism and Early Christianity Their Origin, Collection, and Meaning edited by Tobias Nicklas and Jens Schröter Recent scholarship on the history of the biblical canons has increasingly recognized that the Jewish and Christian Bibles were not formed independently of each other but amid controversial debate and competition. But what does it mean that the formation of the Christian Bible cannot be separated from the developments that led to the Jewish Bible? The articles in this collection start with the assumption that the authorization of writings had already begun in Israel and Judaism before the emergence of Christianity. They deal with a broad range of sources, examine the role of authoritative texts in so-called Gnostic schools, and discuss the authority of late antique apocryphal literature 356p (Mohr Siebeck, July 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 441) hardcover, 9783161560941, $195.00. Special Offer $156.00 Ephesos as a Religious Center Sceptic and Believer in Ancient under the Principate Mediterranean Religions edited by Allen Black, Christine M. edited by Babett Edelmann-Singer, Thomas and Trevor W. Thompson Tobias Nicklas, Janet E. Spittler Devotion to Artemis dominated the religious and Luigi Walt culture of ancient Ephesos. But she was not Exploring questions of doubt with respect to alone. The city of Ephesos and its environs a wide range of religious contexts and topics offered a rich panoply of religious options, (including early Christianity, Greco-Roman domestic and public. Structures, statutes, religions, Egyptian religions, astrology, and coins, inscriptions, and texts testify to the magic), the essays in this volume confirm remarkable diversity of religious ideas and the thesis that doubting one’s own religious practices. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Jewish religious traditions found tradition is not simply a “Western” post-Enlightenment phenomenon. loyal adherents among residents and visitors. Gods, goddesses, heroes, and 324p (Mohr Siebeck, July 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen emperors were worshipped. The contributions in this volume demonstrate Testament 443) hardcover, 9783161563058, $189.00. Special Offer $152.00 that ancient Ephesos was a vibrant and competitive religious environment. 280p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161525155, $195.00. Special Offer $156.00 From Roman to Early Christian Cyprus Breaking New Ground in John Studies in Religion and Archaeology by Ruben Zimmermann, edited by Laura Nasrallah, Charalambos edited by Dieter T. Roth Bakirtzis and Anne-Marie Luijendijk This volume presents twenty-five essays Cyprus was a crossroads in the ancient east- under five headings: Imagery, Parables, ern Mediterranean, a key location between Characters, Christology, and Ethics. These es- east and west, in which Judaism, Greco-Ro- says address a broad spectrum of questions man religions, and Christianity intersected. and issues in the Fourth Gospel, and they By drawing on literary, archaeological, and are brought together in the present format art historical evidence from the first century in the hopes of contributing to and further CE to the medieval period, the volume elucidates the diversity of Christianity stimulating truly groundbreaking work in in late antique Cyprus. the treasured, ancient text of the Gospel of John. 337p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen 650p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Testament 437) hardcover, 9783161568732, $202.00. Special Offer $162.00 Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161548628, $266.00. Special Offer $213.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 23 Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Luke as Narrative Theologian Hellenistic Jewish Literature Texts and Topics and the New Testament by Joel B. Green Collected Essays This collection of essays draws together by Carl R. Holladay, studies on Luke’s theology over a thirty-year edited by Jonathan M. Potter period. These essays contribute to our un- and Michael K. W. Suh derstanding of the theological and narrative Like Philo and Josephus, as well as those unity of Luke-Acts by pursuing a variety of who earlier produced the Septuagint and topics (e.g., salvation, wealth and poverty, the Hellenistic Jewish fragmentary texts, baptism, resurrection, and conversion) and the writers of the New Testament were Jews more focused examinations of selected writing in Greek. This collection of essays, Lukan texts, such as the birth narrative, Jesus’ crucifixion, Jesus’ ascension, the spanning the scholarly career of Carl R. Holladay, investigates the Hellenistic Pentecost episode, and the stories of Cornelius and Lydia. Jewish writings in their own contexts and explores how they illuminate the 340p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum writings of the New Testament. Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161565502, $189.00. Special Offer $152.00 700p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161547898, $259.00. Special Offer $208.00 Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament Antike und Urchristentum V. International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Studien zur neutestamentlichen Novi Testamenti, 14–17 May 2015, Nottingham Theologie in ihren Kontexten und edited by Roland Deines and Mark Wreford Rezeptionen The international Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJH) project by Samuel Vollenweider aims to improve the understanding of the individual New Testament writings as part of the culture of Hellenistic Judaism. This final volume comple- This collection of essays embeds Early Chris- ments studies on Philo, Josephus, non-textual evidence, and non-canonical tian literature in its ancient contexts and in pseudepigraphal writings, and focuses on the development of linguistic and its various receptions. The map treated here theological concepts within and between the LXX and the New Testament. covers themes such as the resurrection of Thematically, the volume considers the possible impact of religious experi- Jesus and the dead, monotheism and Chris- ences on biblical texts. tology, the impact of ancient philosophy in 450p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum early Christianity and aspects of Pauline theology. German text. Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161562709, $210.00. Special Offer $168.00 725p (Mohr Siebeck, June 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 436) hardcover, 9783161592874, $265.00. Special Offer $212.00 Die Weisheit und der Gottessohn Studien zur hermeneutischen Grundlegung einer Theologie Der Exodus im Matthäusevangelium des Neuen Testaments Die Rezeption der Exoduserzählung in Mt 1–4 vor dem by Ulrike Mittmann Hintergrund biblischer und frühjüdischer Schriftdiskurse This volume gathers essays by Ulrike Mittmann in which she shows that by Franz Tóth ancient Christianity recognized Jesus of Nazareth in early Judaism’s binitarian Franz Tóth offers a detailed interpretation of the first four chapters of vision of God with Christ as the pre-existent Son of God who was at one with Matthew, placing the Jesus story in the context of Israel’s scripture and its God, and in so doing laid the foundations for the later triune image of God. post-biblical reception history, in particular the so-called Rewritten Scripture. German text. German text. 430p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum 780p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161560637, $210.00. Special Offer $168.00 Neuen Testament) hardcover, 9783161561122, $245.00. Special Offer $196.00

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The World of Greek Religion and Mythology Collected Essays II by Jan N. Bremmer In this wide-ranging work on Greek religion and mythology, Jan N. Bremmer brings together his stimulating and innovative articles, which have all been updated and revised where necessary. He analyzes central aspects of Greek religion, discusses the nature of polis religion, and studies the influence of the Ancient Near East, human sacrifice, and the ideal animal sacrifice, combining literature, epigraphy, iconography, and archaeology. He investigates key elements of Greek mythology, such as the definition of myth and its relationship to ritual, and ends with a brief history of the study of Greek mythology. The multi-disciplinary approach and rich footnotes make this work a must for anybody interested in Greek religion and mythology. 586p (Mohr Siebeck, January 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 433) hardcover, 9783161544514, $251.00. Special Offer $201.00 Justice and Mercy in the Paul: Servant of the New Covenant Apocalypse of Peter Pauline Polarities in Eschatological A New Translation and Analysis Perspective of the Purpose of the Text by Scott J. Hafemann by Eric J. Beck Taking 2 Cor 3:6 as its starting point, the The Apocalypse of Peter, best known for new and updated essays here assembled its tour of hell, was a popular text in Early investigate the key passages in Romans, 1–2 Christianity, but is largely neglected today. Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians in Eric J. Beck attempts to bring new life to the which the covenant content and eschatologi- study of this text by challenging current as- cal context of Paul’s theology interpret one sumptions regarding its manuscript tradition another. Developed over thirty years, Scott and primary purpose. By undertaking the first comparative analysis utilizing Hafemann’s close reading of Paul’s arguments also advances the larger thesis all available manuscript evidence, the author creates a new translation and that the various polarities in Paul’s thinking epitomize an eschatological contrast offers the first detailed analysis of the text in order to ascertain its purpose. between the character of God’s people within the two eras of salvation history. 210p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen 438p (Mohr Siebeck, January 2020, Wissenschaft und Kunst 435) hardcover, Testament 427) hardcover, 9783161590306, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 9783161577017, $216.00. Special Offer $173.00 A Grammar of the Ethics of John Divine Kingdom and Kingdoms Reading John from an Ethical of Men / Gottesreich und Reiche Perspective. Volume 1 der Menschen by Jan G. van der Watt Studies on the Theology of the After a century of neglect, Johannine eth- Septuagint Volume II / Studien zur ics has enjoyed a recent surge in interest Theologie der Septuaginta Band II inspired by new theoretical insights in edited by Evangelia G. Dafni analyzing ethical data in John’s Gospel. By This volume focuses on the terminology and closely rereading the text on the basis of this concepts of divine and human realms by com- fresh research, Jan G. van der Watt’s aim in paring pertinent Septuagint with Masoretic the present volume is to reveal ethical data text and placing them in their religious-histor- within its structural interrelatedness. The result is a comprehensive overview ical, philological and philosophical settings. English and German text. of basic questions related to ethics. 255p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum 726p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Neuen Testament 432) hardcover, 9783161582011, $160.00. Special Offer $128.00 Testament 431) hardcover, 9783161589423, $279.00. Special Offer $224.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 25 Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Autorschaft und Veränderte Endzeitvorstellungen Autorisierungsstrategien Die Rezeption der Offenbarung in apokalyptischen Texten des Johannes beim ersten christlich- edited by Jörg Frey, Michael R. Jost lateinischen Dichter Commodian and Franz Tóth by Johannes Stettner The volume provides a comprehensive analy- As the first Latin-language Christian poet, sis and discussion of the concepts of author- Commodian decoded the powerful eloquence ship and the strategies of authorization in of Revelation’s visual imagery. Johannes Jewish and early Christian apocalyptic texts. Stettner’s study of the poet’s reception does Detailed studies discuss the constructions of not just provide information about his histori- authorship from the biblical prophets and cal and theological location, but also lets the origins of Jewish apocalypticism in the Enochic tradition through Daniel, 4 today’s reader understand Revelation from a fresh angle. German text. Ezra, 2 Baruch, and the Ladder of Jacob until the rabbinic literature. A second 235p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum part deals with the phenomena of authorization and constructions of author- Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 504) paperback, 9783161559877, $104.00. ship in Christian apocalypses. German text. Special Offer $84.00 380p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 426) hardcover, 9783161570247, $189.00. Special Offer $152.00 Engelgemeinschaft im irdischen Gottesdienst Das Galiläa der Heiden Studien zu Texten aus Qumran Untersuchungen zur Galiläakonzeption und dem Neuen Testament im Matthäusevangelium by Michael R. Jost by Michael Schröder The motif of liturgical communion with angels This volume investigates all relevant parts of appears in early Jewish and New Testament the Old Testament and ancient Jewish writ- texts. This book offers the first exegetical ings to find out how the phrase “Galilee of analysis of all relevant passages from the Dead the Gentiles” (Mt. 4, 15) is to be understood. Sea Scrolls and the New Testament and places It becomes apparent that this is above all a them within traditio-historical developments theological statement. In Galilee all promises from the Hebrew Bible to rabbinical and patristic texts, presenting new insights are fulfilled and it demonstrates that the for Qumran research and New Testament scholarship. German text. gentiles can also belong to God’s people. German text. 470p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum 500p (Mohr Siebeck, November 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 505) paperback, 9783161567407, $146.00. Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe) paperback, 9783161590726, $147.00. Special Offer $117.00 Special Offer $118.00 Gegenspieler Akoluthiewahrung und Jesusüberlieferung im Jakobusbrief Zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gegner in frühjüdischer by Achim Peter und urchristlicher Literatur Is there any Jesus tradition in James, and if so what is there to be said about edited by Michael Tilly and Ulrich Mell this tradition? In his work, Achim Peter addresses these questions, focusing The authors of this volume examine the perception, depiction, and evaluation also on the manner in which Old Testament traditions and Jesus traditions are of the antagonist in ancient Jewish and early Christian literature. Most of the related to each other and are mutually explanatory. German text. contributions were presented at an international symposium on the topic of 350p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum “Gegenspieler” in Tübingen in October 2015. Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe) paperback, 9783161558061, $126.00. 447p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Special Offer $101.00 Testament 428) hardcover, 9783161560965, $209.00. Special Offer $168.00

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The John also called Mark Reception and Transformation in Christian Tradition by Dean Furlong In this study, Dean Furlong explores the reception in Christian tradition of “the John also called Mark” spoken of in the book of Acts and (probably) in the Pauline corpus. He examines the portrayals of John/Mark as both a Markan figure and as a Johannine figure. The author argues that the three Markan figures were originally differentiated and only came to be identified during the third and fourth centuries; furthermore, after drawing attention to “Johannine” depictions of John/Mark in some sources and to the attribution to him of a Gospel containing a Logos theology, he posits that some early Christian writers identified John/Mark with John the Evangelist. 251p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 518) paperback, 9783161592775, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 Claiming Places Creation and Christ Reading Acts through the Lens An Exploration of the Topic of Creation of Ancient Colonization in the Epistle to the Hebrews by Eric C. Moore by Angela Costley How is Acts of the Apostles—its form and This volume uses discourse analysis to features—to be understood in light of explore the importance of the topic of the work’s ancient Mediterranean cultural creation to the discourse of the Epistle to the context? The present study offers a fresh Hebrews, uncovering a close link between response to this much-debated question, creation and salvation. It highlights the arguing for the utility of ancient coloniza- interaction of the topic of creation with the tion as an analytic lens for reading Acts, a topic of salvation in the discourse to uncover story about the origins and replication of early Christianity. It explores how in a depiction of Christ as the creator who descends to take on human flesh, God narrating his account, Luke draws on a common stock of “foundation” motifs who becomes human, in order to lead humanity heavenward. employed by ancient sources to glorify community beginnings. 310p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum 220p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe) paperback, 9783161565021, $119.99. Testament, 2. Reihe) paperback, 9783161569852, $105.00. Special Offer $84.00 Special Offer $96.00 The Church of Antioch Persuading Shipwrecked Men and the Eucharistic Traditions The Rhetorical Strategies of 1 Timothy 1 (ca. 35–130 CE) by Lyn M. Kidson by Amiel Drimbe With particular focus on 1 Timothy 1, the With the exception of Mark 14:22–25, all author moves away from seeing the letter as the Eucharistic traditions of the earliest a church manual; instead, she argues that its Christianity were composed or reworked in purpose is to command “certain men (and Syrian Antioch. How is it that such various women)” not to teach the other educational traditions originated in the same church program promoted by Hymenaeus and within such a short period? Amiel Drimbe ar- Alexander. This fresh approach identifies the gues that, in Antioch, there was a pattern of use of an ethical digression, which holds the ‘recurrent additions’: a recent eucharistic tradition was added to those already seemingly divergent materials of the letter together. existing, while the older traditions were also kept and revalued. 310p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen 310p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe) paperback, 9783161592348, $112.00. Special Offer $90.00 Testament, 2. Reihe) paperback, 9783161583087, $119.00. Special Offer $96.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 27 Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Divine Conflict and the Divine Warrior Listening to Romans and Other Jewish Voices by Scott C. Ryan In this study, Scott C. Ryan situates Paul’s letter to the Romans as one voice among a number of Jewish voices that frame God as a divine warrior. He first investigates motifs related to divine conflict in Exodus 14-15, Amos, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel 7-12, along with 1 Enoch, Psalms of Solomon, Wisdom of Solomon, the War Scroll, and 4 Ezra. The author then places Romans in dialogue with the works of Paul’s predecessors and near contemporaries. When Romans and these Jewish texts are placed alongside one another, Paul emerges as a writer who participates in Jewish divine conflict traditions. The apostle maintains Israel’s eschatological hope in a warring deity even as he modifies that image in light of God’s action in the Christ-event. 335p (Mohr Siebeck, March 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 507) paperback, 9783161565014, $118.00. Special Offer $95.00 Der Richter und seine Ankläger Wisdom as a Model Eine narratologische Untersuchung for Jesus’ Ministry der Rechtsstreit- und Prozessmotivik A Study on the ‘Lament over Jerusalem’ im Johannesevangelium in Matt 23: 37–39 Par. Luke 13:34–35 by Benjamin Lange by Eva Günther The Gospel according to John is replete with Eva Günther traces the influence of the Jew- legal terminology and motifs detailing the ish wisdom tradition on shaping the earliest run-up to Jesus’ crucifixion—yet a formal Christology. She demonstrates that Wisdom process in front of the Sanhedrin is not part had come to be seen as an agent in history in of the narrative. This book shows that reading some prominent Second Temple texts, allow- the first half of the book as a metaphorical trial ing for her function of saving and guiding reveals a new perspective on the Gospel and its message. German text. the people of Israel to be transferred to Jesus in the “Lament over Jerusalem” 416p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum (Matt. 23:37-39 par.). In the “Lament over Jerusalem” Jesus is presented as Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 501) paperback, 9783161581694, $139.00. the contemporary form of this mediator. Special Offer $112.00 258p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 513) paperback, 9783161567308, $111.00. Sexualität und Geschlecht Special Offer $89.00 bei Paulus Die Spannung zwischen ‘Inklusivität’ Das Scheidungslogion Q und ‘Exklusivität’ des paulinischen 16,18 und frühjüdische Ethos am Beispiel der Sexual- und Reinheitsvorstellungen Geschlechterrollenethik by Lothar Junker by Johanna Körner Lothar Junker’s study interprets the divorce Some label Paul as anti-feminist and mi- logion Q 16,18 of the Sayings Source in sogynistic, others see him as the pioneer of the context of early Jewish concepts of modern emancipation efforts. This nuanced purification and its rituals, and proves that consideration of the evidence places the the movement behind Q still observed these apostle between the two poles and shows just how much his sex and gender pronouncements on purity. German text. ethics were influenced by his Jewish heritage. German text. 322p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2019, 345p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 497) Testament, 2. Reihe 512) paperback, 9783161567131, $118.00. Special Offer $95.00 paperback, 9783161582066, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00

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Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind Mapping the Moral Milieu of the Apostle Paul and his Diaspora Jewish Contemporaries by Max J. Lee Max J. Lee provides a synoptic picture of the moral traditions especially those of Platonism and Stoicism which shaped the intellectual and cultural environment of Greco-Roman antiquity. He describes each philosophical schools respective teachings on diverse moral topoi such as emotional control, ethical action and habit, character formation, training, mentorship, and deity. He then organizes each schools tenets into systemic models of moral transformation. He also constructs a taxonomy of six interaction types to gauge how rival religio-philosophical sects, including Diaspora Judaism and Pauline Christianity, appropriated moral traditions from their Greco-Roman environment to articulate their own system of ethics. 693p (Mohr Siebeck, April 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 515) paperback, 9783161496608, $195.00. Special Offer $156.00 Early Christian Teachers The New Day of Atonement The ‘Didaskaloi’ from Their Origins A Matthean Typology to the Middle of the Second Century by Hans M. Moscicke by Alessandro Falcetta This work investigates the influence of the By examining all the earliest sources mention- Day of Atonement on Matthew’s passion ing the ‘didaskaloi’, this book sheds light on narrative. The author argues that the First the first hundred years of their history, tack- Evangelist crafts a sustained Yom Kippur ling questions such as why their fate was so typology in the twenty-seventh chapter of different from that of the rabbis, and whether his Gospel and then remodels the Barabbas they were guarantors of the Gospels’ historic episode (Matt 27:15–26) as a Yom Kippur reliability. By relating teachers to apostles, lottery between two “goats”. Pilate acts as prophets, and bishops, the author enriches our knowledge of the structure of high priest, designating Jesus as the immolated goat and Barabbas, along early Christian communities and how they developed into hierarchical churches. with the crowd, as a sin-bearing scapegoat. 332p (Mohr Siebeck, April 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen 304p (Mohr Siebeck, April 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 516) paperback, 9783161575785, $111.00. Testament, 2. Reihe 517) paperback, 9783161593932, $118.00. Special Offer $89.00 Special Offer $95.00 Re-membering the New Die Rezeption der Sinaitradition Covenant at Corinth im Evangelium nach Johannes A Different Perspective on 2 Corinthians 3 by Eduard Käfer by Emmanuel Nathan Eduard Käfer shows that in the Gospel of Can Paul be said to be the founder of forma- John the revelation of God at Sinai is highly tive ‘Christianity’, even if one nuances the valued, but interpreted through a “figural term ‘Christianity’ as a sect within the Juda- reading” (R. Hays) as a testimony of Jesus isms of Paul’s time? Using social memory Christ, the Son of God. It helps to describe his theory, the author reframes the larger ques- identity, to elucidate his extraordinary claim tion of Paul’s continuity or discontinuity with and to point out the misunderstandings of Judaism and seeks instead to examine the his interlocutors. German text. ways in which Paul refracted, redeployed, and reconfigured existing traditions 493p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum in service of local needs. Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 502) paperback, 9783161562402, $146.00. 221p (Mohr Siebeck, March 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Special Offer $117.00 Testament, 2. Reihe 514) paperback, 9783161576874, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 29 Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Jews and Syriac Christians Intersections across the First Millenium edited by Aaron Michael Butts and Simcha Gross Scholarly interest in intersections between Jews and Syriac Christians has experienced a boom in recent years. This is the result of a series of converging trends in the study of both groups and their cultural productions. The present volume collects sixteen studies that investigate a wide range of topics, from questions of origins to the development of communal boundaries, from social interactions to shared historical conditions, involving Jews and Syriac Christians over the first millennium CE. These studies not only reflect the current state of the question, but also signal new ways forward for future work that crosses disciplinary boundaries between the fields of Jewish Studies and Syriac Studies. 370p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 180) hardcover, 9783161591341, $210.00. Special Offer $168.00 Healing and Exorcism Son, Sacrifice, and Great Shepherd in Second Temple Judaism Studies on the Epistle to the Hebrews and Early Christianity edited by David M. Moffitt edited by Mikael Tellbe and Eric F. Mason and Tommy Wasserman Over the last few decades scholarly interest This volume, originating from a conference in the Epistle to the Hebrews has experi- in 2018, deals with the ideological and enced something of a renaissance. These theological meaning of healing and exorcism essays deal with a variety of issues in three in a historical, literary, and socio-cultural major portions of Hebrews—chapters 1–2, perspective. The first part of the book fo- 8–10, and 13. Each study analyzes an im- cuses on Jewish and early Christian texts and portant and often disputed aspect of one of themes; the second centers on the transmission, reception, and interpretation these three sections of Hebrews, aiming to provide fresh insight into how the of the biblical texts in early Christian writings and artifacts. argument of Hebrews and/or its engagement with its larger religious, social, 329p (Mohr Siebeck, January 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum literary, rhetorical, philosophical, and ethical contexts might be understood. Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 511) paperback, 9783161589362, $111.00. 328p (Mohr Siebeck, January 2020, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Special Offer $89.00 Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 510) paperback, 9783161591891, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 The Gospel According to the Epistle of Barnabas Vergeltungsvorstellungen in Jesus Traditions in an Early der tannaitischen Literatur Christian Polemic by Francesco Zanella by Christopher Edwards This study examines the origin, design, In this monograph, the author undertakes a and development of Tannaitic ideas of thorough study of the epistle’s Jesus tradi- retaliation to illuminate the religious and tions and demonstrates that Jesus is the rhe- socio-historical reasons for their application. torical key to almost every argument in this It asks about the possible identity-creating early piece of Adversus Judaeos literature, function of tannaitic ideas of retaliation and whether it concerns the law, the covenant, their contribution to the self-understanding the land, Yom Kippur, circumcision, baptism, the Sabbath, or the temple. of Tannaitic Judaism. German text. 130p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum 350p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2019, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism Neuen Testament, 2. Reihe 503) paperback, 9783161588945, $69.00. 177) hardcover, 9783161566707, $210.00. Special Offer $168.00 Special Offer $56.00

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Stones, Tablets, and Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Periods of the Formation of the Bible Aramaic, and Greek Texts edited by Federico Giuntoli with English Translations and Peter Dubovsk Supplementary Volume: Biblical A constant reevaluation of the new archaeo- Manuscripts at Azusa Pacific logical and textual material unearthed and University and The Institute for edited in recent decades is a recurrent duty Judaism and Christian Origins of ancient and modern scholars. Since the edited by James H. Charlesworth overwhelming amount of available data and The Princeton Theological Seminary the complexity of new methodologies can Dead Sea Scrolls Project is providing the be competently handled only by specialized first critical edition of all the Dead Sea scholars, such a reevaluation is no longer possible for a single scholar. For this Scrolls which are not copies of books in the Hebrew Bible in more than ten reason, archaeologists, cuneiform and biblical scholars as well as classicists volumes, along with two concordances, and supplemental volumes. The se- joined forces at an international conference in Rome in May 2017 to share ries intends to be a standard reference work; thus, only probable reconstruc- their accumulated knowledge. The results of the proceedings are presented tions are made and the English translations are as literal as possible, avoiding here in the oral stage along with the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and idiomatic renderings. Critical notes help the reader to understand the text, Greco-Roman periods. variants, philological subtleties, and the translation. An introduction with 600p (Mohr Siebeck, June 2020, Archaeology and Bible 3) paperback, selected bibliography precedes each document. The documents are prepared 9783161582998, $238.00. Special Offer $191.00 by an international team. 144p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020) hardcover, 9783161583377, $169.00. Banned Birds Special Offer $136.00 The Birds of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 Food Taboos and by Peter Altmann Biblical Prohibitions The dietary prohibitions in Leviticus 11 and Reassessing Archaeological Deuteronomy 14 represent one of the most and Literary Perspectives detailed textual overlaps in the Pentateuch between the Priestly material and Deuter- edited by Peter Altmann, Anna onomy, yet study of them is often stymied Angelini and Abra Spiciarich by the rare terminology. This is especially This volume presents contributions from the case for the birds: their identities are “The Larger Context of the Biblical Food shrouded in mystery and the reasons for their prohibition debated. Peter Prohibitions: Comparative and Interdis- Altmann attempts to break this impasse by setting these flyers within the ciplinary Approaches” conference held in broader context of birds and flying creatures in the Ancient Near East. His Lausanne in June, 2017. The biblical food investigation considers the zooarcheological data on birds in the ancient Le- prohibitions constitute an excellent object for comparative and interdisciplin- vant, iconographic and textual material on mundane and mythic flyers from ary approaches given their materiality, their nature as comparative objects Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as studying the symbolic functions of birds between cultures, and their nature as an anthropological object. This volume within the texts of the Hebrew Bible itself. Within this context, he undertakes articulates these three aspects within an integrated and dynamic perspective, thorough terminological studies of the expressions for the types of birds, bringing together contributions from Levantine archaeology, ancient Near concluding with possible reasons for their exclusion from the prescribed diet Eastern studies, and anthropological and textual perspectives to form a new, and the proposed composition-critical location for the texts in their contexts. multidisciplinary foundation for interpretation. 196p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019, Archaeology and Bible 1) paperback, 164p (Mohr Siebeck, June 2020, Archaeology and Bible 2) paperback, 9783161581632, $76.00. Special Offer $61.00 9783161593550, $76.00. Special Offer $61.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 31 Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity

Hypatia of Alexandria Gregory of Nazianzus’ Her Context and Legacy Soteriological Pneumatology edited by Dawn LaValle Norman by Oliver B. Langworthy and Alex Petkas Oliver B. Langworthy examines the interac- Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. tion of soteriology and pneumatology in 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria’s Gregory of Nazianzus’ thought. He shows life, teaching, and especially her violent that this interaction, Gregory’s soteriological demise, continue to influence modern pneumatology, is a coherent, significant, but culture. Through a series of focused articles, under-examined area of Gregory’s thought. this volume takes a fresh look at the most His study engages in a chronological treat- well-known ancient female philosopher ment of a wide range of Gregory’s prose and under three aspects: first, through the evidence provided by her most famous poetic works. This allows for the particular character of Gregory’s soteriologi- pupil, Synesius of Cyrene; next, by placing her in her late antique cultural con- cal pneumatology to emerge, notably his emphasis on the experience of text, and, finally, through analysis of her reception both ancient and modern. the Spirit. The result is a more complete and nuanced picture of Gregory’s Though the sources are meager, Hypatia’s influence on her students and wider theological investment in a divine and “truly holy” Spirit that is operative in culture guaranteed that she remained an important figure throughout the the salvation of the believer. centuries, albeit one ranging from chaste Neoplatonist to conniving witch. 200p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Along with its eleven new essays, this volume also includes a new translation Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 117) paperback, of all the principal ancient sources touching on Hypatia. 9783161589515, $97.00. Special Offer $78.00 357p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 119) paperback, Krankheit und ihre Behandlung 9783161549694, $139.00. Special Offer $112.00 Studien zu Sophronios von Jerusalems Wundern der Heiligen Kyros und Tätige Nächstenliebe in Werk Johannes und Wirken Gregors des Grossen by Wolfgang Häfele by Susanne Barth What is illness and in what way does When Gregory the Great became pope at Christian understanding of it differ from that a time of political and religious crisis, he handed down from pre-Christian antiquity? assumed responsibility for what had formerly Wolfgang Häfele analyzes The Miracles of been imperial duties. As Susanne Barth shows Saints Cyrus and John, written by the subse- in this thorough historical analysis of his quent patriarch of Jerusalem, Sophronios, complete works, both his writings and deeds between 610 and 614 AD. This text is commonly yet unjustly thought to pay testimony to this fact. With the grace harbour a certain hostility towards doctors and medicine. While Sophronios of charity evolving into a central aspect of does sharply criticize the conduct of the contemporary medical (and by then Gregory’s theology, he describes church as a community of reciprocal care. In Christian) elite, he also appreciates what contemporary medicine is capable of the end, the benefit of the proximate—the utilitas proximi—becomes the and uses the latter’s approaches to describe diseases. However, a second ma- ultimate touchstone for ethical action, which likewise determined Gregory’s jor aspect of illness becomes apparent in the text, particularly when it comes own work. German text. to diseases of the soul: illness and its treatment as metaphor. German text. 460p (Mohr Siebeck, September 2020, Studien und Texte zu Antike und 305p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity) paperback, / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 118) paperback, 9783161563034, $126.00. Special Offer $101.00 9783161591921, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00

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Transfer and Religion Jesus and Judaism Interactions between Judaism, by Martin Hengel Christianity and Islam from the and Anna Maria Schwemer Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century The second volume of the History of Early edited by Alexander A. Dubrau, Christianity deals with the history up to the Davide Scotto and Ruggero Vimercati council in Jerusalem 48/49 AD and describes Sanseverino the history of the Jerusalem community up This collaboration brings into conversa- to the expulsion of the Jewish Christians in tion scholars of Jewish and Islamic studies, Palestine from the Jewish community. In theologians, and cultural historians to shed this work, Martin Hengel and Anna Maria new light on the enduring intertwining Schwemer seek to untangle the complex between the Abrahamic faiths in the Mediterranean and Central Europe since relationships among Jesus, Judaism, and the Gospels in the earliest Christian the Middle Ages. Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise, the volume presents movement. Jesus and Judaism, the first in a four-volume series, focuses on the a series of case studies reflecting—in either a constructive or a disruptive person of Jesus in the context of Judaism. Beginning with his Galilean origin, way—the interactions between the dynamics of transfer and the role of the volume analyzes Jesus’ relationship with John the Baptist and the Jewish religion in society. context of Jesus’ life and work. As the authors reveal, Jesus was not only a 380p (Mohr Siebeck, August 2020, Sapientia Islamica) hardcover, devout Jew, nor merely a miracle worker, but the essential part of the earliest 9783161562419, $175.00. Special Offer $140.00 form of Christianity. They insist that Jesus belongs within the history of early Christianity, rather than as its presupposition. Love and Justice 820p (Mohr Siebeck, October 2019, Baylor-Mohr Siebeck Studies in Early Christianity) hardcover, 9783161589201, $118.00. Special Offer $95.00 Consonance or Dissonance? Claremont Studies in the Philosophy The Reformation of Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2016 The Philosophical Legacy of edited by Ingolf U. Dalferth the Reformation Reconsidered and Trevor W. Kimball edited by Marius Timmann Mjaaland The ideas of love and justice have received a Did the Reformation introduce a new lot of attention within theology, philosophy, approach to philosophy? How did this psychology, sociology, and neuroscience in historical caesura influence key thinkers in recent years. In theology, the theological the history of modern philosophy up to the virtues of faith, hope, and love have become twenty-first century? This volume discusses a widely discussed topic again. In philosophy, psychology and neuroscience the Reformation as a philosophical event research into the emotions has led to a renewed interest in the many kinds in the early modern era - and its astonish- and forms of love. And in moral philosophy, sociology, and political science ing impact on key issues in philosophy until today. The contributors analyse questions of justice have been a central issue of debate for decades. But many central patterns of Luther’s thinking from a philosophical angle and identify views are controversial, and important questions remain unanswered. In this essential traits from the Reformation in modern philosophy, for example, in volume the authors focus on issues that take the relations between the two Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. The volume also includes topics into account. The contributions move from basic questions about the texts on contemporary phenomenology, aesthetics, political philosophy, and relationships between love and justice through specific, but central problems pragmatism, where Paul, Luther, Protestantism, and Marxism have experi- of a just practice of love to social and political issues of the practice of justice enced a revival. Finally, authors also discuss Jewish and Islamic approaches to in today’s society. philosophy in the wake of the Reformation. 376p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 101) 287p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Religion in Philosophy and Theology 102) paperback, 9783161566660, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 paperback, 9783161568701, $111.00. Special Offer $89.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 33 Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation

The Medieval Luther edited by Christine Helmer Staging a conversation among distinguished Luther scholars, historians of Christianity, and philosophers, The Medieval Luther makes the case that it is impossible to understand Luther’s most important doctrines without exploring his philosophical in- heritance. After all, Luther was an ardent participant in and contributor to the philosophical disputes of the late Middle Ages. By situating Luther’s theology in relation to medieval healing practices, mysticism, biblical interpretation, and politics, this volume blurs the historiographical line between the medieval and early modern periods. Offering an expansive appreciation of the Middle Ages for his thought, The Medieval Luther is indispensable for any future study of the Reformation’s leading figure. 340p (Mohr Siebeck, June 2020, Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation 117) hardcover, 9783161589805, $140.00. Special Offer $112.00

The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles Sister Reformations III – (Houghton Library, MS Lat 422) Schwesterreformationen III Liturgy as Interdisciplinary Intersection From Reformation Movements to edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger Reformation Churches in the Holy and Eva Schlotheuber Roman Empire and on the British Isles Throughout the Middle Ages, the religious - Von der reformatorischen Bewegung women of Nivelles Abbey governed one of zur Kirche im Heiligen Römischen the most venerable and powerful ecclesiasti- Reich und auf den britischen Inseln cal institutions in the Holy Roman Empire. edited by Dorothea Wendebourg, The recent discovery of the oldest surviving Euan Cameron and Martin Ohst manuscript from the abbey, its Liber ordina- How the various Reformation movements grew and took shape as churches rius, thus represents a significant addition to our knowledge of the history of both in Germany and the British Isles is explored in this volume: the form and female monasticism in the High Middle Ages. place of worship, developments in the preaching of sermons, congregational 522p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020, Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation singing, liturgy, the roles of family, gender and law, as well as the emergence / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation 111) of a new kind of clergy and congregation. English and German text. hardcover, 9783161582424, $167.00. Special Offer $134.00 653p (Mohr Siebeck, February 2020) hardcover, 9783161589324, $258.00. Envisioning the Christian Society Special Offer $207.00 Niels Hemmingsen (1513–1600) and the Ordering of Sixteenth-Century Biblia Americana Denmark Volume 2: Exodus – Deuteronomy by Mattias Skat Sommer by Cotton Mather, edited by Reiner Smolinski Drawing on sociology of knowledge, cultural memory, and confessional culture, this book The first American commentary on all books examines Hemmingsen’s works and life in of the Old and New Testaments, Cotton political and theological contexts. The author Mather’s Biblia Americana (1693–1728) is argues that Hemmingsen was the leading a unique record of how European Enlight- agent in shaping post-Reformation Danish enment criticism of the Bible impacted confessionalization. Reformed theology and biblical hermeneu- 249p (Mohr Siebeck, May 2020, Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation tics in colonial New England. / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism and the Reformation 116) 1483p (Mohr Siebeck, December 2019) hardcover, 9783161589461, $321.00. hardcover, 9783161594564, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Special Offer $257.00

34 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love by David L. Johnston This book seeks to elucidate the concept of justice, not so much as it is expressed in law courts or in state budgets, but as primary justice—what it means and how it can be grounded in the inalienable rights that each human being possesses qua human being. It draws inspiration from two recent works of philosopher Nicolas Wolterstorff, but also from the groundbreaking Islamic initiative of 2007, the Common Word Letter addressed by 138 eminent Muslim scholars and clerics to the pope and all Christian leaders. The book’s six chapters all begin with a case study of justice, so as to emphasize that justice must also be embodied in righteous social, political, and economic practices. Along the way, it urges the reader to look afresh at an age-old conundrum: how do justice and love interact so as to create a world in which everyone finds his or her rightful place? 202p (Equinox Publishing, March 2020, Comparative Islamic Studies) paperback, 9781781799352, $32.00. Special Offer $26.00 hardcover, 9781781799345, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00

Ritual and Democracy Identifying Roots Protests, Publics and Performances Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures edited by Sarah M. Pike, Jone Salomonsen and Paul-Francois Tremlett by Richard W. Newton, Jr. This transdisciplinary and theoretically inno- This volume presents a cultural history of Alex vative edited volume contains seven original, Haley’s Roots as a case study in ‘operational research-led chapters that explore complex acts of identification.’ It examines the strategy intersections of ritual and democracy in a and tactics Haley employed in developing a wide range of contemporary, cultural and family origin story into an acclaimed national geographic contexts. The chapters document history. Where cultural studies scholars have entanglements of the religious and the critiqued notions of sacrosanct ‘rootedness,’ secular in political assembly and iconoclastic protest, of affect and belonging this book shows the fruit of critically identifying those claims. It reframes the in pilgrimage and church ritual and politics and identity in performances of concept of ‘roots’ as a theoretical vocabulary and grammar for the anthropology self and culture. of scriptures—a way of parsing the cultural texts that seem to read us back. 200p (Equinox Publishing, July 2020) paperback, 9781781799758, $32.00. 280p (Equinox Publishing, October 2020, Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Special Offer $26.00; hardcover, 9781781799741, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Formation) paperback, 9781781795477, $24.95. Special Offer $20.00 hardcover, 9781781795460, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Josiah Religion and Sight From Improbable Stories edited by Louise Child and Aaron Rosen to Inventive Historiography This edited volume brings together scholars by Lowell K. Handy from a wide range of disciplines to shed This book considers the various ways in light on how the sense of sight shapes, and which the last major King of Judah has been is shaped by, religion. Case studies range presented in biblical texts and the subse- across both place and time, from narratives quent cultures that have made use of the about Medusa in ancient Greek religion to biblical narratives. It is posited that there is spiritual explanations of sleepwalking in the no reliable material that can be dated to the Enlightenment, to rituals of spirit possession time of Josiah. in contemporary Brazil. 320p (Equinox Publishing, February 2020, Worlds of the Ancient Near East and 224p (Equinox Publishing, July 2020, Religion and the Senses) paperback, Mediterranean) paperback (December 2020), 9781781798584, $32.95. 9781781797495, $32.00. Special Offer $26.00 Special Offer $27.00; hardcover, 9781781798577, $110.00. Special Offer $88.00 hardcover, 9781781797488, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 35 Legacies of the Occult Building Blocks of Religion Psychoanalysis, Religion, Critical Applications and Future Prospects and Unconscious Communication edited by Göran Larsson, Andreas by Marsha Aileen Hewitt Nordin and Jonas Svensson The recognition of unconscious commu- The contributions in this book all concern nication has persisted as a subterranean, the Building Block Approach to the study quasi-spiritual presence in psychoanalysis of religions. It suggests that analysis of and to this day. In Legacies of the Occult, Marsha explanations for complex cultural phenomena Aileen Hewitt argues that some of the lead- should entail dividing these phenomena into ing theorists of unconscious communication “the constituent parts that interact to produce represent a ‘mystical turn’ that is infused with them,” in terms of basic cognitive, psycho- both a spirituality and a revitalized interest in paranormal experience that is logical and biological processes. The approach opens up a path to achieving far closer to James and Myers than to Freud. consilience between the humanistic, behavioral, and natural sciences. 224p (Equinox Publishing, July 2020) paperback, 9781781792797, $32.00. 136p (Equinox Publishing, February 2020) paperback, 9781781798676, $32.00. Special Offer $26.00; hardcover, 9781781792780, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Special Offer $26.00; hardcover, 9781781798669, $84.00. Special Offer $68.00

Explorations in Women, Resistance to Empire Rights, and Religions and Militarization edited by Morny Joy Reclaiming the Sacred The chapters in this volume are authored edited by Jude Lal Fernando by women scholars of religion from diverse The contributors interrogate the oppressive regions of the world, representing a plurality ideologies and mechanisms of the modern of religions, including indigenous religions. empire and its allies, and exemplify in Their chapters help to clarify present chal- particular how militarization has affected lenges and envision innovative possibilities. various peoples, lands, seas, and skies across The volume identifies archaic attitudes the globe. The authors foreground a breadth involving exclusionary regulations and con- of modes of resistance and the places where troversial gender-specific practices. A primary concern of this volume is that they have been implemented, sharing with the reader their hard-earned of fostering future collaborations of women advocates of gender justice. knowledge and stories of truth and liberation, with a prophetic urgency. 340p (Equinox Publishing, January 2020) paperback, 9781781798393, $35.00. 460p (Equinox Publishing, April 2020) paperback (September 2020), Special Offer $28.00; hardcover, 9781781798386, $110.00. Special Offer $88.00 9781800500204, $34.00. Special Offer $28.00 hardcover, 9781781799956, $90.00. Special Offer $72.00 Spirituality and Wellbeing Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Religious Experience Enlightened Martyrdom and Health The Hidden Side of Falun Gong edited by Bettina E. Schmidt and Jeff Leonardi edited by James R. Lewis and Huang Chao This book shows how the relationship between wellbeing and spirituality This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Falun Gong: the move- is studied by disciplines such as religious studies, theology, anthropology, ment’s background, history, beliefs and practices. But whereas prior psychology and history. The editors give a broad definition of spirituality and treatments have generally tended to downplay Falun Gong’s ‘dark side,’ in En- show the multifaceted nature of wellbeing and how it is linked to spirituality. lightened Martyrdom, the authors have made an effort to include treatments 258p, 6 illus (Equinox Publishing, February 2020) paperback, 9781781797655, of the less palatable aspects of this movement. $34.00. Special Offer $28.00; hardcover, 9781781797648, $100.00. 276p (Equinox Publishing, October 2019) paperback, 9781781794999, $34.00. Special Offer $80.00 Special Offer $28.00; hardcover, 9781781794982, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00

36 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Colonial Religion Creation, Matter Conflict and Change in Church and State and the Image of God by Bruce Kaye Essays on John This book contains a series of essays dealing by Dorothy A. Lee with the cultural and political tsunami that This book gathers together a selection of swept over the British empire and especially essays and articles by the author that have the colonies in Australia in the middle of as their main focus the Gospel of John. They the nineteenth century. The effects on those explore the symbolism of the text and the changes continue to this day for both church way it communicates key Johannine themes, and state. The issues in these essays turn using a narrative critical approach, with of the collapse of the English Christendom attention to the theology emerging from the version of church state relations. The implications of that long running change literary structures. The contents employ and also seek to move beyond critical are still central to the stuttering re-thinking by Anglicans of what it means to methodology to a perspective that takes seriously feminist studies. be a church in Australia in the twenty first century. 302p (ATF Press, April 2020) paperback, 9781925679243, $24.95. 236p (ATF Press, April 2020) paperback, 9781925612929, $25.95. Special Offer $20.00; hardcover, 9781925679250, $37.95. Special Offer $31.00 Special Offer $21.00; hardcover, 9781925612936, $30.95. Special Offer $25.00 PDF e-book, 9781925679274, $20.00; EPUB e-book, 9781925679267, $19.99 PDF e-book, 9781925612950, $26.00; EPUB e-book, 9781925612943, $25.99 Anglicanism: Catholic Evangelical All the Beautiful Things or Evangelical Catholic? Finding Truth, Beauty and Goodness Essays Ecumenical and Polemical in a Fractured Church by John A. Moses by Beth Doherty In this collection of essays the author Taking as its theme ‘beauty from ashes’ combines the critical eye of a professional the beautiful image from Isaiah 61:3, this historian with the passion of a dismayed book is written at a time when the Catholic churchman in his analysis of the current Church and its people are reeling from malaise of the Anglican Church in Austra- years of scandal. This book asks questions lia. His analysis is indebted to his study of throughout and attempts to answer them totalitarianims in Nazi Germany and Soviet based on the author’s lived experience. Russia, as he calls for a recovery of tolerance. 144p (ATF Press, March 2020) paperback, 9781925612882, $24.00. 188p (ATF Press, November 2019) paperback, 9781925612691, $24.95. Special Offer $20.00; hardcover, 9781925612899, $31.00. Special Offer $25.00 Special Offer $20.00; hardcover, 9781925612707, $38.95. Special Offer $32.00 PDF e-book, 9781925612912, $19.00; EPUB e-book, 9781925612905, $18.99 PDF e-book, 9781925661279, $24.95; EPUB e-book, 9781925612714, $19.99

The Bonhoeffer Legacy (6/1 2018) Discerning the Dynamics of Jeremiah 25–52 (MT) An International Journal by Mark O’Brien OP edited by Terence Lovat This is the second of a two-volume study of the dynamics of the MT version of The Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal is an academic journal aimed the Book of Jeremiah. As with the first volume, the aim of this one is to show principally at providing an outlet for an ever expanding Bonhoeffer scholar- the reader how, by paying attention to the ‘Dynamics of the Text’, namely ship in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region, as well as being how individual passages relate to their immediate and wider contexts, a new open to article submissions from Bonhoeffer scholars throughout the world. understanding of the book emerges. 96p (ATF Press, May 2020) paperback, 9781925612219, $17.95. 394p (ATF Press, June 2020) paperback, 9781925679328, $24.95. Special Offer $15.00; hardcover, 9781925612226, $24.95. 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The Tradition regarding the Unity and first get clear on the question: is artificial the Trinity gives more than a torso; it starts intelligence actually intelligent or not? This out from an unfathomable beginning and and other scientific questions are addressed goes towards an end that cannot be grasped. It also wants to give people in this volume in light of their theological, ethical, and social implications. the possibility of visiting a building site on which work is still in process. The 188p (ATF Press, September 2019) paperback, 9781925679205, $23.00. repetitions, the awkwardness of certain expressions, the chaos in certain ex- Special Offer $19.00; hardcover, 9781925679212, $30.00. Special Offer $24.00 planations testify to the building site’s reality. Imperfection, incompleteness. PDF e-book, 9781925679236, $23.00; EPUB e-book, 9781925679229, $18.99 256p (ATF Press, October 2019) paperback, 9781925612844, $24.00. Special Offer $20.00; hardcover, 9781925612851, $30.00. 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38 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Fra Angelico Painter, Friar, Mystic by Timothy Verdon This volume offers a unique encounter with the celebrated painter, Fra Angelico, seen through the eyes of Monsignor Timothy Verdon. As an art historian and (like Angelico) a Catholic priest, Monsignor Verdon approaches the work of the only artist ever beatified through the theological lens it deserves, bringing together Fra Angelico’s art and his faith. Praised by his contemporaries, by later art historians, and by generations of viewers, Fra Angelico’s art is known for its exceptional combination of piety and painterly skill. This book explores the spiritual and mystical foundations of the friar-painter’s work, and traces his artistic evolution from his early work to the chapel for Pope Niccolò V. 384p, 247 col illus (Brepols Publishers, July 2020, Arts and the Sacred 3) hardcover, 9782503580333, $195.00. 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Both of these views are challenged lenge of creating and relating to images of Christ. by the authors of this volume. They claim that neither of them does justice to 230p, 69 col illus (Brepols Publishers, July 2019, Arts and the Sacred 4) the complexity of the relationship between society and religion. hardcover, 9782503581200, $130.00. Special Offer $104.00 230p (Brepols Publishers, August 2020, Bibliothèque de la Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 106) paperback, 9782503587813, $104.00. Special Offer $84.00 The Church of the East in Central Asia and China The New Testament Gospels in Manichaean Tradition The Sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, edited by Samuel N. C. 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This book argues that the city’s later significance as the center of eastern Christianity and foil to Rome has served to conceal deep institutional weaknesses that severely inhibited Constantinople’s early ecclesiastical development. By unpicking teleological approaches to Constantino- ple’s early history and deconstructing narratives synonymous with the city’s later Byzantine legacy, this book offers an alternative reading of this crucial seventy-year period. 231p (Brepols Publishers, June 2020, Studia Antiqua Australiensia 9) paperback, 9782503584485, $72.00. Special Offer $58.00 Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Christian Maps of the Holy Land Preaching in the Mediterranean Images and Meanings and Europe by Pnina Arad Identities and Interfaith Encounters This book offers a way of reading maps of the edited by Linda G. Jones Holy Land as visual imagery with religious and Adrienne Dupont-Hamy connotations. Through a corpus of representative examples created between the sixth This volume explores the sermons and activi- and the nineteenth centuries, it studies the ties of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim preach- maps as iconic imagery of an iconic landscape ers who shaped ideas about religious and and analyzes their strategies to manifest the gendered identities and alterity throughout spiritual quality of the biblical topography, to the Mediterranean and northern Europe. The support religious tenets, and to construct and preserve cultural memory. studies cover a broad spectrum of premodern Europe and the Mediterranean 200p, 62 b/w & 11 col illus (Brepols Publishers, August 2020, Cultural and address the ways that preaching reflects transcultural contacts. Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 28) paperback, 337p, 9 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, December 2019, SERMO 15) hardcover, 9782503585260, $104.00. Special Offer $84.00 9782503582719, $117.00. 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40 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 The Great Persecution Analogical Identities: A Historical Re-Examination The Creation of the Christian Self by Min Seok Shin Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism The Great Persecution under Diocletian and in the Patristic Era his imperial colleagues and successors is a by Nikolaos Loudovikos foremost concern of modern scholarship on Is there a non-ecstatic understanding of Roman persecution of Christians. This book Christian selfhood? Patristic theology seems is a systematic and comprehensive study of to provide us with an alternative under- that persecution. Its focus is on events from standing of selfhood, beyond what has been 284 when Diocletian became emperor, to referred to as ‘Christian Platonism’. This book 313, when full religious liberty was granted strives to decipher, retrieve, and re-embody to all religions by the so-called Edict of Milan. The enforcement of the impe- the underlying mature Patristic concept of selfhood, beyond the dichotomies rial orders, and the sufferings of Christians under them, are examined on a of mind and body, or person and nature. diocese-by-diocese basis, comparing the situation in the West and in the East. 386p (Brepols Publishers, January 2020, Studia Traditionis Theologiae. 280p, 5 b/w illus, 5 tbls (Brepols Publishers, December 2019, Studia Antiqua Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology 28) paperback, 9782503578156, Australiensia 8) paperback, 9782503574479, $72.00. Special Offer $58.00 $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 The Litany in Arts and Cultures ‘The loss of a minute is just edited by Witold Sadowski and Francesco Marsciani so much loss of life’ Edward Robinson and Eli Smith The articles in this book consider the presence of litanic prayers and songs in different in the Holy Land religions, beginning with records in Egyptian, by Haim Goren Sumerian, and Hebrew, and finishing with The story of Robinson and Smith’s expedition Christian works from diverse denominations. and writing of the Biblical Researches that The research presents the litany as a long- emerges from their correspondence under- lasting genre which for several thousand years scores the difficulties they overcame, and the existed in the Middle Eastern and European accuracy and magnitude of their scholarship traditions, easily conforming to changes in religious or historical circumstances. in an age bereft of modern technology. 317p, 32 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, May 2020, Studia Traditionis Theologiae. 350p, 8 col & 25 b/w illus, 1 tbl (Brepols Publishers, June 2020, Studia Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology 36) paperback, 9782503586700, Traditionis Theologiae. Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology 39) $91.00. Special Offer $73.00 paperback, 9782503589138, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00

On the Sacraments A Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the National A Selection of Works of Hugh and Richard of St. Victor, Library ‘Sts. Cyril and Methodius’, Sofia and of Peter of Poitiers by Dorotei Getov edited by Hugh Feiss OSB The book provides a definitive documentation of a significant segment of the The Canons Regular of St. Victor were important contributors to the theology Greek manuscript legacy now kept at the National Library in Sofia, Bulgaria. of the sacraments in the twelfth century. The historical introductions and It provides comprehensive scholarly descriptions of thousands of texts, major annotated translations make this volume suitable for courses on the develop- and minor, that served the liturgical needs and helped form the mind set of ment of the theology of the sacraments through the twelfth century. the Orthodox monastic community in the Balkans. 656p, 1 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, April 2020, Victorine Texts in Translation 506p, 10 col & 165 b/w illus (Brepols Publishers, March 2020, Transmission des 10) hardcover, 9782503579436, $124.00. Special Offer $100.00 Textes: Catalogues) hardcover, 9782503586120, $124.00. Special Offer $100.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 41 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers

To Meddle with Matters of State Political Sermons in England, c.1660–c.1700 by Christoph Ketterer This volume analyzes political preaching during the reigns of Charles II (1660–1685) and James II (1685–1688/89). It argues that the political importance of sermons preached at court, before Parliament, and in the churches of London is based on the unsolved political and confessional tensions of the era. Preachers relatively freely discussed questions of religious tolerance, models of political power, and could offer counsel and criticism to those in power. They were in a position to influence the political and religious discourse of Restoration England. In addition, a refined culture of reception existed, showing that a sermon was as much a performance as a text. Sermons continued to be of central importance for the political and religious discourse of the Restoration. 400p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, March 2020, The Early Modern World 2) hardcover, 9783847110774, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00 Religious Education at Schools in Europe Jesus Tora At a time when educational issues have increasingly come to determine the Christologie und Gesetz im Johannes- social and political discourse and major reforms of the education system evangelium vor dem Hintergrund are being discussed and implemented, and when migration has become a antik-jüdischer Torametaphorik significant phenomenon contributing to changes in the religious landscape by Jochen Flebbe of the European continent, it is highly appropriate to focus our attention on Using ancient Jewish Tora metaphors, the the concrete situation regarding religious education (RE) in several European Gospel of John centers Jesus, depicting him regions. The aim of these books is to create a foundation for further action in as the one Tora of the Johannine Community. the field of education, especially with regard to interfaith expertise. The Gospel itself becomes the written Jesus- Part 4: Eastern Europe Tora. Exegetical observations are made by contrasting the Gospel of John to texts from edited by Martin Rothgangel, the Old Testament and from Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism. All is based on Yauheniya Danilovich linguistic reflections on the phenomenon of metaphor and on the character and Martin Jäggle of ancient Jewish and Rabbinic literature. German text. 216p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, 433p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, March 2020, Bonner Biblische April 2020, Wiener Forum für Theologie Beiträge 190) hardcover, 9783847110750, $75.00. Special Offer $60.00 und Religionswissenschaft 10.4) hardcover, 9783847111245, $50.00. Zur Theologie des Psalters Special Offer $40.00 und der Psalmen Beiträge in memoriam Frank-Lothar Hossfeld Part 6: Southern Europe edited by Ulrich Berges, Johannes edited by Martin Rothgangel, Bremer and Till Magnus Steiner Dorothea Rechenmacher The Masoretic Psalter is not a random collec- and Martin Jäggle tion but a complex, well-composed anthol- 204p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, ogy of 150 psalms. In search for the theology June 2020, Wiener Forum für Theologie of the Psalter as a whole, 15 contributions und Religionswissenschaft 10.6) hardcover, focus on six thematic lines running through 9783847111498, $50.00. the whole Psalter and coining its structure. German text. Special Offer $40.00 495p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, October 2019, Bonner Biblische Beiträge 189) hardcover, 9783847109976, $82.00. Special Offer $66.00

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The Vienna Genesis Material Analysis and Conservation of a Late Antique Illuminated Manuscript on Purple Parchment edited by Christa Hofmann The Vienna Genesis (Austrian National Library, Codex Theologicus graecus 31) is a fragmentary Greek manuscript of the Book of Genesis written on purple-dyed parchment with silver ink. It is assumed that the book was created in the first half of the 6th century in the Near East. 24 folios with 48 miniatures have survived and have been stored at the Austrian National Library since 1664. The Vienna Genesis is famous for its rich cycle of biblical illuminations. In a three-year research project the parchment, the silver inks, the pigments and dyes were investigated. The detailed material analysis formed the base for conservation and preservation of the manuscript. The book describes the different studies of the project and their results. 346p, 278 col & b/w illus, 21 tbls (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, July 2020) hardcover, 9783205210573, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00 Jonathan Edwards within Education, Religion, and Literary the Enlightenment Culture in the 4th Century CE Controversy, Experience, & Thought A Study of the Underworld Topos edited by John T. Lowe in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae and Daniel N. Gullotta by Gabriela Ryser Jonathan Edwards, more than any other pre- This book contextualizes Claudian’s handling revolutionary colonial thinker, grappled with of the Proserpina myth and the underworld the promises and perils of the Enlightenment. in the history of literature and religion while This book brings together a group scholars showing intersections with and differences probing the life, times, and theology of one between the literary and religious uses of of America’s greatest minds. Some of these the underworld topos. It provides an incen- topics include Edwards’ interaction with and involvement in slavery, colonialism, tive to rethink the dichotomy of the terms ‘religious’ and ‘non-religious.’ racism, as well as musings on gender, populism, violence, pain, and witchcraft. 446p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, Beiträge zur Europäischen 337p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, May 2020, New Directions in Jonathan Religionsgeschichte 7) hardcover, 9783525573211, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 Edwards Studies 7) hardcover, 9783525564882, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00

World Youth Day Jonathan Edwards’ Concerning Religious Interaction The End for Which God Created at a Catholic Festival the World by Jane Skjoldli Exposition, Analysis, and In this book, Skjoldli employs her religious Philosophical Implications interaction framework in an analysis of by Walter J. Schultz how the Catholic festival World Youth Day This book is an exposition of Jonathan (WYD) changed the meaning of pilgrimage Edwards’ argumentation in his dissertation in Catholicism. WYD emerged from a ritual, Concerning the End for Which God Created historical, and cultural context abundant the World. In addition to stating Edwards’ associations to pilgrimage as the term is theses, the book identifies and discusses the conventionally understood by scholars. WYDs are also consistently called pil- assumptions of his argumentation, analyzes and explains its crucial compo- grimages, even when the host locations are not officially sanctioned as such. nents, and explores its philosophical implications. 312p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, August 2020, Critical Studies in 351p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, New Directions in Jonathan Religion/Religionswissenschaft 14) hardcover, 9783525554555, $175.00. Edwards Studies 6) hardcover, 9783525564868, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Special Offer $140.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 43 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers

Crimen Obicere Forensic Rhetoric and Augustine’s anti-Donatist Correspondence by Rafał Toczko For decades the works of Augustine have been of interest mostly for Church historians and theologians, and rightly so. It is worth noticing, however, that the people who read or listened to them at the time of their composition were alumni of rhetorical and law schools, where they had to read Cicero’s speeches and learn from rhetorical handbooks. The aim of this study is to prove that Augustine’s polemical correspondence is teeming with examples of rhetorical tricks commonly used in courtroom argumentation. It argues that the backbone of Augustine’s anti-Donatist letters, that is, his patterns of argumentation and strategies of persuasion, is largely formed by the techniques of forensic rhetoric. 232p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte 120) hardcover, 9783525567227, $94.00. Special Offer $76.00 Tora in der Chronik Imperial Visions Studien zur Rezeption des The Prophet and the Book of Isaiah Pentateuchs in den Chronikbüchern in an Age of Empires by Lars Maskow edited by Reinhard Gregor Kratz This work examines the influence of the and Joachim Schaper Torah on the Chronicles from a twofold This volume provides a distinctive perspec- perspective. In the first part, all references tive on prophecy in the context of empire. of the term torah are analyzed with regard The essays focus on the history of composi- to their meaning and context of use. In the tion of the constituent parts of the book of second part, five synoptic studies on cult Isaiah as well as their correlations with the personnel, the cult object of the Ark of the political and cultural histories of the empires Covenant, the cult place, the cult calenda, and the cult action are used to under which they were produced. The volume thus navigates some of the key demonstrate that the Torah is not only cited conceptually, but also has an points of the history of Isaiah and the book named after him. integral effect on the textual constitution of Chronicles. German text. 272p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, September 2020, Forschungen 594p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, September 2019, Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 277) hardcover, zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 274) hardcover, 9783525560358, $88.00. Special Offer $71.00 9783525571378, $175.00. Special Offer $140.00

Die “Ich-Sphäre” des Beters Macht und Weisheit Eine anthropologische Untersuchung Untersuchungen zur politischen zur Selbstreflexion des Beters am Anthropologie in den Erzählungen Beispiel von Ps 42/43 vom Absalomaufstand by Sarah Neumann by Friederike Schücking-Jungblut This book examines Ps 42/43 to investigate This book analyzes the narratives around the the question of how pre-modern subjectiv- uprising of Absalom and reads them as a nar- ity is expressed in the psalms and to what rative of political theory: projecting a model extent a reflexive self-understanding of the of violent succession of rule into the early days praying person in the sense of an “I-sphere” of kingship and, at the same time, rejecting it becomes discernible. German text. through narrative failure. German text. 276p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, December 2019, Forschungen 264p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, August 2020, Forschungen zur zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 275) hardcover, Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments 280) hardcover, 9783525571361, $88.00. Special Offer $71.00 9783525571446, $82.00. Special Offer $66.00

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From Scribal Error to Rewriting Nordic Interpretations How Ancient Texts Could and Could of the New Testament Not Be Changed Challenging Texts and Perspective edited by Anneli Aejmelaeus, edited by Louise Heldgaard Bylund, Drew Longacre and Natia Mirotadze Marianne Bjelland Kartzow How ancient texts could and could not be and René Falkenberg changed has been in the focus of vibrant This volume brings together contributions scholarly discussions. This volume offers from the ongoing conversation among and contributions from scholars in the areas of between New Testament scholars from the Classical and Biblical studies. In the first part, Nordic Countries, namely Denmark, Iceland, the authors approach ancient scribal and Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The aim is editorial techniques in Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources concerning classical to challenge the New Testament texts and their interpretation but also to be and biblical texts, their textual criticism, and editorial history. The second part challenged by these texts and interpretations. focuses on scribal and editorial aspects of the textual history of the Hebrew 320p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, September 2020, Studia Aarhusiana Bible, and the third part deals with a variety of writings from the Old Testa- Neotestamentica 5) hardcover, 9783525554562, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00 ment, New Testament, Apocrypha, and Patristic texts in various languages, focusing on issues of textual criticism and translation technique. The Legacy of Soisalon-Soininen 409p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, De Septuaginta Towards a Syntax of Septuagint Greek Investigationes 12) hardcover, 9783525522097, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 edited by Tuukka Kauhanen Khirbet Qumrân and Hanna Vanonen and Aïn Feshkha IV A Ilmari Soisalon-Soininen (1917–2002) was a Finnish Septuagint scholar and the Qumran Cave 11Q: Archaeology father of the translation-technical method and New Scroll Fragments in studying the nature of translations. The edited by Jean-Baptiste Humbert present volume upholds his work with stud- and Marcello Fidanzio ies related to the syntax of the Septuagint. Qumran Cave 11Q was discovered by It is impossible to describe the syntax of the Bedouin in 1956. This volume presents Septuagint without researching the translation technique employed by the the final report on the 1956, 1988 and translators of the different biblical books. 2017 excavations at Cave 11Q. Next to 343p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, June 2020, De Septuaginta discussing the physical characteristics and Investigationes 13) hardcover, 9783525564875, $163.00. Special Offer $131.00 stratigraphy of the cave and offering a full analysis of non-textual finds, the volume for the first time presents many tiny manuscript fragments found in Ecce Agnus Dei storerooms during recent work. Rezeptionsästhetische Untersuchung zum neutestamentlichen 288p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, August 2019, Novum Testamentum Gotteslamm in der bildenden Kunst et Orbis Antiquus. Series Archaeologica 8) hardcover, 9783525564691, $438.00. by Saskia Lerdon Special Offer $351.00 The Lamb of God has been a recurring motif in art history for two millennia. Saskia Lerdon investigates the impact of this christological metaphor on Septuaginta. Vetus Testamentum Graecum European art. Did new meanings develop beyond the original intentions of Band 3,1 – Numeri the authors of the New Testament? German text. edited by John William Wevers 288p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, August 2020, Novum Testamentum 443p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020) hardcover, et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 123) hardcover, 9783525534410, $225.00. Special Offer $180.00 9783525570821, $113.00. Special Offer $91.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 45 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers

Der gekreuzigte Triumphator Sprachbilder und Bildsprache Eine motivkritische Studie Studien zur Kontextualisierung zum Markusevangelium biblischer Texte. Festschrift für Max by Markus Lau Küchler zum 75. Geburtstag The author interprets the encrypted al- edited by Markus Lau, Karl Matthias lusions within the Gospel of Mark with a Schmidt and Thomas Schumacher view to the literary functionality of the text The contributions to this Festschrift continue during its period of creation. In doing so, the in the footsteps of Max Küchler’s biblical ex- phenomenon of vague allusions is reflected egesis. Focused on three thematic fields, the literarily and theoretically in order to prove authors examine the connections between the plausibility of the assertion of encrypted image and text, topography and text, and allusions within the exegetical discourse. German text. gender and text, and in doing so develop new contexts and perspectives for 694p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, November 2019, Novum the understanding of biblical texts. German text. Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 114) 583p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, September 2019, Novum hardcover, 9783525593738, $175.00. Special Offer $140.00 Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 121) hardcover, 9783525516980, $163.00. Special Offer $131.00 Der Kolosserbrief by Michael Gese Renaissance und The letter to the Colossians is one of the Bibelhumanismus central testimonies of Christ in the New edited by J. Marius J. Lange van Testament. It revolves around the mystery of Ravenswaay and Herman J. Selderhuis the person of Jesus. At its heart is the Christ The new edition of the New Testament, the Hymn: Christ as the image of the invisible Novum Instrumentum of Erasmus of Rot- God, creation and redemption united within terdam, was published in 1516. However, as him. The letter emphasizes what should is made clear by the individual contributions characterize a Pauline church: the central in this volume, Erasmus has also to be seen orientation towards Christ, the courageous within the broader context of the manifold confrontation with contemporary religious currents, the shaping of everyday Bible and text-oriented reform movements life through the relationship with Christ. German text. of the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Humanism. German text. 221p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, June 2020, Die Botschaft des Neuen 376p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, April 2020, Refo500 Academic Testaments) paperback, 9783788734534, $32.00. Special Offer $26.00 Studies 65) hardcover, 9783525564790, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Zweifelskonzepte im Frühchristentum Anton Engelbrecht 1487–1556 Dipsychia und Oligopistia im Rahmen menschlicher Dissonanz- Eine Biografie und eine vollständige Edition der Acten des und Einheitsvorstellungen in der Antike sunderlichen sinodums die oberkeit belangend (1533) by Anna Nürnberger by Cornelis den van den Berg In the New Testament, dípsychos and oligópistos are innovative expressions for This biographical study of Anton Engelbrecht (1487–1556) discusses both his the realization that humans can deviate from the ideal of unity with themselves humanism and his criticism of the Church of Rome, as well as his resistance and the holistic orientation towards God. This book distinguishes between vari- to the development of the Church in the Reformation and his defense of ous types of texts and examines them for dissonance phenomena. German text. religious freedom. The book is based on extensive literary research and 685p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, September 2019, Novum unpublished sources from various archives. German text. Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus/Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 122) 219p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, June 2020, Refo500 Academic hardcover, 9783525564639, $188.00. Special Offer $151.00 Studies 71) hardcover, 9783525554579, $75.00. Special Offer $60.00

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The Synod of Dort Historical, Theological, and Experiential Perspectives edited by Joel R. Beeke and Martin I. Klauber The Synod of Dort was an international conference of Reformed leaders held in 1618–1619 in the Netherlands. It is famous for its so-called Five Points of Calvinism which were a refutation of the Five Remonstrances of the followers of James Arminius on the nature of divine grace and the perseverance of believers into glory. The book is divided into three major sections: the first focuses on the reception of the canons of Dort among the Reformed churches in France; the second hones in on the theology of Dort with particular attention to the doctrines of election and the nature of the atonement; the third looks at how believers could apply the theology to their daily lives and devotion to Christ. 235p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, June 2020, Refo500 Academic Studies 68) hardcover, 9783525540770, $82.00. Special Offer $66.00 ‘Church’ at the Time (In)Visibility Reflections upon Visibility of the Reformation Invisible Community, Visible Parish, and Transcendence in Theology, Confession, Building…? Philosophy and the Arts edited by Herman J. Selderhuis edited by Anna Vind, Iben Damgaard, and Anna Vind Kirsten Busch Nielsen and Sven Rune Havsteen The present volume aims at a clarification and a discussion of the church in the 16th This volume reconsiders the relation between century: What did the reformers think about visibility and transcendence. The focus is es- the essence and origin of the holy, apostolic pecially on the contribution to this issue from and Catholic church? What was seen as the the theological tradition in Protestant Europe aim of it, its task and mission? Can human beings see the true church or not? between the 16th and the 21st Centuries. In the book a thematically broad Does it have one existence in this world and another in the world to come? field is covered embracing more than five centuries and a plurality of methods 496p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, August 2020, Refo500 Academic drawn from theology, philosophy, and the history and theory of art. Studies 72) hardcover, 9783525570999, $175.00. Special Offer $140.00 592p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, August 2020, Refo500 Academic Studies 18) hardcover, 9783525550717, $163.00. Special Offer $131.00 Verknüpfungen des Die Reformation 1517 neuen Glaubens Zwischen Gewinn und Verlust Die Rostocker Reformationsgeschichte edited by Cezary Lipinski in ihren translokalen Bezügen and Wolfgang Brylla edited by Heinrich Holze The (ecclesiastical) Reformation, which and Kristin Skottki Luther helped to shape, had problematic This volume illuminates connections in consequences in addition to its positive German and Scandinavian church history ones. From today’s perspective and against and brings aspects of the history of piety the background of the 500th anniversary of and communication into dialogue with the the Reformation, the question must there- history of universities and political events. fore be allowed whether one should indeed Local aspects of Reformation events in Rostock, Mecklenburg, and the neigh- speak only of gain(s), or also of loss(es). German text. boring Scandinavian countries are placed within their overall context. 332p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, Refo500 Academic 431p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, December 2019, Refo500 Academic Studies 66) hardcover, 9783525564813, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Studies 56) hardcover, 9783525571392, $113.00. Special Offer $91.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 47 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers

Reformed Evangelicalism and the Search for a Usable Past The Historiography of Arnold Dallimore, Pastor-Historian by Ian Hugh Clary Arnold Dallimore, who trained and specialized in pastoral ministry in Canada, wrote an influential biography of the revival- ist George Whitefield, as well as others on Charles and Susanna Wesley, Edward Irving, and Charles Spurgeon. How did his Reformed theological perspective impact his historiography? How does his work fit into larger historiographical debates concerning the nature of Christian history? While other books look at Christian historiography using abstract and methodological approaches, this book examines the subject precisely by looking at the life and work of an individual historian. 248p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, September 2020, Reformed Historical Theology 61) hardcover, 9783525567241, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 Catholic Today A Reformed Conversation Creator and Creation about Catholicity according to Calvin on Genesis by Willem van Vlastuin by Rebekah Earnshaw In this study the author listens to the under- There are four chapters of theological standing of the concept of catholicity in the analysis: The Creator, The Agent and Act of theology of Ignatius, Cyprian, Cyril, Augus- Creation, Creatures, and Providence. Calvin tine and Vincent. In the second part of the on Genesis gives unique insights into each book some representatives of the reformed of these. First, the Creator has priority in Cal- tradition are analyzed, namely John Calvin, vin’s thought. Second, the agent of creation James Ussher, John Owen, Herman Bavinck is triune and the act of creation is from noth- and Gerrit Berkouwer. This analysis leads to a comparison between the early ing as well as in and with time. Third, Calvin church and the reformed tradition. affirms creaturely goodness and order. The relation of humans and animals 252p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, May 2020, Reformed Historical illustrates Calvin’s holistic view of creation as well as the impact of corrup- Theology 66) hardcover, 9783525540817, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 tion and disorder. Fourth, fatherly governance for the church is presented separately and demonstrated by Calvin’s treatment of Abraham and Joseph. 232p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, July 2020, Reformed Historical Konfessionelle Vielfalt Theology 64) hardcover, 9783525540831, $88.00. Special Offer $71.00 als Herausforderung und Perspektive Calvinus frater in Domino Zur Verschränkung von Religion Papers of the Twelfth International und Politik im frühneuzeitlichen Congress on Calvin Research Ostmitteleuropa edited by Arnold Huijgen by Joachim Bahlcke and Karin Maag For the development of confessional diversi- Every four years, the international Calvin ty within Latin Christendom, the associated Congress convenes to share insights in the political challenges and the emergence of theology and context of the 16th century tolerant conflict solutions aimed at religious Reformer John Calvin. A selection of the pa- coexistence, early modern East Central Europe is an important area of pers is published in this conference volume. investigation. Religion and politics were specifically linked in the great power 370p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, structures between the Baltic Sea and the Adriatic. German text. March 2020, Reformed Historical Theology 65) hardcover, 9783525540756, 496p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, October 2019, Refo500 Academic $163.00. Special Offer $131.00 Studies 63) hardcover, 9783525564622, $163.00. Special Offer $131.00

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A Gift from England William Ames and his Polemical Discourse against Dutch Arminianism by Takayuki Yagi A Gift from England is the first extensive study of William Ames’s (1576-1633) Latin polemical writings against Arminianism during his exile in the Dutch Republic. Through these writings, Ames quickly established himself as a champion of Reformed orthodoxy. This reputation led him to be appointed as a theological advisor to the president of the Synod of Dort (1618-9) and then to be nominated for the newly established chair of practical theology at Leiden University. By exploring the medieval scholastic background behind his key arguments, this book also addresses the recent scholarly debate about the medieval roots of early modern Reformed thought. 202p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, Reformed Historical Theology 60) hardcover, 9783525522073, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 The Theology of Reprobation: from Augustine Heinrich Bullinger to the Synod of Dort by William Peter Stephens, The Historical Development of the adapted by Joe Mock and Jim West Reformed Doctrine of Reprobation W. P. Stephens’ last work before his untimely by Peter Sammons death was a volume on the theology of By means of historical analysis, Peter Heinrich Bullinger. This work was virtually Sammons traces the development of the fully completed save the chapter on the doctrine of reprobation from Augustine to Lord’s Supper and presents the theology the Synod of Dort. In this book, Sammons of Bullinger following the same pattern of gives special attention to views on reproba- presentation as Stpehens utilized in his work tion and its various parts, preterition and on the Theology of Huldrych Zwingli. Each major theological topic is treated predamnation, along with how, historically, theologians have attempted to and fully described. articulate its execution. Perhaps one of the greatest paradoxes in all of Scrip- 484p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, October 2019, Reformed Historical ture, theology, and philosophy is here addressed: “How does an omnibenevo- Theology 59) hardcover, 9783525564820, $175.00. Special Offer $140.00 lent and omnipotent God predetermine and interact with sin in the world?” 154p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, Reformed Historical Heinrich Alting (1583–1644) Theology 63) hardcover, 9783525564837, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 Lebensbild und Bedeutung für die reformierte Historiografie Petrus van Mastricht (1630–1706) und Dogmengeschichtsschreibung Text, Context, and Interpretation des 17. Jahrhunderts edited by Adriaan C. Neele by Thomas Klöckner This volume presents collected essays Heinrich Alting’s life represents an early from scholars around the world on various modern educational biography. He owed aspects of Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706) his social advancement and his encounters theology, philosophy, and reception in the with leading personalities of the reformed context of the challenges of orthodoxy in transcontinental world to the House of the his day. This book, then, locates Mastricht’s Wittelsbachs in Heidelberg. The outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War sent him ideas in the context of the theological and into exile in the Netherlands. It was there that his late writings of lasting philosophical currents of his day. importance were written. German text. 252p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, January 2020, Reformed Historical 431p (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Publishers, October 2019, Reformed Historical Theology 62) hardcover, 9783525522103, $150.00. Special Offer $120.00 Theology 56) hardcover, 9783525516997, $125.00. Special Offer $100.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 49 De gestis in Perside – Die Apokalypse des Johannes Eine Religionskonferenz in Persien Band 1/1: Kommentar (Apk 1–10), Griechisch – Deutsch Band 1/2: Kommentar (Apk 11–22), by Katharina Heyden Band 2: Leih mit deine Flügel, Engel. In this fictional disputation novel from the Die Apokalpyse im Leben der Kirche 6th century, an anonymous Byzantine author by Klaus Berger poses as an eyewitness to a religious confer- This special edition contains the great two- ence at the Persian royal court. The hero of volume theological-historical commentary the story is the highly educated philosopher, on the Apocalypse of John by Klaus Berger, supreme bodyguard, and co-regent of the as well as his theology of the last book of Persian king, Aphroditian, who, as arbitrator, the Bible, which brings together striking positions from 2000 years of history propagates the compatibility of Hellenic culture and Christianity, but does not of interpretation. Both of these works of the probably best connoisseur of the spare with criticism of the quarreling Christians. German text. Apocalypse highlight the grandiose polyphony encountered in the occupation 264p (Verlag Herder, December 2019, Fontes Christiani 5. Folge 87) hardcover, with this text over the centuries. German text. 9783451329043, $44.00. Special Offer $36.00 3 vols, 1924p (Verlag Herder, August 2020) hardcover, 9783451387791, $98.00. Special Offer $79.00 Confessor Maximus: Capita de caritate – Tertullian: Adversus Valentinianos/ Vier Centurien über die Liebe De carne Christi – Gegen die Griechisch – Deutsch Valentinianer/Über den Leib Christi translated by Andreas Wollbold Lateinisch – Deutsch Maximus the Confessor (around 580–662) The followers and disciples of Valentinus were is one of the great Greek church fathers. His among the most influential opponents of defense of the truly human will of Christ, his the unified Catholic Church. The myth of the synthetic power, which makes him a culmina- origin of the world circulating in their ranks tion of various theological currents in the East, identifies them as Gnostics par excellence. and his speculative depth are particularly Thus, this myth features prominently in attractive. In the Chapters on Love, Maximus the Confessor lays the foundations Irenaeus’ work Against Heresies. Tertullian of the spiritual life, indeed of a Christian art of living. German text. undertakes to latinize Irenaeus’ work, following closely his structure in the 304p (Verlag Herder, July 2020, Fontes Christiani 5. Folge 88) hardcover, main part of his work Adversus Valentinianos. German text. 9783451329258, $53.00. Special Offer $43.00 304p (Verlag Herder, September 2019, Fontes Christiani 5. Folge 84) hardcover, 9783451329425, $47.00. Special Offer $38.00 Tertullian: Adversus Hermogenem – Gegen Hermogenes Lateinisch – Deutsch Eusebius von Caesarea: De laude Constantini – Lobrede translated by Volker Lukas auf Konstantin / De verbo dei – Über den Logos Gottes At the turn from the 2nd to the 3rd century, Hermogenes appeared in Griechisch – Deutsch Carthage and proclaimed that God had created the cosmos from pre-existent In his eulogy to Constantine, Eusebius of Caesarea (before 264/265–339/340) matter. 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Das Konzil von Konstantinopel 536 by Patrick Brimioulle In 536 a council was convened in Constantinople, at which Anthimos, the bishop of the capital, was deposed after only one year in office and numerous bishops were condemned along with him as heretics and banished from the city. This event was the most recent escalation in the political disputes that shook the Church after the Council of Chalcedon in 451— and it proved to be a turning point in the church politics of Justinian (527–565). Patrick Brimioulle reconstructs the exact course of the Council, its organization, and its relation to the previous imperial church politics, as well as its embedment within the church-political arguments of its time. He examines the social dynamics of religious disputes and for the first time sheds light on the church-political entanglements from the perspective of social history. German text. 323p (Franz Steiner Verlag, March 2020, Roma Aeterna. Beiträge zu Spätantike und Frühmittelalter 8) hardcover, 9783515126663, $77.00. Special Offer $62.00 Friedrich Myconius (1490–1546) “Ein Königtum aller Vom Franziskaner zum Reformator fernsten Zeiten” edited by Daniel Gehrt Studien zu Text und Kontexten von and Kathrin Paasch Ps 145 und seiner Bedeutung für die Since his appointment to Gotha in 1524, Rezeptionsgeschichte des ‘Reiches the former Franciscan and Protestant priest Gottes’ Friedrich Myconius was one of the leading by Nancy Rahn figures of the Wittenberg Reformation. The Ps 145 is a main text of the psalter in terms authors in this volume deal with the life, work and works of Myconius. In addition to /מלכות of content and composition. God’s βασιλεια is spelled out in it as a central con- the Franciscan disputes with reform move- cept of reflection and gains new contours in ments before and after 1517 and Myconius’ relations to Wittenberg, the con- various contextualizations. This volume opens up Ps 145 as part of the history tributions also deal with his importance for the organization of the Protestant of the Kingdom of God theme and thus contributes to further exploration of churches in Thuringia, examine his ecclesiastical and school supervisory func- the biblical-theological meaning of the “kingship of God.” German text. tions, and his roles in supra-regional religious negotiations, the Reformation in 320p (Verlag Herder, February 2020, Herders biblische Studien 94) hardcover, Albertine Saxony, and the confrontation with the Anabaptists. German text. 9783451377945, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00 392p (Franz Steiner Verlag, March 2020) hardcover, 9783515126267, $88.00. Special Offer $71.00 Wiederhergestellter Gottesdienst Eine Deutung der zweiten Tempelvision 2 Samuel Ezechiels (Ez 40–48) am Beispiel der by Ilse Müllner Aufgaben der Priester und Leviten In Israel’s culture of remembrance, the by Benjamin Kilchör beginnings of kingship set the course Ezekiel 40-48 describes a future temple, for its political history. This commentary restored after the destruction by the Baby- traces the literary traits of 2 Samuel, using lonians. Based on the tasks assigned to the methods of cultural studies’ narratology priests and Levites, this study examines the and shows the impressive history of its significance of the new temple concept and impact. A gender-sensitive perception shows that the Ezekiel temple surpasses the highlights the constructions of gender. Mosaic tabernacle. German text. German text. 328p (Verlag Herder, February 2020, Herders biblische Studien 95) hardcover, 432p (Verlag Herder, November 2020, Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum 9783451377952, $69.00. Special Offer $56.00 Alten Testament) hardcover, 9783451268137, $94.00. Special Offer $76.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 51 The Book of Samuel and Its Response to Monarchy edited by Sara Kipfer Power and powerlessness comprise one of the key topics of the book of Samuel. This volume assembles articles exhibiting a variety of methods and approaches, all of which explore Israel’s search for political identity and Samuel’s critique of monarchy, the book’s constructions of power, and the editors’ and early audiences’ postmonarchic reflections. Historical and social-scientific approaches to the book of Samuel find ancient Near Eastern parallels for the political organization of Israel and describe the social conditions produced under authoritarian regimes. Redactional approaches examine the diachronic development of Samuel’s varying perceptions of monarchy. Literary and theological approaches advocate for contemporary reconsideration and application of the book’s more noble principles. The contributions reflect on the literary shape of Samuel and its response to monarchy. 300p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament) paperback, 9783170370401, $82.00. 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Hong develops new criteria for the reconstruction of the oldest dices was the subject of debate. Sometimes also exegetes follow trends and Greek psalm text and its early text history using selected psalms. German text. fashion. Therefore, the central topic of this volume is a critical self-reflection 356p (Kohlhammer Verlag, September 2019, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom on the hermeneutical options (and perhaps also biases) in Q Research. Alten und Neuen Testament 224n108449) paperback, 9783170364363, $93.00. 320p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Special Offer $75.00 Neuen Testament) paperback, 9783170374423, $87.00. Special Offer $70.00

Jesus als Thronprätendent Festmahl ohne Ende Institutionalisierte Formen der Macht Apokalyptische Vorstellungen vom in der lukanischen Darstellung Jesu Speisen in der Kommenden Welt im by Paul Schiebe antiken Judentum und ihre biblischen “Who do the people say that I am?” (Lk Wurzeln 9:18). This programmatic question asked by by Claudia D. Bergmann Jesus about his identity serves as the point The eschatological meals imagined in the of departure for this study. For the answer, context of the apocalyptic tradition have so far the author sets out on an entirely new path: only been treated sporadically. This research he uses methods from cultural anthropol- desideratum is the starting point of the present ogy related to the ancient construction of study. It ties in with the social science discourse identity combined with new academic theories. German text. on rituals and adapts it to biblical and extra-biblical texts. German text. 420p (Kohlhammer Verlag, December 2020, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und 310p (Kohlhammer Verlag, September 2019, Beiträge zur Wissenschaft vom Alten und Neuen Testament 19) paperback, 9783170322004, $99.00. Special Offer $80.00 Neuen Testament 222) paperback, 9783170361348, $87.00. Special Offer $70.00

52 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Judaism I Religion in the History Roman Empire edited by Michael Tilly and Burton L. Visotzky edited by Jörg Rüpke Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is and Greg Woolf one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective The Roman Empire was home to a of internationally renowned experts cooperated in fascinating variety of different cults a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism and religions. Its enormous extent, from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad the absence of a precisely definable contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long- state religion and constant exchanges running book series “Die Religionen der Menschheit” with the religions and cults of con- (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a quered peoples and of neighboring complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume I provides a global view aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the on Jewish history from antiquity, through the middle ages, to contemporary history. distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrela- 388p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Die Religionen der Menschheit 27.1) hardcover, tions between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled 9783170325791, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artifacts. Judaism II 560p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Die Religionen der Menschheit Literature 16.2) hardcover, 9783170292246, $92.00. Special Offer $74.00 edited by Michael Tilly and Burton L. Visotzky Volume II presents Jewish literature and thinking: Christentum II,1 the Jewish Bible; Hellenistic, Tannaitic, Amoraic and 4.–14. Jahrhundert Gaonic literature to medieval and modern genres. by Raphaela Averkorn, Horst Chapters on mysticism, Piyyut, Liturgy and Prayer Callies and Beatrix Günnewig complete the volume. The first part of this volume describes 450p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Die Religionen the development of the imperial der Menschheit 27.2) hardcover, 9783170325838, church under Constantine the Great $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 up to the time of Theodosius the Great (347–395) and Justinian Judaism III (482–565), including the dogmatic Culture and Modern Life and most notably the Christological edited by Michael Tilly and Burton L. Visotzky disputes, as well as developments of a general nature and those relating to church politics. The second half focuses on the area of Western Volume III completes this ambitious project with pro- European from the 6th to the 7th century up to the start of the West- found chapters on Modern Jewish Culture, Halakhah ern Schism (1378). Among other things it covers the development of (Jewish Law), Jewish Languages, Jewish Philosophy, theological doctrine, concepts of education with particular reference Modern Jewish Literature, Feminism and Gender, and to universities, forms of piety, heretical movements, proselytism, on Judaism and inter-faith relations. the Crusades and the development of concepts of the world and of 240p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Die Religionen history. German text. der Menschheit 27.3) hardcover, 9783170325876, 560p (Kohlhammer Verlag, December 2020, Die Religionen der $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 Menschheit 29.1) hardcover, 9783170303461, $100.00. Special Offer $80.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 53 Confessional Gap Konfessionalität und Religionsunterricht denken by Antonia Lüdtke What does denominationalism mean today? How can it be advanced as a concept of religious education in the face of condensed pluralization movements? Confessional religious education is once again under scrutiny. In the context of this dissertation, a desideratum of reflection is set against a stated loss of plausibility: The leading metaphor “confessional gap” symbolizes the current talk of confessionality as in need of clarification, ambiguous, and in a state of change. Through a multifaceted approach, different aspects of the confessional construct are examined against this background, so that finally a new picture of confessionality is drawn, one that offers various possibilities of connection for dialogical forms of organization of religious education. German text. 440p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020) paperback, 9783170388772, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00

Die Bibel und die Frauen Series Das jüdische Mittelalter Antike christliche Apokryphen edited by Carol Bakhos Marginalisierte Texte des frühen and Gerhard Langer Christentums Biblical women are widely received in the edited by Outi Lehtipuu Jewish tradition. This is first shown by indi- and Silke Petersen vidual female figures such as Sara, Eve, Ester, The first part of this volume examines the Judith and the “capable woman” from the apocryphal texts that were only rediscovered Book of Proverbs. Ester or Zion as a woman in modern times (in particular the Nag Ham- were also elaborately treated as such, and madi finds). A second part is dedicated to theology, liturgy, and poetry, came into the infancy gospels and Acts of the Apostles, dialogue. Female figures in the Bible became including the Gospel of James and the Act of models for their own ethical-moral and theological orientation. German text. Thekla, Andrew, and Peter. The third part deals with the texts and traditions 320p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Die Bibel und die Frauen 4.2) paperback, in which women speak as authors. German text. 9783170381407, $68.00. Special Offer $55.00 319p (Kohlhammer Verlag, November 2019, Die Bibel und die Frauen 3.2) paperback, 9783170344457, $99.00. Special Offer $80.00 Rabbinische Literatur edited by Tal Ilan, Lorena Miralles- Prophetie Maciá and Ronit Nikolsky edited by Irmtraud Fischer Rabbinical literature forms the second canon and Juliana Claassens of Judaism: Mishnah and Talmud, which Sacred Scriptures require an up-to-date were written in Palestine and Mesopotamia interpretation in order to have a life- between 200 and 800 CE. The basis of these promoting meaning in the present and for texts is the Hebrew Bible. Rabbinical litera- the future. In the Old Testament, this task ture often refers to both biblical women and was assumed by prophets—and prophet- biblical concepts of gender. Drawing on the esses. In this context, this volume is devoted latest research findings, the contributions in to female and queer voices in prophecy of this volume examine how biblical women have been represented, edited, and the Bible and the Ancient Near East and seen anew in this extensive body of literature. German text. examines the relevant iconography. German text. 390p (Kohlhammer Verlag, September 2020, Die Bibel und die Frauen 4.1) 385p (Kohlhammer Verlag, August 2019, Die Bibel und die Frauen 1.2) paperback, 9783170388956, $99.00. Special Offer $80.00 paperback, 9783170364387, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00

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Committed Spirituality Traditionelles und Innovatives by Ottmar Fuchs in der geistlichen Literatur des Christian faith can lead to a spirituality that can give strength and energy for just action. Mittelalters Conversely, human solidarity can open us edited by Jens Haustein, up to the contents of the Christian faith. Regina Schiewer, Martin Schubert Christian hope, in particular, opens us to a and Rudolf Kilian Weigand universal solidarity that does not exclude In medieval literature, tradition and innova- others and never serves only one’s own areas tion are often closer together than it seems without others. Ottmar Fuchs has spelled at first glance. Again and again, traditional out this connection in his entire practical things are presented as new so as not to be theology in many works and now presents here important results of his work boring, or innovative things as highly tradi- in collected form for an English-language readership. tional and source-bound so as not to be offensive. The relationship between 374p (Kohlhammer Verlag, November 2019, Praktische Theologie heute 168) tradition and innovation has always been precarious for all medieval literature, paperback, 9783170375499, $37.00. Special Offer $30.00 but it becomes highly problematic, even existential, for spiritual poetry and literature that is committed to the Word revealed in the Bible. German text. Religiöse Selbstbestimmung 504p (Kohlhammer Verlag, September 2019, Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch. Anfänge im Spätmittelalter Beihefte 7) hardcover, 9783170370524, $74.00. Special Offer $60.00 edited by Dietmar Mieth Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch 14 (2020) When examining religious individualization processes, “religious self-determination” edited by Freimut Löser, Maxime makes for a particularly intense subject. In Mauriège, Regina D. Schiewer this work the intense nature of the topic is and Andreas Speer discussed, based upon the life and times This is the official publication of Meister Eck- of the late medieval theologian Meister hart Society and accepts scholarly contribu- Eckhart, and set within the context of intel- tions from the entire field of Eckhart studies. lectual and cultural history. The exchange They focus on studies of Eckhart’s life (ca. that took place between religious metaphysics and deep, personal religious 1260-1328) and his works, on Eckhart’s experience contributed, among other things, to creating a climate for writings, his teachings, and his far-reaching religious self-determination, which repeatedly caused conflicts within the influence. German text. church. German text. 400p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020) hardcover, 9783170373815, $75.00. 345p (Kohlhammer Verlag, May 2020, Meister-Eckhart-Jahrbuch. Beihefte 5) Special Offer $60.00 paperback, 9783170333512, $47.00. Special Offer $38.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 55 Geschichte des Christentums V Aux commencements – Création 19. und 20. Jahrhundert et temporalité dans la Bible et by Klaus Fitschen dans son contexte culturel and Adolf Martin Ritter Collected Essays on Creation and The “long 19th century”—from the French Temporality in Ancient Near Eastern Revolution to the end of the World War I— and Biblical Texts can also be perceived in church history as an edited by Sophie Ramond epoch of ruptures as well as new beginnings, and Reinhard Achenbach orientations towards tradition as well as In February 2017 an international collo- modernization. The “short 20th century”— quium was held in Paris on the issue of this marked by the consequences of two world volume. The papers from this colloquium wars and fascist as well as communist dictatorships—presented the churches together with some essays from the last period of research are now presented with new challenges, not least that of secularization. On the other hand, this in this volume. The collection contains different approaches and perspectives century is marked by an ecumenical rapprochement of the denominations, with respect to the issue, philological investigations on forms to describe by an intensive coming to terms with the past of the churches and by their initiative actions or events, essays on the concept of creation that intends participation in democratic reconstruction. These two major sections, which to describe beginnings in the classical meaning, on myths on decline and pay particular attention to developments in Germany and Europe, are supple- recreation and on their historical and sociological function, and studies about mented by a contribution on the history of Orthodoxy. German text. the liturgical and cosmological meaning of calendars. English and French text. 320p (Kohlhammer Verlag, June 2020, Theologische Wissenschaft 8.3) 192p (Harrassowitz Verlag, August 2019, Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für paperback, 9783170315341, $40.00. Special Offer $32.00 Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 24) hardcover, 9783447112635, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00 Musik als Argument spätantiker Kirchenväter Untersuchungen zu Laktanz, Euseb, Persische Reichspolitik Chrysostomos und Augustinus und lokale Heiligtümer Beiträge einer Tagung des Exzellenz- by Jutta Günther clusters “Religion und Politik in Music plays an essential role in people’s Vormoderne und Moderne” vom lives in both the Pagan and Christian antiq- uities. As a profoundly sensual art, it has a 24.–26. Februar 2016 in Münster reputation not only as a pleasure, but also edited by Reinhard Achenbach as a danger to the soul. Plato had discussed This anthology presents the contributions of these opposites extensively, and even in an international conference on the religious the early Christian church music became the focus of far-reaching discussions. politics of the Achaemenids and the role In her study, Jutta Günther evaluates all the writings by four authoritative of their local shrines. To what extent did authors from the late third and fourth centuries who deal with the subject the local religions serve to stabilize political conditions or did they contribute of music: Eusebius of Caesarea (339/340), Lakanz (325) and the two church to destabilization? In what way did the shrines support the preservation of fathers John Chrysostom, (407) and Augustine of Hippo (430). The young local identity and to what extent were they dependent on the goodwill of the Christian church, still under construction, enthusiastically discusses the pros Persians due to economic and external power relations? 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56 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Reformation in the Context of World Christianity Theological, Political and Social Interactions between Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe edited by Frieder Ludwig, Wilhelm Richebächer, Mirjam Laaser, Amélé Ekué and Pui-Yee Pong The 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 theses in 2017 was the first such commemoration in which the global dimensions of the reformation were highlighted. This volume—the outcome of a conference in June 2016—reflects theological, political and social interactions between Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe and explores new ways in which Reformation and World Christianity can be connected. It also analyzes negotiation processes in selected countries, focussing especially on the role of churches in social development, transformation processes and international discourses. 295p (Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2019, Studien zur Aussereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte (Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika) /Studies in the History of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Asia, Africa, Latin America) 33) paperback, 9783447112925, $79.00. Special Offer $64.00

Hallesche Pastoren in Pennsylvania, 1743–1825 Eine kritische Quellenedition zu ihrer Amtstätigkeit in Nordamerika edited by Mark Häberlein, Thomas Müller-Bahlke and Hermann Wellenreuther Gotthilf August Francke (1696–1769), director of the Glauchaschen Anstalten (today’s Francke Foundations in Halle), had sent Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg (1711–1787) to a call overseas in 1741. With Mühlenberg’s arrival in Philadelphia, the Anstalten, as a royal Prussian privileged association of educational, charitable, missionary, and commercial undertakings, took on a missionary task that was only to come to an end shortly after the First World War. This eight-volume edition focuses on thirteen Lutheran clergymen who were sent to Pennsylvania between 1744 and 1786 to provide pastoral care for German Lutherans. There, and soon in neighboring regions of British North America, they served as parish pastors from 1745 to 1825.

Band 3: Briefe und andere Amtsdokumente der Pastoren Peter Band 1: Diarien und Lebensläufe Brunnholtz (1716–1757) und Johann Friedrich Handschuch (1714–1764) Peter Brunnholtz (1716-1757) and Johann Friedrich Handschuch (1714- Volume 3 contains 120 letters from the pastors Peter Brunnholtz and Johann 1764), who are presented in this first volume, belong to the first genera- Friedrich Handschuch, who were sent from Halle to Pennsylvania in the 1740s. In tion of the sent clergy. Like Mühlenberg, they were among the pioneers their letters to Francke, the Lutheran court preacher Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen of German-Lutheran church foundation in North America. German text. in London, and to colleagues and church congregations in North America, the two 616p (Harrassowitz Verlag, December 2019, Hallesche Quellenpublika- clergymen report on the difficulties of building a Lutheran church in a pluralistic reli- tionen und Repertorien 15.1) hardcover, 9783447110839, $173.00. gious environment and on their conflicts with self-confident lay people. German text. Special Offer $139.00 536p (Harrassowitz Verlag, May 2020, Hallesche Quellenpublikationen und Repertorien 15.3) hardcover, 9783447113489, $168.00. Special Offer $135.00 Band 2: Diarien und Lebensläufe Volume 2 contains the written testimonies of ten clergymen sent Band 4: Briefe und andere Amtsdokumente der Pastoren Johann Dietrich between 1744 and 1786. The documents give an insight into the Matthias Heinzelmann (1724–1756) und Justus Heinrich Christian difficult decision making process for the ministry in Pennsylvania, the Helmuth (1745–1825) subsequent farewell journeys with their personal and already minis- Volume 4 contains 137 letters from Pastors Johann Dietrich Matthias Heinzelmann terial concerns, as well as the dangers, imponderables, and strains of and Justus Heinrich Christian Helmuth. While Heinzelmann died only five years after the journey from Halle to Philadelphia,via London. German text. his arrival in Philadelphia (1751), Helmuth’s letters are important testimonies to the 536p (Harrassowitz Verlag, November 2019, Hallesche Quellenpublika- transformation of North American Lutheranism. German text. tionen und Repertorien 15.2) hardcover, 9783447110846, $168.00. 424p (Harrassowitz Verlag, May 2020, Hallesche Quellenpublikationen und Repertorien Special Offer $135.00 15.4) hardcover, 9783447113496, $162.00. Special Offer $130.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 57 The Impact of the Market on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies edited by Jürgen von Hagen, Michael Welker, John Witte and Stephen Pickard Late modern pluralistic societies are characterized by an infinitely multicolored individuality of their citizens and a wealth of associations and groups. This plurality, which is difficult to grasp, is welcomed by many people as a source of freedom, but feared by others inside and by many observers outside as social chaos. However, this plurality is countered by a limited number of so-called social systems, which are to a large extent characterized by organizational, institutional and normative structures and weight. In the theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions to this volume, theologians, economists and market practi- tioners discuss the many tensions between market economics, ethics and the Christian religion, thus adding to the fruitful and much needed dialogue between economics and theology. 256p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, May 2020) paperback, 9783374064069, $38.00. Special Offer $31.00

Spaces of Mediation Gift Exchange Christian Art and Visual Culture Issues in Ecumenical Theology in Taiwan by Martin Hailer by Su-Chi Lin A gift is presented by one to another person, Drawing upon fine art and objects made for so the person receiving it at the same time is pedagogical and devotional needs of the local enabled to a better self. Successful ecumeni- Christian communities, including prints, post- cal dialogues consist of giving and receiving ers, paintings, and photographs dating from gifts of this kind. The book gives an exposi- the early twentieth century to the present, tion of this concept and then takes a tour this volume mainly explores Christian art in d’horizon through ecumenical dialogues Taiwan. By recognizing the artistic develop- the Lutheran Church and theology are ment from merely adapting traditional Christian iconography to creating new intertwined with, Lutheran-Anglican deliberations on the office of ecclesial indigenous narratives, Su-Chi Lin examines the issue of visual representation oversight and Lutheran-Baptist dialogues on the concept of baptism among raised in such inculturation processes, and considers whether these artworks them. In the light of these findings the last chapter reflects on ecumenical offer models to re-imagine the contextual illustration of global Christian faith. hermeneutics in order to further improve its methods. 156p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, December 2020, ContactZone) paperback, 212p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, November 2019, Beihefte zur Ökumenischen 9783374057566, $43.00. Special Offer $35.00 Rundschau 124) paperback, 9783374063062, $35.00. Special Offer $28.00

Bestimmte Freiheit Das vierte Evangelium aus Sicht Festschrift für Christof Landmesser der semitischen Sprachen zum 60. Geburtstag Ein linguistischer Beitrag zur Klärung edited by Martin Bauspiess, Johannes der johanneischen Frage U. Beck and Friederike Portenhauser by Clemens Wassermann This volume combines exegetical, hermeneu- This book investigates the influence of Se- tical, systematic-theological, empirical and mitic languages in the fourth Gospel. For the ecumenical perspectives on freedom in the first time Arabic and Aramaic dialects from New Testament, especially in the theology the western Levant region were taken into and reception of Paul, in the Gospels, and in account in order to better identify colloquial other Early Christian writings. German text. features. German text. 400p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, January 2020, Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer 388p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, December 2019, Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte 64) hardcover, 9783374064144, $73.00. Special Offer $59.00 Geschichte 65) hardcover, 9783374064595, $60.00. Special Offer $48.00

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How the Catholic Church Seduces the Youth A Criticism of Youcat, the Catechism for Youth by Heinz-Werner Kubitza In 2011, the German edition of the Catholic catechism for young people, Youcat, was published in question and answer form. Printed as an easily manageable volume with bright pictures and a foreword by Benedict XVI, Youcat has probably been the biggest publishing campaign of the Catholic Church in years. By now, the book has been translated into 72 languages, and more than 5 million copies have been sold. The comprehensive attempt to obtain a firm foothold in the thinking and personal- ity of children and adolescents, to attract them to a dubious set of dogmas with absurd teachings made Heinz-Werner Kubitza write his book. Its title alone may seem provocative. Must we really speak of seduction? To each of the 165 questions of Youcat the author gives a reasonably rational answer, not in a humorless way, but in a quite ironic manner. 246p (Tectum Verlag, November 2019) paperback, 9783828844001, $38.00. Special Offer $31.00 Highgate Cemetery Does Religion Make a Difference? Image Practices in Past and Present Religious NGOs in International edited by Marie-Therese Mäder, Development Collaboration Alberto Saviello and Baldassare Scolari edited by Andreas Heuser The famous Highgate Cemetery in London, and Jens Koehrsen which was designed as a park in Victorian What resources do religious NGOs use in times, has been stimulating people’s imagi- development cooperation? How do they dif- nation for over 150 years. This anthology fer from other development organizations? examines the performativity of past and pres- Does their involvement make a significant ent pictorial practices in and around Highgate difference in development cooperation? in the context of religion and society. 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Special Offer $67.00 im Alten Reich / The “other” Reformation in the Old Empire Erzähltes Selbst / The Narrated Self Bremen und der Nordwesten Europas / Narrative Ethik aus theologischer und Bremen and North-West Europe literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspek- edited by Jan van de Kamp tive / Narrative Ethics from the Perspec- and Christoph Auffarth tives of Theology and Literary Studies The history of the Reformation in the city of edited by Jochen Schmidt Bremen differs from many other Reformation The contributions to this collection in the vast processes in the Old Empire. Yet it has hardly field of narrative ethics focus on narrative been addressed. Bremen’s was a different Ref- literature and the processes of self-narration. ormation in comparison with similar developments in the core territories of the The first section looks at the current field of Reformation, as well as in the cities. The aim of this volume is to give Bremen narrative ethics in theology and at theologi- its due within the field of Reformation research. English and German text. cal approaches to literary texts. The focus of the second section is on the 480p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, February 2020, Arbeiten zur Kirchen- und negotiations of identity in autobiographical texts. English and German text. Theologiegeschichte 53) hardcover, 9783374064380, $123.00. 208p (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, March 2020, Theologie – Kultur – Special Offer $99.00 Hermeneutik 27) paperback, 9783374061174, $48.00. Special Offer $39.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 59 The Presentation of the Lamb The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic Liturgy by Ramez Mikhail The Coptic eucharistic liturgy begins with a public ritual known as the prothesis rite, in which oblations of bread and wine are chosen and placed on the altar. While preparatory rites of this kind are common throughout Christendom, it is only in the Egyptian tradition that this rite takes center stage as a public activity involving both clergy and laity. Ramez Mikhail traces the evolution of the Coptic prothesis from its simple late antique origins to the middle ages, focusing on liturgical practices in Northern Egypt. Draw- ing upon a wide array of textual and material evidence, Mikhail provides the first study charting the evolution of any part of the Coptic Eucharist in such detail. The result is a fascinating glimpse into liturgical change in the Coptic liturgy in Islamic Egypt. 487p (Aschendorff Verlag, March 2020, Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies 2) paperback, 9783402217665, $74.00. 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Super Society of Oriental Liturgy Baruch edited by Martin Lüstraeten, Brian edited by Ruth Meyer Butcher and Steven Hawkes-Teeples In SUPER THRENOS, Albertus Magnus This volume comprises sixteen selected laments current grievances in the Church; papers on the texts of liturgical services, the SUPER Baruch deals with repentance and genesis of liturgical books, their transla- consolation. The introductions to both tions and adaptations, liturgical theology, editions deal with questions of authentic- architecture, liturgical history, and allusions ity, dating, and evaluation of the tradition. to liturgy in popular literature. The papers discuss both the historical practice German text. of diverse Eastern Churches and the current situation. 247p (Aschendorff Verlag, October 2019) paperback, 9783402101209, $173.00. 312p (Aschendorff Verlag, February 2020, Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies Special Offer $139.00; hardcover, 9783402101216, $195.00. 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The Apocalypse of John An Essay in Dogmatic Interpretation by Sergij Bulgakov The Russian Orthodox theologian Fr. Sergii Bulgakov’s final work, The Apocalypse of John, is more than an epilogue to his major systematic trilogy, On God-humanity. Published posthumously in 1948, this commentary on the final book of the New Testament can be considered the conclusion of his work as a whole. Written “in the face of the very apocalypse of life” during the Second World War, Bulgakov’s commentary is not focused on trepidation before final judgment, but reflects deeply on the possibility of hope in the midst of the tragedy of human history, and joy at the prospects of God’s final triumph, the transfigura- tion of creation: it is ‘the divine story of the victory of the Lamb’. 391p, col illus (Aschendorff Verlag, November 2019, Epiphania 12) hardcover, 9783402120422, $70.00. Special Offer $56.00

Talitha Kum 2009–2019 Grammar of New Analysis of the Structure and Activities Testament Greek of the International Network of An Introductory Manual Consecrated Life Against Trafficking by C. Sunil Ranjar in Persons: A Research Report This introductory manual is designed edited by Peter Lah for those students who have little or no The first part of the study presents a short previous knowledge of New Testament history of Talitha Kum. The second part pres- Greek. Combining basic morphology ents data and comparisons from the census with elementary syntax, the book helps data collected by the networks between students achieve a secure understanding 2015 and 2018. The final section presents of the fundamentals of ancient Greek. reports of the various activities undertaken by networks that are members of The manual consists of 52 lessons, divided into eight units. Each lesson is Talitha Kum. This report is another important step towards strengthening the equipped with a set of vocabulary and exercises chosen from the New Testa- worlwide efforts of religious sisters to confront human trafficking. ment. Also included at the end of the book are a series of appendices that 80p (Gregorian & Biblical Press, September 2019, Chiesa e Società 4) paperback, present paradigms of the basic verbal conjugations and nominal declensions. 9788878394148, $15.00. Special Offer $12.00 392p (Gregorian & Biblical Press, April 2020, Subsidia Biblica 52) paperback, 9788876537233, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 Ägyptische Namen und Wörter im Alten Testament Sicut Albertus saepe dicebat by Francis Breyer Albertus Magnus und Meister Eckhart Egypt plays a prominent role in the world im Lichte neuerer Forschungen of the Bible—dominating the Levant for by Alessandra Beccarisi more than half of a millennium. In view of Based on the latest research results, Ales- this long enduring background of political sandra Beccarisi offers a comprehensive and cultural dominance, it is not surprising, study of the influence of Albertus Magnus on that many words and names of Biblical “speculative German mysticism” and Meister Hebrew are of Egyptian origin. The present Eckhart. The work questions consolidated study assembles all words and names of interpretations and opens up new possible the Hebrew Bible of Egyptian origin and analyses them from a Hebrew and an perspectives for future research. German text. Egyptian perspective and within the field of contact linguistics. German text. 45p (Aschendorff Verlag, October 2019, Lectio Albertina 19) paperback, 210p (Zaphon, December 2019, Ägypten im Blick 93) hardcover, 9783402112021, $13.00. Special Offer $11.00 9783963270505, $105.00. Special Offer $84.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 61 Schnell & Steiner — Schwabe Ugarit-Verlag — The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Figures of Presence and Absence Ben Porat Yosef An Introduction to the French Studies in the Bible and Its World: Dispute about Sacred Images and Essays in Honor of Joseph Fleishman the Role of Art in the Life of the edited by Michael Avioz, Omer Minka Church in the Early Modern Period and Yael Shemesh by Piotr Krasny Contents include: I. The Language of the The present book is an introduction to the Bible and its Composition — Ben Porat Yo- dispute about religious art that had been sef; The Priestly Code in the Composition of conducted in France from the beginning of the Pentateuch; More “False Friends” in the the sixteenth century until the end of the Semantic Domains of Parents and Children eighteenth century. The debate involved and Giving Birth. II. The Bible in Light of not only Catholic and Protestant theologians, but also lay writers who tried Ancient Normative Aspects — Acknowledgement and Recognition in Biblical to replace the dogmatic Christianity with the ‘religion of reason’ invented Law; The Hidden Face of the Law-Giver; Samuel’s Dedication to the Sanctuary by the philosophers. A recurrent theme in the majority of statements in this at Shiloh; The Role of the Levites in Chronicles; Literate Women among the discussion was a contention that religious images must not be perceived as Social Elite at the End of the Monarchy. III. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern ‘portraits of God’, but that they should be seen merely as a ‘separated signs’, Texts — Documentation from the Babylonian Countryside or About it During detached from their invisible prototype; signs that only remind the faithful the Long 6th Century BCE; More Neo-Assyrian Families. IV. Literary Readings of about God. Biblical Texts — Formation and Significance in the Story of Naboth’s Vineyard 216p (Schnell & Steiner, October 2019, Kunst und Konfession in der Frühen (1 Kgs 21); The Book of Numbers between Trip and Stations, Time and Space; Neuzeit 4) hardcover, 9783795433468, $50.00. Special Offer $40.00 Puns on Names as a Poetic Device in the Book of Judges; The Negotiations between Israel and Aram (1 Kgs 20:31–34). V. Rabbinic Law — The Rulings Towards a Critical Political Ethics of Rabbi Uziel Concerning a Father’s Obligation to Provide Child Support (Me- Catholic Ethics and Social Challenges zonot) for his Child Born to a Non–Jewish Woman; Reproduction after Death: Some Aspects of a Rabbinic Controversy from the 18th to the 21st Century. by Hille Haker 382p (Ugarit-Verlag, October 2019, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 458) In this book, Hille Haker pleads for a radical hardcover, 9783868352818, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 course correction of Catholic social ethics PDF e-book, 9783868352825, $111.00 by focusing on three foundational concepts of social ethics: human rights, human Notes on R. Saadya Gaon’s dignity and moral responsibility based on Translation of the Torah, the interplay of compassion, solidarity and justice. The author argues for a historically Part I – Genesis and politically mediated ethics that replaces by Joshua Blau the natural law ethics. The theoretical reflections of the book are carried out The Tafsir—the translation of the Torah into by the practical social-ethical studies: The politicization of individual human Arabic by Saadya Gaon, the dominant figure in rights is examined in the contexts of migration, religious freedom, and shaping Judaeo-Arabic culture in the Middle criminal justice. Human dignity is spelled out as “vulnerable agency” allow- Ages—is one of the most important works to ing for a sharp criticism of Catholic sexual morality and neglect of women’s have been produced by that glorious culture. human rights. The book ends with a discussion of the relationship of political Saadya’s translation is a freer one than any theology and political ethics and its social-ethical implications for the further other with which we are familiar. He diverges development of a Critical Political Ethics. quite frequently from a literal rendering of the text, expressing a great many 394p (Schwabe, May 2020) paperback, 9783796541476, $92.00. innovative and original hermeneutic notions. Hebrew text. Special Offer $74.00 200p (The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, September 2019) hardcover, 9789652082268, $25.00. Special Offer $20.00

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Biblical Turkey A Guide to the Jewish and Christian Sites of Asia Minor by Mark Wilson Biblical Turkey is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the ancient Jewish and Christian sites in Turkey. It includes all the references to cities, regions, provinces, and natural features in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Apocrypha/Deuteroca- nonicals, New Testament, and Apostolic Fathers. Special features include ‘Sidetrips,’ which point to nearby sites that are also of interest to visitors. The ‘In-Sites’ help readers to read between the lines for special insights into the biblical text. In the Ancient Voice section writers from antiquity speak about the ancient world of Asia Minor. Colorful photographs and plans of selected sites illustrate the volume. 408p, col illus (Ege Yayınları, April 2020) paperback, 9786057673299, $39.95. Special Offer $32.00 Le don du sceau dans les Actes Le décor de la Bible syriaque syriaques et grecs de Judas Thomas de Paris (BnF syr. 341) Le plus antique témoignage sur et son rôle dans l’histoire du livre chrétien l’initiation chrétienne: ‘Onction – by Pacha Miran François Baptême – Eucharistie’ For a long time wrongly perceived as a re- by Jiphy Francis Mekkattukulam mote and uncreative fringe of the Byzantine Empire, the Syriac world nevertheless played The Acts of the Apostle Judas Thomas is one a decisive role in the emergence of the of the oldest apocryphal Christian works. Christian book arts in the last centuries of It depicts the apostolate and martyrdom antiquity. Indeed, it was between Tigris and of Thomas in the land then identified with Euphrates that some of the oldest illustrated India. The Acts of Thomas is a true histori- biblical manuscripts came into being, among which the “Paris Bible” (BnF cal document on the origins of Christian initiation and the author offers a syr. 341), occupies a remarkable place in more than one respect. A century reconstruction of the ritual in its gestures and words. French text. after its eventful acquisition, this book aims to offer a synthesis of the studies 860p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, October 2019, Cahiers d’études devoted to this still little-known manuscript, while presenting the decisive syriaques 6) paperback, 9782705340230, $82.00. Special Offer $66.00 advances of the most recent research. French text. 335p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, March 2020, Cahiers d’études Karl Barth Gesamtausgabe syriaques 7) paperback, 9782705340490, $77.00. Special Offer $62.00 Vorträge und kleinere Arbeiten 1935–1937 Études Syriaques 16 This volume contains texts from Barth’s first La philosophie en syriaque years after his expulsion from Germany in Syriacs have been regarded at best as mere 1935. Even from his new place of work as transmitters of Greek philosophy to Muslims, a professor in Basel, Barth observed the incapable of original philosophical thought. developments in the German church struggle While their crucial role as cultural vectors and remained an astute critic. He increasingly is not in question, this volume also aims to emphasized the international dimension of show the specificity of the forms that Greek this struggle, which is why his articles were philosophy has taken in the Syriac world over published in newspapers worldwide. In Barth’s lectures from that time there the course of a millennium, from the first to are important theological declarations of principle beside preparations for the the thirteenth century. French text. next volumes of his Church Dogmatics. German text. 450p (Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, December 2019) paperback, 550p (TVZ – Theologischer Verlag Zürich, October 2019, Karl Barth Gesamt- 9782705340421, $63.00. Special Offer $51.00 ausgabe 55) paperback, 9783290182588, $138.00. Special Offer $111.00 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 1635–20 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 63 Distributor of Scholarly Books Religious & Biblical Studies

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