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  • Dynamics of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

    by Guy G. Stroumsa ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions
    From early Christianity to the emergence of Islam, the long late antiquity denotes a truly revolutionary period in the history of religions. In many ways, religious ritual patterns and theological worldviews were then radically transformed throughout the Near East and the Mediterranean. In particular, the traditional polytheistic systems collapsed, giving way to various forms of monotheism and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Making of the Abrahamic Religions in Late Antiquity

    by Guy G. Stroumsa ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions
    This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most important characteristic of the Abrahamic movement, often remains outside the mainstream, hidden, as it were, since it generates ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Idea of Semitic Monotheism

    The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth

    by Guy G. Stroumsa ...
    The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenment to the First World War. It aims to understand the new status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new discipline. Guy G. Stroumsa focuses on the concept of Semitic monotheism, a concept developed by Ernest Renan around the mid ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity

    by Guy G. Stroumsa ...
    The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empire’s conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The Scriptural Universe of Ancient Christianity describes how canonical scripture was established and how scriptural interpretation replaced blood sacrifice ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions

    by Moshe Blidstein ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions includes authoritative yet accessible studies on a wide variety of topics dealing comparatively with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with the interactions between the adherents of these religions throughout history. The comparative study of the Abrahamic Religions has been undertaken for many centuries. More often than not, these studies ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Paradise in Antiquity

    Jewish and Christian Views

    Edited by Markus Bockmuehl, Guy G. Stroumsa ...
    The social and intellectual vitality of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity was in large part a function of their ability to articulate a viably transcendent hope for the human condition. Narratives of Paradise - based on the concrete symbol of the Garden of Delights - came to play a central role for Jews, Christians, and eventually Muslims too. The essays in this volume highlight the multiple ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    by Alain de Benoist ...
    What is paganism? In this penetrating and tightly argued manifesto, French philosopher Alain de Benoist seeks to answer this question with passionate intellectual vigor and a tremendous erudition. Arising out of the “monotheism vs. polytheism” debate that reverberated through Parisian intellectual circles in the late 1970s, this is neither a survey of ancient, pre-Christian religions, nor is it an ... Read more

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  • Early Orientalism

    Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power

    by Ivan Kalmar ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly intense debate in the West.Ivan Kalmar explores how the controversial notion of submission to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Beautiful Death

    Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France

    by Susan L. Einbinder ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology followed. Beautiful Death examines the evolution of a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, the ... Read more

    $69.19 USD

  • Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture

    Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

    by Gregg Stern ...
    Series series Routledge Jewish Studies Series
    Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to - scientific and philosophic teachings into Judaism fulfils a major desideratum in Jewish cultural history.In ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Religious Conversion

    History, Experience and Meaning

    by Ira Katznelson, Miri Rubin ...
    Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or large. It may be the result of active missionary efforts, instrumental decisions, or intellectual or spiritual attraction to a ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Not in God's Name

    Confronting Religious Violence

    by Jonathan Sacks ...
    ***2015 National Jewish Book Award Winner***In this powerful and timely book, one of the most admired and authoritative religious leaders of our time tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism and violence committed in the name of God. If religion is perceived as being part of the problem, Rabbi Sacks argues, then it must also form part of the solution. When religion becomes a zero-sum conceit ... Read more

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