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  • The Bible in Arabic

    The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial transition in the cultural and religious life of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Bible in Arabic

    The Scriptures of the "People of the Book" in the Language of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial transition in the cultural and religious life of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monotheism and Its Complexities

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    by Richard Bauckham, Maria Dakake, Asma Afsaruddin, Martin Nguyen, Christoph Schwobel, Sajjad Rizvi, Janet Soskice, Sidney Griffith ...
    Conventional wisdom would have it that believing in one God is straightforward; that Muslims are expert at monotheism, but that Christians complicate it, weaken it, or perhaps even abandon it altogether by speaking of the Trinity. In this book, Muslim and Christian scholars challenge that opinion. Examining together scripture texts and theological reflections from both traditions, they show that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Garb of Being

    Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity

    by Dr. Georgia Frank, Dr. Susan Holman, Dr. Andrew Jacobs, Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Thomas Arentzen, Sebastian Brock, Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, Constance Furey0, Sidney Griffith1, Rebecca Krawiec2, Bernadette McNary-Zak3, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent4, Arthur Urbano5, Frances Young6, Carrie Schroeder7 ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiences—solitary and social, private and public—that clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

    Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Mystics, Muslims, and Thomas Merton

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Narrated by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Learn25: Thomas Merton Collection

    Unabridged

    2 hours 28 min

    Explore Thomas Merton’s encounter with Islam and its mystical tradition of Sufism with one of Catholicism’s great scholars.Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a Trappist monk whose numerous books made the Christian spiritual classics accessible to modern audiences. A pioneer in interreligious dialogue, he developed a profound interest in the mystical traditions of the world’s major religions. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Chesterton's characteristics would probably meet with the literary surprise of his life, when, after reading the plain, simple introduction, he would proceed to peruse the pages of Orthodoxy and find himself at once dazzled, perplexed, delighted by this blaze of wit, paradox, epigram, sarcasm, Johnsonian common sense, original ways of looking at things which everybody knows, deep philosophic ... Read more

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  • The Jewish Annotated New Testament

    by Amy-Jill Levine;Marc Z. Brettler ...
    Although major New Testament figures--Jesus and Paul, Peter and James, Jesus' mother Mary and Mary Magdalene--were Jews, living in a culture steeped in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture from which it grew--until now. In The Jewish Annotated New Testament, eminent experts under the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Heretics

    by GK Chesterton ...
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874  14 June 1936) was a poet, novelist, playwright, literary commentator, editor, biographer, journalist, orator and theologian. He was often dubbed as the “prince of paradox” for his light whimsical style that often addressed serious issues such as politics and religion. The latter was as a member and defender of the Christian faith and the former was shaped ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of the Last Supper

    Reconstructing the Final Days of Jesus

    by Colin J. Humphreys ...
    For hundreds of years, we thought we knew what happened during Jesus' last days. Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are not only observed by Christians around the world, but are also recognized in calendars and by non-practitioners as commemorating the true timeline of events in the life of Christ. But apparent inconsistencies in the gospel accounts of Jesus' final week have puzzled ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Methods for Exodus

    Edited by Thomas B. Dozeman, PhD ...
    Series series Methods in Biblical Interpretation
    Methods for Exodus is a textbook on biblical methodology. The book introduces readers to six distinct methodologies that aid in the interpretation of the book of Exodus: literary and rhetorical, genre, source and redaction, liberation, feminist, and postcolonial criticisms. Describing each methodology, the volume also explores how the different methods relate to and complement one another. Each ... Read more

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  • Reading Genesis

    Ten Methods

    Edited by Ronald Hendel ...
    Reading Genesis presents a panoramic view of the most vital ways that Genesis is approached in modern scholarship. Essays by ten eminent scholars cover the perspectives of literature, gender, memory, sources, theology, and the reception of Genesis in Judaism and Christianity. Each contribution addresses the history and rationale of the method, insightfully explores particular texts of Genesis, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD