Honor Among Thieves: Craftsmen, Merchants, and Associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt
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Philip F. Venticinque's new volume examines associations of craftsmen inthe framework of ancient...
Anti-Semitism
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The Jews are at once privileged and peculiar, possibly blessed, regularly cursed. So why have a few...
Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong
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Most anti-smoking campaigns inadvertently encourage people to smoke. The scent of melons helps sell...
Desiring Divinity: Self-Deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking
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Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine....
From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace
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From Enemy to Friend blends ancient Jewish sacred texts on peacebuilding, real-life descriptions of...
In the Dark of the Heart: Songs of Meera
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Meera, they said, was mad. She is also the symbol Mahatma Gandhi chose to inspire his modern Indian...
Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church
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The Catholic Church stands at the forefront of an emergent majority-minority America. Parish and...
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
Simone Weil, Eric O. Springsted and Lawrence E. Schmidt
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Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects,...
Sufi Lyrics
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The poetry of Bullhe Shah (d. 1758) is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi...
The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies...