The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative (Elder Nicholas)(Paperback)

The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative (Elder Nicholas)(Paperback)

Generically, theologically, and concerning content, Mark and Joseph and Aseneth are quite different. The former is a product of the nascent Jesus movement and influenced by the Greco-Roman Bioi ('Lives'). It details the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of a wandering Galilean. The latter is

Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures (Collins John J.)(Paperback)

Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures examines the writings included in and excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture and explores the social settings in which some of this literature was viewed as authoritative and some was viewed either as uninspired or as heretical. John J

Five Giants - A Biography of the Welfare State (Timmins Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. 'Giant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. And the

Israel - A History (Shapira Professor Anita)(Paperback / softback)

A timely and definitive narrative history of Israel in the context of the modern Jewish experience and the Middle East. Ideal for anyone seeking to understand the roots of the current conflict in

In the Beginning (Armstrong Karen)(Paperback / softback)

The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. Karen Armstrong traces the themes and meanings of these stories, examining what they can still tell us about the human

Philosophy in the Middle Ages - The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions(Paperback / softback)

Broken Body - Journey to Wholeness (Vanier Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Jean Vanier examines the roots of brokenness withing the Jewish and Christian traditions and the meaning of the Good News of Jesus for our twentieth-century

Essentials of Demonology: A Study of Jewish and Christian Doctrine, Its Origin and Development (Langton Edward)(Paperback)

Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (Elder R. Bruce)(Paperback)

This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were

God for Us: The Trinity and Christian Life (Lacugna Catherine M.)(Paperback)

An extraordinary work that revitalizes theology and Christian life by recovering the early roots of Trinitarian doctrine and exploring the enduringly practical dimensions of faith in God as a community of

Early Humans (Ashton Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their

Liaison 1914: A Narrative of the Great Retreat (Spears Edward)(Paperback)

Reprint of one of the finest books covering the outbreak and crucial early months of The Great

Introduction to the Bible (Hayes Christine)(Paperback)

This book examines the small library of 24 books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles--books that preserve the efforts of diverse writers over a span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of their people, the ancient Israelites. Professor Christine Hayes

What I Wish My Christian Friends Knew about Judaism (Schoen Robert)(Paperback)

The basics of Jewish life and customs described for Christians in a spirit of understanding and shared appreciation of common roots. 'Masterful overview.'--Publishers

Money For Nothing - The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism (Levenson Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 - and paradoxically led to the birth of modern finance.The South Sea Company was formed to trade

Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles (Wills Lawrence M.)(Paperback)

Challenging the way Christian and non-Christian readers think about the Apocrypha, this is an ambitious introduction to the deuterocanonical texts of the Christian Old Testaments. Lawrence Wills introduces these texts in their original Jewish environment while addressing the very different roles

On the Incarnation (Athanasius of Alexandra Saint)(Paperback)

Two names stand above all others in the history of the early Christian church: Augustine and Athanasius. The former was from the West and contended for the doctrine of grace against Roman moralism, while the latter came from the East and became a champion of orthodoxy against Arian attacks on the

My History - A Memoir of Growing Up (Fraser Lady Antonia)(Paperback / softback)

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative

Early Christian Creeds (Kelly J.N.D.)(Paperback / softback)

A comprehensive study of the rise, development and use of credal formulaines in the creative centuries of the Church's

The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England (Perkins Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

This invigorating study places medieval romance narrative in dialogue with theories and practices of gift and exchange, opening new approaches to questions of storytelling, agency, gender and materiality in some of the most engaging literature from the Middle Ages. It argues that the dynamics of

Confessions (Augustine of Hippo)(Paperback)

The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to

Fabiola (Wiseman Nicholas)(Paperback)

Cardinal Wiseman's classic story of the Christian persecution under Emperor Diocletian in the 300s AD. Fabiola is perplexed by the new-found faith of her cousin Agnes as well as her servant, but is especially intrigued when she finds the noblest Roman soldier she knows, Sebastian, is also a

Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers (Various)(Paperback)

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of

The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Various)(Paperback)

The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized and official theology of the 'founding fathers' of the Church, they were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives of celibacy,