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New The Formation of the Jewish Canon

TIMOTHY H. LIM A leading Hebrew Bible scholar
Recent & Classic Titles The Composition of the Pentateuch

Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis JOEL S. BADEN Interweaving historical and methodological discussions with detailed textual case studies, Joel S. Baden addresses the question of the composition of the Pentateuch and provides a fresh and comprehensive argument for the Documentary Hypothesis. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Cloth 2012 392 pp. 978-0-300-15263-0 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
and expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls presents a complete account of the formation of the Jewish canon. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY Cloth 2013 304 pp. 978-0-300-16434-3 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Judges 1-12
INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY JACK M. SASSON A bountiful new translation of the
A NEW TRANSLATION WITH
biblical book of Judges, informed by the languages and literature of the ancient Near East, that features extensive commentary on issues of religious, social, cultural, and historical significance and provides a sustained analysis of some of the best-known narratives in the Hebrew Bible. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE COMMENTARIES; AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 592 pp. 978-0-300-19033-5 $100.00
Among the Gentiles Greco-Roman

Religion and Christianity LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON An acclaimed scholar presents a fundamentally new conception of the relationship between Christianity and the Paganism of Greece and Rome. Winner of the 2011 Grawemeyer Award
in Religion, given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville
THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY
A Social History of Hebrew Its Origins
Through the Rabbinic Period WILLIAM M. SCHNIEDEWIND An ambitious and strikingly original study of classical Hebrew, from its origins through the Rabbinic period, this book combines linguistics and social history to view the story of the ancient Israelites through the lens of their language.
Paper 2010 480 pp. 978-0-300-16810-5 $22.00 Cloth 2009 480 pp. 978-0-300-14208-2 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4 Law and
Cloth 2013 280 pp. 978-0-300-17668-1 $35.00
New in paper Alexander to Constantine Archaeology
Love JOHN P. MEIER In this fourth volume in the Marginal Jew Series, John P. Meier corrects misconceptions about Mosaic Law in Jesus time and addresses the teachings of Jesus on major legal topics like divorce, oaths, the Sabbath, purity rules, and the various love commandments in the Gospels.
of the Land of the Bible, Volume III ERIC M. MEYERS AND MARK A. CHANCEY This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive introduction is destined to become the standard book on biblical archaeology from Alexander the Greats conquest to Constantines reign. THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY; PAPER AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Paper 2014 400 pp. 17 color, 170 b/w, 10 maps 978-0-300-20583-1 $25.00 Cloth 2012 400 pp. 17 color + 170 b/w, 10 maps 978-0-300-14179-5 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2009 752 pp. 2 maps 978-0-300-14096-5 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Ancient Christian Martyrdom Diverse
Practices, Theologies, and Traditions CANDIDA R. MOSS In this innovative study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second centuries that challenges traditional understandings of the spread of Christianity and rethinks the nature of Christian martyrdom itself.
For a full listing of titles in the Anchor Yale Bible Series, go to yalebooks.com/anchoryalebible 2 The Anchor Yale Bible Series
Cloth 2012 272 pp. 978-0-300-15465-8 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New The Ten Commandments A Short History

of an Ancient Text MICHAEL COOGAN In this lively and provocative book, a leading biblical scholar investigates the history of the Ten Commandments, their inconsistencies, their afterlives, and more to arrive at surprising conclusions. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 128 pp. 9 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17871-5 $25.00
Recent & Classic Titles The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis CALUM CARMICHAEL In this work
Calum Carmichael shows how each law and each narrative in Numbers, the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narratives in Genesis. Cloth 2012 216 pp. 978-0-300-17918-7 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
How the Bible Became Holy
L. SATLOW Synthesizing an enormous
MICHAEL
Sex and Religion in the Bible CALUM

CARMICHAEL In this unique book, one of the
body of scholarly work, Professor Satlows groundbreaking study offers provocative new assertions about how an ancient collection of seemingly obscure Israelite writings became the founding texts of both Judaism and Christianity, considered holy by followers of each faith. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17191-4 $35.00
most original voices in biblical studies today focuses on the themes of marriage, sexuality, fertility, impurity, creation, and love in the Bible to illuminate the remarkable subtlety and sophistication of biblical views about sex and religion. Cloth 2010 224 pp. 978-0-300-15377-4 $65.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? ZIONY ZEVIT Could our
understanding that the Garden of Eden story concerns original sin and the fall from divine grace be based on a more than two-thousandyear-old misconception? In this innovative book, a renowned biblical scholar argues exactly that. Cloth 2013 400 pp. 22 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17869-2 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Introduction to the Bible CHRISTINE

HAYES This introduction to the 24 short books
common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles examines the struggles of generations of biblical writers to make sense of their own and their nations experiences over a span of many centuries. THE OPEN YALE COURSES SERIES Paper 2012 448 pp. 10 b/w illus. + 6 maps 978-0-300-18179-1 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New Testament History and Literature DALE B. MARTIN In this engaging

introduction to the New Testament, a distinguished Yale professor presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. THE OPEN YALE COURSES SERIES Paper 2012 464 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18085-5 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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The Bible
Recent & Classic Titles In Gods Shadow Politics in the Hebrew

Bible MICHAEL WALZER A highly distinguished political thinker offers important insights on the political views of the writers of the Bible and investigates how they illuminate important moral issues in our own time. Cloth 2012 256 pp. 978-0-300-18044-2 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical

Tradition GARY A. ANDERSON The acclaimed author of Sin: A History (see page 5) here turns his attention to the essential role of charity in the Judeo-Christian tradition, how it has been clouded in modern times, and what the Bible asserts about almsgiving and its relation to the goodness of Gods creation. Cloth 2013 232 pp. 4 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18133-3 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Tyndales New Testament
BY WILLIAM TYNDALE; IN A MODERN-SPELLING DANIELL Printed in Germany in 1534 and
TRANSLATED
EDITION AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID
Culture and the Death of God
TERRY
EAGLETON With his characteristic provocative
smuggled into England for distribution, Tyndales masterly translation of the New Testament outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity direct access to the word of God for the first time. Despite its suppression, it ultimately formed the basis of all English biblesincluding much of the King James Versionuntil after the Second World War. Now for the first time Tyndales translation is published in modern spelling so that this remarkable work of English prose by one of the great geniuses of his age is available to todays reader. Paper 1996 466 pp. 978-0-300-06580-0 $25.00
style, renowned cultural critic Terry Eagleton addresses the contradictions of living in a supposedly faithless world that is threatened by religious fundamentalism.
AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY
2014
Cloth 2014 264 pp. 978-0-300-20399-8 $26.00 Also see On Evil, page 5
The Experience of God Being,

Consciousness, Bliss DAVID BENTLEY HART Are those who ferociously debate the existence of God even arguing about the same thing? What is God? A revered religious scholar brings reason to the discussion, exploring how the worlds major religions define God and demolishing misconceptions that confuse the conversation. Cloth 2013 376 pp. 978-0-300-16684-2 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Also see Atheist Delusions, page 5
Tyndales Old Testament
BY WILLIAM TYNDALE; EDITED BY DAVID DANIELL
TRANSLATED
This book makes available William Tyndales sixteenth-century English translation of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the historical books of the Old Testament, translations that laid the foundation for all subsequent English bibles. This edition includes modernized spelling, Tyndales introduction and notes, and an introduction by David Daniell that explores Tyndales astonishing achievements in translating Hebrew into English of force and beauty. Cloth 1992 688 pp. 978-0-300-05211-4 $70.00
New in paper A Common Faith Second Edition

JOHN
DEWEY; INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS M. ALEXANDER
This classic exploration of religious faith is now reissued with an introduction that contextualizes the text for todays students and scholars.
THE TERRY LECTURES SERIES
Paper 2013 120 pp. 978-0-300-18611-6 $15.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Bible
Theology
New in paper The Courage to Be Third Edition

TILLICH; WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY HARVEY COX A classic of twentieth-century religious PAUL
Recent & Classic Titles Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution

and Its Fashionable Enemies DAVID BENTLEY HART In this provocative book, David Bentley Hart dismantles distorted religious histories offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion. He counters their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history. Paper 2010 272 pp. 978-0-300-16429-9 $18.00 Also see The Experience of God, page 4 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
and philosophical thought, Paul Tillichs The Courage to Be describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. A new foreword by Harvey Cox conveys its continued relevance in the current century. THE TERRY LECTURES SERIES;
PAPER AVAILABLE IN JANUARY
2014
Thomas Aquinas A Portrait
DENYS TURNER
Leaving few traces of his personal life behind, Thomas Aquinas has long stymied the efforts of biographers. Undeterred, master teacher Denys Turner uncovers revealing details about the elusive saint and achieves an illuminating new portrait. PAPER AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Paper 2014 312 pp. 978-0-300-20594-7 $20.00 Cloth 2013 312 pp. 978-0-300-18855-4 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Dissertation on Predestination and Grace G. W. LEIBNIZ; TRANSLATED, EDITED, AND

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL J. MURRAY; ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY GEORGE WRIGHT
Recent & Classic Titles Sin A History

GARY A. ANDERSON In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Winner of the 2010 Christianity
Never published in any form before, this important work by G W. Leibniz presents his reflections on predestination and election, the problem of evil, and many other topics that illuminate the development of his theology and philosophy. THE YALE LEIBNIZ SERIES Cloth 2011 226 pp. 978-0-300-15155-8 $100.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Why Niebuhr Matters
CHARLES LEMERT
Today Book Award in the Biblical Studies category sponsored by Christianity Today International
Paper 2010 272 pp. 978-0-300-16809-9 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Also see Charity, page 4
Although Niebuhr died in 1971, political leaders including Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, and John McCain acknowledge his influence on their thinking today. This concise book explains why Niebuhr remains important in our own uncertain times. WHY X MATTERS SERIES Paper 2013 272 pp. 978-0-300-19254-4 $16.00 Cloth 2011 272 pp. 978-0-300-17542-4 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
On Evil
Julian of Norwich, Theologian

DENYS TURNER Offering a fresh and elegant
TERRY EAGLETON In this witty,
accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world. Paper 2011 192 pp. 978-0-300-17125-9 $16.00 Cloth 2010 192 pp. 978-0-300-15106-0 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Also see Culture and the Death of God, page 4
account of Julians thoughtits nuances, systematic character, and originality, Denys Turner argues that this fourteenth-century thinkers sophisticated approach to theological questions places her legitimately within the pantheon of great medieval theologians. Paper 2013 288 pp. 978-0-300-19255-1 $22.00 Cloth 2011 288 pp. 978-0-300-16391-9 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Theology
New When You Were Gentiles Specters of

Ethnicity in Roman Corinth and Pauls Corinthian Correspondence CAVAN W. CONCANNON Cavan W. Concannon makes a significant contribution to Pauline studies by imagining the responses of the apostle Pauls first audience to his Corinthian correspondence, focusing on issues of ethnicity, civic identity, politics, and empire to present a robust portrait of the civic, discursive, and lived landscapes of ancient Roman Corinth. SYNKRISIS; AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 320 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19793-8 $65.00
New in paper Christian Beginnings From Nazareth to

Nicaea GEZA VERMES In this deeply learned and beautifully written book, Geza Vermes tells the enthralling story of how a revolutionary, anticonformist Jewish subsect became the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
PAPER AVAILABLE IN MARCH
2014
Paper 2014 288 pp. 978-0-300-20595-4 $22.00 Cloth 2013 288 pp. 978-0-300-19160-8 $30.00
Recent & Classic Titles Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic
Faith; Second Edition NORMAN COHN In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium investigates the origins of apocalyptic faiththe belief in a perfect future, when the forces of good are victorious over the forces of evil. Paper 2001 256 pp. 978-0-300-09088-8 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young
Jesus STEPHEN J. DAVIS In this highly innovative book, Stephen Davis adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of Christian history by examining how readers in antiquity and the medieval world would have made sense of the young Jesus portrayed in the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas. SYNKRISIS; AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 416 pp. 3 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14945-6 $45.00
Pagan Britain
RONALD HUTTON In this enthralling account of paganism in Britain from the Paleolithic Age to the arrival of Christianity, the author explores new evidence concerning pagan beliefs and rituals and the meanings of such sacred sites as Stonehenge and Avebury.
AVAILABLE IN JANUARY
Voting About God in Early Church Councils RAMSAY MACMULLEN In this original
book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian doctrine was determined by majority vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries. Ramsey MacMullen brings the reader directly into council chambers, where rank and file bishops engage in debate, then vote to establish a single Christian orthodoxy. Cloth 2006 192 pp. 6 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11596-3 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Cloth 2014 496 pp. 102 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19771-6 $45.00
Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the

Rhetoric of Empire TIMOTHY LUCKRITZ MARQUIS In a significant reevaluation of Pauls place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostles correspondence and shows how Paul was a product of the material forces of his day.
SYNKRISIS
Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries RAMSAY

MACMULLEN In this book, MacMullen
Cloth 2013 216 pp. 978-0-300-18714-4 $55.00
investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. Paper 1999 288 pp. 978-0-300-08077-3 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles Christianizing the Roman Empire

(A. D. 100400) RAMSAY MACMULLEN How did the early Christian church manage to win its dominant place in the Roman world? In his newest book, an eminent historian of ancient Rome examines this question from a secular rather than an ecclesiasticalviewpoint. Paper 1986 184 pp. 978-0-300-03642-8 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Christianity and Classical Culture

The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism JAROSLAV PELIKAN In this erudite and informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first coherent account of the lives and writings of the Cappadocians, showing how they managed to be Greek and Christian at the same time.
GIFFORD LECTURES SERIES
Before Religion A History of a Modern

Concept BRENT NONGBRI Spanning two thousand years of history, this concise, gripping narrative shows how religion was an invention of modernity. Cloth 2013 288 pp. 978-0-300-15416-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos

Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World GUY MACLEAN ROGERS In a groundbreaking reinterpretation of ancient polytheism, Guy MacLean Rogers rethinks and de-naturalizes Roman imperial history and the transition to Christianity SYNKRISIS Cloth 2013 528 pp. 2 color + 27 b/w illus. + 11 maps 978-0-300-17863-0 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Augustine and the Jews A Christian

Defense of Jews and Judaism PAULA FREDRIKSEN Fredriksens provocative book traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian anti-Judaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition. Paper 2010 528 pp. 978-0-300-16628-6 $20.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

Seeking the Face of God ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. These early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world, Wilken shows, and they can still be heard as living voices in the modern world. Paper 2005 398 pp. 978-0-300-10598-8 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
From Jesus to Christ The Origins of

the New Testament Images of Christ, Second Edition PAULA FREDRIKSEN How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? And why did the early Christian communities develop different theological images of Jesus? In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by placing the various canonical images of Jesus within their historical contextthe Hellenistic and Judaic cultures from which the Christian communities grew. Carefully examining the New Testament texts, she provides fascinating insights into such issues as the social and religious problems facing early Christian communities, the content of Jesus ministry, and the circumstances of his crucifixion. Paper 2000 288 pp. 978-0-300-08457-3 $15.95 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Christians as the Romans Saw Them Second Edition ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN
This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. Paper 2003 238 pp. 978-0-300-09839-6 $15.95 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK Also see The First Thousand Years, page 9
our e-book editions are available from most major e-book stores, including the amazon kindle store, B&Ns nook store, google editions, kobo, and sony Ancient Religion & Christianity 7
New Earthly Mission The Catholic Church and

World Development ROBERT CALDERISI In this lively investigation of the Catholic Church and its controversial social mission in the developing world, the author weighs the Churchs various missteps and poor decisions against its positive contributions to education, health, and social justice. Cloth 2013 288 pp. 978-0-300-17512-7 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New The Huguenots

GEOFFREY TREASURE This majestic historical account encompasses the entire Huguenot experience in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, from hopeful beginnings and rising political influence to Catholic reprisals and the repressive edict that forced hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Cloth 2013 488 pp. 45 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19388-6 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Calvinism A History D. G. HART
This brisk single-volume history explores Calvinism from its origins in the sixteenth century through today, assessing political and social dynamics as the church grew and evolved. The book also raises important questions about the relation of church and state in our own times. Cloth 2013 352 pp. 978-0-300-14879-4 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New in paper The Late Medieval English Church

Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome G.W. BERNARD Historian George Bernard presents a bold, provocative challenge to our understanding of the late medieval church and the Protestant Reformation. Paper 2013 320 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19712-9 $30.00 Cloth 2012 304 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17997-2 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Devil Within Possession and Exorcism
in the Christian West BRIAN P. LEVACK In this fascinating, wide-ranging survey of the history of possession and exorcism, the author explores puzzling questions about the motives of the possessed, the contagiousness of symptoms, differences among religious cultures, modern cases of possession, and much more. Cloth 2013 360 pp. 16 pp b/w illus. 978-0-300-11472-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes;

Fourth Edition EAMON DUFFY This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.
2014
The Christian Monitors The Church of

England and the Age of Benevolence, 16801730 BRENT S. SIROTA This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Anglican Church after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE AND HISTORY; AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 376 pp. 978-0-300-16710-8 $65.00
Paper 2014 500 pp. 16 pp. color illus. 978-0-300-20612-8 $23.00
Mary I Englands Catholic Queen
JOHN
EDWARDS This authoritative biography of
the first Tudor queen reveals in new detail Marys connections with Spain, her fraught relationships with her father King Henry VIII and half-sister Elizabeth, her religious fervor and how it led to horrible violence, and much more. THE ENGLISH MONARCHS SERIES Paper 2013 408 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-19416-6 $25.00 Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-11810-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
History of Christianity
New in paper Evangelical Disenchantment Nine

Portraits of Faith and Doubt DAVID HEMPTON This engaging and at times heartbreaking book looks at evangelicalism through the lives of nine public figures who embraced this religious tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of George Eliot, Vincent van Gogh, James Baldwin, and others to understand better their negotiations of faith and evangelicalism itself. Paper 2013 246 pp. 9 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19825-6 $22.00 Cloth 2008 256 pp. 9 b/w illus. 978-0-300-14067-5 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of
a Medieval Saint ANDR VAUCHEZ; TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL F. CUSATO The most authoritative biography of Francis of Assisi in more than a generation, this book brings the medieval saint to life and explores the abundance of writings by contemporaries who set down their memories of him. Paper 2013 416 pp. 2 maps 978-0-300-19837-9 $22.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The First Thousand Years A Global

History of Christianity ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of a global Christianity over the first thousand years of its history and shows how it constituted one of the most profound revolutions the world has known. Paper 2013 416 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19838-6 $22.00 Cloth 2012 416 pp. 28 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11884-1 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Spanish Inquisition A Historical

Revision, Fourth Edition HENRY KAMEN In this completely updated edition, Henry Kamen dispels persistent myths and offers a new and thought-provoking vision of the Inquisitions place in Mediterranean culture, its consequences for Jewish culture, its impact on Spanish intellectual life, and much more.
PAPER AVAILABLE IN APRIL
2014
The Conversion of Scandinavia Vikings,

Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe ANDERS WINROTH Drawing on painstaking analysis and paleographic reconstruction of archeological and literary sources, Anders Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Winner of the 2013
Gustav Ranis International Book Prize
AVAILABLE IN JANUARY
Paper 2014 448 pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18051-0 $25.00
Utopia Second Edition
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY CLARENCE H.
THOMAS MORE;
MILLER; WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY JERRY HARP
Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of Mores rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes Mores life and Utopia within the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance. Paper 2013 232 pp. 978-0-300-18610-9 $8.95
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Paper 2014 256 pp. 24 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20553-4 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

GLYN PARRY Based on primary documents, this
new biography of John Dee, the great magus of the Elizabethan world, challenges many of our beliefs about his occult, religious, and political involvements. Paper 2013 352 pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19409-8 $35.00 Cloth 2012 384 pp. 14 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11719-6 $55.00
Recent & Classic Titles The Crusader States

MALCOLM BARBER
Calvin
This original and wide-ranging history of twelfth-century life in the crusader statesJerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessaexplores the military battles and cultural clashes as East and West struggled for dominance. Cloth 2012 496 pp. 15 b/w illus., 2 gs, + 21 maps 978-0-300-11312-9 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
BRUCE GORDON This brilliant new portrait of Protestant reformer John Calvin reveals his human complexity, the sources of his convictions, and how he inspired and transformed the sixteenth-century world. The book captures a man at once arrogant, charismatic, unforgiving, generous, and shrewd. Paper 2011 416 pp. 12 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17084-9 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Conversions Two Family Stories from the

Reformation and Modern America CRAIG HARLINE This powerful work explores the parallel disruption of two familiesone in seventeenth-century Holland, the other in America todaywhen a beloved family member converts to another religion.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATIVE HISTORY
The Unity of Christ Continuity and Conict

in Patristic Tradition CHRISTOPHER A. BEELEY Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathersamong them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandria and reexamines their ultimate contribution to the development of Christianity. Cloth 2012 408 pp. 978-0-300-17862-3 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2013 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19244-5 $23.00 Cloth 2011 320 pp. 3 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16701-6 $27.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Ten Popes Who Shook the World

EAMON DUFFY Which Catholic popes have had
The End of Byzantium
JONATHAN HARRIS
the greatest impact on history? Eamon Duffy selects ten profoundly influential popes, from St. Peter to John Paul II, and explores their amazing lives and accomplishments. Cloth 2011 160 pp. 30 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17688-9 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Shedding new light on the final turbulent years of Byzantium, this evocative book explains how the Ottoman Turks conquered the thousandyear empire and reveals the consequences for ordinary Byzantines and their remarkable legacy. Paper 2012 320 pp. 16 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18791-5 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Holy Bones, Holy Dust How Relics

Shaped the History of Medieval Europe CHARLES FREEMAN This intriguing, beautifully illustrated book encompasses 1,000 years of holy relics across Europe, deepening our understanding of the medieval world by revealing how they were used in religion and also in business, politics, and warfare. Paper 2012 324 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-18430-3 $23.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Watchful Clothier The Life of an

Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist MATTHEW KADANE The recently discovered diary of eighteenth-century English clothier Joseph Ryder provides an illuminating, reallife perspective on the relationship between capitalism and Protestantism in the 1700s. THE LEWIS WALPOLE SERIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE
AND HISTORY
Cloth 2013 312 pp. 15 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16961-4 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Recent & Classic Titles The Life of the Virgin Maximus the
AND NOTES, BY STEPHEN J. SHOEMAKER
New The Spirit of Mary
SARAH JANE BOSS
Confessor TRANSLATED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION This first English translation of the earliest complete Life of the Virgin provides a rich and crucial source for understanding the history of Marian piety. Cloth 2012 232 pp. 978-0-300-17504-2 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Through a selection of writings that illustrate Marys role in the Christian tradition, Boss shows how the Marian cult, doctrines, and devotion have developed over the centuries, from widely differing cultural backgrounds and from both Eastern and Western churches. THE SPIRIT OF ... AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY 2014 Paper 2014 224 pp. 978-0-300-16926-3 $15.00
The Serpent and the Lamb Cranach,

Luther, and the Making of the Reformation STEVEN OZMENT This spirited retelling of the lives and works of Cranach, the artist, and Luther, the reformer, recognizes for the first time how their combined successes gave birth to modern German art and the Protestant Reformation. Paper 2013 344 pp. 77 b/w + 11 color illus. 978-0-300-19253-7 $20.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Message and the Book Sacred Texts

of the Worlds Religions JOHN BOWKER This magisterial guide introduces the great faiths of the world through their most important writings. Surveying 400 key religious books, the author engagingly discusses the content, core tenets, and significance of each. Paper 2013 416 pp. 37 color illus. 978-0-300-19233-9 $22.00 Cloth 2012 416 pp. 37 color illus. 978-0-300-17929-3 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Savonarola The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance

Prophet DONALD WEINSTEIN This deeply considered new biography of the visionary Dominican provides the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola, his charismatic vision, and his fate as a failed prophet. Cloth 2011 400 pp. 978-0-300-11193-4 $38.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Abrahams Children Liberty and Tolerance

in an Age of Religious Conict EDITED BY KELLY JAMES CLARK In a world troubled by conflict, both religious and secular, can we find a path toward tolerance and respect for those of other faiths? Prominent Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers defend religious liberty, drawing on the sacred writings of their faiths. Paper 2012 312 pp. 978-0-300-17937-8 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Spirit of Zoroastrianism

TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY PRODS OKTOR SKJRV
An introduction to the ideas and writings of Zoroastrianism, expertly translated, introduced, and edited by one of the worlds foremost authorities on this religion. THE SPIRIT OF ... Paper 2012 280 pp. 978-0-300-17035-1 $15.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Scientic Buddha His Short
and Happy Life DONALD S. LOPEZ, JR. This illuminating book explores the dissonance between Buddhist teachings as practiced in Asia and in the West, and demonstrates how Western notions of the Buddha have long misrepresented the traditional teachings of the religion. THE TERRY LECTURES SERIES Cloth 2012 168 pp. 978-0-300-15912-7 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
World Religion
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New Gandhi A Spiritual Biography
ARVIND SHARMA
New Divine Love Islamic Literature and the Path
Retelling the story of Gandhis life through the lens of his spirituality, Arvind Sharma reveals the unsuspected dimensions of Gandhis inner world and their surprising connections with his outward actions Arvind Sharma won the 2013
Hindu American Foundations Mahatma Gandhi Award for the Advancement of Religious Pluralism
to God WILLIAM C. CHITTICK Bringing to light extensive never-translated Persian sources, Chittick presents the rich prose literature on love at the center of Islamic spiritual thought. Cloth 2013 520 pp. 978-0-300-18595-9 $45.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Cloth 2013 264 pp. 978-0-300-18596-6 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New The Clerics of Islam Religious Authority

and Political Power in Saudi Arabia NABIL
MOULINE; TRANSLATED BY ETHAN S. RUNDELL
New A Restatement of Religion Swami

Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism JYOTIRMAYA SHARMA This comprehensive history of Hinduism and the rise of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement, offers a fascinating reappraisal of Swami Vivekananda, one of Indias most controversial religious figures, and examines the spiritual vision that transformed a faith and helped establish a national identity. Cloth 2013 336 pp. 978-0-300-19740-2 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The first in-depth study of the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia, Nabil Moulines groundbreaking work explores the ideas and legacy of Muhammad b. Abd al-Wahhab and the worldwide spread of Salafist Islam.
AVAILABLE IN JUNE
2014
Cloth 2014 352 pp. 20 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17890-6 $65.00
New Christians, Muslims, and Jesus
MONA
SIDDIQUI This groundbreaking book explores
The Taming of the Demons Violence
and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism JACOB P. DALTON Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob P. Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to the so-called age of fragmentation, Tibets dark age from 842 to 986 C.E., he draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the famous library cave near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. Winner
of the 2013 E. Gene Smith Book Prize on Inner Asia given by the China and Inner Asian Council; Winner of the 2013 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize sponsored by the South Asia council
the writings of key Muslim and Christian thinkers in their discussion of Jesuss nature and role. The author see Christology as imperative to constructive conversations between Christians and Muslims. Cloth 2013 296 pp. 978-0-300-16970-6 $32.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
A Quiet Revolution The Veils Resurgence,

from the Middle East to America LEILA AHMED This probing study of the veils recent return from one of the worlds foremost authorities on Muslim womenreaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islams place in the West today. Winner of the 2013
Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Islamism and Islam
BASSAM TIBI
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Asian Religion
This book clarifies what is widely misunderstood in the West: Islam and contemporary Islamism are distinctly different. The former is a religious faith, the latter a political ideology based on a reinvented version of Islamic law. Cloth 2012 368 pp. 978-0-300-15998-1 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Islam
New A World Without Jews The Nazi

Imagination from Persecution to Genocide ALON CONFINO Tracing the stories the Nazis told themselves about their past and destiny, Confino proposes a penetrating new assessment of the Holocaust, showing how a world without Jews was conceivable and imaginable before and during the war.
AVAILABLE IN MARCH
Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity
Historical Contexts of Jewish Art LEE I. LEVINE This masterful survey of Jewish visual culture in the Late Roman and Byzantine eras examines two thousand years of archaeological and artistic material, showing how Jewish artistic creativity surfaced in Late Antiquity under new cultural and historical circumstances. Cloth 2013 592 pp. 128 b/w illus. 978-0-300-10089-1 $75.00
2014
Cloth 2014 256 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18854-7 $30.00
Tainted Glory in Handels Messiah

The Unsettling History of the Worlds Most Beloved Choral Work MICHAEL MARISSEN In this eye-opening reexamination of Handels beloved religious oratorio the Messiah, respected scholar Michael Marissen uncovers a shocking and powerful message of anti-Judaism buried within the musical masterworks joyous celebration of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
AVAILABLE IN MARCH
The Archaeology of Jerusalem From

the Origins to the Ottomans KATHARINA GALOR AND HANSWULF BLOEDHORN This sweeping and lavishly illustrated history surveys nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem. Cloth 2013 368 pp. 20 color + 185 b/w illus. 978-0-300-11195-8 $50.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
2014
Cloth 2014 224 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19458-6 $40.00
Jabotinsky A life
HILLEL HALKIN This
Rav Kook Mystic in a Time of Revolution

YEHUDAH MIRSKY This insightful biography of
insightful biography of the controversial, fervent Zionist leader of the 1920s and 30s sets aside stereotypes that have miscast him and reveals the full extent of his gifts, achievements, failures, and perplexing contradictions. JEWISH LIVES; AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 224 pp. 1 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13662-3 $25.00
Abraham Isaac Kook, the first chief rabbi of Jewish Palestine and the founding theologian of religious Zionism, recounts the extraordinary events of his life and examines his teachings and complicated legacy. JEWISH LIVES; AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 288 pp. 8 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16424-4 $25.00
Primo Levi The Matter of a Life
BEREL LANG
This groundbreaking biography investigates the intersection of Levis work as a chemist and as a writer, shining new light on Levis literary and intellectual accomplishments as well as on his importance as a Holocaust writer and witness. JEWISH LIVES Cloth 2013 192 pp. 7 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13723-1 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
New in paper The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
ROBERT BRODY This bookthe only survey in
English of the crucial Geonic periodfocuses on the cultural and historical milieu of the Geonim as well as their intellectual and literary creativity. Winner of the National Jewish Book
Councils Maurice Amado Foundation Award for 1998
Paper 2013 416 pp. 978-0-300-18932-2 $40.00
Judaism
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New in paper The Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical

Verse from the Jewish Tradition TRANSLATED
WITH AN AFTERWORD BY AMINADAV DYKMAN AND ANNOTATED BY PETER COLE; CO-EDITED AND
Recent & Classic Titles The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 19732005 EDITED BY DEBORAH DASH MOORE
AND NURITH GERTZ This ambitious anthology
MacArthur Fellow and acclaimed translator Peter Cole presents the first English-language collection of poems from the Kabbalistic tradition. These otherworldly poems span three continents and more than 1,500 years of Jewish mystical tradition. THE MARGELLOS WORLD REPUBLIC OF LETTERS; PAPER AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 PB-with Flaps 2014 544 pp. 978-0-300-20569-5 $20.00 Cloth 2012 544 pp. 978-0-300-16916-4 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
documents the interaction of Jewish ideas and themes around the world since 1973. From literature to visual arts, from popular culture to spiritual works, the volume encompasses the full diversity of Jewish civilization.
POSEN LIBRARY OF JEWISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
Cloth 2012 1,232 pp. 169 color + 58 b/w illus. 978-0-300-13553-4 $150.00
The Music Libel Against the Jews

RUTH HACOHEN This deeply imaginative and
Jews and Words
OZ-SALZBERGER Prize-winning novelist Amos
AMOS OZ AND FANIA
Oz and Fania Oz-Salberger, a historian of ideas, blend storytelling, humor, and scholarship in this entertaining father-daughter conversation about the essential role of words and books throughout Jewish history.
wide-ranging book shows how, since the first centuries of the Christian era, gentiles have associated Jews with noise. Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a musical libela variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his harmonious musicality.
Winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award in 2012 given by the American Musicological Society; Winner of the 2012 Polonsky First Prize in the research category for creativity and originality in the humanistic disciplines
2014
PB-with Flaps 2014 248 pp. 978-0-300-20584-8 $15.00 Cloth 2012 248 pp. 978-0-300-15647-8 $25.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
The Genius Elijah of Vilna and the Making

of Modern Judaism ELIYAHU STERN This book offers a new narrative of modern Jewish history based on the life and legacy of the most influential modern rabbinic figure, the eighteenth-century rabbi Elijah ben Solomon, known as the Vilna Gaon. Winner of the 2012
Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication;
Paper 2013 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. 978-0-300-19477-7 $38.00 Cloth 2011 532 pp. 80 b/w + 9 color illus. 978-0-300-16778-8 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Israel An Introduction
2014
BARRY RUBIN In this uniquely wide-ranging portrait of Israel, students and general readers will find accurate information on such important topics as its history, land and people, politics, society, economics, and culture. Paper 2012 352 pp. 86 b/w illus. 978-0-300-16230-1 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Judaism
New Radiant Truths Essential Dispatches, Reports,

Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief EDITED BY JEFF SHARLET This evocative collection of writings includes some of the best creative nonfiction ever written on religion in America. Spanning the Civil War era to our own, the contributors explore various ways of writing about belief, of documenting things unseen. AVAILABLE IN MARCH 2014 Cloth 2014 424 pp. 978-0-300-16921-8 $30.00
Recent & Classic Titles The Puritan Origins of the American Self With a New Preface SACVAN BERCOVITCH;
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
Mr. Bercovitchs subject is the development of the concept of American identity; his method is comparatism to specify the uniqueness of that development; and his discussion, centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context. Paper 2011 304 pp. 978-0-300-17241-6 $24.00
New in paper The Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll and

American Freethought SUSAN JACOBY In this thought-provoking biography, Jacoby restores Ingersoll to his rightful place in the American secular tradition and demonstrates why his arguments matter today more than ever.
Sarah Osborns World The Rise of

Evangelical Christianity in Early America CATHERINE A. BREKUS A charismatic leader among eighteenth-century American evangelical Christians, Sarah Osborn recorded the details of her life and spiritual quest for more than thirty years. Her eloquent writings open a new window on the roots of the evangelical movement. Winner of the 2013
Aldersgate Prize given by John Wesley Honors College, Indiana Wesleyan University
NEW DIRECTIONS IN NARRATIVE HISTORY
2014
Mrs. Mattinglys Miracle The Prince,

the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City NANCY LUSIGNAN SCHULTZ The miraculous cure of a Washington D.C. widows ravaging cancer in 1824, purportedly through the intervention of a charismatic German prince, ignited political, social, and religious controversy. This gripping book captures the drama of the miracle and its repercussions.
Cloth 2013 448 pp. 23 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18290-3 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
From Peace to Freedom Quaker Rhetoric

and the Birth of American Antislavery, 16571761 BRYCCHAN CAREY This book shows how Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and how the Society of Friends became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade. Cloth 2012 272 pp. 978-0-300-18077-0 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
2014
New Worlds A Religious History of

Latin America JOHN LYNCH Historian John Lynch presents a brilliant capstone work encompassing the Latin American peoples reception of Christianity from the Spanish Conquest and the arrival of evangelists to the dictators and repressive regimes of the twentieth century. Cloth 2012 424 pp. 16 pp. b/w illus. 978-0-300-16680-4 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
American Zion The Old Testament as a

Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War ERAN SHALEV This original book examines the widespread notion in Americas early decades that the United States was a second or new Israel, an idea that powerfully influenced nationalism, politics, and culture.
PAPER AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY
2014
Religion in America
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New Preaching, Building, and Burying

Friars in the Medieval City CAROLINE BRUZELIUS This fascinating book considers how the mission of mendicant friars to go out into society helped reconfigure urban space and had a profound influence on city architecture in medieval times. AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Cloth 2014 224 pp. 40 color + 40 b/w illus. 978-0-300-20384-4 $60.00
Caravaggios Pitiful Relics TODD P. OLSON

This thought-provoking volume explores how Caravaggios interest in materiality conflicted with the Catholic Churchs ideas about the sanctity of relics, resulting in controversies surrounding his paintings in early-17th-century Rome. Cloth 2014 288 pp. 70 color + 80 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19013-7 $65.00
Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings

Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India TAMARA I. SEARS The first major study of the Hindu monastery, a highly complex architectural form in the heart of the Indian subcontinent. AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Cloth 2014 304 pp. 50 color + 150 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19844-7 $75.00
Religious Poverty, Visual Riches Art in

the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries JOANNA CANNON A revelatory study of the role played by late-medieval Dominican friars in Italy in the production and use of art. AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2014 Cloth 2014 456 pp. 80 color + 200 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18765-6 $85.00
The Making of Assisi The Pope, the

Franciscans, and the Painting of the Basilica DONAL COOPER AND JANET ROBSON The Making of Assisi explores the intellectual and iconographic scope of the Basilicas frescoes and the powerful links between Assisi and Rome forged by the papacy of Nicholas IV. Cloth 2013 296 pp. 60 color + 134 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19571-2 $75.00
New in paper Sensational Religion Sensory Cultures
in Material Practice EDITED BY SALLY M. PROMEY This groundbreaking volume on religion and the senses sets the standard in an emerging field of study, illuminating an interlocking set of concerns involving religion, sensation, and materiality. PAPER AVAILABLE IN MAY 2014 Paper 2014 832 pp. 81 b/w + 103 color illus. 978-0-300-18735-9 $40.00
The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence MEGAN HOLMES

Generously illustrated, this comprehensive study of sacred images in Renaissance Florence, and the cults that formed around them, positions these works within the larger arthistorical account of the period. Cloth 2013 396 pp. 80 color + 170 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17660-5 $75.00
Recent & Classic Titles The Shadow of a Great Rock A Literary

Appreciation of the King James Bible HAROLD BLOOM Long an admirer of the King James Bible, celebrated critic Harold Bloom here offers a singular appreciation of its beauty and importance as a literary masterpiece. Paper 2012 256 pp. 978-0-300-18794-6 $17.00 Cloth 2011 320 pp. 978-0-300-16683-5 $28.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Before the Door of God An Anthology

of Devotional Poetry EDITED BY JAY HOPLER AND KIMBERLY JOHNSON This wide-ranging anthology traces the history of devotional poetry in the English tradition and offers a diverse and compelling selection of works that wrestlesometimes in praise, sometimes more conflictedlywith a higher power. Cloth 2013 464 pp. 2 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17520-2 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
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Religion and the Arts
New Voyaging in Strange Seas The Great

Revolution in Science DAVID KNIGHT This landmark history takes us along on the great voyage of discovery that ushered in the modern age. Ideas, experiments, characters, conflicts, and achievementsall come to life in this account of the rise of science and how it changed the world. AVAILABLE IN APRIL 2014 Cloth 2014 336 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-17379-6 $35.00
New Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies

Against It JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT How can we forestall the rising tide of suicides in the United States and worldwide? In this invaluable book, the author combs through the history of suicide to recover the most powerful arguments against the irretrievable act. Cloth 2013 280 pp. 978-0-300-18608-6 $26.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Recent & Classic Titles The New Universe and the Human Future How a Shared Cosmology Could
Transform the World NANCY ELLEN ABRAMS AND JOEL R. PRIMACK A cultural philosopher and an astrophysicist theorize that a shared picture of the universe based on modern cosmology and biology will offer solutions to global problems and redefine our relationship with the earth.
Winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Award for the science/cosmology category; Winner of the 2012 Spirit of Rustum Roy Award, as awarded by The Chopra Foundation
THE TERRY LECTURES SERIES
Totally Unofcial The Autobiography of
Raphael Lemkin EDITED BY DONNA-LEE FRIEZE This never-before-published autobiography recounts the life of a giant among modern ethical thinkers, a Holocaust survivor who invented the word genocide, inspired the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, and profoundly influenced human rights history. Cloth 2013 328 pp. 978-0-300-18696-3 $35.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Philosophy of Dreams
Paper 2012 256 pp. 72 color illus. 978-0-300-18124-1 $20.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
TRANSLATED BY SUSAN H. GILLESPIE One of
CHRISTOPH TRCKE;
Science and Religion in Quest of Truth JOHN POLKINGHORNE Both scientist

and theologian, the author surveys all the major issues of concern at the intersection of science and religion, offering insights on topics ranging from causality to evolution to divine providence. Paper 2012 160 pp. 978-0-300-18811-0 $16.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
contemporary Germanys leading intellectuals, Christophe Trcke refutes Sigmund Freuds philosophy of the dream, suggesting that modern technology is breaking down the barriers between dreams and waking consciousness and returning human mental states to those of our prehistoric ancestors. Cloth 2013 304 pp. 978-0-300-18840-0 $30.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Recent & Classic Titles Death

SHELLY KAGAN What am I to make of the fact that I am going to die? In this thought-provoking book, philosopher Shelly Kagan confronts myriad questions relating to our mortality and invites readers to reconsider what they think they know about death.
THE OPEN YALE COURSES SERIES
Journey of the Universe
BRIAN
THOMAS SWIMME AND MARY EVELYN TUCKER
This exhilarating book explores the history of the universe from diverse perspectivesthe sciences and the humanitiesand offers a profoundly hopeful view of humankinds opportunity to create a vibrant future for Earth and all its inhabitants. Cloth 2011 175 pp. 978-0-300-17190-7 $27.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Paper 2012 392 pp. 32 b/w illus. 978-0-300-18084-8 $18.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK
Science and Religion
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AUTHOR INDEX
Abrams & Primack, 17 Ahmed, 12 Anderson, 4, 5 Baden, 2 Barber, 10 Beeley, 10 Bercovitch, 15 Bernard, 8 Bloom, 16 Boss, 11 Bowker, 11 Brekus, 15 Brody, 13 Bruzelius, 16 Calderisi, 8 Cannon, 16 Carey, 15 Carmichael, 3 Chittick, 12 Clark, 11 Cohn, 6 Cole, 14 Concannon, 6 Conno, 13 Coogan, 3 Cooper & Robson, 16 Dalton, 12 Dash Moore & Gertz, 14 Davis, 6 Dewey, 4 Duffy, 8, 10 Eagleton, 4, 5 Edwards, 8 Fredriksen, 7 Freeman, 10 Frieze, 17 Galor & Bloedhorn, 13
Gordon, 10 HaCohen, 14 Halkin, 13 Harline, 10 Harris, 10 Hart, D.B., 4, 5 Hart, D.G., 8 Hayes, 3 Hecht, 17 Hempton, 9 Holmes, 16 Hopler & Johnson, 16 Hutton, 6 Jacoby, 15 Johnson, 2 Kadane, 10 Kagan, 17 Kamen, 9 Knight 17 Lang, 13 Leibniz, 5 Lemert, 5 Levack, 8 Levine, 13 Lim, 2 Lopez, Jr., 11 Luckritz Marquis, 6 Lynch, 15 MacMullen, 6, 7 Marissen, 13 Martin, 3 Meier, 2 Meyers & Chancey, 2 Mirsky, 13 More, 9 Moss, 2 Mouline, 12 Nongbri, 7
Olson, 16 Oz and Oz-Salzberger, 14 Ozment, 11 Parry, 9 Pelikan, 7 Polkinghorne, 17 Promey, 16 Rogers, 7 Rubin, 14 Sasson, 2 Satlow, 3 Schniedewind, 2 Schultz, 15 Sears, 16 Shalev, 15 Sharlet, 15 Sharma, A., 12 Sharma, J., 12 Shoemaker, 11 Siddiqui, 12 Sirota, 8 Skrv, 11 Stern, 14 Swimme & Tucker, 17 Tibi, 12 Tillich, 5 Treasure, 8 Trcke, 17 Turner, 5 Tyndale, 4 Vauchez, 9 Vermes, 6 Walzer, 4 Weinstein, 11 Wilken, 7, 9 Winroth, 9 Zevit, 3
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THE ANCHOR YaLE BIbLE SERIEs..................2
THE BIbLE................................3-4
THEOLOGy..............................................4-5
ANCIENt RELIGION & CHRIstIaNIty...........6-7
HIstORy OF CHRIstIaNIty.......................8-11
WORLD RELIGION......................................11
AsIaN RELIGION........................................12
IsLaM......................................................12
JUDaIsM.............................................13-14
RELIGION IN AMERICa................................15
RELIGION aND tHE ARts...........................16
SCIENCE & RELIGION.................................17
ALsO OF INtEREst.....................................17
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New The Formation of the Jewish Canon

Recent & Classic Titles The Composition of the Pentateuch

INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY BY JACK M. SASSON A bountiful new translation of the

A NEW TRANSLATION WITH

Among the Gentiles Greco-Roman

A Social History of Hebrew Its Origins

A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 4 Law and

Cloth 2013 280 pp. 978-0-300-17668-1 $35.00

New in paper Alexander to Constantine Archaeology

Cloth 2009 752 pp. 2 maps 978-0-300-14096-5 $55.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK

Ancient Christian Martyrdom Diverse

Cloth 2012 272 pp. 978-0-300-15465-8 $40.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK

New The Ten Commandments A Short History

How the Bible Became Holy

L. SATLOW Synthesizing an enormous

Sex and Religion in the Bible CALUM

Introduction to the Bible CHRISTINE

New Testament History and Literature DALE B. MARTIN In this engaging

Recent & Classic Titles In Gods Shadow Politics in the Hebrew

New Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical

Tyndales New Testament

BY WILLIAM TYNDALE; IN A MODERN-SPELLING DANIELL Printed in Germany in 1534 and

EDITION AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID

Culture and the Death of God

EAGLETON With his characteristic provocative

The Experience of God Being,

Tyndales Old Testament

BY WILLIAM TYNDALE; EDITED BY DAVID DANIELL

New in paper A Common Faith Second Edition

DEWEY; INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS M. ALEXANDER

Paper 2013 120 pp. 978-0-300-18611-6 $15.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK

New in paper The Courage to Be Third Edition

Recent & Classic Titles Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution

Paper 2014 240 pp. 978-0-300-18879-0 $15.00 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK

Thomas Aquinas A Portrait

Dissertation on Predestination and Grace G. W. LEIBNIZ; TRANSLATED, EDITED, AND

Recent & Classic Titles Sin A History

Why Niebuhr Matters

Julian of Norwich, Theologian

TERRY EAGLETON In this witty,

New When You Were Gentiles Specters of

New in paper Christian Beginnings From Nazareth to

Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young

Cloth 2014 496 pp. 102 b/w illus. 978-0-300-19771-6 $45.00

Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the

Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries RAMSAY

Cloth 2013 216 pp. 978-0-300-18714-4 $55.00

6 Ancient Religion & Christianity

Recent & Classic Titles Christianizing the Roman Empire

Christianity and Classical Culture

Paper 1995 384 pp. 978-0-300-06255-7 $22.50 AVAILABLE AS E-BOOK

Before Religion A History of a Modern

The Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos

Augustine and the Jews A Christian

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

From Jesus to Christ The Origins of

New Earthly Mission The Catholic Church and

New The Huguenots

Calvinism A History D. G. HART

New in paper The Late Medieval English Church

The Devil Within Possession and Exorcism

Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes;