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Thou Art the Man
The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812253023
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
"How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?" Ruth Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about...
Survival
A Theological-Political Genealogy
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252873
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
For a world mired in catastrophe, nothing could be more urgent than the question of survival. In this theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking book, Adam Y. Stern calls for a critical reevaluation...
From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9780812224658
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
An impressively learned and beautifully illustrated review of medieval ideas about ParadiseDid Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate...
The Early Martyr Narratives
Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812252606
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
From Eusebius of Caesarea, who first compiled a collection of martyr narratives around 300, to Thierry Ruinart, whose Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta was published in 1689, the selection...
Rabbi Leo Baeck
Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812252569
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums...
Speaking Infinities
God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812252187
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Hardcover
408 Pages
A study of the life and work of 'the Maggid"—a major figure in the mystical thought of early HasidismEnshrined in Jewish memory simply as "the Maggid" (preacher), Rabbi Dov Ber...
Bastards and Believers
Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812251883
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
A formidable collection of studies on religious conversion and converts in Jewish historyTheodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko observe that the term "conversion" is profoundly polysemous....
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans
Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812251937
Pub Date: March 2020
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
A study of three hundred years of medieval Franciscan history that focuses on martyrdomWhile hagiographies tell of Christian martyrs who have died in an astonishing number of ways...
The Buddha's Footprint
An Environmental History of Asia
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812251838
Pub Date: February 2020
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhism is often understood to be a religion...
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812251876
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
A investigation into the thirteenth-century Norwich circumcision case and its meaning for Christians and JewsIn 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized...

Thou Art the Man
The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812253023
Pub Date: April 2021
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Survival
A Theological-Political Genealogy
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252873
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9780812224658
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Paperback
384 Pages
The Early Martyr Narratives
Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812252606
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Rabbi Leo Baeck
Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812252569
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Speaking Infinities
God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812252187
Pub Date: May 2020
Format: Hardcover
408 Pages
Bastards and Believers
Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812251883
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
392 Pages
The Martyrdom of the Franciscans
Islam, the Papacy, and an Order in Conflict
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812251937
Pub Date: March 2020
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
The Buddha's Footprint
An Environmental History of Asia
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9780812251838
Pub Date: February 2020
Format: Hardcover
192 Pages
Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812251876
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages