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Soldier of ChristThe Life of Pope Pius XIIRobert A. Ventresca
“The definitive biography of the wartime pontiff…Soldier of Christ
is a splendid work.”
—Michael Coren, Catholic World Report
“Refreshing…[Robert Ventresca] combines meticulous scholar-
ship with an elegant and effective prose style that makes this
a very readable and accessible book…The most serious and
dispassionate biography so far of this controversial pontiff.”
—John Pollard, Times Higher Education
Belknap Press 2013 432 pp. 20 halftones 9780674049611 cloth $35.00 / £25.00
TrentWhat Happened at the CouncilJohn W. O’Malley
“John O’Malley is the doyen of historians of the Catholic
reformation…There is, astonishingly, no modern study of the
Council of Trent in English…[so] O’Malley’s lively one-volume
survey is to be welcomed on that score alone. But his scrupu-
lously researched and balanced book is also an intervention in
fraught and sometimes acrimonious controversies within the
modern Roman Catholic Church.”
— Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books
“A beautifully clear and honest reappraisal of the tangled
story of Trent, in all its complexity, paradox, achievement
and lost opportunity.”
— Diarmaid MacCulloch, London Review of Books
Belknap Press 2013 352 pp. 3 halftones, 1 map 9780674066977 cloth $27.95 / £20.00
From Enemy to BrotherThe Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965
John Connelly
H John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
“The detailed history of [Nostra Aetate’s] genesis reveals a
singular fact: most of the architects of the Catholic statement
concerning the Jews in 1965 were themselves, either by de-
scent or practice or public definition, Jews who had converted
to Christianity…[A]n extraordinary work of history.”
— Peter E. Gordon, New Republic
2012 384 pp. 9780674057821 cloth $35.00 / £21.95
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The Death and Afterlife of the North American MartyrsEmma Anderson
“Emma Anderson has done something awe-inspiring: she has
breathed life into the evocative story of the North American mar-
tyrs and their legacy.”
— Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce
“This beautifully written study of how the Jesuit martyrs have been
remembered and reinvented in the popular Catholic imagination
is without rival in terms of its scope, ambition, and achievement.”
— Kathleen Sprows Cummings, author of New Women of the Old Faith
2013 392 pp. 25 halftones 9780674051188 cloth $39.95 / £29.95
Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human LifeFabrizio AmeriniTranslated by Mark Henninger
“This is a first-rate treatment of a complex topic. Fabrizio Amerini
carefully and clearly explains how Aquinas deals philosophically
with the topic of human generation and how what he says might
be connected with certain questions raised today in discussions
of bioethics.”
—Brian Davies, Fordham University
“Amerini’s book is a masterful treatment of the much-discussed
discrepancy between the teachings of the Catholic Church on
abortion and the teachings of its leading theological champion.”
—Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado
2013 288 pp. 9780674072473 cloth $29.95 / £22.95
The Bible and AsiaFrom the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age
R. S. Sugirtharajah
“This compelling book tells a story few know and even fewer
suspect—the story of Asia in the Bible and the Bible in Asia.
Sugirtharajah’s readers will look at the Bible with new eyes.”
— Karel van der Toorn, author of
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
“This is the cumulation of many years of serious, daring, and
creative scholarship.”
— Vincent L. Wimbush, author of White Men’s Magic
2013 280 pp. 9780674049079 cloth $29.95 / £22.95
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Native ApostlesBlack and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World
Edward E. Andrews
“This groundbreaking [book]
explores the critical roles
played by Native Americans,
Africans, and enslaved blacks
in the spread of Protestant
Christianity throughout the
Atlantic world during the 17th
and 18th centuries. Andrews
deftly brings these forgot-
ten missionaries to the fore,
noting that their European
counterparts, while seeking
to spread Christianity, were
not able to learn aboriginal
languages and were unwilling
to live in the same manner
as native peoples. Various
Protestant groups thus ac-
tively recruited African and
Native American missionaries
to spread the gospel on their
behalf…[A] fascinating work.”
— John R. Burch,
Library Journal
(starred review)
2013 336 pp. 12 halftones, 1 map, 1 table 9780674072466 cloth $39.95 / £25.00
From Shame to SinThe Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late AntiquityKyle Harper
“Harper puts together materials in ways that highlight
some of the important changes in sexual morality that
Christianity wrought. In particular, he challenges the
tendency set in motion by Veyne, Foucault, and followers
that emphasized the similarities between the ‘restraint’
and ‘moderation’ counseled by Roman-era philosophers
(‘gloomy Stoics’) and literary men, and the more drastic
renunciation preached by (some) Christians.”
—Elizabeth Clark, Duke University
Revealing Antiquity 2013 316 pp. 9780674072770 cloth $39.95 / £29.95
Thin DescriptionEthnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of JerusalemJohn L. Jackson, Jr.
“A dazzling, brilliant book, with astonishing things to say
about immortality, race, and ethnography.”
— Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School
“Thin Description stands in a tradition of powerfully
critical research and scholarship that questions the
problematics by which race, religion, and disciplinary
limits converge and collapse into crises in the context
of Western Civilization’s ‘Holy Land’ and the tensions of
multiple Zions with regard to Africa and West Asia.”
— Lewis R. Gordon, University of Connecticut at Storrs
2013 404 pp. 8 halftones 9780674049666 cloth $45.00 / £33.95
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The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ GuideJosef Stern
“Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide
is by far the best philosophical book on Guide of the
Perplexed I have ever read, and Maimonides is by far the
most significant and most discussed Jewish philosopher,
of unparalleled importance for the development of Juda-
ism up to the present day, but also of vast importance
for medieval Christian and Islamic philosophy. Stern’s
book is a must-read, not only for anybody interested in
the history and contemporary practice of Jewish thought,
but also for scholars and students of analytic theology
and medieval philosophy.”
—Paul Franks, Yale University
2013 448 pp. 9780674051607 cloth $49.95 / £36.95
The Tragedy of a GenerationThe Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern EuropeJoshua M. Karlip
“An exceptionally important book. Karlip marvelously and
convincingly describes the crisis of a group of Eastern
European Jewish intellectuals who could no longer em-
brace modernity nor return to faith.”
— Dan Diner, Leipzig University
“Skillfully navigating between biography and wider his-
torical analysis, Karlip’s book stands out for its texture,
passion, and range…A masterpiece of Eastern European
Jewish history.”
—David Myers, University of California, Los Angeles
2013 400 pp. 16 halftones 9780674072855 cloth $45.00 / £33.95
Building a Public JudaismSynagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Saskia Coenen Snyder
“A work of superb and exhaus-
tive historical research…It
belongs to the best of a new
generation of work on Jewish
history.”
— Robin E. Judd,
Ohio State University
“Traversing four cities,
Coenen Snyder has written
an impressively researched,
multifaceted, and com-
paratively broad book, which
concludes that synagogue
building in the mid-to-late
nineteenth century cannot be
read only as an ‘architecture
of emancipation’…Her socio-
political and comparative ap-
proach to the study of urban
space is highly innovative.”
— Michael Meng,
Clemson University
2013 360 pp. 20 halftones 9780674059894 cloth $49.95 / £36.95
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?Lila Abu-Lughod
“In accessible, lucid prose, Abu-Lughod explains how sensation-
alized memoirs, or ‘pulp nonfiction,’ have perpetuated stereo-
types and made Muslim women a symbol of an alien culture…
The women presented here see their Islamic faith as a source of
strength to fight injustice, not the cause of it. They’re not asking
to be rescued from their religion, the author contends, but from
the discriminatory legal system, poverty, outdated patriarchal
family traditions, and border controls that continue to inhibit
their freedom.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Incisively argued and often sharply critical, Abu-Lughod’s book—
which will surely spark debate—is essential reading for anyone
interested in women’s rights in the Muslim world.”
—Leila Ahmed, author of A Quiet Revolution
2013 336 pp. 9780674725164 cloth $35.00 / £25.95
The Aga Khan CaseReligion and Identity in Colonial IndiaTeena Purohit
“Teena Purohit presents us with a highly original study of the
making of sectarian identity in modern India. Very suggestive is
her argument about the way in which one such identity, Khoja
Ismailism, was created as Muslim by an erasure of messianism
as a form of non-identitarian interaction.”
—Faisal Devji, Oxford University
2012 198 pp. 9780674066397 cloth $45.00 / £33.95
Aisha’s CushionReligious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam
Jamal J. Elias
“Engrossing…Elias is very good at clarifying the meaning and
significance of beauty in the Islamic tradition…He wishes to
show that contrary to popular conception, the prohibition on
images in Islam is hardly straightforward but crisscrossed
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HezbollahA History of the “Party of God”Dominique Avon and
Anais-Trissa KhatchadourianTranslated by Jane Marie Todd
“Though the book was written before the outbreak of violence in
Syria—and thus prior to Hezbollah’s demise as the hero of the Ar-
abs—it provides important insight into the paradox of Hezbollah’s
ideology and the crux of the party’s current predicament…[The]
book lays the ground for understanding Hezbollah’s fall from Arab
grace and current events in the Levant.”
—Samuel Helfont, New Republic online
“It serves well as a handbook to the Hezbollah movement…The
inclusion of fascinating historical documents and useful refer-
ence information make the book helpful for students seeking to
understand the movement.”
—P. Rowe, Choice
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Muslim ZionPakistan as a Political IdeaFaisal Devji
“A trenchant analysis…the book presents a wholly different and
more nuanced view of Islamic politics than most recent titles.”
—Publishers Weekly
“[Offers] cerebral insight into how there was never a clear notion
of ‘what Pakistan should be’ and, therefore, it is not surprising
‘what it has become.’ ”
—Mint
2013 288 pp. 9780674072671 cloth $21.95 / NASISC
with contradictions, reversals and seemingly flagrant
instances of defiance of the ban.”
—Eric Ormsby, Literary Review
“Aisha’s Cushion is expansive and edifying.”
—Subashini Navaratnam, PopMatters
2012 432 pp. 8 halftones 9780674058064 cloth $35.00 / £25.95
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The Buddhas of BamiyanLlewelyn Morgan
“Morgan expertly traces the history of the once impressive
sixth-century Buddha statues of Bamiyan, Afghanistan through
ancient accounts such as those of the well-traveled seventh-
century Chinese monk Xuangzang, 19th-century writings by
European explorers and soldiers, and video footage of the stat-
ues’ destruction by Taliban leaders in March 2001. The Buddhas’
ghostly absence from their still-remaining niches (the statues
were 38 and 55 meters in height respectively) serves as a sober
reminder of a cultural heritage now lost.”
— Brian Renvall, Library Journal
Wonders of the World 2012 256 pp. 28 halftones, 3 maps 9780674057883 cloth $19.95 / NA
Empire of the DharmaKorean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912Hwansoo Ilmee Kim
Empire of the Dharma explores the dynamic relationship be-
tween Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to
the Japanese annexation of Korea. The author argues that their
ties involved not so much political ideology as mutual benefit.
Both wished to strengthen Buddhism’s precarious position
within Korean society and curb Christianity’s growing influence.
This strategic alliance pushed both sides to confront new ideas
about the place of religion in modern society and framed the
way that many Korean and Japanese Buddhists came to think
about the future of their shared religion.
Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 444 pp. 19 halftones, 1 black and white illus., 2 maps, 10 tables 9780674065758 cloth $39.95 / £29.95
The Foundation for Yoga PractitionersThe Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet
EditEd by Ulrich Timme Kragh
The Yogācārabhūmi, a fourth-century Sanskrit treatise, is the
largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. The present edited
volume, conceived by Geumgang University in South Korea,
brings together the scholarship of thirty-four leading Bud-
dhist specialists on the Yogācārabhūmi from across the globe.
Harvard Oriental Series 2013 1430 pp. 9780674725430 cloth $95.00 / £70.95
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Religion without GodRonald Dworkin
H Ronald Dworkin Is Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize
“Dworkin offers a way into discussions of science and human
spiritual endeavor that is actually engaging and interesting, not
combative and dogmatic…Dworkin is keen to show that—even
for people who call themselves atheist—there remains a sense
or a value to the world which bears so much in common with
attitudes we call religious or spiritual…What Dworkin pursues is
insight into the core of what makes us human and how it might
be grounded in something other than an idea of God.”
—Adam Frank, NPR online
2013 192 pp. 9780674726826 cloth $17.95 / £13.95
Evolution, Games, and GodThe Principle of CooperationEditEd by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley
“Evolution, Games, and God is perhaps science and religion at
its best: going further than the somewhat stale debate about
whether such a discussion is possible by plunging into a specific
topic that is in itself changing rapidly and at the cutting edge of
scientific analysis.”
—Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame
“Essential reading for anyone interested in carefully bringing sci-
ence into conversation with moral and theological phenomena
while avoiding the pitfalls of reductionism.”
—Ariel Glucklich, Georgetown University
2013 416 pp. 14 halftones, 1 line illus., 2 tables 9780674047976 cloth $35.00 / £25.95
The Axial Age and Its ConsequencesEditEd by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas
H Robert Bellah Is a National Humanities Medal Winner
“Highly recommended for readers of Bellah’s Religion in
Human Evolution and students of religious philosophy and
evolutionary sociology.”
—Brian Odom, Library Journal
“I can think of no compendium in the past generation that mea-
sures up to the quality and significance of this volume.”
— Donald Levine, University of Chicago
Belknap Press 2012 560 pp. 4 tables 9780674066496 cloth $39.95 / £29.95
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Brigham YoungPioneer ProphetJohn G. Turner
H Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association
H A Booklist Top 10 Religion & Spirituality Title
H A Foreign Affairs Best Book on the United States
H A Meridian Magazine Top 12 Non-fiction Book
H A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Brigham Young is a landmark work…There is no aspect
of Young’s fascinating life that eludes Turner’s scrutiny.”
—Alex Beam, New York Times Book Review
“A definitive biography of Mormonism’s greatest activist
and apostle.”
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
“[A] strong and authoritative biography.”
—Jackson Lears, New Republic
Belknap Press 2012 512 pp. 42 halftones, 4 maps 9780674067318 cloth $35.00 / £25.00
Defending American Religious NeutralityAndrew Koppelman
“Andrew Koppelman is one of the most thoughtful law-
and-religion scholars in America, and this book is an
impressive accomplishment. Koppelman shows how a
secular political community can and must respect the
consciences of persons of all faiths and none, while
seeing the search for religious truth as a special, and
especially important, human good.”
—Richard Garnett, University of Notre Dame
2013 256 pp. 9780674066465 cloth $55.00 / £40.95
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 HoursGregory Nagy
In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the
remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities
by virtue of being descended from an immortal god. Gregory
Nagy examines this distinctively religious notion of the hero
in its many dimensions, in texts spanning the eighth to fourth
centuries bcE.
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Godly RepublicanismPuritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a HillMichael P. Winship
H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“A stunningly original piece of scholarship…The new picture of
early English and American politico-religious thought it provides
is complex, densely argued, and quite persuasive.”
—B. R. Burg, Choice
“Godly Republicanism is a bold, searching, and overdue analysis of
the nexus between churchly and political government in puritan
thought. With this book, Winship has further secured his reputa-
tion as one of this generation’s finest scholars of puritanism.”
—Thomas S. Kidd, New England Quarterly
2012 350 pp. 9780674063853 cloth $49.95 / £36.95
The Tragedy of Religious FreedomMarc O. DeGirolami
“The Tragedy of Religious Freedom is a first-rate contribution
to the law-and-religion conversation. This conversation—how
to think about, and how to effectively protect in law, religious
freedom in a constitutional democracy—is a lively and timely one,
and DeGirolami is an impressive participant.”
—Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law School
“A sophisticated and thoughtful book, which offers fresh insights
on a central question of religious liberty.”
— Philip Hamburger, author of Separation of Church and State
2013 320 pp. 9780674072664 cloth $45.00 / £33.95
NEW IN PAPERBACK
GothickaVampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
Victoria Nelson
“[Nelson] shows how contemporary films, video games, graph-
ic novels and television series have reinvented and trans-
formed the Catholic iconography of the late medieval period.”
—Max Fincher, Times Literary Supplement
2013 352 pp. 14 halftones 9780674725928 paper $18.95 / £14.95
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The New Religious IntoleranceOvercoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious AgeMartha C. Nussbaum
H A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“A vigorous defense of the religious freedom of minorities
in the face of post-9/11 Islamophobia.”
—Giles Fraser, The Guardian
“Nussbaum is one of America’s leading liberal thinkers. In
The New Religious Intolerance, she turns her attention to
the rise of antireligious—and specifically anti-Muslim—
zealotry since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”
— Damon Linker, New York Times Book Review
Belknap Press 2013; 2012 304 pp. 9780674725911 paper $16.95 / £12.95
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular AgeEditEd by Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in
conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while
serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book, A
Secular Age by Charles Taylor.
“A useful collection for those attempting to work through
the particularities of contemporary secularism, given
not just the heightened awareness of globality but a
new way of thinking about secularism that recognizes its
continued dependence upon religion.”
— Humeira Iqtidar, Journal of Contemporary Religion
2013 352 pp. 9780674072411 paper $22.95 / £16.95
New i n Pa p e r b a c k
The GnosticsMyth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
David Brakke
H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Perhaps the finest aspect
of this book is the way that
Brakke successfully nuances
the conflict models of early
Christian history that remain
current in most introductory
texts.”
—J. Schott, Choice
“Brakke has a growing reputa-
tion for his studies on the his-
tory and literature of ancient
Christianity, and he moves
easily among the sources,
making good sense of the
sometimes scanty evidence…
The Gnostics is a book to be
warmly commended to those
who have an interest in the
development of Christianity.”
— Nicholas King, S.J.,
Times Literary Supplement
2012; 2011 180 pp. 9780674066038 paper $18.95 / £14.95
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Migration MiracleFaith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented JourneyJacqueline Maria Hagan
H Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
“In her magnificent book, Migration Miracle, Jacqueline
Hagan shows that religion has not been consigned to the
dustbin of history, but is a vital and dynamic feature of
contemporary social life. It constitutes essential reading
for people interested in immigration and religion alike.”
—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
2012 2 tables 238 pp. 9780674066144 paper $18.95 / £14.95
Your Spirits Walk Beside UsThe Politics of Black ReligionBarbara Dianne Savage
H Grawemeyer Award in Religion, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville
“Savage recounts the circuitous journey along which
black religious sentiment and political ideology have
conflicted, converged, and sometimes melded through-
out the 20th century.”
— Dann Wigner, Library Journal
“Through biographical vignettes, Savage spans the
20th-century black religious experience, focusing on the
ever-present question African-Americans asked about
the role their churches should play in the politics for
racial justice.”
—Publishers Weekly
Belknap Press 2012 368 pp. 9780674066274 paper $17.95 / £13.95
Muhammad and the BelieversAt the Origins of Islam
Fred M. Donner
“A learned and brilliantly origi-
nal, yet concise and acces-
sible study of Islam’s forma-
tive first century…Donner’s
explanation of the process by
which Muslims came to define
themselves is both fascinat-
ing and enlightening.”
— Max Rodenbeck,
New York Times
“Provocative and accessible…
Donner’s vision of an ‘ecu-
menical Islam’ is thought-
provoking…Donner’s over-
arching thesis in Muhammad
and the Believers is convinc-
ing. It sheds light on a world
far more fluid and confused
than the one we have come
to expect from the usual
storyline.”
— Christian C. Sahner,
Times Literary Supplement
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D u m b a r t o n Oa ks Me d i eva l L i b ra r y
The Vulgate BibleDouay-Rheims TranslationEditEd by Swift Edgar and Angela M. Kinney
The Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian tradition
through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, art, mu-
sic, and education, and its contents lay at the heart of Western
theological, intellectual, artistic, and political history through
the Renaissance.
Vol. I: The Pentateuch DOML 1 2010 1200 pp. 9780674055346 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Vol. II: The Historical Books: Part A DOML 4 2011 1168 pp. 9780674996670 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Vol. II: The Historical Books: Part B DOML 5 2011 816 pp. 9780674060777 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Vol. III: The Poetical Books DOML 8 2011 1232 pp. 9780674996687 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Vol. IV: The Major Prophetical Books DOML 13 2012 1168 pp. 9780674996694 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Vol. V: The Minor Prophetical Books and Maccabees DOML 17 2012 672 pp. 9780674066359 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Vol. VI: The New Testament DOML 21 2013 1584 pp. 9780674996700 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
One Hundred Latin HymnsAmbrose to AquinasEditEd and translatEd by Peter G. WalshWith Christopher Husch
This volume collects one hundred of the most important and
beloved Late Antique and Medieval Latin hymns from Western
Europe. These religious voices span a geographical range that
stretches from Ireland through France to Spain and Italy. The
authors represented here range from Ambrose in the late fourth
century ce down to Bonaventure in the thirteenth.
DOML 18 2012 544 pp. 9780674057739 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Miracle Tales from ByzantiumtranslatEd by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine
life and thought. This volume makes available three collec-
tions of miracle tales never before translated into English.
Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of
miracles from the Byzantine era.
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The Life of Saint Symeon the New TheologianNiketas StethatosTranslated by Richard P. H. Greenfield
The Life was written more than thirty years after Symeon the New
Theologian’s death by his disciple and apologist the theologian
Niketas Stethatos, who also edited all of Symeon’s spiritual writ-
ings. An unusually valuable piece of Byzantine hagiography, it not
only presents compelling descriptions of Symeon’s visions, mysti-
cal inspiration, and role as a monastic founder, but also provides
vivid glimpses into the often bitter and unpleasantly conflicted
politics of monasticism and the construction of sanctity and
orthodoxy at the zenith of the medieval Byzantine Empire.
DOML 20 2013 448 pp. 9780674057982 cloth $29.95 / £19.95
Literary WorksAlan of LilleEdited and translated by Winthrop Wetherbee
A product of the cathedral schools that played a foundational role
in the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Alan of Lille was re-
nowned for the vast learning which earned him the title of Doctor
Universalis. His writings include many significant contributions
to the development of systematic theology, but he was also the
most important Latin poet of his time, the great age of Medieval
Latin poetry. The works included in this volume aim to give imagi-
native expression to the main tenets of Alan’s theology, but the
forms in which his vision is embodied are strikingly original and
informed by a rich awareness of poetic tradition.
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D u m b a r t o n Oa ks Me d i eva l L i b ra r y
The fifth-century Miracles of Saint Thekla, the tenth-century
Miracles of the Spring of the Virgin Mary, and the fourteenth-
century Miracles of Saint Gregory Palamas display a remark-
able range of registers in which Greek could be written during
the still little-known Byzantine period.
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The Last of the RephaimConquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient IsraelBrian R. Doak
In The Last of the Rephaim, Brian Doak argues that the giants
of the Hebrew Bible are a politically, theologically, and historio-
graphically generative group, and through their oversized bod-
ies, readers gain insight into central aspects of Israel’s symbolic
universe. All that is overgrown or physically monstrous repre-
sents a connection to primeval chaos, and stands as a barrier
to creation and right rule. Giants thus represent chaos-fear, and
their eradication is a form of chaos maintenance by both human
and divine agents.
Ilex Series 2013 312 pp. 9780674066731 paper $19.95 / £14.95
Heroic KrsnaFriendship in Epic MahābhārataKevin McGrath
Heroic Krsna is a portrait of a pre-Hindu and pre-classical figure
of a superhuman hero who in time became the divinity Krsna,
an incarnation of Visnu. This is a picture, drawn from the epic
Mahābhārata, of an archaic warrior who excelled as a charioteer;
in fact this is the best depiction that we presently possess in
any epic corpus of a charioteer type. Krsna is also described
in his role of moral instructor, as poet and ambassador, and in
the office of dual kingship with the dharmaraja Yudhisthira. This
book illustrates a heroic life which pre-exists the divine status of
one of the most popular Indian deities of today.
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The Life of Patriarch IgnatiusNicetas DavidEdited and translated by Andrew Smithies Notes by John M. Duffy
As much a frontal attack on Photius as a record of the author’s
hero Ignatius, The Life of Patriarch Ignatius offers a fascinat-
ing, if biased, look into the complex world of the interplay
among competing church factions, the imperial powers, and
the papacy in the ninth century. This important historical
document is here critically edited and translated into English
for the first time.
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Paideia and CultChristian Initiation in Theodore of MopsuestiaDaniel L. Schwartz
Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and wor-
ship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization.
It analyzes the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia
as a curriculum designed to train those seeking initiation into
the Christian mysteries. Theodore’s attention to the communal,
cognitive, and ritual components of initiation suggests a substan-
tive understanding of religious conversion, yet one that avoids
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comprehending the ability of clergy to initiate new members as
Christianity gained increasing prominence within the late Roman
world.
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Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek EastTheodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in ContextYannis Papadogiannakis
This book—the first full-length study of the “last and most beauti-
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lenic Maladies—combines close readings of the text with detailed
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interacts with other diverse ideas, practices, and developments
in the fifth-century Roman Empire.
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The Theology of ArithmeticNumber Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity
Joel Kalvesmaki
In the second century, Valentinians and other gnosticizing
Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe
God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study
of the controversy that resulted, Joel Kalvesmaki shows how
earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist number symbolism
provided the impetus for this theology of arithmetic.
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anced context for some of the most important humanist
and artistic projects of the age. Readers of this book
cannot help but come away with a richer and deeper ap-
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era in early modern history.”
—Brian Curran, Pennsylvania State University
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The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation ItalyEmily Michelson
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significantly expands our understanding of the inter-
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preachers to counter heresy while satisfying lay inter-
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Church’s monolithic response to Protestantism, it reveals
the range of positions possible within a broader Catholic
consensus. This is first-rate scholarship.”
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