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From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard
This book not only offers a new way of approaching Kierkegaard's writings, but also shows how they might serve to illuminate and to deepen one's relationship with the divine.
$39.00
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Interpreting Abraham: Journeys to Moriah
The text presents a collection of essays that reflect upon the narrative of God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac in Genesis 22.
$49.00
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4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Translations, Introductions, and Notes
This handy volume makes these two important texts accessible to students, provides expert introductions, and illuminates the interrelationship of the texts through parallel columns.
$22.00
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The Age of the Sages: The Axial Age in Asia and the Near East
By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Gautama Buddha, Confucius, Pythagoras, and others side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.
$29.00
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Soundings in the Religion of Jesus: Perspectives and Methods in Jewish and Christian Scholarship
Jesus was a Jew and not a Christian. That affirmation may seem obvious, but here an international cast of Jewish and Christian scholars spell out...
$32.00
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Common Judaism: Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism
E. P. Sanders's monumental Judaism: Practice and Belief inaugurated vigorous debates about the extent and significance of commonality and diversity in ancient...
$35.00
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Gentiles—Jews—Christians: Polemics and Apologetics in the Greco-Roman Era
The roots of anti–Judaism and Jewish–Christian dialogue are examined in their historical contexts with a wide array of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and...
$39.00
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The Dialogue Comes of Age: Christian Encounters with Other Traditions
Increasingly world religious traditions present not just an intellectual or apologetic challenge to Christians but a daily encounter, a source of religious...
$25.00
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Was Jesus a Muslim?: Questioning Categories in the Study of Religion
An intriguing question — Do Muslims understand Jesus in some ways more historically appropriate than Christians do? — leads Robert F. Shedinger into a...
$29.00
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Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks
Jean Zaru, the longtime activist and Quaker leader from Ramallah, here brings home the pain and central convictions that animate Christian nonviolence and...
$29.00
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Fortress Introduction to Salvation and the Cross
What does it mean to be saved, and how can we make sense of the Christian claim that Christ died for our sins? That is the work of soteriology, the classic...
$21.00
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Fortress Introduction to the Prophets
An experienced teacher of the prophetic materials provides students with an accessible entrée into this fascinating aspect of Hebrew Bible studies. The...
$17.00
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Fortress Introduction to the New Testament
All the main issues for reading the New Testament are covered in this exciting new introduction by one of the world's foremost biblical scholars.
$24.00
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Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion
Given the unique history of African Americans and its diverse religious flowering—in Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, Voodoo, and...
$29.00
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Fortress Introduction to Black Church History
A concise and accessible history. A brief history of black Christian churches in the United States has long been needed. Larger sociological and historical...
$29.00
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Fortress Introduction to the Lutheran Confessions
Despite their near-scriptural status, the Lutheran Confessions are not widely used in Lutheran circles, the authors believe, because presentation of them has...
$29.00
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Fortress Introduction to Contemporary Theologies
A reader-friendly, basic introduction that maps the central ideas of the major theologians of the twentieth century, easily accessible to both the theological student and the inquiring lay reader.
$29.00
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Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination
The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies, and biblical interpretation. Introduced by Mark Wallace, the...
$39.00
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Religious Studies: The Making of a Discipline
Since its inception almost 200 years ago, the study of religion has informed, enlightened, provoked, and challenged our notions of humanity's deepest beliefs...
$33.00
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Jewish Writings of the Second Temple Period, Volume 2: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran Sectarian Writings, Philo, Josephus
This volume describes that part of the rich literary production of ancient Judaism which was not contained in the Hebrew Bible nor in rabbinic literature....
$69.00
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