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Gregorian & Biblical Press Late Babylonian Field Plans in the British Museum
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Archeo-Biblical Egypt
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Dents Et Machoires Dans Les Representations
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Sciamanesimo E Chiesa in Corea Per Un Processo Di
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Giappone Nuovo E Antico Studio Fenomenologico Sul
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Transcultural Theodicy in the Fiction of Shusaku
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Riscoperta Dellidentita Religiosa Un Dialogo
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Gregorian & Biblical Press Diritti Umani Uneredita Viva Piccolo Lessico Par
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Les Gaetani de Fondi Recueil d'Actes 1174-1623
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Paesaggio Suburbano Di Roma Dall'antichita Al
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Alle Fonti del Doping: Fortuna E Prospettive Di
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Chiesa Di Santo Stefano Ad Umm Al-Rasas: Ed Il
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Santo Niceto Nella Calabria Medievale: Storia,
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Studi Normanni E Federiciani
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Tomba Di San Luca Evangelista: La Cassa Di
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Cruciamenta Acherunti: I Dannati Nell'ade Romano
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider L'Insediamento Medievale Nella Valle del Platani
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Dionysos a Teatro: Il Contesto Festivo del Dramma
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Riso Di Hephaistos: All'origine del Comico
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Attraverso Il Cerchio Magico: Storia Delle
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider L'Hammam Nell'islam Occidentale Fra l'Viii E Il
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Simulacri Vesti Devozioni: Etnografia Delle
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Icone Di Roma E del Lazio Tomi I E II
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Profumi Di Argilla: Tombe Con Unguentari Corinzi
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Forme E Strutture Della Religione Nell'italia
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Brill The Law in the Fourth Gospel: The Torah and the Gospel, Moses and Jesus, Judaism and Christianity According to John
Trade Review'An important and erudite work.' Churchman, 1977. '...Pancaro's exegetical skill is so splendid and the logic of his argument so beautifully clear.' Wayne A. Meeks, Journal of Biblical Literature, 1977.
£106.12
Brill Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the
Book SynopsisThis first volume of the new Brill series “Ancient Philosophy & Religion” is a collection of articles by scholars of Classics, Ancient Philosophy, and Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. The articles are based on papers presented at two colloquia on the interface between Ancient Philosophy and Religion at the universities of Aarhus and Cambridge. They focus extensively on Platonic philosophy and piety and sketch an emerging religio-philosophical discourse in ancient Judaism (both in the Sibylline Oracles and 4 Maccabees). Furthermore, this volume studies Seneca’s religio-philosophical understanding of 'consolation', compares early depictions of Jesus with those of ancient philosophers, and, finally, reconsiders responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.Trade ReviewThe scope signified by the title of this book is breathtakingly broad, but it actually does delineate the contents of the book reasonably well… A number of the essays are programmatic discussions of the conceptual puzzle posed by the books title, while others are close studies of particular texts. Among the latter kind, there is much more attention devoted to Platonism than to any other ancient philosophical school. But this is only the first volume in a series. It is a welcome contribution in its own right and gives us reason to look forward to more such. - Matthew V. Novenson, in: Journal for the study of the New Testament, 2018 The launch of this new series intended to foster research on the relationship between ‘Ancient Religion and Philosophy’ is only to be welcomed and applauded. And the volume to launch it opens up various ways to discuss the question. In fact, it poses more questions than it answers—and this is exactly what a volume opening a new scholarly series should do! - RAINER HIRSCH-LUIPOLD, Universität Bern, in: Journal of Theological Studies, 70.2 (2019)Table of ContentsContents Part I: Plato 1 Plato’s Philosophy – Why Not Just Platonic Religion? Anders Klostergaard Petersen 2 Platonic Piety: ‘Putting Humpty Dumpty Together Again’ Frisbee Sheffield 3 The Real Euthrypho Problem, Solved Nicholas Denyer 4 Religion, Philosophy, and the Demons in Between Lars Albinus Part II: Explorations in an Emerging Common Discourse 5 Philosophical Traces in the Sibylline Oracles Helen Van Noorden 6 Philosophy and Religion and Their Interactions in 4 Maccabees Anders Klostergaard Petersen 7 The Rapprochement of Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Consolation: Seneca, Paul, and Beyond Christoph Jedan Part III: Placing Jesus Among the Philosophers 8 Jesus Among the Philosophers Bernhard Lang 9 The Last Days of Socrates and Christ George van Kooten 10 Criticism of Verbosity in Ancient Philosophical and Early Christian Writings Daniele Pevarello Part IV: Reconsidering Early Pagan-Christian Relations 11 Christians According to Second-Century Philosophers Simon Gathercole 12 Epictetus’ Views on Christians – A Closed Case Revisited Niko Huttunen 13 Plotinus, Origenes, and Ammonius on the ‘King’ Harold Tarrant 14 Neo-Platonic Readings of Embodied Divine Presence: Iamblichus and Julian Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
£151.05
Brill Byzantium to China: Religion, History and Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of papers reflects the interests and influence of Samuel N. C. Lieu on scholars and students during his academic career. It demonstrates not only the importance of his work on Manichaeism, but his broader intellectual contribution to early Christian, Roman, Byzantine, and comparative historical studies. His impact on Manichaean studies has been unparalleled resulting in several prestigious book series devoted to the linguistic and historical study of Mani and his religion. It is largely thanks to his enterprise that scholars now have access to an extensive library of texts and images unavailable to earlier researchers. The volume honours the life and work of a remarkable scholar of international renown.Table of ContentsForeword List of Figures and Tables Contributors Publications of Samuel N.C. Lieu Tabula Gratulatoria 1 Nārāyaṇa Buddha: Adaptation of Manichaean Prophetology in South, Central, and East Asia Jason BeDuhn 2 Sacred Space: The Orkhon Valley and the Empires of the Steppe Craig Benjamin 3 The Nag Hammadi Codices and Monasticism Malcolm Choat 4 Non-Zoroastrians in Zoroastrian Law: The Sasanian Law Book in Comparison to Later Pahlavi Texts Iris Colditz 5 An Uncivilized Empire: Xuanzang on Persia Max Deeg 6 Another Coptic Manichaean Psalm to Jesus (Nº 242) Jean-Daniel Dubois 7 Rome’s Eastern Trade and Imperialism from Augustus to the Severans Peter M. Edwell 8 A Stranger Twice Over: Manichaean Ideology and Mission Majella Franzmann 9 The Construction of an Iranian Lineage for Manichaeism Iain Gardner 10 Procopius and the Kings of Persia Geoffrey Greatrex 11 The Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social and Geographical Data about Teachings with Images among the Manichaeans During the 3rd and 4th Centuries Zsuzsanna Gulácsi 12 Debating with the Jews at Turfan Erica C.D. Hunter 13 Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing Conversation Judith M. Lieu 14 Chinese and Western Resources for a Global Ethic Torbjörn Lodén 15 Mani Eats Greek Bread: The Sitz im Leben of the Cologne Mani-Codex Paul McKechnie 16 Xuanzong’s Edict of 732 on Manichaeism Gunner Mikkelsen 17 Historical Fiction in Syriac and the Clash of Religions and Cultures in the Late Antique Near East Fergus Millar† 18 More Fruits and Trees in Manichaean Sogdian Enrico Morano 19 What’s in a Name? Papyrus Evidence for Christian Female Onomastic Practice in Egypt during the Period of Christianisation to the Early Byzantine Period Alanna Nobbs 20 What Did Augustine See? Augustine and Mani’s Picture Book Johannes van Oort 21 Pierre Gilles’ Constantinople: A 16th-Century Frenchman in the City of Suleyman the Magnificent Ken Parry 22 First Man and Third Messenger in Manichaean Mythology Nils Arne Pedersen 23 The Manichaean Contour Letters Christiane Reck 24 Following the Persians: Alexander the Great, His Mints at Tarsus and Babylon, and the Minting Practices of Persian and Greek Satraps Kenneth A. Sheedy 25 The Rediscovery of Sogdian Nicholas Sims-Williams 26 Traces of Christianity in the Land of the Tangut from the 8th to the 14th Century Li Tang 27 Did Christianity (or St. Thomas) Come to 1st-Century China? Glen L. Thompson 28 “Vous avez eu le courage de dire ce que pensent les meilleurs turquisants”: la correspondance Antoine Meillet / Willy Bang [Kaup] Aloïs van Tongerloo† and Herman Seldeslachts 29 On the Manichaean Preacher Hulu Fashi of the Tang Dynasty Wang Yuanyuan and Lin Wushu 30 Christians in the Service of the Tang Emperor Suzong (756–762): A Curious Poem by Li Bo David Wilmshurst 31 Sogdian Christians in China, Turfan and Sogdiana Yutaka Yoshida 32 Notes on a Turkic Manichaean Benediction Hymn Peter Zieme Index of Places Index of Names
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Peeters Publishers Religion and Ethnicity Minorities and Social
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Peeters Publishers The Centrality of Jerusalem
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Peeters Publishers Women Churches: Networking and Reflection in the
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Peeters Publishers The Secularization of Iran: a Doomed Failure?:
Book SynopsisThis book, which is based on primary and secondary textual sources as well as personal field work and personal interviews, highlights the ongoing contribution of the new middle class in the making of modern Iran. It studies the main causes of their discontent against secular modernizing states, and the reasons behind the failure of secular politics under the Pahlavis; and emphasizes the revival of secular ideas and politics in post-revolutionary Iran. Despite the contribution of the secular new middle class in introducing modern ideas and demands, and their salient role in opposition politics throughout twentieth century Iran they failed to gain the leadership of the 1979 revolution. The result was the defeat of secular ideologies by a modernized and radicalized Shi'ite doctrine. The book examines significant social, cultural, and political outcomes of the revolution, arguing that the failure of political Islam to respond to societal demands has led to the revitalization of debates on Western modernity. The increasing support of the civil society for these intellectual endeavors which attempt to secularize Islam and reconcile Islam with democracy shows that the failure of secularism was the outcome of temporary cicumstances.
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Peeters Publishers Compassion and Remorse: Acknowledging the
Book Synopsis"This book articulates in rich and complex ways the nature of two important moral emotions or 'ways of being' -- compassion and remorse. As an exemplar of the 'agent-centred' tradition in normative ethical theory, it is a fine piece of work, exhibiting one of the more admirable and enjoyable aspects of work in that tradition -- the ability to build bridges between a variety of philosophical traditions. Steven Tudor makes excellent use of authors in both the analytic an continental traditions, while maintaing an admirable clear style. The book elucidates in nuanced and quite sophisticated ways the various aspects of compassion and remorse, and how they are distinguishable from neighbouring and less valuable states such as pity, emphaty, guilt feelings, shame and regret. At the same time, it acknowledges and combats various criticisms of compassion and remorse as moral responses by distinguishing between distorted and undistorted forms of these states. Compassion and Remorse: Acknowledging the Suffering Other is an interesting and intelligent work of philosophy." Dr Christine Swanton, University of Auckland, New Zealand, author of Freedom: A Coherence Theory (winner of Johnsonsian Prize, 1990) "Steven Tudor's book examines two important features of moral experience, compassion and remorse, both of which deserve a central place in the contemporary revival of virtue theory. Both involve the recognition of other people's suffering, while the second also involves a personal recognition of, in some cases, responsibility for that suffering. Drawing on a number of sources -- phenomenology, theology, postmodernism, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein -- Tudor interprets these important moral responses, not as bare cognitions, but in terms of understanding, feeling and practical engagement. Following a path of clear and cogent arguments, he develops a number of moral themes so as to sketch an illuminating conception of the moral life. This is a book for the thoughtful and reflective participant in those moral debates which touch on our personal relations with, and responsibility for, each other. What it offers the reader, in the end, is a strong defence of moral universality and a common human nature." Professor Brenda Almond, University of Hull, author of Exploring Ethics: A Traveller's Tale (1998) and Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy Dr Steven Tudor studied philosophy and law at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is currently a Senior Fellow in the Department of Philosophy. He also practises law as a barrister.
£46.89
Peeters Publishers International Code on Religious Freedom
Book SynopsisThe A"International Code on Religious FreedomA" encompasses the widest possible collection of international texts on the matter. They are grouped under three indexes, namely: a) index by GO's (United Nations, International Labour Organization, UNESCO, Council of Europe, European Union, Organization of American States, OSCE, African Union); b) index by "juridical source" (binding and non-binding international instruments); and c) chronological index. It also includes, as far as Islam is concerned, the "Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam" and "The Arab Charter on Human Rights", as well as, insofar as Asia is concerned, "The Seoul Recommendation on Democracy and Tolerance" and "The Asian Human Rights Charter". Besides international instruments, the A"CodeA" also presents the relevant elements of the case-law of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, with a direct bearing on the matter at issue, in such a way that the practical problems raised, and the solutions thereto, may be known by both specialists and non-legal readers. The A"CodeA" thus becomes a source of useful and indispensable consultation for all those interested in studying the theme, and of recurrent importance. The ultimate purpose of the A"International Code on Religious FreedomA" by Professor Michelangela Scalabrino is to foster a better understanding of what is meant by "religious freedom" in the domain of the International Law of Human Rights. It is hoped that the aforementioned A"CodeA" may also serve as a source of inspiration for representatives of States and entities of the civil society, as well as for leaders of religious faiths, in devising and assessing what they could or should do, in order to favour mutual respect for, and a spirit of tolerance and a better understanding of, each other's beliefs, to the ultimate benefit of all human beings and their religious faiths.
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Peeters Publishers Laws on Religion and the State in Post-communist
Book SynopsisThis book contains the text in English of the most important laws that discipline the relationship between States and religious groups in the Post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It is completed by a comparative analysis of these laws, that highlights the principal topics they deal with (registration and financing of religious communities, religious freedom, teaching of religion in schools, etc.)
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Peeters Publishers The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE)
Book SynopsisIn The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE) Wendy Mayer and Pauline Allen for the first time draw together all of the existing evidence concerning the Christian worship sites of this influential late-antique city, with significantly new results in a number of cases. In addition to providing a catalogue of the worship sites, in which each entry critiques and summarizes the available data, supplemented by photographs from the excavations, the authors analyze the data from a number of perspectives. These include the political, economic and natural forces that influenced the construction, alteration and reconstruction of churches and martyria, and the political, liturgical and social use and function of these buildings. Among the results is an emerging awareness of the extent of the lacunae and biases in the sources, and of the influence of these on interpretation of the city's churches in the past. What also rises to the fore is the significant role played by the schisms within the Christian community that dominated the city's landscape for much of these centuries.
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Peeters Publishers Friedlicher Kreuzzug Und Fromme Pilger:
Book SynopsisMitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ruckten die Statten der Bibel wieder neu ins Blickfeld europaischer Christen, die als Pilger in wachsender Zahl an diese Orte kamen. Auch im deutschen Sprachgebiet entwickelten sich die Besuche zu einer vitalen Instanz der Frommigkeit und ihres rituellen und liturgischen Ausdrucks auf dem Weg. Knupften die Reisenden vielfach an Vorbilder aus der Geschichte an, so speisten sie zusatzlich eine Fulle von zeitgenossischen Deutungen in das Geschehen ein. Dieses Zusammenspiel wirkte auf die Gestalt und Interpretation von Gottesdiensten und Brauchtum zuruck und verlieh ihnen ein Geprage, das einerseits stark subjektiv gefarbt war, andererseits aber auch gewachsene Formen in ein neues Licht ruckte. Der erwachende Tourismus, der Nationalismus und die Spannungen bei der Begegnung mit fremden Kulturen sind nur einige der Gesichtspunkte, die hier eine Rolle spielten. Die vorliegende Studie wertet Reiseberichte, Tagebucher und Briefe der Pilger aus und entwickelt damit einen Zugang, der in der Liturgiegeschichtsforschung bisher kaum fruchtbar gemacht ist.
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Peeters Publishers Reading Texts on Jews and Judaism in the Low
Book SynopsisIn the past scholars tended to present Dutch Jewish history in terms of uniqueness within the Jewish world and progressive movement towards Jewish integration, indeed assimilation, into Dutch society. S. Seeligman declared in his famous 1923 article that Dutch Jews experienced a separate and exclusive position among diasporic Jewries and coining the situation as Species Hollandia Judaica. Recent research has demonstrated the limits and weaknesses of this approach. The articles assembled in this volume oscillate between these two approaches and display the multifaceted and occasionally problematic history of Jews in the Low Countries. Thus, they do not present a coherent or new interpretation of Dutch Jewish history, but rather present various angles through which this history can be studied and understood, and further debated.
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Peeters Publishers Penser La Tradition Avec Walter Kasper:
Book SynopsisQu'est-ce que la tradition? Quelle est sa signification pour la vie humaine ainsi que pour les societes pluralistes dans la rencontre inedite des cultures? Comment, theologiquement, en partant de la tradition, l'Eglise, en tant que signe et instrument de salut universel, peut-elle rendre plus effective sa catholicite? Reprenant de maniere approfondie toutes ces questions dans un contexte epistemologique caracterise par un pluralisme de pensee, de langage et d'histoire, cet ouvrage (sur la tradition) vise a presenter les determinations essentielles d'une catholicite historiquement et culturellement ouverte. A ce titre, il touche aussi bien aux problemes les plus cruciaux de la theologie fondamentale contemporaine qu'a l'auto-comprehension de l'Eglise comme realite historique et a la question plus large, au sein meme de cette auto-comprehension, des rapports specifiques qui s'instaurent entre le "particulier" et l'"universel". Les enjeux hermeneutique (avec l'importance du langage et de la culture), societal (sur les rapports entre tradition et societes multiples dans un contexte postmoderne) et ecclesial (puisqu'il en va de la conception meme de l'Eglise) ne font que renforcer l'actualite d'une telle reflexion.
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Peeters Publishers Nahum
Book SynopsisIn this commentary an attempt is made to prove that the book of Nahum was written in Jerusalem, ca. 660 BCE, by a talented, faithful royal scribe. He used the pseudonym Nahum as an indication of his purpose: to encourage the people of Judah groaning under the tyranny of the Assyrians. He took his inspiration from the earlier prophetics of Isaiah and from Psalms, which he probably regularly heard or sang in the temple. He also used his familiarity with the Assyrian literature, especialy with the texts of vassal treaties and royal annals, to express in fitting words the announcement of the downfall of the Assyrian empire symbolized by its capital Niniveh. After the fulfilment of this prediction in 612 BCE the book of Nahum must have become very popular, as it proved clear example of true prophecy. It had much influence upon Habakuk and exilic prophets like the Second Isaiah and Jeremiah, who interpreted its message in the new situation of the Babylonian opprression. Traces of this influence are also found in the literature of the community of Qumran and in the NT.
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Peeters Publishers La situation critique de l'Église catholique:
Book SynopsisQuelle est la situation de l'Église catholique aujourd'hui? Quel bilan peut-on tirer cinquante ans après le concile Vatican II et quel avenir peut-on envisager? Un même constat émerge des différentes contributions de ce volume que ce soit d'un point de vue historique, sociologique, juridique, philosophique ou théologique : le catholicisme connaît une crise profonde. Il s'affaisse, il s'affaiblit numériquement et culturellement du moins, en Europe tout particulièrement. Cela conduit à parler d'une déculturation, voire d'une exculturation du catholicisme. Mais si cette crise témoigne d'un affaiblissement certain, elle peut aussi être l'occasion d'une évaluation critique et d'un discernement créatif. Puisse cet ensemble diversifié d'analyses et d'interprétations, convergentes à bien des égards, alimenter désormais la réflexion et les pratiques ecclésiales.
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Peeters Publishers Contemplate the Gentleness of God
Book SynopsisOne of the most beautiful Hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours begins with this verse: «Who is God to love us so much…? » In discerning the mystery of the unspeakable love and tenderness of God for the humanity and for the entire universe, the book of Claire Dumont, intertwined with biblical wisdom, shares the experience of a believer who is always seeking for a better answer to the unending question: Who indeed is God? The reading of the Bible, as much as the experience of the humanity, often heaves us into a scenario of violence that seems to obscure its meaning. Nevertheless, gentleness and tenderness are brought forward through countless witnesses and by an irrepressible desire for compassion and peace. It is in contemplating the gentleness of God the Father, Son and Spirit - their unconditional love - , that we can assimilate and regain this gentleness in the Church, in society, in families, in communities or in small groups. By her simple approach, the author dares to witness with great conviction and openness to this profound mystery.
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Peeters Publishers Robert Rypon, Selected Sermons. Volume 1: Feast
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are considered the golden age of preaching in medieval England. The Latin sermons edited and translated in this volume, preached by Robert Rypon (c. 1350–1421/22) and collected in a single manuscript, are both representative and exceptional instances of the preaching during this period. Rypon was an English Benedictine monk educated at Oxford and a member of Durham priory, where he served a number of important roles. He preached regularly not only to his monastic community but to lay and clerical audiences at Durham cathedral and in parishes around Durham and Northumbria. Many of his analogies, metaphors, and exempla are original or distinctive in their development, but he applies all of them to traditional homiletic concerns, such as the seven deadly sins, the acts of mercy, the theological virtues, the Ten Commandments, prayer, and penance. He also artfully employs the complex scholastic sermon form popular with preachers trained at the universities. His sermons open a window onto the world of preaching and the religious culture of late medieval England. This volume includes a selection of sermons preached on various Sundays and other feast days during the liturgical year, along with seven sermons preached on saints’ days, which include the feasts for John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and Oswald, the seventh-century king of Northumbria. The second volume will include a selection of sermons preached during Lent.
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Peeters Publishers La topographie de la Jérusalem antique: Essais
Book SynopsisJérusalem eut histoire mouvementée et une évolution urbaine décrites par les historiens de l’Antiquité. Depuis 130 ans on a cherché à retracer les remparts, à comprendre les sièges, à restituer les grands édifices, à décrypter son urbanisme. Avec leurs regards croisés, on devinait les illustres monuments disparus : le temple d’Hérode, le temple capitolin d’Hadrien, la longue basilique chrétienne de Justinien. Ils n’avaient sous la main que le mur du Temple, le Saint-Sépulcre, le Dôme de la Roche. Ils ont sans relâche scruté Jérusalem, avec compétence et passion qui font toujours autorité, on croyait la connaître. Aujourd’hui elle est devenue un sujet qui suscite la curiosité du monde entier. Les recherches interdisciplinaires qui se multiplient apportent chaque jour de nouveaux documents. Les vieilles cartes, le potentiel de la photographie d’avant 1914 qui sort des tiroirs, la mise à disposition des technologies nouvelles comme la photographie satellitaire, le traitement des données sur ordinateur bouleversent les méthodes d’investigation. L’auteur a pris la ville à bras-le corps, dans toute sa complexité. En apprenant d’abord l’acquis accumulé avec un respect qui est dû, c’est avec une formation d’ingénieur qu’il a mené l’enquête. La méthode qui diffère l’a mené à des intuitions nouvelles. Habitant sur place et au fil des ans arpentant les rues et les ruelles, les endroits secrets, les places comme les arrière-cours il a cherché à vérifier ses intuitions un crayon en main, un décamètre et une machine à calculer. La géométrie des grands travaux dans les quartiers des princes hasmonéens, puis ceux d’Hérode, l’ampleur de l’Aelia Capitolina d’Hadrien lui sont apparues par transparence, transformées par le temps mais dont l’organisation demeure. Le croisement des axes urbains atteste la marque de leurs idéologies. L’emplacement des grandes constructions a laissé l’empreinte de leurs politiques ou de leurs propagandes concurrentes. L’auteur bouleverse la vision de la Jérusalem antique. Son habileté d’horloger excelle à décrire les grilles d’urbanisme et à placer les unes par rapport aux autres. On le suit avec une curiosité accrue au fil de la lecture. Les quartiers ont été fondés par les rois hasmonéens au IIe s. av. J-C et la place de la Porte de Damas s’ouvre en agora. Au nord du Temple, Hérode lotit un quartier pour y mettre un théâtre et son quadriportique. L’arc de l’Ecce Homo redevient une porte hérodienne percée dans le Deuxième mur de la ville. L’ambitieux petit-fils Hérode Agrippa déploie la ville au nord et le Tombeau des Rois y trouve sa place. Tout a été remanié après la destruction du Temple pour l’implantation intra-muros de la Dixième Legio Fretensis. Jérusalem a été embellie par Hadrien qui en fit une colonie romaine pour y célébrer son propre culte et celui de Jupiter, en place du Sépulcre, et sur une plate-forme sacrée de l’ancien Temple juif a trôné la statue équestre d’Hadrien. Le bilan de ces travaux est une recherche audacieuse. Elle ravive un débat qui s’annonce fécond.
£97.43
Peeters Publishers Scriptures in the Making: Texts and Their
Book SynopsisThe volume examines how the making and the transmission of scriptures was shaped and influenced by major changes in the Second Temple societies. The book contains both detailed readings of biblical and related texts (the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, Qumran Scrolls, and the New Testament) and analyses of what can be known about the societal preconditions of their emergence and use. Many essays discuss the theoretical and methodological premises of our knowledge regarding various social, material, and religious aspects of life in the Eastern Mediterranean in the first centuries before and after the turn of the Common Era. The book offers critical and up-to-date insights into such questions as textual plurality, cultural interaction, the nature of scribal culture and spatial contexts of textual transmission. The essays clarify how the texts and their transmission became an integral part of religious and communal identity building strategies during the Second Temple period.
£110.00
Peeters Publishers Palestinian Traditional Pottery: A Contribution
Book SynopsisPalestinian Traditional Pottery stands out, first and foremost, as a scholarly testimony to the disappeared and disappearing craft of traditional pottery making by Palestinian women and men potters. It offers a contribution that has been long awaited and is long overdue. The material it provides, both textual and pictorial, is based on field research completed in the 1970s by two very different, yet complementary, researchers and authors. For various reasons, this material lay dormant over four decades until it was retrieved and returned to the light of day. The occasion for the creation of the volume was the death in 2017 in the U.S. of one of the authors, John Landgraf. Fortunately, the other author, Owen Rye in Australia, had most of the written material still in his possession, which was then digitized, arranged, and edited. The graphic material, especially the black and white – and beautiful color – photographs, taken by the two authors, was also gathered and cataloged for use in the book. The photographs of the women potters are particularly poignant, since they date to the final decade of their pottery making activity. Assembling and producing the book required months of painstaking collaborative work by the editors and the layout artist, with results that are worthy of their efforts. This volume invites readers into the two distinct worlds of Palestinian women and men potters at work in the 1970s: the women in or outside their village homes, and the men in their mostly urban workshops. With Palestinian culture under siege, the scholarship presented here aims to record and preserve a key part of that culture. It stands out equally as a memorial volume for John Landgraf, who lived in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1980, dedicating himself to archaeology, ethnography, and social work.
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Peeters Publishers Collected Essays on the Greek Bible and Greek
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together 28 of John Lee’s most significant articles and book chapters published from 1969 to 2020. The papers are unified by a focus on ancient Greek language across a range of texts and dates. Many of the essays relate to the Septuagint, while the New Testament is the subject of others. Surveys of the state of Greek lexicography, reviews of lexicons, and lexicographical studies feature strongly. Some essays cover topics such as the Atticist Grammarians; one takes a ground-breaking sociolinguistic approach to Mark’s Gospel; and one discovers an early appearance of Greek monotonic accentuation in the first edition of the Greek New Testament.
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Peeters Publishers The Catholic Church and its Orthodox Sister
Book SynopsisIn 1993 the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church promulgated what became known as the Balamand Document, “Uniatism, Method of Union of the Past and the Present Search for Full Communion”. While the first agreed statements of that ecumenical dialogue aroused great enthusiasm and hope for Catholic-Orthodox unity, the Balamand documented interjected a period of instability in Catholic-Orthodox relations that has persisted to this day. These sixteen essays by Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic and independent scholars bring together studies on the quarter century since the Balamand document was first proclaimed. The first section of this book presents the historical and theological context of modern Orthodox-Catholic ecumenical dialogue. What is often at stake in movements of reconciliation are the healing of painful memories of the past. The second part of the book examines the reception and, in some cases, non-reception of the Balamand Document in Central and Eastern Europe, while the third section engages the reception of the Balamand Document in the Middle East, with chapters on the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East. The various authors reveal the great diversity that exists in the spiritual, theological, historical and liturgical traditions of the Eastern Catholic Churches, especially in their relations with the Orthodox Churches. The studies also examine differing perspectives on both the benefits and problematics of directly engaging Eastern Catholics in ecumenical dialogue, and the role that they might play in a vision of full communion so that reconciliation and unity have a truly authentic and lasting significance.
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