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Boyle The Power of God for Christians and Jews
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Pilgrims
New World Settlers and the Call of Home The Second Crusade
Susan Hardman Moore Extending the Frontiers of
Christendom
• Joint runner-up for the 2008 Longman/History
Today Book of the Year Award Jonathan Phillips
• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding
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The Crisis of Islamic Civilization
Ali A. Allawi The Stripping of the Altars
• Winner of the Silver Prize in the 2009 Book Prize Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580,
competition, presented by the Washington Institute Second Edition
for Near East Policy; One of The Globalist’s Top
Books of 2009 Eamon Duffy
• Winner of the Longman-History Today Book
of the Year Award
Thinking in Circles
An Essay on Ring Composition
Mary Douglas
Credo
Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and
• Selected by as an Outstanding Academic Title for Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition
2007 by Choice Magazine
Jaroslav Pelikan
• Co-Winner of the 2004 John W. Kluge Prize for
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Social Sciences, given by the Kluge Foundation
of Israel
The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life
Jon D. Levenson American Judaism
• Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in A History
Scholarship awarded by the Jewish Book Council; Jonathan D. Sarna
Selected as Finalist for the 2008 Louisville • Winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award,
Grawemeyer Award in Religion offered by the Jewish Book Council; Co-winner of
the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul
Viener Prize; Winner of the Weinberg Judaic
Studies Institute 2005 Prize
Becoming
Basic Considerations for a
Psychology of Personality
Gordon W. Allport
Paper 1960 115 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-00002-3 $18.50
New
Marking the Hours
English People and Their Prayers, The End of Byzantium
1240–1570 Jonathan Harris
Eamon Duffy Shedding new light on the final turbulent
Religious historian Eamon Duffy exam- years of Byzantium, this evocative book
ines the Book of Hours and the messages explains how the Ottoman Turks con-
and jottings in their margins for insights quered the thousand-year empire and
into an era of great religious and social reveals the consequences for ordinary
change. Byzantines and their remarkable legacy.
Cloth 2007 pp. 208 pp. 120 color illus. Cloth 2011 336 pp. 16 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11714-1 $38.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11786-8 $40.00
Available in paper in Spring 2011
Pilgrims This magisterial work chronicles the Cloth 2010 288 pp. 39 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12469-9 $45.00
New World Settlers and the Call 350-year history of the Jewish religion
of Home in America.
Susan Hardman Moore Winner of the 2004 National Jewish
Book Award, offered by the Jewish Book
This book uncovers the stories of English Council; Co-winner of the American Jew-
pilgrims who came to the New World in ish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Prize;
the 1630s but decided not to stay. Winner of the Weinberg Judaic Studies
Institute 2005 Prize
Joint runner-up for the 2008 Longman/
History Today Book of the Year Award Paper 2005 512 pp. 43 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10976-4 $23.00
Paper 2010 336 pp. 16 b/w illus.
Cloth 2004 512 pp. 44 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16405-3 $25.00
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10197-3 $35.00
New New
New
The Jews of San In Ishmael’s House
Nicandro A History of Jews in Muslim Lenin’s Jewish
Lands
John A. Davis Question
Martin Gilbert Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
The remarkable and intimate story of
an Italian peasant community’s unique In this absorbing and eloquent book
The first examination of Lenin’s
conversion to the Jewish faith, shedding Martin Gilbert challenges the standard
genealogical, cultural, and political con-
fresh light on wider transformations media portrayal and presents a fascinat-
nections to East European Jews and the
in Europe before and after the Second ing account of hope, opportunity, fear,
broader implications for Russian and
World War. and terror that have characterized Jews
Soviet history.
and Muslims through the 1,400 years of
Cloth 2010 252 pp. 8 pp. b/w illus. their intertwined history. Cloth 2010 224 pp. 10 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11425-6 $30.00 ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15210-4 $40.00
Cloth 2010 448 pp. 30 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16715-3 $35.00
New New
Moses Mendelssohn New in paper The Settlers
Sage of Modernity And the Struggle over the
Radical Judaism Meaning of Zionism
Shmuel Feiner Rethinking God and Tradition
Translated by Anthony Berris Gadi Taub
Arthur Green
The “German Socrates,” Moses Men- This inside look at Israel’s most mo-
delssohn (1729–1786) was the most in- How do we articulate a religious vision
mentous internal conflict shows why the
fluential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth that embraces evolution and human
settlements in the occupied territories
and nineteenth centuries. Feiner’s book authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the
were never an extension of mainstream
is the first that offers a full, human por- Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah
Zionism but rather its opposite.
trait of this fascinating man, providing a and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish
vivid sense of Mendelssohn’s daily life as scholar Arthur Green argues that a neo- Cloth 2010 240 pp.
mystical perspective can help us to ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14101-6 $32.50
well as of his philosophical endeavors.
reframe these realities, so they may yet be
Jewish Lives viewed as dwelling places of the sacred.
Cloth 2010 248 pp. 1 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16175-5 $25.00 Paper 2010 208 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15232-6 $26.00
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Table of Contents
The Terry Lecture Series.............................................3-4
Biblical Studies...............................................................4
The International Sacred Literature Trust ..................5
Theology .....................................................................6-7
Early Christianity & Ancient Judaism ........................8-9
Medieval & Renaissance Religion..............................9-10
American Religion.........................................................11
Judaism ..........................................................................12
Islam...............................................................................13
Asian Religion ..............................................................13
Religion & The Arts ....................................................14