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Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early……続きを見る

Compiled by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry Cook & Marilyn Rowens, A Life of Courage is both a biography of and a tribute to the remarkable life of Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine. founder of Humanistic Judaism. Wine……続きを見る

It is a commonーand fundamentalーmisconception that Paul told people how to live. Apart from forbidding certain abusive practices, he never gives any precise instructions for living. It would have v……続きを見る

Religion. When you hear this word, what comes to mind? War, power, greed, brainwashing? Maybe other words which have their place in history: inquisition, witch-hunting, burning, torture? Or words we……続きを見る

Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there ……続きを見る

At a time when religious conflict and violence seem to dominate the media, distinguished religion journalist Gustav Niebuhr set off across America to find people who are building, not burning, the b……続きを見る

Orthodox Christians, as well as other non-Muslims of the Ottoman Empire, have long been treated as insular and homogenous entities, distinctly different and separate from the rest of the Ottoman wor……続きを見る

The abbey of Bec was founded in the eleventh century and was one of the best-known and most influential monasteries in Normandy. Celebrated for its high standard of religious life and its intellectu……続きを見る

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American h……続きを見る

One of the most important religious sites in the world is largely hidden and rarely visited. It lies under the piazza in front of Milan's cathedral, and was uncovered by archaeologists only after Wo……続きを見る

Daimonic Reality is a sweeping look at strange, otherworldly events in the world around us. But rather than simply listing the events, Patrick Harpur shows how they can all be tied together using hi……続きを見る

A fascinating look at the history and relevance of the Old Testament of the Bible by American Old Testament scholar Charles Foster Kent, Ph.D. 続きを見る

Examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented commu……続きを見る

Ralph Harris examines the Jewish Scripture's predictions about the coming of the Savior and compares them to the fulfillment of the prophecies set forth by the authors of the New Testament. Harris'……続きを見る

These twenty captivating stories about the founder of the Hasidic faith Israel ben Eliezer called the Baal-Shem or Master of God's Name, provide a profound and charming account of the genesis of Has……続きを見る

Code of the Illuminati? by Abbé Barreul ?? "This is the third part (of four) of Abbe Barreul's massive polemic history of the French Revolution. This portion of this book is of interest because it c……続きを見る

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia and - motivated by an ancient dream of returning to the land of their ancestors, 'Yerussalem' - embarked on a secret an……続きを見る

Divine Heiress explores the vital role of the Virgin Mary in the cultural and religious life of Constantinople in late antiquity. It shows how she was transformed from a humble Jewish maiden into a ……続きを見る

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the changes. Each c……続きを見る

Modern Sefriot with Chesod as Jacob or Abraham Expanded on the 32 accepted Hebrew intelligence paths, up to 41. Charts showing descent from eight Israelites Charts showing how the Descendents……続きを見る

"Y aconteció que, cuando Jesús había resucitado de entre los muertos, que pasó once años discurriendo con sus discípulos, enseñándoles ..." - La Pistis Sophía Los apóstoles escribieron lo que Jesús ……続きを見る

Since the photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls were released in 1992, there has been an explosion of interest in them. This volume explores the issue of apocalypticism in the Scrolls; how the notions……続きを見る

Dr. Norman Golb's classic study on the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls is now available online. Since their earliest discovery in 1947, the Scrolls have been the object of fascination and extreme con……続きを見る

This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of '……続きを見る

Halloween 1636: sightings of the ghost of an old woman begin to be reported in the small English coastal town of Minehead, and a royal commission is sent to investigate. December 1640: a disgraced P……続きを見る

More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives o……続きを見る

This work captures the Crusades in their essence and entirety. The religious passions of men who were ready to lay down their lives the triumph of men at the battlefield the gratitude of capturing t……続きを見る

A 'devotional history of our Lord's passion' written by eminent pastor and Christian author James Stalker. 続きを見る

The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been crea……続きを見る

Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence. Us……続きを見る