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Adverbsby Daniel HandlerISBN 0060724420 (0-06-072442-0)
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All of the Women of the Bibleby Edith DeenISBN 0060618523 (0-06-061852-3)
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An Almost Perfect Momentby Binnie KirshenbaumISBN 0060520876 (0-06-052087-6)
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The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean Worldby Marvin MeyerISBN 0060655763 (0-06-065576-3)
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In this book, Marvin W. Meyer explores the sacrifices and prayers, the public celebrations and secret ceremonies, the theatrical performances and literary works, the gods and goddesses that were a part of the mystery religions of Greece in the seventh century B.C. to the Judaism and Christianity of the Roman world of the seventh century A.D.More editions of The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World:
Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empireby Norman F. CantorISBN 0060930985 (0-06-093098-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Antiquity: The Civilization of the Ancient Worldby Norman CantorISBN 0060174099 (0-06-017409-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antiquity: The Civilization of the Ancient World'Book summary:Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world, from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (what is now present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empirein A.D. 453. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome.
In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of hisnarrative. He explains leading themes in religionand philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today.
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jewsby Peter DuffyISBN 0060935537 (0-06-093553-7)
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The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesusby John Dominic CrossanISBN 0060616601 (0-06-061660-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened In The Years Immediately After The Execution Of Jesus'Book summary:John Dominic Crossan is the leading contemporary scholar on the historical Jesus, which means that his vocation is to look behind, around, and through Christ's resurrection, toward the goal of establishing what can be known about the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
His search for the historical Jesus, however, takes place in the larger context of the life of the church. Among the goals of The Birth of Christianity is to teach readers how our habits of worship have created false gods. To that end, Crossan attempts to unearth the religion's earliest forms. What did Christianity look like, Crossan asks, between the crucifixion and the conversion of Paul? And what might Christianity look like today had Saul never set off toward Damascus?
Crossan's conclusions don't come from newly discovered documents; they come from freshly-minted academic methodologies. He uses anthropology, history, and archaeology to construct his arguments about the essential nature of both Jesus' religion and Paul's. The 25-cent summary of his conclusion is that Jesus did not recognize the dualism between spirit and flesh that formed the basis of Paul's apocalyptic Christianity. In other words, Jesus was more Jewish than Paul.
The ramifications of this argument are huge. Crossan says much of Christian worship--and many of the world's injustices--are based on the dualistic Christ that Paul preached. Though Crossan doesn't bully readers into accepting his conclusions, he does press hard for them to situate their own beliefs in relation to his interpretations of Jesus and Paul. At every point in the evolution of his argument, he asks readers questions such as "How do you understand a human being?" and "What is the character of your God?" Then he proceeds to answer these questions himself. Finally, he tells readers what he thinks these answers mean.
It's an incredibly civilized style of argument--both spiritually and intellectually respectful and always rhetorically engaging. Though The Birth of Christianity weighs in at almost 600 pages of text, you'll probably want to read every word. And after that, you'll probably be hungry for more. [via]
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The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook to the Jewish Yearby Scott-Martin Kosofsky, Lawrence KushnerISBN 0060524375 (0-06-052437-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Customs: A Complete Handbook to the Jewish Year'Book summary:Fifteen years ago while researching Jewish imagery, award-winning book designer Scott-Martin Kosofsky happened upon a 1645 edition of the Minhogimbukh -- the "Customs Book" -- a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to the Jewish year written in Yiddish, the people's vernacular. Captivated, he investigated further and learned that from 1590 to 1890, this cross between a prayer book and a farmer's almanac was immensely popular in households all across Europe. Published in dozens of editions and revised over the centuries in Venice, Prague, Amsterdam, and throughout Germany before moving eastward in the nineteenth century to Poland and Russia, these books detail the evolution of Jewish custom over three hundred years. But by the 1890s, as Jewish practice became polarized between the secularist and traditionalist views, the Minhogimbukh disappeared.
There are no works quite like the historical customs books available today#151;none so thorough and concise, intuitive in organization, and beautiful. Inspired by the originals, Kosofsky set out to make his own, adapting the books for modern use, adding historical perspective and contemporary application. The result is the reappearance of the Minhogimbukh after more than a hundred-year absence, and the first complete showing of all the original woodcuts -- a visual vocabulary of Jewish life -- since the 1760s. Faithfully based on the earlier editions, The Book of Customs is an updated guide to the rituals, liturgies, and texts of the entire Jewish year -- from the days of the week and the Sabbath to all the months with their festivals, as well as the major life-cycle events of wedding, birth, bar and bat mitzvah, and death. With the revival of this lost cultural legacy, The Book of Customs can once again become every family's guide to Jewish tradition and practice. [via]
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The Book of Jobby Stephen MitchellISBN 0060969598 (0-06-096959-8)
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Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli poetry, and the Tao Te Ching have been widely praised. This is the first time ever that the Hebrew verse of Job has been translated into verse in any language, ancient or modern, and the result is a triumph. [via]
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The Book of Modern Jewish Etiquette: A Guide for All Occasionsby Helen LatnerISBN 0060970545 (0-06-097054-5)
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A Canticle for Leibowitzby Walter M. Miller, Mary Doria RussellISBN 0060892994 (0-06-089299-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Canticle for Leibowitz'Book summary:Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of hope from the distant past, from before the Simplification, the fiery atomic holocaust that plunged the earth into darkness and ignorance. As 1984 cautioned against Stalinism, so 1959's A Canticle for Leibowitz warns of the threat and implications of nuclear annihilation. Following a cloister of monks in their Utah abbey over some six or seven hundred years, the funny but bleak Canticle tackles the sociological and religious implications of the cyclical rise and fall of civilization, questioning whether humanity can hope for more than repeating its own history. Divided into three sections--Fiat Homo (Let There Be Man), Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light), and Fiat Voluntas Tua (Thy Will Be Done)--Canticle is steeped in Catholicism and Latin, exploring the fascinating, seemingly capricious process of how and why a person is canonized. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern Worldby Richard John NeuhausISBN 006066097X (0-06-066097-X)
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Classic Italian Jewish Cooking: Traditional Recipes And Menusby Edda Servi MacHlinISBN 0060758023 (0-06-075802-3)
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The Committed Marriage: A Guide to Finding a Soul Mate and Building a Relationship Through Timeless Biblical Wisdomby Esther JungreisISBN 0060937831 (0-06-093783-1)
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The Complete American-Jewish Cookbookby Anne London, Bertha Kahn BishovISBN 0060915900 (0-06-091590-0)
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Don't Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat With Sylvia Boorsteinby Sylvia BoorsteinISBN 0060612525 (0-06-061252-5)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Eliade Guide to World Religionsby Hillary S. Wiesner, Ioan P. Culianu, Mircea ElaideISBN 0060621451 (0-06-062145-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eliade Guide to World Religions'Book summary:This is a one-volume distillation of the 16-volume "Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Religion". Drawing on a wealth of data made available by the encyclopaedia, Eliade began work on what was to become this compendium, in which the major religions are arranged in an alphabetical format. The history of 33 religions and information concerning religious events, notions and personalities are listed. The dictionary is arranged in two parts, with the Macro-dictionary containing summaries and explanations of 33 world religions, including Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Slavic and Baltic religions, Confucianism, Egyptian mystery and Oceanian religions. The Micro-dictionary defines terms and topics of religions as well as providing references to longer explanations in the Macro-dictionary. [via]
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Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Textsby John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L. ReedISBN 0060616342 (0-06-061634-2)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Fate of Zionism: A Secular Future for Israel & Palestineby Arthur HertzbergISBN 0060557869 (0-06-055786-9)
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The Final Solution: A Story Of Detectionby Michael ChabonISBN 0060777109 (0-06-077710-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Final Solution: A Story Of Detection'Book summary:In the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured up the golden age of comic books -- intertwining history, legend, and storytelling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to craft a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that reimagines the classic nineteenth-century detective story.
In deep retirement in the English country-side, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by locals as a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot. What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts perhaps? Or something more sinister? Is the solution to this last case -- the real explanation of the mysterious boy and his parrot -- beyond even the reach of the once-famed sleuth?
Subtle revelations lead the reader to a wrenching resolution. This brilliant homage, which won the 2004 Aga Khan Prize for fiction, is the work of a master storyteller at the height of his powers.
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The First Messiah: Investigating the Savior Before Jesusby Michael O. WiseISBN 006069646X (0-06-069646-X)
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The Floating Bookby Michelle LovricISBN 0060578572 (0-06-057857-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Floating Book'Book summary:Venice, 1468. The beautiful yet heartless Sosia Simeon is making her mark on the city, driven by a dark compulsion to steal pleasure with men from all walks of life. Across the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany, bringing with him a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. Before long a love triangle develops between Sosia, Felice, and Bruno -- who has become entranced by the verse of Catullus, the Roman erotic poet. But a far greater scandal erupts when Wendelin tempts fate by publishing the poet -- and changes all of their lives forever.
Sosia, the heartless sensualist; Felice, a man who loves the crevices of the alphabet the way other men love the crevices of women; Lussieta, whose anguish gives the story its soulful heart: these and many other characters make The Floating Book an unforgettable experience for lovers of romance, history, and the printed word. [via]
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From Jesus To Christianityby L. Michael WhiteISBN 0060816104 (0-06-081610-4)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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Genesis: A New Translation of the Classic Bible Storiesby Stephen MitchellISBN 0060928565 (0-06-092856-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Mosesby Harpercollins Spiritual Classics, Everett Ferguson, Abraham J. Malherbe, Silas HouseISBN 0060754648 (0-06-075464-8)
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Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nightsby Leslie Kimmelman, John HimmelmanISBN 0060203684 (0-06-020368-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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The Harpercollins Concise Guide to World Religionsby Mircea Eliade, Hillary S. Wiesner, Ioan P. CulianuISBN 0060621516 (0-06-062151-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Harpercollins Concise Guide to World Religions'Book summary:The definitive dictionary of the world's religions, compiled by two of the 20th century's most distinguished religion scholars. This highly accessible resource distils Mircea Eliade's lifework of detailing and comparing humanity's entire religious heritage, providing fascinating insights into the character and worldview of the 33 principal religions. Including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania, The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religions covers all kinds of religious figures, histories, sacred texts, mythologies, and mystical techniques. [via]
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The Heavenly Ladder: The Jewish Guide to Inner Growthby Edward HoffmanISBN 0060640014 (0-06-064001-4)
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History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denierby Deborah E. LipstadtISBN 0060593776 (0-06-059377-6)
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History on Trial : My Day in Court with David Irvingby Deborah E. Lipstadt, Anthony Lewis, Alan DershowitzISBN 0060593768 (0-06-059376-8)
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Holy Bible: The Harpercollins Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version Including The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books With Concordanceby Harold W. Attridge, Susan Niditch, Wayne A. Meeks, Jouette M. Bassler, Werner E. LemkeISBN 006078685X (0-06-078685-X)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Bible: The Harpercollins Study Bible, New Revised Standard Version Including The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books With Concordance'Book summary:The landmark general reference Bible that offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version, now completely revised and updated by leading biblical scholars, including, new introductions and notes, diagrams, charts and maps25% revised or new material.
After 10 years of new archeological discoveries and changes in biblical studies, it was time for an overhaul of this classic reference work.
With the guidance of the Society of Biblical Literature, an organization of the best biblical scholars world wide, we have selected Dean of Yale Divinity School, Harold Attridge, to oversee the Study Bible's updating and revision.
" The fundamental strengths of the first HCSB remain . . .
uptodate introductions to the Biblical books, based on the latest critical scholarship, by leading experts in the field
concise notes, clearly explaining names, dates, places, obscure terms, and other difficulties in reading the Biblical text
careful analysis of the structure of Biblical books
abundant maps, tables, and charts to enable the reader to understand the context of the Bible, and to see the relationship among its parts.
" But, in this new revised edition . . .
Every introduction, essay, map, illustration and explanatory note has been reviewed and updated, and new material added. For instance,
There are newly commissioned introductory essays on
the archaeology of ancient Israel and the New Testament world,
the religion of ancient Israel,
the social and historical context of each book of the Bible, and
on Biblical interpretation
There are completely new introductions and notes for many of the books in the Bible, plus a full revision and updating of all others.
Of special interest are:
The literary history of the Pentateuch (those books between the Old and New Testament that Catholics include in their Bible)
More references to ancient nonBiblical sources which seem to parallel books in the Bible like the Gnostic gospels uncovered in Egypt or the famous scrolls found near the Dead Sea in Israel.
And, more comprehensive attention to the interrelationship of Old and New Testaments
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The Holy Bible: King James VersionISBN 0061043818 (0-06-104381-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey From Darkness To Lightby Alan Eisenstock, Mark BorovitzISBN 006056380X (0-06-056380-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hush, Little Babyby J. Brian PinkneyISBN 0060559934 (0-06-055993-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Award-winning artist Brian Pinkney's version of the classic song is an exuberant and affectionate tribute to a father's unconditional love.
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The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditionsby Huston SmithISBN 0060674407 (0-06-067440-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated World's Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions'Book summary:Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and primal religions, we find refreshing and fascinating presentations of both the differences and the similarities among the worldwide religious traditions.
The approach is at once classic and contemporary, retaining all the empathy, eloquence, and erudition that millions of readers love about the earlier edition, while being edited and designed for a contemporary general readership. This delightful marriage of engaging text and remarkable pictures vividly brings to life the scope and vision of Huston Smith's expertise and insight.
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Invisible Kingdoms: Jewish Tales of Angels, Spirits, and Demonsby Howard Schwartz, Stephen FieserISBN 0060278552 (0-06-027855-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Bookby Jacob NeusnerISBN 0060661127 (0-06-066112-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invitation to the Talmud: A Teaching Book'Book summary:This book invites the reader to try to get in the Talmud. Nowadays, people are scarcely able to try. They do not know how to begin or where--or why. Getting into the Talmud is no easy matter, even for those Jews who are ardent to recover for themselves what their ancestors once knew. This invitation is to join a community of learning men and women, for Talmudic learning is collective. You do not "read" the Talmud, you "learn" it, preferably with a haver, or a fellow student, and always with a rabbi. Here, Neusner shall be your rabbi. [via]
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Israel's Fateful Hourby Yehoshafat HarkabiISBN 0060916133 (0-06-091613-3)
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Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Cultureby Jaroslav PelikanISBN 0060970804 (0-06-097080-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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King of the Jewsby Nick ToschesISBN 0060936002 (0-06-093600-2)
Softcover, Perennial
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The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Rightby Michael LernerISBN 0060842474 (0-06-084247-4)
Hardcover, Harper San Francisco
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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened Thereby Philip P. HallieISBN 0060925175 (0-06-092517-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes Freeing Jesus from 2,000 Years of Misunderstandingby John Shelby SpongISBN 0060675578 (0-06-067557-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes Freeing Jesus from 2,000 Years of Misunderstanding: ISBN 0060675578 (0-06-067557-8)
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The Misunderstood Jew: The Church And the Scandal of the Jewish Jesusby Amy-Jill LevineISBN 0060789662 (0-06-078966-2)
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New Testament Background: Selected Documentsby C.K. BarrettISBN 0060608811 (0-06-060881-1)
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One Candleby Eve Bunting, Wendy Popp, K. Wendy PoppISBN 0060281162 (0-06-028116-2)
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The Oral Torah: The Sacred Books of Judaism An Introductionby Jacob NeusnerISBN 0060661038 (0-06-066103-8)
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Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Whoby Frederick Buechner, Katherine A. BuechnerISBN 0060611413 (0-06-061141-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peculiar Treasures: A Biblical Who's Who'Book summary:In this second book of his popular lexical trilogy, Frederick Buechner profiles more than 125 of the Bible's most holy and profane people -- and one whale. In his lively and witty prose, Buechner brings to life such moments from scripture as:
- Adam's pangs of regret for a remembered Eden
- Delilah's last glimpse of Samson as they dragged him away
- Lazarus's first impressions upon rising from the dead
To read Peculiar Treasures is to realize that many of these legendary figures are not who we thought they were. But they are -- in their human dreams,ambitions, and imperfections -- very much like us.
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Prayers of the Cosmos: Meditations on the Aramaic Words of Jesusby Neil Douglas-KlotzISBN 0060619953 (0-06-061995-3)
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The Rabbi Of 84th Street: The Extraordinary Life Of Haskel Besserby Warren KozakISBN 0060511028 (0-06-051102-8)
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The Reluctant Parting: How The New Testament Jewish Writers Created A Christian Bookby Julie GalambushISBN 0060596368 (0-06-059636-8)
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Renewing Your Soul: A Guided Retreat for the Sabbath and Other Days of Rest With David A. Cooperby David A. CooperISBN 0060614714 (0-06-061471-4)
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The River of God: A New History of Christian Originsby Gregory J. RileyISBN 0060669802 (0-06-066980-2)
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She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of a Renewed Judaismby Lynn GottliebISBN 0060632925 (0-06-063292-5)
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Sound the Shofar!: A Story for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippurby Leslie Kimmelman, John HimmelmanISBN 0060275014 (0-06-027501-4)
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Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953by Jonathan Brent, Vladimir P. NaumovISBN 0060933100 (0-06-093310-0)
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On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders. Mass arrests quickly followed. The Doctors' Plot, as this alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime.
In the fifty years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin himself invent the conspiracy against the Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all Jews from Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities, which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot related to the cold war then dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea? Finally, was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death?
Brent and Naumov have explored an astounding arra of previously unknown, top-secret documents from the KGB, the presidential archives, and other state and party archives in order to probe the mechanism of on of Stalin's greatest intrigues -- and to tell for the first time the incredible full story of the Doctors' Plot.
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Stalker: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0060197293 (0-06-019729-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stalker: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel'Book summary:Faye Kellerman's latest thriller features Cynthia Decker, daughter of Peter Decker, familiar to readers of the author's previous novels featuring the L.A. detective and his Orthodox Jewish wife Rina Lazarus. In Kellerman's earlier books, we've met Cynthia briefly as a difficult adolescent upset by her parents' divorce and later as an Ivy League college student with an interest in following her overly protective father into the family business: solving crimes. Now Cynthia's a young L.A. cop who's the subject of what at first seems like innocent-enough teasing from her colleagues. They think she's snooty and standoffish and riding on her father's reputation. Actually, she's all of those things, which makes for a somewhat less than sympathetic heroine:
Beaudry said, "Every time we start shooting the bull, talking about the day, you say things like, 'Yeah, my father once had a case like that.'"
As the teasing escalates, Cindy's stalked, threatened, and finally frightened, although it pains her to admit it. There's a killer on the loose, and even if she's not the best cop on the force, she knows enough to turn to her father for help. But first, she has a brief affair with one of the men under his command. It seems a little too obvious a ploy for Daddy's attention and hardly adds to her character--we already know she's immature and a bit of a bitch. But at least this maneuver brings Peter back on the scene, allowing Kellerman to hit her stride as she gets back to a character who holds the reader's interest because he's more than two-dimensional. Sadly, Cindy's not quite ready for prime time; perhaps she'll grow up in her next outing. Or better yet, Kellerman will bring us more adventures by Peter and Rina. --Jane Adams [via]"I'm trying to relate."
"It pisses people off. It makes them think that their experiences are nothin' special. Everyone wants to feel special. You already feel special because you've got all this college. You gotta remember that the average Joe on the force is a high school graduate, maybe a couple of years at a junior college like me. If you're real smart, okay, you do a four-year state, then enter the academy with the idea of doing the gold."
"Like my dad--"
"Stop mentioning your dad. He isn't a legend, Decker, he's a pencil pusher."
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The Story of Passoverby Norma Simon, Erika WeihsISBN 0060270624 (0-06-027062-4)
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The Story of the Synagogue: A Diaspora Museum Bookby Geoffrey Wigoder, Bet Ha-Tefutsot Al Shem Nahum GoldmanISBN 0060694017 (0-06-069401-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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This Hebrew Lord: A Bishop's Search for the Authentic Jesusby John Shelby SpongISBN 0060675209 (0-06-067520-9)
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A Tree Grows in Brooklynby Betty SmithISBN 0060736267 (0-06-073626-7)
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Walking The Bible: An Illustrated Journey For Kids Through The Greatest Stories Ever Toldby Bruce S. Feiler, Sasha MeretISBN 0060511176 (0-06-051117-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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A Wall of Lightby Edeet RavelISBN 0060761474 (0-06-076147-4)
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The Way of Solomon: Finding Joy and Contentment in the Wisdom of Ecclesiastesby Rami M. ShapiroISBN 0060673001 (0-06-067300-1)
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When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsessionby Irvin D. YalomISBN 0060748125 (0-06-074812-5)
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Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesusby John Dominic CrossanISBN 0060614803 (0-06-061480-3)
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Wise Words: Jewish Thoughts and Stories Through the Agesby Jessica GribetzISBN 0060566930 (0-06-056693-0)
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Yemenite Midrash: Philosophical Commentaries on the Torahby Y. Tzvi LangermannISBN 0060653914 (0-06-065391-4)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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