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Soldier of ChristThe Life of Pope Pius XIIRobert A. Ventresca

“The definitive biography of the wartime pontiff…Soldier of Christ

is a splendid work.”

—Michael Coren, Catholic World Report

“Refreshing…[Robert Ventresca] combines meticulous scholar-

ship with an elegant and effective prose style that makes this

a very readable and accessible book…The most serious and

dispassionate biography so far of this controversial pontiff.”

—John Pollard, Times Higher Education

Belknap Press 2013 432 pp. 20 halftones 9780674049611 cloth $35.00 / £25.00

TrentWhat Happened at the CouncilJohn W. O’Malley

“John O’Malley is the doyen of historians of the Catholic

reformation…There is, astonishingly, no modern study of the

Council of Trent in English…[so] O’Malley’s lively one-volume

survey is to be welcomed on that score alone. But his scrupu-

lously researched and balanced book is also an intervention in

fraught and sometimes acrimonious controversies within the

modern Roman Catholic Church.”

— Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books

“A beautifully clear and honest reappraisal of the tangled

story of Trent, in all its complexity, paradox, achievement

and lost opportunity.”

— Diarmaid MacCulloch, London Review of Books

Belknap Press 2013 352 pp. 3 halftones, 1 map 9780674066977 cloth $27.95 / £20.00

From Enemy to BrotherThe Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965

John Connelly

H John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association

“The detailed history of [Nostra Aetate’s] genesis reveals a

singular fact: most of the architects of the Catholic statement

concerning the Jews in 1965 were themselves, either by de-

scent or practice or public definition, Jews who had converted

to Christianity…[A]n extraordinary work of history.”

— Peter E. Gordon, New Republic

2012 384 pp. 9780674057821 cloth $35.00 / £21.95


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The Death and Afterlife of the North American MartyrsEmma Anderson

“Emma Anderson has done something awe-inspiring: she has

breathed life into the evocative story of the North American mar-

tyrs and their legacy.”

— Joseph Boyden, author of Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce

“This beautifully written study of how the Jesuit martyrs have been

remembered and reinvented in the popular Catholic imagination

is without rival in terms of its scope, ambition, and achievement.”

— Kathleen Sprows Cummings, author of New Women of the Old Faith

2013 392 pp. 25 halftones 9780674051188 cloth $39.95 / £29.95

Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human LifeFabrizio AmeriniTranslated by Mark Henninger

“This is a first-rate treatment of a complex topic. Fabrizio Amerini

carefully and clearly explains how Aquinas deals philosophically

with the topic of human generation and how what he says might

be connected with certain questions raised today in discussions

of bioethics.”

—Brian Davies, Fordham University

“Amerini’s book is a masterful treatment of the much-discussed

discrepancy between the teachings of the Catholic Church on

abortion and the teachings of its leading theological champion.”

—Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado

2013 288 pp. 9780674072473 cloth $29.95 / £22.95

The Bible and AsiaFrom the Pre-Christian Era to the Postcolonial Age

R. S. Sugirtharajah

“This compelling book tells a story few know and even fewer

suspect—the story of Asia in the Bible and the Bible in Asia.

Sugirtharajah’s readers will look at the Bible with new eyes.”

— Karel van der Toorn, author of

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible

“This is the cumulation of many years of serious, daring, and

creative scholarship.”

— Vincent L. Wimbush, author of White Men’s Magic

2013 280 pp. 9780674049079 cloth $29.95 / £22.95









Native ApostlesBlack and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World

Edward E. Andrews

“This groundbreaking [book]

explores the critical roles

played by Native Americans,

Africans, and enslaved blacks

in the spread of Protestant

Christianity throughout the

Atlantic world during the 17th

and 18th centuries. Andrews

deftly brings these forgot-

ten missionaries to the fore,

noting that their European

counterparts, while seeking

to spread Christianity, were

not able to learn aboriginal

languages and were unwilling

to live in the same manner

as native peoples. Various

Protestant groups thus ac-

tively recruited African and

Native American missionaries

to spread the gospel on their

behalf…[A] fascinating work.”

— John R. Burch,

Library Journal

(starred review)

2013 336 pp. 12 halftones, 1 map, 1 table 9780674072466 cloth $39.95 / £25.00

From Shame to SinThe Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late AntiquityKyle Harper

“Harper puts together materials in ways that highlight

some of the important changes in sexual morality that

Christianity wrought. In particular, he challenges the

tendency set in motion by Veyne, Foucault, and followers

that emphasized the similarities between the ‘restraint’

and ‘moderation’ counseled by Roman-era philosophers

(‘gloomy Stoics’) and literary men, and the more drastic

renunciation preached by (some) Christians.”

—Elizabeth Clark, Duke University

Revealing Antiquity 2013 316 pp. 9780674072770 cloth $39.95 / £29.95

Thin DescriptionEthnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of JerusalemJohn L. Jackson, Jr.

“A dazzling, brilliant book, with astonishing things to say

about immortality, race, and ethnography.”

— Noah Feldman, Harvard Law School

“Thin Description stands in a tradition of powerfully

critical research and scholarship that questions the

problematics by which race, religion, and disciplinary

limits converge and collapse into crises in the context

of Western Civilization’s ‘Holy Land’ and the tensions of

multiple Zions with regard to Africa and West Asia.”

— Lewis R. Gordon, University of Connecticut at Storrs










The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ GuideJosef Stern

“Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide

is by far the best philosophical book on Guide of the

Perplexed I have ever read, and Maimonides is by far the

most significant and most discussed Jewish philosopher,

of unparalleled importance for the development of Juda-

ism up to the present day, but also of vast importance

for medieval Christian and Islamic philosophy. Stern’s

book is a must-read, not only for anybody interested in

the history and contemporary practice of Jewish thought,

but also for scholars and students of analytic theology

and medieval philosophy.”

—Paul Franks, Yale University

2013 448 pp. 9780674051607 cloth $49.95 / £36.95

The Tragedy of a GenerationThe Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern EuropeJoshua M. Karlip

“An exceptionally important book. Karlip marvelously and

convincingly describes the crisis of a group of Eastern

European Jewish intellectuals who could no longer em-

brace modernity nor return to faith.”

— Dan Diner, Leipzig University

“Skillfully navigating between biography and wider his-

torical analysis, Karlip’s book stands out for its texture,

passion, and range…A masterpiece of Eastern European

Jewish history.”

—David Myers, University of California, Los Angeles


Building a Public JudaismSynagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Saskia Coenen Snyder

“A work of superb and exhaus-

tive historical research…It

belongs to the best of a new

generation of work on Jewish

history.”

— Robin E. Judd,

Ohio State University

“Traversing four cities,

Coenen Snyder has written

an impressively researched,

multifaceted, and com-

paratively broad book, which

concludes that synagogue

building in the mid-to-late

nineteenth century cannot be

read only as an ‘architecture

of emancipation’…Her socio-

political and comparative ap-

proach to the study of urban

space is highly innovative.”

— Michael Meng,

Clemson University










Do Muslim Women Need Saving?Lila Abu-Lughod

“In accessible, lucid prose, Abu-Lughod explains how sensation-

alized memoirs, or ‘pulp nonfiction,’ have perpetuated stereo-

types and made Muslim women a symbol of an alien culture…

The women presented here see their Islamic faith as a source of

strength to fight injustice, not the cause of it. They’re not asking

to be rescued from their religion, the author contends, but from

the discriminatory legal system, poverty, outdated patriarchal

family traditions, and border controls that continue to inhibit

their freedom.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Incisively argued and often sharply critical, Abu-Lughod’s book—

which will surely spark debate—is essential reading for anyone

interested in women’s rights in the Muslim world.”

—Leila Ahmed, author of A Quiet Revolution

2013 336 pp. 9780674725164 cloth $35.00 / £25.95

The Aga Khan CaseReligion and Identity in Colonial IndiaTeena Purohit

“Teena Purohit presents us with a highly original study of the

making of sectarian identity in modern India. Very suggestive is

her argument about the way in which one such identity, Khoja

Ismailism, was created as Muslim by an erasure of messianism

as a form of non-identitarian interaction.”

—Faisal Devji, Oxford University

2012 198 pp. 9780674066397 cloth $45.00 / £33.95

Aisha’s CushionReligious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

Jamal J. Elias

“Engrossing…Elias is very good at clarifying the meaning and

significance of beauty in the Islamic tradition…He wishes to

show that contrary to popular conception, the prohibition on

images in Islam is hardly straightforward but crisscrossed








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HezbollahA History of the “Party of God”Dominique Avon and

Anais-Trissa KhatchadourianTranslated by Jane Marie Todd

“Though the book was written before the outbreak of violence in

Syria—and thus prior to Hezbollah’s demise as the hero of the Ar-

abs—it provides important insight into the paradox of Hezbollah’s

ideology and the crux of the party’s current predicament…[The]

book lays the ground for understanding Hezbollah’s fall from Arab

grace and current events in the Levant.”

—Samuel Helfont, New Republic online

“It serves well as a handbook to the Hezbollah movement…The

inclusion of fascinating historical documents and useful refer-

ence information make the book helpful for students seeking to

understand the movement.”

—P. Rowe, Choice

2012 256 pp. 3 maps, 1 chart, 1 table 9780674066519 cloth $24.95 / £18.95

Muslim ZionPakistan as a Political IdeaFaisal Devji

“A trenchant analysis…the book presents a wholly different and

more nuanced view of Islamic politics than most recent titles.”


“[Offers] cerebral insight into how there was never a clear notion

of ‘what Pakistan should be’ and, therefore, it is not surprising

‘what it has become.’ ”

—Mint

2013 288 pp. 9780674072671 cloth $21.95 / NASISC

with contradictions, reversals and seemingly flagrant

instances of defiance of the ban.”

—Eric Ormsby, Literary Review

“Aisha’s Cushion is expansive and edifying.”

—Subashini Navaratnam, PopMatters








The Buddhas of BamiyanLlewelyn Morgan

“Morgan expertly traces the history of the once impressive

sixth-century Buddha statues of Bamiyan, Afghanistan through

ancient accounts such as those of the well-traveled seventh-

century Chinese monk Xuangzang, 19th-century writings by

European explorers and soldiers, and video footage of the stat-

ues’ destruction by Taliban leaders in March 2001. The Buddhas’

ghostly absence from their still-remaining niches (the statues

were 38 and 55 meters in height respectively) serves as a sober

reminder of a cultural heritage now lost.”

— Brian Renvall, Library Journal

Wonders of the World 2012 256 pp. 28 halftones, 3 maps 9780674057883 cloth $19.95 / NA

Empire of the DharmaKorean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

Empire of the Dharma explores the dynamic relationship be-

tween Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to

the Japanese annexation of Korea. The author argues that their

ties involved not so much political ideology as mutual benefit.

Both wished to strengthen Buddhism’s precarious position

within Korean society and curb Christianity’s growing influence.

This strategic alliance pushed both sides to confront new ideas

about the place of religion in modern society and framed the

way that many Korean and Japanese Buddhists came to think

about the future of their shared religion.

Harvard East Asian Monographs 2013 444 pp. 19 halftones, 1 black and white illus., 2 maps, 10 tables 9780674065758 cloth $39.95 / £29.95

The Foundation for Yoga PractitionersThe Buddhist Yogācārabhūmi Treatise and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet

EditEd by Ulrich Timme Kragh

The Yogācārabhūmi, a fourth-century Sanskrit treatise, is the

largest Indian text on Buddhist meditation. The present edited

volume, conceived by Geumgang University in South Korea,

brings together the scholarship of thirty-four leading Bud-

dhist specialists on the Yogācārabhūmi from across the globe.

Harvard Oriental Series 2013 1430 pp. 9780674725430 cloth $95.00 / £70.95







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Religion without GodRonald Dworkin

H Ronald Dworkin Is Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize

“Dworkin offers a way into discussions of science and human

spiritual endeavor that is actually engaging and interesting, not

combative and dogmatic…Dworkin is keen to show that—even

for people who call themselves atheist—there remains a sense

or a value to the world which bears so much in common with

attitudes we call religious or spiritual…What Dworkin pursues is

insight into the core of what makes us human and how it might

be grounded in something other than an idea of God.”

—Adam Frank, NPR online

2013 192 pp. 9780674726826 cloth $17.95 / £13.95

Evolution, Games, and GodThe Principle of CooperationEditEd by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley

“Evolution, Games, and God is perhaps science and religion at

its best: going further than the somewhat stale debate about

whether such a discussion is possible by plunging into a specific

topic that is in itself changing rapidly and at the cutting edge of

scientific analysis.”

—Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame

“Essential reading for anyone interested in carefully bringing sci-

ence into conversation with moral and theological phenomena

while avoiding the pitfalls of reductionism.”

—Ariel Glucklich, Georgetown University

2013 416 pp. 14 halftones, 1 line illus., 2 tables 9780674047976 cloth $35.00 / £25.95

The Axial Age and Its ConsequencesEditEd by Robert N. Bellah and Hans Joas

H Robert Bellah Is a National Humanities Medal Winner

“Highly recommended for readers of Bellah’s Religion in

Human Evolution and students of religious philosophy and

evolutionary sociology.”

—Brian Odom, Library Journal

“I can think of no compendium in the past generation that mea-

sures up to the quality and significance of this volume.”

— Donald Levine, University of Chicago

Belknap Press 2012 560 pp. 4 tables 9780674066496 cloth $39.95 / £29.95









Brigham YoungPioneer ProphetJohn G. Turner

H Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association

H A Booklist Top 10 Religion & Spirituality Title

H A Foreign Affairs Best Book on the United States

H A Meridian Magazine Top 12 Non-fiction Book

H A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Brigham Young is a landmark work…There is no aspect

of Young’s fascinating life that eludes Turner’s scrutiny.”

—Alex Beam, New York Times Book Review

“A definitive biography of Mormonism’s greatest activist

and apostle.”

—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker

“[A] strong and authoritative biography.”

—Jackson Lears, New Republic

Belknap Press 2012 512 pp. 42 halftones, 4 maps 9780674067318 cloth $35.00 / £25.00

Defending American Religious NeutralityAndrew Koppelman

“Andrew Koppelman is one of the most thoughtful law-

and-religion scholars in America, and this book is an

impressive accomplishment. Koppelman shows how a

secular political community can and must respect the

consciences of persons of all faiths and none, while

seeing the search for religious truth as a special, and

especially important, human good.”

—Richard Garnett, University of Notre Dame

2013 256 pp. 9780674066465 cloth $55.00 / £40.95

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 HoursGregory Nagy

In Greek tradition, a hero was a human, male or female, of the

remote past, who was endowed with superhuman abilities

by virtue of being descended from an immortal god. Gregory

Nagy examines this distinctively religious notion of the hero

in its many dimensions, in texts spanning the eighth to fourth

centuries bcE.

Belknap Press 2013 752 pp. 5 halftones, 20 line illus. 9780674073401 cloth $35.00 / £24.95








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Godly RepublicanismPuritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a HillMichael P. Winship

H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“A stunningly original piece of scholarship…The new picture of

early English and American politico-religious thought it provides

is complex, densely argued, and quite persuasive.”

—B. R. Burg, Choice

“Godly Republicanism is a bold, searching, and overdue analysis of

the nexus between churchly and political government in puritan

thought. With this book, Winship has further secured his reputa-

tion as one of this generation’s finest scholars of puritanism.”

—Thomas S. Kidd, New England Quarterly

2012 350 pp. 9780674063853 cloth $49.95 / £36.95

The Tragedy of Religious FreedomMarc O. DeGirolami

“The Tragedy of Religious Freedom is a first-rate contribution

to the law-and-religion conversation. This conversation—how

to think about, and how to effectively protect in law, religious

freedom in a constitutional democracy—is a lively and timely one,

and DeGirolami is an impressive participant.”

—Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame Law School

“A sophisticated and thoughtful book, which offers fresh insights

on a central question of religious liberty.”

— Philip Hamburger, author of Separation of Church and State

2013 320 pp. 9780674072664 cloth $45.00 / £33.95

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GothickaVampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural

Victoria Nelson

“[Nelson] shows how contemporary films, video games, graph-

ic novels and television series have reinvented and trans-

formed the Catholic iconography of the late medieval period.”

—Max Fincher, Times Literary Supplement

2013 352 pp. 14 halftones 9780674725928 paper $18.95 / £14.95









The New Religious IntoleranceOvercoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious AgeMartha C. Nussbaum

H A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice


“A vigorous defense of the religious freedom of minorities

in the face of post-9/11 Islamophobia.”

—Giles Fraser, The Guardian

“Nussbaum is one of America’s leading liberal thinkers. In

The New Religious Intolerance, she turns her attention to

the rise of antireligious—and specifically anti-Muslim—

zealotry since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

— Damon Linker, New York Times Book Review

Belknap Press 2013; 2012 304 pp. 9780674725911 paper $16.95 / £12.95

Varieties of Secularism in a Secular AgeEditEd by Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and Craig Calhoun

Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in

conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while

serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book, A

Secular Age by Charles Taylor.

“A useful collection for those attempting to work through

the particularities of contemporary secularism, given

not just the heightened awareness of globality but a

new way of thinking about secularism that recognizes its

continued dependence upon religion.”

— Humeira Iqtidar, Journal of Contemporary Religion

2013 352 pp. 9780674072411 paper $22.95 / £16.95

New i n Pa p e r b a c k

The GnosticsMyth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity

David Brakke


“Perhaps the finest aspect

of this book is the way that

Brakke successfully nuances

the conflict models of early

Christian history that remain

current in most introductory

texts.”

—J. Schott, Choice

“Brakke has a growing reputa-

tion for his studies on the his-

tory and literature of ancient

Christianity, and he moves

easily among the sources,

making good sense of the

sometimes scanty evidence…

The Gnostics is a book to be

warmly commended to those

who have an interest in the

development of Christianity.”

— Nicholas King, S.J.,

Times Literary Supplement

2012; 2011 180 pp. 9780674066038 paper $18.95 / £14.95









New i n Pa p e r b a c k

Migration MiracleFaith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented JourneyJacqueline Maria Hagan

H Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

“In her magnificent book, Migration Miracle, Jacqueline

Hagan shows that religion has not been consigned to the

dustbin of history, but is a vital and dynamic feature of

contemporary social life. It constitutes essential reading

for people interested in immigration and religion alike.”

—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University

2012 2 tables 238 pp. 9780674066144 paper $18.95 / £14.95

Your Spirits Walk Beside UsThe Politics of Black ReligionBarbara Dianne Savage

H Grawemeyer Award in Religion, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville

“Savage recounts the circuitous journey along which

black religious sentiment and political ideology have

conflicted, converged, and sometimes melded through-

out the 20th century.”

— Dann Wigner, Library Journal

“Through biographical vignettes, Savage spans the

20th-century black religious experience, focusing on the

ever-present question African-Americans asked about

the role their churches should play in the politics for

racial justice.”


Belknap Press 2012 368 pp. 9780674066274 paper $17.95 / £13.95

Muhammad and the BelieversAt the Origins of Islam

Fred M. Donner

“A learned and brilliantly origi-

nal, yet concise and acces-

sible study of Islam’s forma-

tive first century…Donner’s

explanation of the process by

which Muslims came to define

themselves is both fascinat-

ing and enlightening.”

— Max Rodenbeck,

New York Times

“Provocative and accessible…

Donner’s vision of an ‘ecu-

menical Islam’ is thought-

provoking…Donner’s over-

arching thesis in Muhammad

and the Believers is convinc-

ing. It sheds light on a world

far more fluid and confused

than the one we have come

to expect from the usual

storyline.”

— Christian C. Sahner,

Times Literary Supplement

Belknap Press 2012 304 pp. 21 halftones, 6 maps 9780674064140 paper $17.95 / £13.95









D u m b a r t o n Oa ks Me d i eva l L i b ra r y

The Vulgate BibleDouay-Rheims TranslationEditEd by Swift Edgar and Angela M. Kinney

The Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian tradition

through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, art, mu-

sic, and education, and its contents lay at the heart of Western

theological, intellectual, artistic, and political history through

the Renaissance.

Vol. I: The Pentateuch DOML 1 2010 1200 pp. 9780674055346 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Vol. II: The Historical Books: Part A DOML 4 2011 1168 pp. 9780674996670 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Vol. II: The Historical Books: Part B DOML 5 2011 816 pp. 9780674060777 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Vol. III: The Poetical Books DOML 8 2011 1232 pp. 9780674996687 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Vol. IV: The Major Prophetical Books DOML 13 2012 1168 pp. 9780674996694 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Vol. V: The Minor Prophetical Books and Maccabees DOML 17 2012 672 pp. 9780674066359 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Vol. VI: The New Testament DOML 21 2013 1584 pp. 9780674996700 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

One Hundred Latin HymnsAmbrose to AquinasEditEd and translatEd by Peter G. WalshWith Christopher Husch

This volume collects one hundred of the most important and

beloved Late Antique and Medieval Latin hymns from Western

Europe. These religious voices span a geographical range that

stretches from Ireland through France to Spain and Italy. The

authors represented here range from Ambrose in the late fourth

century ce down to Bonaventure in the thirteenth.

DOML 18 2012 544 pp. 9780674057739 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Miracle Tales from ByzantiumtranslatEd by Alice-Mary Talbot and Scott Fitzgerald Johnson

Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine

life and thought. This volume makes available three collec-

tions of miracle tales never before translated into English.

Together, the collections offer an exceptional variety of

miracles from the Byzantine era.


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The Life of Saint Symeon the New TheologianNiketas StethatosTranslated by Richard P. H. Greenfield

The Life was written more than thirty years after Symeon the New

Theologian’s death by his disciple and apologist the theologian

Niketas Stethatos, who also edited all of Symeon’s spiritual writ-

ings. An unusually valuable piece of Byzantine hagiography, it not

only presents compelling descriptions of Symeon’s visions, mysti-

cal inspiration, and role as a monastic founder, but also provides

vivid glimpses into the often bitter and unpleasantly conflicted

politics of monasticism and the construction of sanctity and

orthodoxy at the zenith of the medieval Byzantine Empire.

DOML 20 2013 448 pp. 9780674057982 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

Literary WorksAlan of LilleEdited and translated by Winthrop Wetherbee

A product of the cathedral schools that played a foundational role

in the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Alan of Lille was re-

nowned for the vast learning which earned him the title of Doctor

Universalis. His writings include many significant contributions

to the development of systematic theology, but he was also the

most important Latin poet of his time, the great age of Medieval

Latin poetry. The works included in this volume aim to give imagi-

native expression to the main tenets of Alan’s theology, but the

forms in which his vision is embodied are strikingly original and

informed by a rich awareness of poetic tradition.

DOML 22 2013 672 pp. 9780674059962 cloth $29.95 / £19.95

D u m b a r t o n Oa ks Me d i eva l L i b ra r y

The fifth-century Miracles of Saint Thekla, the tenth-century

Miracles of the Spring of the Virgin Mary, and the fourteenth-

century Miracles of Saint Gregory Palamas display a remark-

able range of registers in which Greek could be written during

the still little-known Byzantine period.

DOML 12 2012 480 pp. 9780674059030 cloth $29.95 / £19.95







The Last of the RephaimConquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient IsraelBrian R. Doak

In The Last of the Rephaim, Brian Doak argues that the giants

of the Hebrew Bible are a politically, theologically, and historio-

graphically generative group, and through their oversized bod-

ies, readers gain insight into central aspects of Israel’s symbolic

universe. All that is overgrown or physically monstrous repre-

sents a connection to primeval chaos, and stands as a barrier

to creation and right rule. Giants thus represent chaos-fear, and

their eradication is a form of chaos maintenance by both human

and divine agents.

Ilex Series 2013 312 pp. 9780674066731 paper $19.95 / £14.95

Heroic KrsnaFriendship in Epic MahābhārataKevin McGrath

Heroic Krsna is a portrait of a pre-Hindu and pre-classical figure

of a superhuman hero who in time became the divinity Krsna,

an incarnation of Visnu. This is a picture, drawn from the epic

Mahābhārata, of an archaic warrior who excelled as a charioteer;

in fact this is the best depiction that we presently possess in

any epic corpus of a charioteer type. Krsna is also described

in his role of moral instructor, as poet and ambassador, and in

the office of dual kingship with the dharmaraja Yudhisthira. This

book illustrates a heroic life which pre-exists the divine status of

one of the most popular Indian deities of today.

Ilex Series 2013 176 pp. 9780674073333 paper $19.95 / £14.95

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The Life of Patriarch IgnatiusNicetas DavidEdited and translated by Andrew Smithies Notes by John M. Duffy

As much a frontal attack on Photius as a record of the author’s

hero Ignatius, The Life of Patriarch Ignatius offers a fascinat-

ing, if biased, look into the complex world of the interplay

among competing church factions, the imperial powers, and

the papacy in the ninth century. This important historical

document is here critically edited and translated into English

for the first time.

Dumbarton Oaks Texts 2013 232 pp. 2 maps 9780884023814 cloth $30.00 / £22.95







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D i s t r i b u t e d by Ha r va rd Un i ve r s i t y P re s s

Paideia and CultChristian Initiation in Theodore of MopsuestiaDaniel L. Schwartz

Paideia and Cult explores the role of Christian education and wor-

ship in the complex process of conversion and Christianization.

It analyzes the Catechetical Homilies of Theodore of Mopsuestia

as a curriculum designed to train those seeking initiation into

the Christian mysteries. Theodore’s attention to the communal,

cognitive, and ritual components of initiation suggests a substan-

tive understanding of religious conversion, yet one that avoids

an overemphasis on intellectual and psychological transforma-

tion. Throughout this study catechesis emerges as invaluable for

comprehending the ability of clergy to initiate new members as

Christianity gained increasing prominence within the late Roman

world.

Hellenic Studies Series 2013 182 pp. 9780674067035 paper $24.95 / £18.95

Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek EastTheodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in ContextYannis Papadogiannakis

This book—the first full-length study of the “last and most beauti-

ful” apology against paganism, Theodoret’s Therapeutic for Hel-

lenic Maladies—combines close readings of the text with detailed

analysis of Theodoret’s arguments against Greek religion, phi-

losophy, and culture and the ways in which that Greek influence

interacts with other diverse ideas, practices, and developments

in the fifth-century Roman Empire.

Hellenic Studies Series 2013 194 pp. 1 map 9780674060678 paper $19.95 / £14.95

The Theology of ArithmeticNumber Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity

Joel Kalvesmaki

In the second century, Valentinians and other gnosticizing

Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe

God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study

of the controversy that resulted, Joel Kalvesmaki shows how

earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist number symbolism

provided the impetus for this theology of arithmetic.

Hellenic Studies Series 2013 242 pp. 6 line illus., 1 halftone 9780674073302 paper $22.95 / £16.95









Reviving the Eternal CityRome and the Papal Court, 1420–1447Elizabeth McCahill

“In this masterful, original, and fluidly-written study of

the intellectual and cultural milieu of the early Roman

Renaissance, Elizabeth McCahill provides a rich and nu-

anced context for some of the most important humanist

and artistic projects of the age. Readers of this book

cannot help but come away with a richer and deeper ap-

preciation of this foundational but surprisingly neglected

era in early modern history.”

—Brian Curran, Pennsylvania State University

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 2013 302 pp. 15 halftones, 1 map 9780674724532 cloth $49.95 / £36.95

The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation ItalyEmily Michelson

“By focusing on vernacular sermons, Emily Michelson

significantly expands our understanding of the inter-

play between preaching, printing, and Catholic reform.

Her stimulating study highlights the efforts of Italian

preachers to counter heresy while satisfying lay inter-

est in scripture. Challenging preconceptions about the

Church’s monolithic response to Protestantism, it reveals

the range of positions possible within a broader Catholic

consensus. This is first-rate scholarship.”

—Amy Burnett, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 2013 272 pp. 5 halftones, 4 line drawings 9780674072978 cloth $39.95 / £29.95

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