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The Prophet’s HeirThe Life of Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Hassan Abbas

Hassan Abbas provides a nuanced, compelling portrait of this towering figure in spiritual and intellectual authority in Islam and the origins of sectarian division within Islam.

Available in March 2021

Hardcover 2021 288 pp. 16 b/w illus.

978-0-300-22945-5 $30.00 $21.00

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Women and Gender in IslamHistorical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed; With a Foreword by Kecia Ali

This pioneering study of the lives of Muslim wom-en has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. Now reissued as a Veritas paperback, the new foreword situates the text in its scholarly context and explains its enduring influence.

VERITAS PAPERBACKS


& Paper 2021 320 pp.

978-0-300-25731-1 $20.00 $14.00

Islamic Thought in AfricaThe Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910—2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana

Alhaj Yūsuf Sālih Ajura; Translated by Zakyi Ibrahim

Translated by Zakyi Ibrahim

The first English translation of the poems of Alhaj Yūsuf Sālih Ajura, an orthodox Islamic scholar, poet, and polemicist known as “Afa Ajura.”

WORLD THOUGHT IN TRANSLATION

Available in June 2021

HC - Paper over Board 2021 256 pp. 1 b/w illus.

978-0-300-20711-8 $85.00 $59.50

On OrderSt. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 3

St. Augustine; Translation, Annotation, and

Commentary by Michael P. Foley

From St. Augustine of Hippo's highly influential “Cassiciacum dialogues,” this third dialogue is Augustine’s only work explicitly devoted to theodicy, the reconciliation of Almighty God’s goodness with evil’s existence.

Hardcover 2020 352 pp.

978-0-300-23853-2 $60.00 $42.00

SoliloquiesSt. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4

St. Augustine; Translation, Annotation, and

Commentary by Michael P. Foley

The fourth dialogue is Soliloquies, including On the Immortality of the Soul. Michael Foley’s clear, precise and playful translations are accompa-nied by his brief, illuminating commentaries.


978-0-300-23854-9 $60.00 $42.00

The Jews and the ReformationKenneth Austin

In this rich, wide-ranging account, Kenneth Austin examines Christian attitudes toward Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning in the Reformation era. He argues that they have much to tell us about the Reformation and its priori-ties—and have important implications for how we think about religious pluralism more broadly.


978-0-300-18629-1 $45.00 $31.50

Creation StoriesLandscapes and the Human Imagination

Anthony Aveni

Drawing from a vast array of creation myths— Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian, African, Norse, Inuit, and more—this short, illustrated book uncov-ers both the similarities and differences in our attempts to explain the universe.

Available in April 2021

& Hardcover 2021 240 pp. 53 b/w illus.

978-0-300-25124-1 $26.00 $18.20

The Art of SolitudeStephen Batchelor

This beautiful literary collage documents Ste-phen Batchelor’s multifaceted explorations of solitude. In a hyperconnected world that is simul-taneously plagued by social isolation, he reminds us how to enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at the heart of human life.


978-0-300-25093-0 $23.00 $16.10

To Kidnap a PopeNapoleon and Pius VII

Ambrogio A. Caiani

Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the state and the church. But by 1809 Napoleon had ordered the Pope’s arrest. Ambrogio Caiani sheds new light on the conflict that would forever shape relations between the Catholic church and the modern state.

Available in May 2021

Hardcover 2021 416 pp. 24 color illus.

978-0-300-25133-3 $32.50 $22.75

The Life of Christina of HaneChristina of Hane; Translation, Introduction, and

Annotation by Racha Kirakosian

The thirteenth-century mystic Christina of Hane led an extraordinary life. This remarkable work sheds new light on convent life, spiritual practices, and physical and mental suffering in the life of a medieval woman and the community in which she lived.


978-0-300-25099-2 $30.00 $21.00


What Are Biblical Values?What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues

John J. Collins

In this book, one of the world’s leading biblical scholars examines what the Bible actually says, what values the Bible actually affirms, on several key issues, including the right to life, gender, the role of women, the environment, slavery and liberation, violence and zeal, and social justice.

Paper 2021 296 pp.

978-0-300-25521-8 $20.00 $14.00

A Fortress in BrooklynRace, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper

The fascinating history of how determined Holo-caust survivors shaped the urban processes that transformed their Brooklyn neighborhood of Wil-liamsburg, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification.



978-0-300-23109-0 $30.00 $21.00


Radical SacrificeTerry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton pursues the concept of sacrifice through the history of human thought, from antiquity to modernity, in religion, politics, and literature.

Paper 2020 216 pp.

978-0-300-25150-0 $15.00 $10.50

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 8Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918—1939

Edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman

This collection examines what was perhaps the most tense but creative period in modern Jewish history and conveys the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish cultural innovation in the tempestuous interwar decades.

POSEN LIBRARY OF JEWISH CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION

Hardcover 2020 1,384 pp. 67 color + 37 b/w illus.

978-0-300-13552-7 $200.00 $140.00

Art and FaithA Theology of Making

Makoto Fujimura; Foreword by N. T. Wright

This book is Makoto Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of “making.” Beautiful and poignant, it offers the perspective of one who comes to spiritual ques-tions always through the prism of art.

& Hardcover 2021 184 pp.

978-0-300-25414-3 $26.00 $18.20

Public Freedoms in the Islamic StateRached Ghannouchi; Translated by David L. Johnston

In this book, Ghannouchi argues that the Univer-sal Declaration of Human Rights meets with wide acceptance among Muslims if their interpreta-tion of Islamic law is correct. Under his theory of the purposes of Shari‘a, the objectives of Islamic law can be advanced in multiple ways.

WORLD THOUGHT IN TRANSLATION

HC - Paper over Board 2021 576 pp.

978-0-300-21152-8 $65.00 $45.50

The Wondering JewIsrael and the Search for Jewish Identity

Micah Goodman Translated by Eylon Levy

Celebrated author Micah Goodman explores Israeli Judaism and the conflict between religion and secularism, one of the major causes of political polarization throughout the world.


978-0-300-25224-8 $30.00 $21.00

Migrants in the ProfaneCritical Theory and the Question of Secularization

Peter E. Gordon

Peter Gordon offers a highly original account of the intertwined histories of religion and secular modernity. With clarity and insight, he deeply probes the work of three of the Frankfurt School’s most important authors: Walter Ben-jamin, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor W. Adorno.

THE FRANZ ROSENZWEIG LECTURE SERIES


978-0-300-25076-3 $35.00 $24.50

Judaism for the WorldReflections on God, Life, and Love

Arthur Green

In this beautiful book, Arthur Green draws on over half a century as a Jewish seeker and teacher of Torah to offer seekers of all sorts a contemporary Judaism.


978-0-300-24998-9 $30.00 $21.00


JobA New Translation

Edward L. Greenstein

Drawing on nearly a half century of study and through painstaking analysis, Greenstein offers a provocative, highly insightful, and beautiful take on this canonical text.

& Paper 2020 248 pp.

978-0-300-25524-9 $18.00 $12.60

NahmanidesLaw and Mysticism

Moshe Halbertal; Translated from the Hebrew by Daniel Tabak

Nahmanides was one of the most original and creative expositors of the Bible that the Jewish tradition has ever produced, and one of the most influential kabbalists and mystics. In this broad, ambitious account, Moshe Halbertal provides a systematic analysis of Nahmanides’s thought.


978-0-300-14091-0 $55.00 $38.50

Religious Conflict in BrazilProtestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century

Erika Helgen

This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity and nuance, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and violence.


978-0-300-24335-2 $65.00 $45.50

The Faiths of OthersA History of Interreligious Dialogue

Thomas Albert Howard

Thomas Albert Howard connects its emergence and spread to broader developments in moder-nity. He argues that interreligious dialogue holds promise for fostering cooperation among diverse religious communities while contributing insight into contemporary, global religious pluralism.



978-0-300-24989-7 $38.00 $26.60

Jewish ChristianityThe Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide

Matt Jackson-McCabe

Jackson-McCabe skillfully shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative “original Christianity” continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity.

THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE REFERENCE LIBRARY


978-0-300-18013-8 $65.00 $45.50

Founding God's NationReading Exodus

Leon R. Kass

In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus, arguably the most important book in the Bible, raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself.


978-0-300-25303-0 $40.00 $28.00

The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939—1973

Edited by Samuel D. Kassow and David G. Roskies

Volume 9 of the Posen Library covers the years 1939 to 1973, a period that Kassow and Roskies call “one of the most tragic and dramatic in Jewish history.”


Hardcover 2020 1,088 pp. 115 color + 83 b/w illus.

978-0-300-18853-0 $200.00 $140.00


Who Is an Evangelical?The History of a Movement in Crisis

Thomas S. Kidd

In this illuminating book, Thomas Kidd draws on his expertise in American religious history to renarrate the arc of evangelicalism. It is a must-read for those trying to better understand the shifting religious and political landscape of America today.

& Paper 2020 200 pp.

978-0-300-25533-1 $20.00 $14.00

Providence and the Invention of American HistorySarah Koenig

Sarah Koenig traces the rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman’s legend, and with it, the ideas about myth and history that were both produced in and transformed the history of the American West. Koenig reveals two patterns in the writing of American history: providential history and objective or scientific history.


978-0-300-25100-5 $45.00 $31.50

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Cover image: from the book Art and Fatih, by Makoto Fujimura. Walking on Water—Azurite II, by Makoto Fujimura (2016), mineral pigments on canvas, 84 x 132 in.; private collection.

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Historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates how the working relationships between humans and pigs shaped local patterns of farming and eating, but also wider developments in legal culture, fiscal policies, identities, and philosophies of the cosmos.

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Confessions of a Born-Again PaganAnthony T. Kronman

Drawing on the riches of pagan philosophy and mining centuries of Western thought, this provocative book seeks to transcend contempo-rary debates about the meaning of God and to explain the conception of divinity on which mod-ern science, art, and politics all vitally depend.

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The Gnostic ScripturesSecond Edition

Translated with Annotations and Introductions by Bentley

Layton with Additions and Revisions by David Brakke

This second edition of this definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides updates throughout and adds three new ancient texts, in-cluding the recently discovered Gospel of Judas.

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Voting About God in Early Church CouncilsRamsay MacMullen

In this original book, an eminent historian explores how early Christian doctrine was deter-mined by majority vote in church councils during the third to sixth centuries.

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The Eastern Orthodox ChurchA New History

John Anthony McGuckin

John McGuckin explores the lived faith of gen-erations, including sketches of some of the most important theological themes and individual personalities of the ancient and modern Church.


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The Jews of Eighteenth-Century JamaicaA Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Stanley Mirvis

Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experienc-es of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora.


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The Age of Reform, 1250—1550An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

Steven Ozment; With a New Foreword by Carlos Eire

and Ronald K. Rittgers

Ozment traces the sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought to its explosive burgeoning in the sixteenth century. With a new foreword, this classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and scholars.

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Theodor HerzlThe Charismatic Leader

Derek Penslar

Drawing on a vast body of Herzl’s writings, historian Derek Penslar shows that Herzl’s path to Zionism had as much to do with personal crises as it did with antisemitism.

JEWISH LIVES


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Divine AccountingTheo-Economics in Early Christianity

Jennifer A. Quigley

Jennifer Quigley takes seriously the overlapping of themes such as poverty, labor, social status, suffering, cosmology, and eschatology in materi-al evidence from the ancient Mediterranean and early Christian texts.

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AllahGod in the Qur'an

Gabriel Said Reynolds

The Qur’an is marked above all by its call to wor-ship Allah alone. In this illuminating portrait, Reynolds depicts a god of both mercy and ven-geance, one who transcends simple classification.


978-0-300-24658-2 $30.00 $21.00

The Christians Who Became JewsActs of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City

Christopher Stroup

This innovative work examines Acts through a new lens and shows that the text presents Jewish identity in multiple, complex ways, in order to legitimate the Jewishness of Christians.

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Christianity and the New Spirit of CapitalismKathryn Tanner

In this significant reimagining of Max Weber’s classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Kathryn Tanner provocatively reverses Weber’s thesis, arguing that Christianity can offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of finance-dominated capitalism.

Paper 2021 256 pp.

978-0-300-25849-3 $30.00 $21.00

American CatholicsA History

Leslie Woodcock Tentler

This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans the period from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present.

& Hardcover 2020 416 pp. 15 b/w illus.

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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 1Ancient Israel, from Its Beginnings through 332 BCE

Edited by Jeffrey H. Tigay and Adele Berlin

Volume 1 of The Posen Library covers the earliest period of Jewish civilization, from the second millennium BCE through 332 BCE., and presents works of literature and art that illustrate ancient Israel’s cultural innovations and commonalities with neighboring societies.



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They Knew They Were PilgrimsPlymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty

John G. Turner

Drawing on original research using underutilized sources, this is a new history of Plymouth Colony, written to appear on the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s landing.


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City on a HillA History of American Exceptionalism

Abram C. Van Engen

In this illuminating book, Abram Van Engen traces the surprising history of John Winthrop’s classic Puritan sermon, its changing status throughout time, and its widespread use in mod-ern politics, asking us to reevaluate our national narratives and their reliance on a literary past.


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Liberty in the Things of GodThe Christian Origins of Religious Freedom

Robert Louis Wilken

Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian move-ment through the seventeenth century, Robert Louis Wilken shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin.Paper 2021 248 pp.

978-0-300-25850-9 $16.00 $11.20

Introduction to the ApocryphaJewish Books in Christian Bibles

Lawrence M. Wills

Challenging the way Christian and non-Christian readers think about the Apocrypha, this is an ambitious introduction to the deuterocanonical texts of the Christian Old Testaments.



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A Cheerful and Comfortable FaithAnglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Lauren F. Winner

This book examines an array of physical objects found in elite Virginia households of the eigh-teenth century to discover what they can tell us about their owners' lives and religious practices.Paper 2020 288 pp. 39 b/w illus.

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MosesA Human Life

Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg

In this compelling book an eminent Jewish scholar offers an unprecedented portrait of Moses’s inner life and enriches our under-standing of the baby set adrift on the Nile who became the leader and lawgiver of his people.

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