Jacob Neusner 
History of the Jews in Babylonia, Part IV [PDF ebook] 
The Age of Shapur II

Nigel Zimmermann presents critical reflections from leading Catholic prelates and scholars on the significance of the Second Vatican Council fifty years after it began. These include two senior Cardi …

This book is concerned with re-imagining Religious Education (RE) as this is practiced in schools, colleges and universities throughout the UK and in a wide variety of international educational conte …

Christians claim the Bible is the Word of God, that it is the final authority in all matters relating to Christian faith and practice, and that it is absolutely reliable in all that it teaches. But t …

In the first of a three-volume work, Daniel Patte presents three very different critical exegeses of Romans 1, arguing that all are equally legitimate and hermeneutically plausible. By expanding upon …

Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology. After a general introduction and an examinatio …

It features the first discussion of the recently discovered text »The Gabriel Revelation» — an apocalyptic text written on stone at the turn of the Common Era. This tablet provides revolutionary pa …

The act of converting people to certain beliefs or values is highly controversial in today»s postcolonial, multicultural world. Proselytization has been viewed by some as an aggressive act of politi …

Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren J. N. Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The religious underpinnings …