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An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most beguiling history book ...
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther
The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation ...
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The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet
The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers
Synagogue buildings were Roman ...
St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen ...
"For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start."-Booklist ...
Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible ...
Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? THE FORBIDDEN UNIVERSE reveals the ...
The sacred allure of the Holy Grail has fascinated writers and ensnared knights for over a thousand years. From Malory to Monty Python, the eternal ...
In 1535, William Tyndale, the first man to produce an English version of the Bible in print, was captured and imprisoned in Belgium. A year ...
In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus ...
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin ...
Peter, Matthew, Thomas, John: Who were these men and what was their relationship to Jesus? Tom Bissell gives us rich and deeply informed answers to ...
The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius ...
