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How to Determine the Meaning of a Sacred Text: Cases and Methodologies

How to Determine the Meaning of a Sacred Text: Cases...
Author: Jay G. Williams ISBN: 9780773415683 Format: Hardback	$343.07
Applies many different approaches to the analysis of sacred texts. This work contains the articles that are influenced... Read More >>

Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic: An Intertextual Reading

Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic:...
Author: Helge Kvanvig ISBN: 9789004163805 Format: Hardback	$662.64
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Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and Practice

Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology, and...
Author: Dr Trevor J. Burke (Cambridge Theological Federation, UK) , Dr Brian S. Rosner (Ridley College, Australia) ISBN: 9780567604750 Format: Hardback	$320.00
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Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary

Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary...
Author: Bruce Fudge ISBN: 9780415782005 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This is a study of one of the most important works of medieval commentary on the Qur’an which is still in use today,... Read More >>

Benedict XVI and the Sacred Liturgy

Benedict XVI and the Sacred Liturgy
Author: Neil J. Roy , Janet E. Rutherford ISBN: 9781846823107 Format: Paperback	$38.68
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Al-Ghazali and the Qur'an: One Book, Many Meanings

Al-Ghazali and the Qur'an: One Book, Many Meanings
Author: Martin Whittingham (Edinburgh University, UK) ISBN: 9780415663946 Format: Paperback	$114.00
This is one of the first texts to examine the influential writer al-Ghazali’s (1058-1111) interpretations of the... Read More >>

Debating the Dasam Granth

Debating the Dasam Granth
Author: Robin Rinehart (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lafayette College [Note: as of Aug. 30, 2010, title will be Professor of Religious Studies], Lafayette College) ISBN: 9780199755066 Format: Hardback	$147.95
The Dasam Granth is a 1,428-page anthology of diverse compositions attributed to the tenth Guru of Sikhism, Guru... Read More >>

Contours in the Text: Textual Variation in the Writings of Paul, Josephus and the Yahad

Contours in the Text: Textual Variation in the Writings...
Author: Jonathan D.H. Norton (The University of London, UK) ISBN: 9780567229397 Format: Hardback	$300.00
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Speaking of Gods in Figure and Narrative

Speaking of Gods in Figure and Narrative
Author: D. Westbrook ISBN: 9780230108110 Format: Hardback	$224.40
Speaking of Gods analyzes the figurative-narrative creation of gods, their heavenly abodes, and behaviors, reaching... Read More >>

The Complete Tao Te Ching with the Four Canons of the Yellow Emperor

The Complete Tao Te Ching with the Four Canons of the...
Author: Jean Levi ISBN: 9781594773594 Format: Hardback	$50.03
The first text to restore the Four Canons of the Yellow Emperor to its rightful place alongside the Tao Te Ching.... Read More >>

The Kalacakra Tantra - The Chapter on Sadhana, together with the Vimalaprabha Commentary

The Kalacakra Tantra - The Chapter on Sadhana, together...
Author: Vesna Wallace ISBN: 9780975373446 Format: Hardback	$129.36
This is the first complete English translation of the fourth chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratantra text,... Read More >>

Retelling the Bible: Literary, Historical, and Social Contexts

Retelling the Bible: Literary, Historical, and Social...
Author: Lucie Dolezalová , Tamás Visi ISBN: 9783631612729 Format: Hardback	$168.19
Presents a collection of case studies of biblical retellings in various contexts. In this book, every section starts... Read More >>

Israel in Transition 2: From Late Bronze II to Iron IIA (c. 1250-850 BCE): The Texts

Israel in Transition 2: From Late Bronze II to Iron...
Author: Dr. Lester L. Grabbe (University of Hull, UK) ISBN: 9780567649485 Format: Hardback	$300.00
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The Buddha and his Dhamma: A Critical Edition

The Buddha and his Dhamma: A Critical Edition
Author: Aakash Singh Rathore (Dr, Dr, Luiss University of Rome) , Ajay Verma (Dr, Dr, Department of Philosophy University of Delhi) ISBN: 9780198068679 Format: Hardback	$224.40
The Buddha and his Dhamma presents B.R. Ambedkar's review and analysis of the vast Buddhist canon and literature.... Read More >>

The Tao of Success: The Five Ancient Rings of Destiny

The Tao of Success: The Five Ancient Rings of Destiny...
Author: Derek Lin ISBN: 9781585428151 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis

Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis...
Author: Hussein Abdul-Raof ISBN: 9780415616379 Format: Paperback	$114.00
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The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe

The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester...
Author: Professor Philip R. Davies (University of Sheffield, UK) , Diana Vikander Edelman (University of Oslo, Norway) ISBN: 9780567202680 Format: Hardback	$320.00
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The Bible and its Interpretation

The Bible and its Interpretation
Author: George Brooke ISBN: 9780415139953 Format: Hardback	$264.00
Explores how the texts of the scrolls themselves contribute to our understanding of the Bible. An accessible and... Read More >>

The Pen and the Faith: Eight Modern Muslim Writers and the Qur'an

The Pen and the Faith: Eight Modern Muslim Writers and...
Author: Kenneth Cragg ISBN: 9780415611732 Format: Paperback	$90.99
The Qur’an is the prime possession of Muslims: how then, are they reading and understanding their sacred Book today?... Read More >>

Upanisads

Upanisads
Author: Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin) ISBN: 9780199540259 Format: Paperback	$24.95
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Essential Gnostic Scriptures

Essential Gnostic Scriptures
Author: Marvin Meyer , Willis Barnstone ISBN: 9781590305492 Format: Hardback	$57.95
The people we've come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge... Read More >>

With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis...
Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe (President, President, Bryn Mawr College) , Barry D. Walfish (Judaica Specialist, University of Toronto Library, Judaica Specialist, University of Toronto Library, University of Toronto) ISBN: 9780199755752 Format: Paperback	$102.95
This volume represents the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. During the medieval... Read More >>

Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage

Arabic-English Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage
Author: Elsaid Badawi , Muhammed Abdel Haleem ISBN: 9789004149489 Format: Hardback	$847.44
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Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters Who Challenged the Status Quo

Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters Who...
Author: Nancy Calvert-Koyzis , Heather Weir ISBN: 9780567595034 Format: Hardback	$300.00
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Rashi - Linguist despite Himself: A Study of the Linguistic Dimension of Rabbi Solomon Yishaqi's Commentary on Deuteronomy

Rashi - Linguist despite Himself: A Study of the Linguistic...
Author: Dr. Jonathan Kearney (Dublin City University, Ireland) ISBN: 9780567438560 Format: Hardback	$300.00
The commentary on the Torah of the eleventh-century French rabbi, ""Solomon Yishaqi of Troyes"" (better known as... Read More >>

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