Morrison (religion, Middlebury College) examines the rise of the zu, or patriarch as a novel source of religious authority that emerged from the borrowing and adapting that created Chinese Buddhist. T
From the intro:"The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs were written in Hebrew in the later years of John Hyrcanus—in all probability after his final victory over the Syrian power and before
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender hel
