'The Apostle Paul and His Letters' presents a detailed examination of the apostle's seminal writings in the Book of Acts. Paul was writing primarily to converts who had joined church communities only
This book is written for a wide range of interested readers, including students, pastors, church workers and others interested in learning about Paul as a person and his work. The author deals with Pa
Christianity has repeatedly valued the "Word" over and above the non-verbal arts. Art has been seen through the interpretative lens of theology, rather than being valued for what it can bring to the d
Ousager, who is not further identified, asks what Roman philosopher Plotinus (204-70) considered an individual, and whether he thought the individual is determined for free. He argues that Plotinus is
Presents a selection of 11 papers from the workshop held in September 2002 at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, addressing the way dominant cultural repertoires of texts, styles, or types have
The present volume consists of fourteen comparative and descriptive studies dealing with the syntax and morphology of the simple clause in Chadic. Chadic languages are the largest and the most diversi
Death, grief and funerary practices are central to any analysis of social, anthropological, artistic and religious worlds. However, cemeteries - the key conceptual and physical site for death - have r
In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and stro
Nine papers from the Biblical law session at the Society of Biblical Literature's 2009 international meeting in Rome explore how law and tradition differentiated between certain groups of foreigners,
