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Bodner argues that literary analysis has value for exploring numerous issues in the Hebrew Bible, including text-critical problems, the Deuteronomistic History, and Chronicles. Essays petition for a heightened awareness of the artistic achievement of the Hebrew Bible and illustrate that literary thinking is necessary for biblical interpretation.

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Bodner argues that literary analysis has value for exploring numerous issues in the Hebrew Bible, including text-critical problems, the Deuteronomistic History, and Chronicles. Essays petition for a heightened awareness of the artistic achievement of the Hebrew Bible and illustrate that literary thinking is necessary for biblical interpretation.

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This volume presents case studies in the shifting representations of yogic themes and figures in worldwide popular culture from the middle of the nineteenth century to contemporary times. The authors analyze everything from comic books and novels to television, movies, and theater as they portray yogis and their esoteric practices.

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In an age when fundamentalism has become stronger than ever, this book will be an explosive counter to the prevailing orthodoxy. It aims to help people understand the origin and evolution of contemporary terrorists' notion of wilful martyrdom, of paradise now, and more.

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Many thought the idea of penal substitution was at the heart of the evangelical understanding of the cross, if not the only legitimate interpretation of the death of Christ. Yet for some time less popular evangelical theologians had been calling this traditional interpretation of the atonement into question.

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Presents a discussion centred upon the audience of the gospels.

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Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community - a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. This work contains material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, and crime.

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When Blumhardt, a 19th century pastor from the Black Forest, agreed to counsel a tormented woman in his parish, all hell broke loose. Zuendel's account, available here in English for the first time, provides a rare glimpse into how the eternal fight between good and evil plays itself out in the lives of the most ordinary men and women.

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In Azusa Street Mission and Revival, Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. brings to bear expertise from decades of focused study in church history to reveal the captivating story of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Los Angeles, which became known as the Azusa Street Mission.

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Since the early twentieth century, the Baha religion has worked to establish racially and ethnically diverse communities. During Jim Crow, it was a leader in breaking norms of racial segregation. Each chapter of this book presents an aspect of Bahai history that intersects with African American history in novel and socially significant ways.

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This book provides new material on the members of the Bah Faith, for whom the pursuit of racial justice, healing, and harmony is central to their religious expression. Using historical research, social scientific analysis, and personal memoir, the contributors document the Bahs efforts to address Americas most challenging issue.

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Sets out to accomplish two main goals: to introduce to the American reading public a religion whose name may be commonly mentioned, yet in terms of its history, world-view, beliefs, and laws; and, to trace the historical development of the American Baha'i community since its earliest beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Clear introduction to the Bah' vision and development of its community.

Volume 1 of this set showcases letters from the Rozen collection, including those of diplomats, army officers and scholars, candidly revealing the Russian perspective on developments concerning the Baha'is in Iran and Russia.

Volume 2 of this collection documents from the Russian standpoint the dramatic Babi upheavals, the persecution of Babis and Baha'is in Iran, and events including the landmark Ashgabat murder trial.

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An assessment of the liturgical reform after the second Vatican Council that seeks the origins of failure in pre-conciliar developments. It integrates biblical, patristic, historical, dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry.

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An assessment of the liturgical reform after the second Vatican Council that seeks the origins of failure in pre-conciliar developments. It integrates biblical, patristic, historical, dogmatic and philosophical questions with liturgical study in ways faithful and sympathetic to classical liturgical enquiry.

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