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The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious metaphysical baggage, and made fruitful for critical theory in the twenty-first century. In this ......
Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States
Explores the formation of public and private collections of Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art throughout the United States, and the impact of the ever-changing political landscape of Latin American countries.
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
An English translation of Benjamin Hoffmann’s French monograph L’Amérique posthume. Examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in eighteenth-century French literature.
Explores the role of writer Gwendolyn Bennett as an important contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Includes Bennett’s published and unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, diaries, letters, and artwork.
Presents a series of studies that address various aspects of Assyrian rule in the southern Levant and its consequences, as well as life under Assyrian hegemony, and the sources available for such studies.
A collection of essays covering theology and methodology—emphasizing Wesleyan biblical hermeneutics, canonical perspectives, and the implications of these approaches for church life and work—as well as biblical texts/themes and the relationship of the study of Scripture to the life of the Christian.
"Twenty-five years after it first appeared, Jellicoe's classic work is still one of the most comprehensive introductions to the Septuagint and cognate studies. Its completeness makes it valuable not only as a textbook, but also as a reference tool for those working in the Septuagint.
Terence E. Fretheim has long been a leading voice in Old Testament theology. In this volume, thirty of his classic studies have been gathered together for the first time under the rubrics “God and the World”, “God and Suffering”, “God, Wrath, and Divine Violence”, “God and the Pentateuch”, ......
