Preface Introduction: Christian Origins and the Imaginations Part I: Christian Beginnings The Temple and the Land of Palestine Jesus in Galilee The Followers of Jesus The Congregations of the Christ The Patterns of Social Conflict Part II: Stories in the Gospel Tradition The Parables of Jesus The ......
Sylvia Neely provides both the first scholarly study of Lafayette's life after the French Revolution and a detailed analysis of French politics during the early Restoration. Lafayette, advocating a liberalism based on the American example, used both legal and illegal means to overturn a conservative government. The personification of liberalism ......
Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian userer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.
The only official history of the Sky City sanctioned by the tribal council, this book chronicles the social, economic, and political history of the Acoma tribe. For centuries the people of Acoma have endured newcomers on the New Mexican plains who often came at once to marvel at, and manipulate, the Acoma way of life. Through the advent of rival ......
"Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Volume 1" initiates an annual journal devoted to original studies of medieval philosophy and theology. Encouraging a broad range of topics and approaches, it seeks to stimulate conversation and exchange across modern disciplinary boundaries and among contrasting, sometimes competing, scholarly methodologies and ......
This compares the public hospital systems in New York and Paris. It analyzes staffing, discusses both outpatient and inpatient care, the desirability of private faculty practice, budgeting, quality assurance, and the role of medical education in these two very different systems.
"Beyond Reaganomics", a sequel to "An Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics", provides an assessment of recent economic policies through the Reagan administration years, placing them in an analytical as well as ethical context. The volume begins by providing an overview of different approaches to understanding how the economy works and an ......
The World's Foremost Mentalist Reveals How You Can Expand Your Powers
The world's foremost mentalist demonstrates how to condition mind and body in order to accomplish many of the extraordinary mental feats that Kreskin accomplishes. "The Amazing Kreskin" is a scientist of the mind, relying on natural and scientific means to perform effects that have baffled millions around the world. "Natural laws govern the ......
Ralph Waldo Emerson has always fascinated students of criticism and of American literature and thought. Emerson's Literary Criticism supplies the continuing need for an anthology. This collection brings together Emerson's literary criticism from a wide variety of sources. Eric W. Carlson has culled both the major statements of Emerson's critical ......
