郭店楚簡先秦儒書宏微觀 = Guodian Chu jian xian Qin ru shu hong wei guan
By Scott Cook (NHC Fellow, 2005–06)
Religion
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Jeremiah. Vol. 2, Commentary on Jeremiah XXVI-LII
Translated by William McKane (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) For over one hundred years International Critical Commentaries have had a special place among works on the Bible. They bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis – linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary, and theological – to help the reader understand the meaning of the books of the … Continued
Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France
By Susan L. Einbinder (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology … Continued
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History
Edited by Matthew S. Gordon (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) and Kathryn A. Hain Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together arguments regarding slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production (songs, poetry and instrumental music), sexuality, Islamic family … Continued
Erring: A Postmodern A/theology
By Mark C. Taylor (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) The Erring a/theologian is driven to consider and reconsider errant notions: transgression, subversion, mastery, utility, consumption, domination, narcissism, nihilism, possession, uncanniness, repetition, tropes, writing dissemination, dispossession, expropriation, impropriety, anonymity, spending, sacrificed, death, desire, delight, wandering, aberrance, carnival, comedy, superficiality, carnality, duplicity, shiftiness, undecidability, and spinning.
German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650
By Thomas A. Brady, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation … Continued
Ireland Since 1800: Conflict and Conformity
By K. Theodore Hoppen (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) As part of the Studies in Modern History series, this textbook has been written primarily for undergraduate and postgraduate students on British, European and colonial history courses. The authors take a broad approach, combining the current state of knowledge in each area with their own research and judgements. … Continued
Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Hermeneutics and Structural Analysis
By J. P. Fokkelman (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) This book presents a comprehensive discussion of three famous poems which are studied as works of art. A full description of their prosodic regularity, as well as the variations on it, is given, and goes hand in hand with a detailed structural analysis of the lower and higher … Continued
Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love
By Douglas A. Campbell (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) Drawing upon thirty years of intense study and reflection on Paul, Douglas Campbell offers a distinctive overview of the apostle’s thinking that builds on Albert Schweitzer’s classic emphasis on the importance for Paul of the resurrection. But Campbell—learning here from Karl Barth—traces through the implications of Christ for … Continued
Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750
By Jodi Bilinkoff (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) In early modern Catholic Europe and its colonies priests frequently developed close relationships with pious women, serving as their spiritual directors during their lives, and their biographers after their deaths. In this richly illustrated book, Jodi Bilinkoff explores the ways in which clerics related to those female penitents whom … Continued