Translated by William McKane (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) A comprehensive new translation and commentary by one of today's most widely acclaimed scholars in the field.Professor McKane's work, referring closely to the Hebrew text, the Ancient Versions, and the Jewish medieval commentaries, has a strong textual and lexicographical interest. McKane contends that the Book of Micah represents … Continued
By Carmela Vircillo Franklin (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) An examination of the cultural and codicological contexts in which the cult of Anastasius the Persian and its hagiographic tradition were disseminated from the Greek East to the Latin West. Ten critical editions are included.
By Jonathan Freedman (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- … Continued
By Ewa Kuryluk (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
By Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) In this title the author contends that whilst in classical Christian discourse, the Holy Spirit "pours out on all flesh", in modern theology and worship the Holy Spirit has tended to float free of bodies and that the result of such disembodiment, is that talk about the … Continued
By Edward E. Curtis, IV (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam came to America's attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a radical separatist African American social and political group. But the movement was also a religious one. Edward E. Curtis IV offers the first comprehensive examination of the rituals, ethics, theologies, and … Continued
By Steven H. Lonsdale (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) In private and in public life, the ancient Greeks danced to express divine adoration and human festivity. They danced at feasts and choral competitions, at weddings and funerals, in observance of the cycles of both nature and human existence. Formal and informal dances marked the rhythms of life … Continued
By Loring M. Danforth (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) “If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don’t feel the fire as if it were your enemy,” says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a … Continued
Edited by F. S. Naiden (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Christopher A. Faraone The interpretation of animal sacrifice, now considered the most important ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and general critique of their views has appeared … Continued
Edited by Robert A. Segal (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on … Continued