Publications

2001
Author(s): Adela Collins, with Hans Dieter Betz and Margaret Mary Mitchell

This volume pays tribute to the remarkable scholarship of Hans Dieter Betz, which has combined amazing range with consistency of vision. Defying the traditional boundaries of the academy, Hans Dieter Betz, Shailer Mathews Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has made...
2001
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis (author), W. Lyster (author), C. Hulsman (author), Gawdat Gabra (editor)

In this collaborative publication, I analyze ancient and early medieval evidence related to the story of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph’s flight into Egypt. Examining a range of sources—from the Gospel of Matthew to medieval Arabic homilies and vision narratives—I show how the practices of biblical...
2001
Author(s): John Hare

There has been a debate between modern ethicists who see moral judgments as objectively corresponding to a moral reality independent of human opinion and those who insist that moral judgments are essentially expressions of our will. In this excellent philosophical work John Hare outlines a theory...
2001
Author(s): Edited by Dwight F. Reynolds; Coauthors: Kristen E. Brustad, Michael Cooperson, Jamal J. Elias, Nuha N. N. Khoury, Joseph E. Lowry, Nasser Rabbat, Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa

Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self ...
2001
Author(s): Kathryn Tanner

With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early Christian accounts of Jesus and his significance for a very different age. Chapter 2 situates Christology in a religious vision of the whole cosmos, while Chapter 3 lays...
2001
Author(s): Miroslav Volf (Editor), Dorothy C. Bass (Editor)

In a time when academic theology often neglects the lived practices of the Christian community, this volume seeks to bring balance to the situation by showing the dynamic link between the task of theology and the practices of the Christian life. The work of thirteen first-rate theologians from...
2001
Author(s): Adela Collins

Originally published: Harvard Dissertations in Religion 9.Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976
2001
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis

My first book investigates the devotional practices, social institutions, and material artifacts connected with a popular, but controversial, female saint in early Christianity. Marshalling literary, artistic, archaeological, papyrological, and epigraphic evidence from Asia Minor and Egypt, I...
2001
Author(s): K.C. Das, translated by Phyllis Granoff

K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, where he was born in 1924. A civil servant by profession, Das pursued a second career as a writer of stories, poems, and essays.The stories in this...
2001
Author(s): Margaret Olin

Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art—and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history—even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of art—...