For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not...
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis
An investigation into the reception of Alexandrian Greek theology in Coptic and Copto-Arabic linguistic settings.Drawing on the insights of ritual and performance theory, I seek to elucidate the ways that Egyptian Christians haveunderstood and enacted participation in Christ's incarnation. Case...
Author(s): Gregory Sterling
Facility in reading an ancient language requires several competencies: control of the morphology, a working vocabulary of common words and phrases, and a grasp of syntax. This pedagogical aide addresses the first of these by collecting the basic forms and patterns of Sahidic Coptic and presenting...
Author(s): Margaret Farley
This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then...
Author(s): Adela Collins, with John J. Collins
This controversial book traces the origin and history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is the Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament. King and Messiah as Son of God is distinctive in its range, spanning...
Author(s): Jennifer Herdt
Augustine famously claimed that the virtues of pagan Rome were nothing more than splendid vices. This critique reinvented itself as a suspicion of acquired virtue as such, and true Christian virtue has, ever since, been set against a false, hypocritical virtue alleged merely to conceal pride....
Author(s): Edited by Chloe Starr
This volume sets out to examine how Christian scriptures have been read within a Chinese reading tradition, and to assess what questions such readings pose for both theologians and Chinese studies specialists. The absence to date of publications on the topic, and the scattered nature of such...
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis
Published as a monograph in the journal, Coptica, vol. 7
An edition and translation of Göttingen MS Arabic 114, with an introduction situating the work in the context of
scribal and liturgical activity at the Monastery of St. John the Little in Wādī al-Naṭrūn, Egypt.
Author(s): John J. Collins
John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible with CD-ROM is a leading textbook in Old Testament studies. With this new, well- tailored abridgement of that larger work, Collins's erudition is now available to general readers and professors and students who prefer a shorter, more concise...
History itself can affect the evolution of ideas. God and Morality evaluates the ethical theories of four principle philosophers, Aristotle, Duns Scotus, Kant, and R.M. Hare. While focusing ethical theory on the options of virtue, will, duty, and consequence, Hare keeps a careful eye on the larger...
