When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical compa...(展开全部)

The near-sacrifice and miraculous restoration of a beloved son is a central but largely overlooked theme in both Judaism and Christianity, celebrated in biblical texts on Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Joseph, and Jesus. In this highly original book, Jon D. Levenson explores how this notion of child sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond between the two religions. Levenson argues tha...(展开全部)

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nation’s economic success, rail has no equal. Railroads and the Transformation of China is the first comprehensive history, in any language, of railroad operation from the last decades of the Qing Empire to the present. China’s first fractured lines were built under semicolonial con...(展开全部)

Review "... Zizek mixes Pauline speculations with analyses of everything from G. K. Chesterton to chocolate eggs." — Terry Eagleton, TLS "The Puppet and the Dwarf is Zizek's most compelling and passionate writing on Christianity to date." — Erik Davis, Bookforum "A witty, informative trip ... both erudite and accessible...." — Rick Mitchell, Leonardo Reviews "His writing is bol...(展开全部)

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty-first-century experiences of paranoia and literary...(展开全部)