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THE GREEK SEPTUAGINT VERSION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ACCORDING TO THE VATICAN EDITION Together with the Real Septuagint Version of Daniel and the Apocrypha Inclding the Fourth Book of MacCabees and an Historical Introduction.

By: N/A

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Samuel Bagster and Sons: N.D.

Seller ID: 6263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Front inner hinge is starting exposing webbing. Spine is fraying at ends. Spine cover is torn along upper section but holding. Edgewear to corners. ; No date but likely 1890s. Textblock is marbled. English introduction with Greek text.
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LIBER AMICORUM Studies in Honour of Professor Dr. C. J. Bleeker.

By: N/A

Price: $80.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1969

Seller ID: 9333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Dust-soiling to top of textblock. Spine slightly sunned. A couple of pages are slightly stained (small dot). ; Published on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of the history of religions and the phenomenology of religion at the university of Amsterdam. ; Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to Numen) XVII; 324 pages; List of Prof. Bleeker's publications (p. 1-4) --Professor C. J. Bleeker, a personal appreciation, by G. Widengren. --Are the Bororo parrots or are we? By Th. P. Van Baaren. --Le Professeur W. B. Kristensen et l'Ancien Testament, by M. A. Beek. --Pour l'histo...
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TIME AND SACRAMENTALITY IN GREGORY OF NYSSA'S CONTRA EUNOMIUM

By: Abecina, Alexander L.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: St Pauls Publications: 2013

Seller ID: 16653

ISBN: 0980642841

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Early Christian Studies 16; 132 pages
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I SOWED FRUITS INTO HEARTS (ODES SOL. 17: 13) Festschrift for Professor Michael Lattke

By: Allen, Pauline & Majella Franzmann, & Rick Strelan (Eds. )

Price: $90.00

Publisher: St Pauls Publications: 2008

Seller ID: 17425

ISBN: 0975213865

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

The title of this wide-ranging collection of essays in German and English summarises the scholarly work of Professor Michael Lattke across two hemispheres. Offered to him on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Queensland, this volume reflects the breadth of erudition for which he has acquired his international reputation. The Odes of Solomon, which figure largely in Professor Lattkes research, are well represented here, and so too is the Gospel of John, which was the subject of his early research. However, the tributes of his colleagues and former students in this book range ...
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THE ILIAD, THE RAMAYANA, AND THE WORK OF RELIGION Failed Persuasion and Religious Mystification

By: Alles, Gregory D.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 1909

ISBN: 0271013206

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

Hermeneutics, Studies in the History of Religions; 0.75 x 9 x 6 Inches; 207 pages; Analyses the two classic narratives and how they mystify the social, cultural and existential dangers of failed persuastion...
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THE NEW YORK CRUCIFORM LECTIONARY

By: Anderson, Jeffrey C.

Price: $42.00

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press: 1992

Seller ID: 1920

ISBN: 0271007435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very tiny nick to DJ else Fine. ; Looks at the lectionary in the Pierpont Morgan Library, which is unusual even among such luxury manuscripts because its scribe laboriously copied every page of text in the shape of a cross. It is one of just three such manucripts made in Constantinople around the middle of the twelfth century, and it is the only one that contains narrative illustration. Anderson provides a full description of the manuscript, and he has translated and indexed its calendar of saints. Each of the miniatures is reproduced, described and discussed, and Anderson relates some scenes ...
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RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THREE RELIGIONS IN CONCORD AND CONFLICT Volume I: Judaism and Christianity & Volume II: Islam

By: Arberry, A. J.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 3191

ISBN: 0521074002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Book descriptions are pasted to front feps of both volumes leaving adhesive stains. Minor shelfwear otherwise. ; 2 Volume Set; Vol. 2020-01-02; 1360 pages; These volumes survey the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and their relationship with each other, in concord and conflict during the last hundred years. Since Islam is the dominant faith, the term 'Middle East' denotes the social and cultural faiths as well as western civilization and communism, rather than a precise geographical area. Thus central Asia, and India, ...
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HERRSCHAFT UND HEIL Politische Theologie in Altgypten, Israel Und Europa

By: Assmann, Jan

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 2000

Seller ID: 2905

ISBN: 3446198660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has very minor shelfwear else fine. ; In German. Der renommierte gyptologe Jan Assmann ber die politische oder theoretische Legitimation von Herrschaft. Wie seine Studien zu den Wurzeln der Religionen gyptens und Israels zeigen, fanden die Staaten- und Rechtsbildungen vor der Entwicklung der religisen Weltbilder statt. Fundamentale Prinzipien wie Gerechtigkeit, Macht, Solidaritt, Schuld, Gesetz und Recht wurden zuerst im Politischen umgesetzt, bevor sie ins Religise und Theologische transformiert wurden. ; 1.38 x 9.02 x 5.79 Inches; 338 pages
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SAINT AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS Translated with an Introduction and Notes

By: Augustine; Henry Chadwick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 32614

ISBN: 0192817795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very faint shelfwear to DJ. ; 311 pages
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THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE Translated, with an Introduction and Notes

By: Augustine; John K. Ryan

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Doubleday: 1960

Seller ID: 29790

ISBN: 0385029551

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine creased. ; Image Classics; 8.1 X 5.3 X 1.0 inches; 464 pages
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AVIANUS: OEUVRES dites Et Traduites Par Lon Herrmann

By: Avianus; Lon Herrmann (Ed. )

Price: $52.00

Publisher: Latomus: 1968

Seller ID: 10944

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages unopened. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; En franais and Latin; Collection Latomus Volume XCVI; 177 pages
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RECORDS OF CHRISTIANITY. VOLUME II: CHRISTENDOM

By: Ayerst, David & A. S. T. Fisher

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Basil Blackwell: 1977

Seller ID: 13096

ISBN: 0631171703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to ffep (Eleanor Irwin). Corners bumped. DJ spine is discolored. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Deals with the middle ages in the words of contemporary writers among them Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Bede and Alfred the Great, Francis of Assisi and eter Abelard and others. ; Vol. 2; 344 pages
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ATHANASIUS AND CONSTANTIUS Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 1831

ISBN: 0674050673

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Light shelfwear to DJ. One small bump to bottom front corner. Former owner's name on titlepage. ; 0.86 x 9.25 x 6.38 Inches; 364 pages; As the high-ranking Bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373, Athanasius came into conflict with no fewer than four Roman emperors--Constantine himself, his son Constantius, Julian the Apostate, and the "Arian" Valens. In this new reconstruction of Athanasius's career, Timothy D. Barnes analyzes the nature and extent of the Bishop's power, especially as it intersected with the policies of these emperors. Repeatedly condemned and deposed by church councils,...
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 18187

ISBN: 0674165306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Light shelfwear to book. Dustjacket spine is sunned and discolored. Light edgewear to extremities of DJ with 1 tiny tear. ; This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government, demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the whole range of Eusebius' ...
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 18188

ISBN: 0674165306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book with bump to 1 corner. Dustjacket spine is lightly sunned and discolored. DJ has large tear to upper corner (1cm by 4 cm). ; This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government, demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the ...
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CONSTANTINE AND EUSEBIUS

By: Barnes, Timothy D.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 28309

ISBN: 0674165306

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light foxing to top of textblock. Chipping and a few small tears to DJ. ; This study of the Roman Empire in the age of Constantine offers a thoroughly new assessment of the part Christianity played in the Roman world of the third and fourth centuries. Mr. Barnes gives the fullest available narrative history of the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine. He analyzes Constantine's rise to power and his government, demonstrating how Constantine's sincere adherence to Christianity advanced his political aims. He explores the whole ra...
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CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN RELIGION

By: Basilius, Harold A. (ed.)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: 1956, Wayne State University Press: 1956

Seller ID: 20002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Faint chipping to spine ends and corners. Minor shelfwear. ; x+128pp.; 128 pages
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THE SAYINGS OF JESUS IN THE WRITINGS OF JUSTIN MARTYR

By: Bellinzoni, Arthur J

Price: $115.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1967

Seller ID: 325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Text block is stamped. Cover has tape stains. Last three pages are creased. ; About the middle of the second century Justin Martyr engaged in an active defense of Christianity against paganism. Judaism, and heretical forms of Christianity for which work he can safely be called the first outstanding Christian apologist. Justin sought the truth in the pagan philosophies of Stoicism, Aristotlianism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism; after his conversion to christianity... Justin opened in Rome a Christian school of philosophy until his mart...
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SCIENCE ET FOI FONT SYSTME Une Approche Hermneutique. Travaux De L'Institut De Recherches Hermneutiques Et Systmatiques

By: Bhler, Pierre & Clairette Karakash (Ed. )

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Labor et Fides: 1992

Seller ID: 28245

ISBN: 2830906667

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Some pencil marginalia and underlining. ; Lieux Thologiques 21; 215 pages
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A FORMCRITICAL STUDY OF SELECTED ODES OF SOLOMON

By: Blaszczak, Gerald R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Scholars Press: 1985

Seller ID: 3049

ISBN: 0891309179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Harvard Semitic Monographs, No 36; 155 pages
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DE ALLEGORESE IN HET WERK VAN CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS

By: Boer, W. Den

Price: $33.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1940

Seller ID: 14058

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Light foxing to endpages. Browning to spine and edges of wraps. Small ink drops/drips to front wrap. Corners of wraps a little worn. 1 crease to spine. 2 small tear to upper edge of rear wrap. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ). Dissertationes Inaugurales Batavae Ad Res Antiquas Pertinentes Volumen Primum; 161 pages
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GENESIS Procreation and the Politics of Identity

By: Brett, Mark G.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Routledge: 2000

Seller ID: 1640

ISBN: 0415141494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Former owner's name on ffep has been blacked out. Light shelfwear else NF; Old Testament Readings; 0.67 x 8.76 x 5.4 Inches; 192 pages; Combining insights from social and literary theory with a firm grasp of traditional historical studies, Brett argues that the Book of Genesis can be read as resistance literature. In Brett's illuminating analysis, stories such as the marriages of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as well as the narratives of Hagar, Dinah and Tamar reveal that the editors of Genesis were directly engaged with contemporary issues--especially the nature of an authentic community--and that...
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LEXICON SYRIACUM Editio Secunde Aucta Et Emendata

By: Brockelmann, Carl

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Georg Olms Hildesheim: 1995

Seller ID: 3001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Minor shelfwear else Fine; Reprint of 1928 Edition. ; 1.2 x 8.9 x 6.4 Inches; 520 pages
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A HEBREW AND ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE OLD TESTAMENT With an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic Based on the Lexicon of William Gesenius.

By: Brown, Francis & S. R. Driver & Charles A. Briggs

Price: $67.00

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1978

Seller ID: 30728

ISBN: 0198643012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Foxing to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine sunned. ; 1127 pages
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TRANSLATING THEOLOGY INTO THE MODERN AGE

By: Bultmann, Rudolf Et Al.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1965

Seller ID: 18269

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Light shelfwear. Remainder mark to top of textblock (2 red marker lines) ; Historical, systematic and pastoral reflections on theology and the church in the contemporary situation; Journal for Theology and the Church 2; 179 pages
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THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

By: Burkill, T. A.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 14437

ISBN: 0801405815

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Minor shelfwear. ; 504 pages
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THE TIBERIUS PSALTER Edited from British Museum MS Cotton Tiberius C VI

By: Campbell, A. P.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press: 1974

Seller ID: 17427

ISBN: 0776648020

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Tiny faint stain to front wrap. Very slight shelfwear. Else fine. ; Psalter is in Old English and Medieval Latin. Apparatus is in English. Tiberius C vi is a "continuous interlinear gloss to a psalter of the Gallican version (ff. 31-129) ". ; Ottawa Mediaeval Texts and Studies; 302 pages
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REPORTATIO SUPER SENTENTIAS Liber I, Distinctiones 10-48

By: Chatton, Walter; Etzkorn, Girard J. & Joseph C. Wey

Price: $105.00

Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies: 2002

Seller ID: 687

ISBN: 0888441428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Published by PIMS. Chatton was a major fourteenth-century critic of Ockham. These volumes provide a critical edition of Chatton's masterwork on the Sentences. The text is amplified with notes documenting Chatton's sources and his relation to his opponents. Peter Lombard (Bishop of France) most famous work was "Libri quatuor sententiarum, the "Book of Sentences. " This served as the standard textbook of theology at the medieval universities, from the 1220s until the 16th century. There is no work of Christian literature, except for the Bible itself, that has been commented upon more...
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AUGUSTINE: THE CONFESSIONS

By: Clark, Gillian

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Bristol Phoenix Press: 2006

Seller ID: 19136

ISBN: 1904675034

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Augustine's 'Confessions', written at the close of the fourth century CE, is a highly significant text in the history of European culture. Augustine explains just how and why he came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading to a true comprehension of God and the Bible. The avowed approach of this introductory book is to 'historicise' - to set Augustine's own experiences of religion, philosophy and Christian faith against the long-standing political, cultural and religious traditions of the classical ...
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CLMENT D'ALEXANDRIE: LE PROTREPTIQUE Introduction, Traduction Et Notes. Revue Et Augmente Du Texte Grec.

By: Clement D'Alexandrie; Claude Mondsert & (Andr Plassart)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: ditions Du Cerf: 1949

Seller ID: 10855

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Wraps are browned. Light creasing to spine. Pages tanned. Pencil underlining and marginalia on some pages. ; Sources Chrtiennes; 381 pages
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A SAMARITAN CHRONICLE A Source-Critical Analysis of the Life and Times of the Great Samaritan Reformer, Baba Rabbah

By: Cohen, Jeffrey M.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1981

Seller ID: 177

ISBN: 9004062157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, and pocket. Cover shows evidence of removed call-numbers. ; The present study constitutes a critical edition, with commentary of a hitherto unpublished section of the fullest extant Chronicle of Samaritan history. This Chronicle -- Chronicle II -- commences with the period of the biblical historical books (Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings/II Chronicles) and continues the Samaritan saga down until the beginning of the 20th century. The publication of this section of the Chronicle fills an important gap in Samaritan studies, in that it treats of one of the most...
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ITALIAN BENEDICTINE SCHOLARS AND THE REFORMATION The Congregation of Santa Giustina of Padua

By: Collett, Barry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2002

Seller ID: 3293

ISBN: 0198229348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very Minor shelfwear. Laminated cover. ; 2002 Oxford reprint of 1985 Edition ; Oxford Historical Monographs; 1.1 x 8.84 x 5.9 Inches; 300 pages; European history from 1480 to 1570 was a period of turbulent change, political upheaval, profound moral questioning, and urgent philosophical speculation. This book explores the intriguing role of the almost-forgotten Congregation of Benedictine monks of Italy and southern France in the events of these tumultuous years. From archival and published records, the picture emerges of a closely-knit order of humanist scholars whose religious and philosophic...
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ANCIENT ITALY AND MODERN RELIGION Being the Hibbert Lectures for 1932

By: Conway, Robert Seymour

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1933

Seller ID: 1239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Corners are bumped. ; Contents: Pictures of pre-Roman religion; Orpheus in Italy; The Etruscan influence on Roman beliefs; Breaking through the maze; Modern problems in the eyes of an Augustan poet; The road to Christmas. ; 150 pages
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PAULINUS NOSTER Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola

By: Conybeare, Catherine

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Clarendon Press: 2000

Seller ID: 134

ISBN: 0199240728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Dustjacket protected in mylar. ; This literate and accessible study examines the profound impact Paulinus had on Christian thought during a crucial period of its development. The letters of Paulinus and his correspondents portray an early Christian 'web' of shared concepts, intellectual discussion, and group development. Catherine Conybeare examines how the very process of writing and transmitting letters between members of a community helped to bind that community together and to aid the creation of ideas that would continue to reverberate for centuries. Paulinus was key to that group iconic ...
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COMMENTARIUS IN S. PAULI APOSTOLI EPISTOLAS III: Epistolae Ad Corinthios Altera Et Ad Galatas. Cum Approbatione Superiorum. Editio 2a Emendata

By: Cornely, Rudolpho [rudolph]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Paris, P. Lethielleux: 1909

Seller ID: 20135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Binding rubbed at extremities with a couple of corners edgeworn. Backstrip chipped and frayed at foot and torn along half of 1 joint, still sound. Text browned, not brittle. Ex-seminary library, no exterior markings. Former owner's name stamped to front pastedown. Rebound in blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine. ; Cursus Scripturae Sacrae, Commentariorum in Nov. Test. Pars II in Libros Didacticos III. ; 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall; 619 pages
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BIBLIOTHECA PATRUM ECCLESIASTICORUM LATINORUM SELECTA. VOL. II, TH. C. CYPRIANI OPERA GENUINA, PARS I. EPISTOLA & VOL. III. PARS II: TRACTATUS Curanted D. I. H. Goldhorn [2 VOLS BOUND in 1]

By: Cyprian; E. G. Gersdorf & D. I. H. Goldhorn (Eds. )

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Bernh. Tauchnitz: 1838

Seller ID: 30918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Book rebound in dark brown boards. Rubbing and edgeworn boards. Spine cover colour has mostly flecked off exposing board underneath. Gilt Spine label with gilt tooling intact. Some foxing and light browning to pages. Scholar's name stamped to ffep (Dr. R. Ten Kate). Endpapers browned. ; Vol. 2.1: (1838) 256 pp; Vol. 3.2 (1839) 279 pp; 2 Volumes Bound in 1 Book. Bibliotheca Patrum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Selecta, Vol. 2.1 & 3.2
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DEI GRATIA IN ROYAL TITLES

By: Dabbs, Jack Autrey

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Mouton: 1971

Seller ID: 382

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Otherwise Fine. ; Study of the function of the "Divine Right" of Royal Titles in the historical development of Europe treated as an onomastic problem concentrating on the ritual or legalistic function. It begins with early concepts of the divine nature of kingship in pre-christian society and traces it to the present day. Looks at Roman Emperors from Coins; Merovingian French kings from coins; Early English Kings; Later English Kings from coins; Studies in European History; Vol. 22; 280 pages
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EMPEROR AND PRIEST The Imperial Office in Byzantium

By: Dagron, Gilbert; Birrell, Jean

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 4265

ISBN: 0521801230

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very minor shelfwear. ; The figure of the Byzantine emperor, a ruler who sometimes was also designated a priest, has long fascinated the western imagination. This book studies in detail the imperial union of two powers, temporal and spiritual, against a wide background of relations between Church and state and religious and political spheres. Presenting much unfamiliar material in complex, brilliant style, it is aimed at all historians concerned with royal and ecclesiastical sources of power. ; Past and Present Publications; 354 pages
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THE TOMB OF SAINT PETER A representative and annotated bibliography of the excavations

By: De Marco, Angelus A.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Brill Academic: 1964

Seller ID: 393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Adhesive traces from former library sticker. ; 264 pages
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A FAREWELL TO THE YAHWIST? The Composition of the Pentateuch in Recent European Interpretation

By: Dozeman, Thomas B. & Konrad Schmid (Eds)

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers: 2006

Seller ID: 2157

ISBN: 9004137661

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Back upper corner has slight crease else Fine. ; Society of Biblical Literature - Symposium Series; 0.8 x 9.7 x 6.5 Inches; 197 pages; Since the assured results of scholarship are rarely certain, it should come as no surprise that the classical formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis has yet again been called into question. However, many North American scholars are unfamiliar with the work of a new generation of European scholars who are advancing an alternate view of the compositional history of the Pentateuch. A growing consensus in Europe argues that the larger blocks of pentateuchal tra...
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PORTRAITS OF SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient

By: Drijvers, Jan Willem & John W. Watt

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers: 1999

Seller ID: 3029

ISBN: 9004114599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket

Top of front panel of dustjacket has tear at corner (1") and creasing along with chipping at head of spine. ; Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 0.7 x 9.5 x 6.3 Inches; 227 pages; This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the pe...
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THE SYNODICON VETUS Text, Translation, and Notes

By: Duffy, John & John Parker

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies: 1979

Seller ID: 4349

ISBN: 0884020886

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light edgewear to top of DJ. Small chip to upper corner of DJ. ; The Vetus Synodicon is an anonymous work listing all the councils of the church up to 887 AD, and so presumably written soon after. ; Dumbarton Oaks Texts Five (V) ; 228 pages
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BYZANTIUM AND THE ROMAN PRIMACY

By: Dvornik, Francis

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press: 1966

Seller ID: 3019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Dustjacket has shelfwear and rubbing has effaced the colour in a few places. One closed tear to DJ near top corner. Light edgewear to DJ. Light shelfwear to book ; Contents: The Principle of Accommodation; the Principle of Apostolicity; schism of acacius; justinian and Rome; primacy in the seventh and eighth centuries; photius and the primacy; crisis of the eleventh century. ; 176 pages
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THE IDEA OF APOSTOLICITY IN BYZANTIUM AND THE LEGEND OF THE APOSTLE ANDREW

By: Dvornik, Francis

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 4342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Thin ring-stain to front panel of DJ. Chipping to head of spine and front upper corner. DJ is price-clipped. ; Contents: Guiding Principle in the Evolution of Church Organization; Idea of Apostolicity in the West and in the East before the Council of Chalcedon; Growth of the Idea of Apostolicity during the Acacian Schism; Birth of the Andrew Tradition concerning Byzantium; Legendary Elements in the Andrew Tradition; Growth of the Andrew Legend; Idea of Apostolicity and the Andrew Legend in the Controversies between Constantinople and Rome. ; Dumbarton Oaks Studies Four (IV) ; 342 pages
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BYZANTIUM AND THE ROMAN PRIMACY

By: Dvornik, Francis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press: 1966

Seller ID: 4353

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

Former owner's bookplate on inner cover. Mild tanning to pages. DJ has been crudely repaired with tape which has turned yellow and stained the DJ. Rubbing to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. ; Contents: The Principle of Accommodation; the Principle of Apostolicity; schism of acacius; justinian and Rome; primacy in the seventh and eighth centuries; photius and the primacy; crisis of the eleventh century. ; 176 pages
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GOTTESBILD UND WAHRNEHMUNG Studien Zu Ambivalenzen Frher Griechischer Gtterdarstellungen (Ca. 800 V. Chr. - Ca. 400 V. Chr.)

By: Eich, Peter

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag: 2011

Seller ID: 8796

ISBN: 3515098550

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very light shelfwear else Fine. ; Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage (Pawb) Band 34; 532 pages; English summary: The ability to translate the inner world of ideas into image displays is one of the original human characteristics. The figments of imagination translated into the communicative sphere as images represent not only external forms, but also memories, conveyed fears, hopes, or other emotions. This is especially true as it pertains to religion. But what image of God did the majority of Greeks of the ancient world hold, and what were their godly images? The book by Peter Eich ...
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HOLY WOMEN OF TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

By: Elkins, Sharon K.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press: 1988

Seller ID: 3907

ISBN: 0807817759

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Laminate lifting along edges of DJ. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; The number of women who entered religious life in England increased greatly in the twelfth century. Monasteries for women multiplied from approximately a dozen at the centuries' beginning to ten times that many at its close. Holy Women of the Twelfth-Century England is the first systematic study of the most creative and expansive face of women's religious life in English history. Sharon Elkins portrays the women who initiated this growth and the varied forms of religious life they -- and the men cooperating with them -- devised. ; S...
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EUSEBII [EUSEBIUS] PAMPHILI EPISCOPI CAESARIENSIS ECLOGAE PROPHETICAE. E Codice Manuscripto Bibliothecae Caesareae Vindobonensis Nunc Primum Edidit Thomas Gaisford

By: Eusebius Pamphili / Of Caesarea; Thomas Gaisford

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1842

Seller ID: 27780

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Bound in half-leather boards with brown pebbled cloth. Appears to be ex-library as spines are labelled with gilt library (Ontario Library) but no internal ex-library markings. Rubbing to leather in places with leather flecking to corners and spine. Small tear to head of spine. Foxing to endpapers. Else minor shelfwear VG. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages
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EUSEBII [EUSEBIUS] PAMPHILI CONTRA HIEROCLEM ET MARCELLUM LIBRI Edidit Thomas Gaisford

By: Eusebius Pamphili / Of Caesarea; Thomas Gaisford

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1952

Seller ID: 27781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY

By: Every, George

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Hamlyn Publishing Group: 1970

Seller ID: 20

ISBN: 0600316017

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Inscription on first page. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; Includes many b/w and colour photographs and illustrations. Protected in mylar covering. Includes chapters covering: The creation, flood and fall; the two cities; the skull; harrowing of hell; Lives of the virgin Mary; the Lives of the Saints; and the visions of the afterlife; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 141 pages
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Category: Theology