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... View More...
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. View More...
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 Lattke?s 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... View More...
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... View More...
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 ... View More...
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. 1/2/2023; 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, Pa... View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Book has very minor shelfwear else fine. ; In German. Der renommierte Ägyptologe Jan Assmann über die politische oder theoretische Legitimation von Herrschaft. Wie seine Studien zu den Wurzeln der Religionen Ägyptens und Israels zeigen, fanden die Staaten- und Rechtsbildungen vor der Entwicklung der religiösen Weltbilder statt. Fundamentale Prinzipien wie Gerechtigkeit, Macht, Solidarität, Schuld, Gesetz und Recht wurden zuerst im Politischen umgesetzt, bevor sie ins Religiöse und Theologische transformiert wurden. ; 1.38 x 9.02 x 5.79 Inches; 338 pa... View More...
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 ... View More...
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theorie... View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 frequently.... View More...
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 ... View More...
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... View More...
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 View More...
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 ... View More...
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 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 619 pages View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 people... View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 View More...
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 ... View More...
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... View More...
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; 416 pages View More...
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 View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. ; St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History; 0.8 x 9.4 x 6 Inches; 242 pages; At first sight, the subjects of piety and family life may appear to have little in common. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, there are in fact a number of shared features and points of contact that make the study of these issues a particularly fertile area for scholars of the Reformation period. Whether it be the concept of an individual's relationship with God - so often articulated in familial terms, the place of domestic devotions, or the difficulties that ... View More...
Minor shelfwear. Light bump to top corner; This study explores how powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen empires from 2nd-9th centuries AD, and how tensions between orthodoxy and heresy broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the more pluralistic commonwealths of Christendom and Islam. ; 9.5 x 0.75 x 6.5 Inches; 224 pages View More...
Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light edgewear to book. ; This is the first critical edition of a set of regulations for the secular clergy prepared by Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York, in the early years of the eleventh century. ; Early English Text Society No. 266; 118 pages View More...
Wraps and spine are browned. Former owner has hand-written title to spine in pen. Light tanning to pages. Minor shelfwear. ; Conference publication: Contents (in Dutch) : I. Het antieke woord "Mystèrion" in dienst van het christelijke mysterie; Augustinus en de Eloquentia; De mens in de Valentiniaanse Gnosis; Het oude Christendom ien de antieke Wijsbegeerte. ; 95 pages View More...
Pagest tanned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. Some browning to DJ. ; Title continues: "With a facsimile of the Siloam inscription by J. Euting, and a table of alphabets by M. Lidzbarski"; 8.2 X 5.8 X 1.6 inches; 598 pages View More...
Very light pencil underlining and a few words in pencil in text. Dustjacket has edgewear with chipping and tears. ; The Popes through History; Vol. 1; 226 pages; First biography of the important pontiff who presided over the Council of Florence, turned back the tide of the Conciliar Movement in the Church, and reunited Eastern and Western Christians after the Great Schism. View More...
Dustjacket has a few small nicks and tears at the top of the spine. DJ is price-clipped. ; This books consists of a series of 35 scholarly articles written by near eastern specialists on the occasion of the 80th birthday of William Albright (now deceased) , one of the foremost experts in near eastern studies in the last century. ; 503 pages; Some Articles include: Passive and Ergative in Hebrew; Phoenician Elements in Isaiah; A re-study of an Elephantine Aramaic Marriage Contract; Redaction of the Plague Narrative in Exodus; History and Cult in the Old Testament; Yahweh and Mari; Punic Art in ... View More...
Minor discoloration to part of boards. Scholar's initials to ffep (H. J. Mason). Very light chipping to corners and spine ends of DJ. Back panel of DJ lightly yellowed. ; 81 photographs, 38 line drawings and 1 map. Looks at the period before 526 AD. ; 268 pages View More...
