This book provides theological reasons and biblical references for Christian missionary involvement, with particular focus on contemporary Africa. Mugambi exhaustively explores a wide range of topics relating to Christian mission and offers suggestions...

During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, different ideas and beliefs abounded. It was during this period of roughly three centuries that two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shi'ism...

Prasna Marga is a unique work on astrology, natal and horary, of vital importance to every astrological scholar, practitioner and student. The author, a Nambudari Brahmin of Kerala who wrote this book in 1650 A.D., was a renowned scholar and has culled...

Focusing on the figure of the rabbi, this book provides a vivid picture of Italian Jewry during the Renaissance. The author discusses Jewish life of the period (c.1450–1600) in its social, institutional, and cultural aspects, placing them against the...

As a nineteenth-century entrepreneur, philanthropist, communal leader, and champion of Jewish civil rights, Moses Montefiore's activities spanned Britain, Europe, the Holy Land, and much of the Middle East and North Africa.

These studies deal with the origins of the movement known as Hasidism, and also with the teachings of some of the earliest exponents of the tradition.

A general introduction to the history and high achievement of the Jewish community of Germany in the two centuries before its destruction by the Nazis.

Art from the Ashes provides the most far-reaching collection of art, drama, poetry, and prose about the Holocaust ever presented in a single volume. Through the works of men and women, Jews and non-Jews, this anthology offers a vision of the human...

Christ Is Time: The Gospel according to Karl Barth (and the Red Hot Chili Peppers) welcomes you to the jungle of Barth’s head-banging opus, the Church Dogmatics, with the beats, rhythms, and lyrics of Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Metallica, and more...

America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by...

A Proven Approach to Help You Interpret and Understand the BibleGrasping God's Word has proven itself in classrooms across the country as an invaluable help to students who want to learn how to read, interpret, and apply the Bible for themselves. This...

Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany.Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the...