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No comprehensive history of Israelite religion has been published for some time now, so this new, encyclopaedic work mee
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'One of the great mythic poems of Europe' The New York Times Sharing its title with the poetic name for Finla
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Before the rise of monotheism, the early Hebrews were pagan and God had a wife, the Mother Goddess. The Bible tells the
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This study argues that familiar Bible stories such as Noah and the Flood, Moses and the Exodus, and Jonah and the Whale
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Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings co
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Abdisho bar Brikha (d. 1318) was a prominent East Syriac writer. While many of his works did not survive, his The Paradi
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This collection of essays sheds new light on the relationship between two of the main drivers of intellectual discourse
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In the eleventh century, the Bible was available only in expensive and rare hand-copied manuscripts. Today, millions of
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