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The Gospel Of John - A Biography

de Kim Haines-Eitzen

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 The contentious life and times of the most widely cited book of the New Testament.
The Jefferson Bible - A Biography

de Peter Manseau

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 The life and times of a uniquely American testamentIn his retirement, Thomas Jefferson edited the New Testament with a penknife and glue, removing all mention of miracles and other supernatural events. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, Jefferson hoped to reconcile Christian tradition with reason by presenting Jesus of Nazareth as a g
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer'S Letters And Papers From Prison - A Biography

de Martin E. Marty

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 From National Book Award-winning author Martin Marty, the surprising story of a Christian classic born in a Nazi prison cellFor fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and
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The Yoga Sutra Of Patanjali - A Biography

de David Gordon White

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 White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra from its ancient origins to today, bringing to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations and misappropriations led to its revered place in contemporary popular culture.
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The Passover Haggadah - A Biography

de Vanessa L. Ochs

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 The life and times of a treasured book read by generations of Jewish families at the seder tableEvery year at Passover, Jews around the world gather for the seder, a festive meal where family and friends come together to sing, pray, and enjoy traditional food while retelling the biblical story of the Exodus. The Passover Haggadah provides the s
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The Book Of Revelation - A Biography

de Timothy Beal

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 The life and times of the New Testament's most mystifying and incendiary bookFew biblical books have been as revered and reviled as Revelation. Many hail it as the pinnacle of prophetic vision, the cornerstone of the biblical canon, and, for those with eyes to see, the key to understanding the past, present, and future. Others denounce it as th
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The I Ching - A Biography

de Richard J. Smith

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 The "I Ching" originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic. This title tells the extraordinary story of how this cryptic and once obscure book became one of the most widely read and extensively analyzed texts in all of world literature.
Paradise Lost - A Biography

de Alan Jacobs

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The Book Of Mormon - A Biography

de Paul C. Gutjahr

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 The surprising career of Joseph Smith's famous bookLate one night in 1823, Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas' ancient peoples, and which would res
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Augustine'S Confessions - A Biography

de Garry Wills

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 From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions-what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed.
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The Talmud - A Biography

de Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

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 The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spirituality.
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The Koran In English - A Biography

de Bruce B. Lawrence

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 The untold story of how the Arabic Qur'an became the English Koran
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C. S. Lewis'S Mere Christianity - A Biography

de George M. Marsden

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 The life and times of C. S. Lewis's modern spiritual classicMere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and inspiring book. George Marsden describe
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The Book Of Job - A Biography

de Mark Larrimore

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 The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe book of Job raises stark questions about the meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books. Mark Larrimore provides a panoramic history of this remarkable book, traversing centurie
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The Book Of Genesis - A Biography

de Ronald Hendel

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Thomas Aquinas'S Summa Theologiae - A Biography

de Bernard Mcginn

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 The life and times of the most important theological work of medieval ChristendomThomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and 1273, it was conceived by Aquinas as an instructional guide for teachers and novices and a compendium of all the approved teachings of the Catholic C
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The Book Of Common Prayer - A Biography

de Alan Jacobs

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 How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English languageWhile many of us are familiar with such famous words as "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated in The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the wo
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The Dead Sea Scrolls - A Biography

de John J. Collins

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 Unraveling the controversies surrounding the Dead Sea ScrollsSince they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination-and controversy-than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the ti
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The Jefferson Bible - A Biography

de Peter Manseau

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 The life and times of a uniquely American testamentIn his retirement, Thomas Jefferson edited the New Testament with a penknife and glue, removing all mention of miracles and other supernatural events. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, Jefferson hoped to reconcile Christian tradition with reason by presenting Jesus of Nazareth as a g
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The Last Butterflies - A Scientist'S Quest To Save A Rare And Vanishing Creature

de Nick Haddad

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 A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinctionMost of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr? Because of their extreme rarity, these butterflies are not wel
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The Life Of Saint Teresa Of Avila - A Biography

de Carlos Eire

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 The life and many afterlives of one of the most enduring mystical testaments ever writtenThe Life of Saint Teresa of Avila is among the most remarkable accounts ever written of the human encounter with the divine. The Life is not really an autobiography at all, but rather a confession written for inquisitors by a nun whose raptures and mystical
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The Book Of Exodus - A Biography

de Joel S. Baden

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 An essential biography of one of the Bible's most powerful and inspiring booksExodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells
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The Talmud - A Biography

de Barry Scott Wimpfheimer

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 The life and times of an enduring work of Jewish spiritualityThe Babylonian Talmud, a postbiblical Jewish text that is part scripture and part commentary, is an unlikely bestseller. Written in a hybrid of Hebrew and Aramaic, it is often ambiguous to the point of incomprehension, and its subject matter reflects a narrow scholasticism that should
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The Song Of Songs - A Biography

de Ilana Pardes

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 The Song of Songs has been embraced for centuries as the ultimate song of love. But the kind of love readers have found in this ancient poem is strikingly varied. Here, Pardes explores the dramatic shift from readings of the Song as a poem on divine love to celebrations of its exuberant account of human love.
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