The Quakers,
1656–1723

The Evolution of an Alternative Community

Richard C. Allen and Rosemary Moore, with specialist contributors

“A really significant contribution to Quaker studies scholarship and an impressively coherent collection of some of the best and latest thinking about the enigmatic ‘second period.’ This book offers us a clear way through the nuances and complexities of a period of massive change for the Quaker movement.”—Ben Pink Dandelion, author of The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction

The Human Spirit

Beginnings from Genesis to Science

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle

“A rich, synthetic, and nuanced investigation. This is a highly original piece of work that draws on an astounding array of primary sources as well as the author’s incredible knowledge of rhetoric and philology, archaeology, ornithology, the science of avian flight, and ancient crafts of tent-making, Greek earthenware, and metallurgy. This is an erudite tour de force that requires but will also reward patient reading.”—Barbara Pitkin, author of What Pure Eyes Could See: Calvin’s Doctrine of Faith in Its Exegetical Context

The Powerless Church and Other Selected Writings, 1955–1985

Ivan Illich
Foreword by Giorgio Agamben, Assembled by Valentina Borremans and Sajay Samuel

“Illich was one of the most interesting thinkers of the twentieth century, profound and incapable of being pigeonholed. In this collection of writings one can trace the connection between Illich’s radical critiques of bureaucratic, managerial modes of production in both church and state and his deep spiritual sense that vulnerability to God and to other people is necessary for a life that is truly alive.”—William T. Cavanaugh, author of The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict

Defending the Faith

John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church

Edited by Angela Ranson, André A. Gazal, and Sarah Bastow

A theologian and scholar who worked with early reformers in England such as Peter Martyr Vermigli, Martin Bucer, and Thomas Cranmer, John Jewel had a long-lasting influence over religious culture and identity. The essays in this book shed light on often-neglected aspects of Jewel’s work, as well as his standing in Elizabethan culture not only as a priest but as a leader whose work as a polemicist and apologist played an important role in establishing the authority and legitimacy of the Elizabethan Church of England.

Call for Papers: Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research

Free article from the Journal of General Education

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, Volume 3

Bezalel Porten, and Ada Yardeni

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way into museums, libraries, and private collections. Four major publications covering some of these texts have appeared, three of which encompass the ostraca held by individual collectors only. This multivolume work classifies the ostraca according to subject matter and brings them together in a single publication. Volumes 1 and 2 covered fifty personal name dossiers (TAO A1–50). Volume 3 contains. . . . (more)

Ashkelon 6

The Middle Bronze Age Ramparts and Gates of the North Slope and Later Fortifications

Edited by Lawrence E. Stager, J. David Schloen, and Ross J. Voss

From the first gate and rampart in the Middle Bronze Age through mud-brick towers from the Iron Age, these defenses are evidence of how the seaport of Ashkelon was both a political force in the southern Levant and an economic power in the eastern Mediterranean. This volume includes the monumental mud-brick gate of Ashkelon, the shrine of the silver calf, and towers from the time of the Philistines. Since each ancient fortification phase was also. . . . (more)