Revival and Awakening (Pocket)
avAdam H. Becker
ISBN: 9780226145310 - UTGIVEN: 2015-03For most Americans the powerful ties between religion and nationalism in the Middle East are utterly foreign forces, profoundly tied to the regional histories of the people who live there. However, Adam H. Becker shows that Americans themselves - through their missionaries - had a strong hand in the[...]
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom (Inbunden)
avAdam H. Becker
ISBN: 9780812239348 - UTGIVEN: 200605The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the[...]
The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Inbunden)
avAdam H. Becker, Annette Yoshiho Reed
ISBN: 9783161479663 - UTGIVEN: 2003-12Traditional scholarship on the history of Jewish/Christian relations has been largely based on the assumption that Judaism and Christianity were shaped by a definitive 'Parting of the Ways'. According to this model, the two religions institutionalized their differences by the second century and, the[...]
The Ways That Never Parted (Pocket)
avAdam H. (EDT) Becker, Annette Yoshiko (EDT) Reed, Martin (FRW) Goodman
ISBN: 9780800662097 - UTGIVEN: 2007-07In this first paperback edition of a volume originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003, stellar international scholars question whether there in fact was a "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity. Includes a new preface by the editors discussing scholarship since 2003.[...]
