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Studies in Classics eBook Series

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  • For Salvation's Sake

    Provincial Loyalty, Personal Religion, and Epigraphic Production in the Roman and Late Antique Near East

    by Jason Moralee ...
    Series series Studies in Classics
    This book breaks new ground in the study of cultural unity in the Near East from pre-Roman to early Islamic times (first century BC - eighth century AD). Based on a thorough study of nearly 400 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, this book shows how the formula 'for salvation's sake' (hyper soterias/pro salute) was fundamental to the political, social and religious ... Read more

    $87.93 CAD

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  • The City of God

    Complete in a single file

    by Saint Augustine ...
    Translated by Marcus Dods ...
    According to the editor's preface: "The City of God is the masterpiece of the greatest genius among the Latin Fathers, and the best known and most read of his works, except the Confessions. It embodies the results of thirteen years of intellectual labor and study (from A.D. 413-426). It is a vindication of Christianity against the attacks of the heathen in view of the sacking of the city of Rome ... Read more

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  • The Robe

    by Lloyd C. Douglas ...
    This collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. Marcellus, a Roman soldier, ends up with the task of participating first hand in the crucifixion of Jesus. In order to numb himself from the reality of what he is doing, he gets drunk, gambles for and wins Christ's Robe. This is the story of where the Robe and his involvement in this event lead him. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    by Gibbon, Edward ...
    All six volumes are contained in this eBook. There is a linked table of contents, and the footnotes are also linked.Gibbon’s masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely considered the greatest work of history ever written.The History of the Decline and ... Read more

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  • From Shame to Sin

    by Kyle Harper ...
    The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

    Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • Font of Life

    Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism

    by Garry Wills ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also extraordinarily different in personality. In Font of Life, Garry Wills explores the remarkable moment when their lives intersected at one of the most ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Inheriting Abraham

    The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

    by Jon D. Levenson ...
    Series series Library of Jewish Ideas
    How Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have reimagined Abraham in their own imagesJews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how the increasingly ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • A History of New Testament Times in Palestine, 175 B.C. 70 A.D.

    by Shailer Mathews ...
    •Covers the history of Palestine 175 B.C. 70 A.D. , from the time of Seleucid rule to the emergence of the Christian Church.Shailer Mathews was a Christian theologian and noted author, serving as the dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Mathews A History of New Testament Times in Palestine, 175 B.C. 70 A.D. is a concise history of Palestine from the 2nd centuries B.C. to ... Read more

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  • Policing the Roman Empire

    Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order

    by Christopher J. Fuhrmann ...
    Historians often regard the police as a modern development, and indeed, many pre-modern societies had no such institution. Most recent scholarship has claimed that Roman society relied on kinship networks or community self-regulation as a means of conflict resolution and social control. This model, according to Christopher Fuhrmann, fails to properly account for the imperial-era evidence, which ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • Augustine and the Jews

    by Paula Fredriksen ...

    $21.99 CAD

  • Encountering Islam

    Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca

    by Paul Auchterlonie ...
    Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized European shipping, capturing thousands of vessels and enslaving hundreds of thousands of Christians. Encountering Islam is the fascinating story of one ... Read more

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