Generations have grown up with Hurlbut's Story of the Bible. Now generations to come will enjoy the great Bible stories of the original classic in a new, easy to understand text. The Kid's Bible St…
The main concern of these articles is the interaction of Syriac with Greek culture in Late Antiquity. The book includes an examination of the process of translation from Greek into Syriac, studies …
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and …
Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical …
Brown shows how a 19th-century evangelical print community developed textual practices to use the Word of the Bible and printed words of their own to create a sanctified life and, in the process, t…
In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party--the divine. Thus romance is not just an encounter between lovers, but a triangle of affect…
In the "twinkling of an eye" Jesus secretly returns to earth and gathers to him all believers. As they are taken to heaven, the world they leave behind is plunged into chaos. Cars and airplanes cra…