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Seeking the Favor of God: The development of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement
"Over ten years in the making, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement offers for the first time a sweeping historical and theological treatment of this complex, vibrant global communion. Written by more than 300 contributors, this major reference work contains over 700 original articles covering all of the significant individuals, events, places, and theological tenets that have shaped the Movement. Much more than simply a historical dictionary, this volume also constitutes an interpretive work reflecting historical consensus among Stone-Campbell scholars, even as it attempts to present a fair, representative picture of the rich heritage that is the Stone-Campbell Movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Reason in Nature
A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural. John McDowell is one of the English-speaking world’s most influential living philosophers, whose work has shaped debates in mind, language, metaphysics, epistemology, meta-ethics, and the history of philosophy. A common thread running through McDowell’s diverse contributions has been his critique of a form of reductive naturalism according to which human minds must be governed by laws essentially similar to those that govern the rest of nature. Against this widely ac...
The Early Reception of the Book of Isaiah
This volume brings together a lively set of papers from the first session of the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature program unit of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in 2016. Together with a few later contributions, these essays explore a number of thematic and textual issues as they trace the reception history of the Book of Isaiah in Deuterocanonical and cognate literature.
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
A history of research that changed scholarly perceptions of early Judaism This collection of essays by some of the most important scholars in the fields of early Judaism and Christianity celebrates fifty years of the study of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha at the Society of Biblical Literature and the pioneering scholars who introduced the Pseudepigrapha to the Society. Since its early days as a breakfast meeting in 1969, the Pseudepigrapha Section has provided a forum for a rigorous discussion of these understudied texts and their relevance for Judaism and Christianity. Contributors recount the history of the section's beginnings, critically examine the vivid debates that shaped the discipline, and challenge future generations to expand the field in new interdisciplinary directions. Features: Reflections from early members of the Pseudepigrapha Group Essays that examine a methodological shift from capturing and preserving traditions to exploring the intellectual and social world of Jewish antiquity Evaluations of past interactions with adjacent fields and the larger academic world
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
Contains biographies of active and retired athletes, living or dead, plus media personalities, coaches, and administrators.
Mind, Value, and Reality
This book collects some of McDowell’s most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as the interpretation of Aristotle’s and Plato’s ethical writings, questions in moral philosophy that arise out of the Greek tradition, Wittengensteinian ideas about reason in action, and issues central to philosophy of mind.
So Deep in Shadow
A collection of short stories about the extremes humans can find ourselves in-often of our own making. Each story uses the adverb "so" in its title, indicating the extreme function of the following adjectives (tired, snowy, long, alive, dense, rude?). McDowell employs fantasy, literary fiction, historical fiction, speculative fiction, and more in the collection.- "So Dense" - An unusually dense fog-and a blind woman who seems to know more than climate scientists.- "So Snowy" - Santa? Is that you? - "So Humane" - The 'louison' was invented by the French as a humane method of execution?who went first?- "So Quiet" - What if you came back from vacation unable to speak to certain people??and six more unusual and engaging stories by Markus McDowell.
