The Song of Songs: A New Translation
10 best books like The Song of Songs: A New Translation (Anonymous): The Dead Lecturer, Solo: On Her Own Adventure, Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year, The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach, Sermons of Meister Eckhart, The School Among the Ruins, The Awful Rowing Toward God, Jesus: A Very Short Introduction, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
| Author | Amiri Baraka |
| ISBN | 0394172477 |
Amiri Baraka has been so many different kinds of writers throughout his long career that it would be hard to say that I like all of his work--rather, I like several of the writers he's been and LeRoi Jones is my favorite. The Dead Lecturer was written at the height of his disillusionment with the New York...
| Author | Susan Fox Rogers |
| ISBN | 1580051375 |
Back by popular demand, this second edition of Solo adds new stories to the ones readers already lovewomen pedaling across New Zealand, hiking in the Adirondacks, bodyboarding with dolphins off the California Coast, and driving through the northwestern United States. With plenty of alone-time...
| Author | Robert E. Webber |
| ISBN | 0801091756 |
Millions of Christians worldwide follow the liturgical Christian calendar in their worship services and in their own personal devotions. The seasons of the Christian year connect believers of diverse backgrounds and offer the sense of unity Jesus desired. Robert Webber believes that we can get...
| Author | Gaius Julius Caesar |
| ISBN | 0307377865 |
Gallic War - Civil War - Alexandrian War - African War - Spanish War
Between 58 and 50 B.C., Caesar led his army to twice invade Britain and conquer most of the land that is now France, Belgium, and Switzerland. The Gallic Wars served two purposes: to offer a record of Caesar's travels and insights...
| Author | Bruce K. Waltke |
| ISBN | 0310218977 |
The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It is even more than a theological and prophetic backdrop to the New Testament. Beyond these, the Old Testament is inspired revelation of the very nature, character, and...
Johannes Eckhart - (ca. 1260-1327), German Dominican mystic
Meister Eckhart (in English, Master Eckhart; born Johannes Eckhart; also called Eckhart von Hocheim; also spelled Eckehart) was a theologian, a writer, and the greatest German mystic of the Middle Ages. His writings focused on the...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393327558 |
In this new collection Adrienne Rich confronts dislocations and upheavals in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The title poem, in a young schoolteacher's voice, evokes the lessons that children ("Not of course here") learn amid violence and hatred, "when the whole town...
| Author | Anne Sexton |
| ISBN | 0395203651 |
From Wikipedia: Sexton's eighth collection of poetry is entitled The Awful Rowing Toward God. The title came from her meeting with a Roman Catholic priest who, although unwilling to administer last rites, told her "God is in your typewriter." This gave the poet the desire and willpower to continue...
| Author | Richard Bauckham |
| ISBN | 0199575274 |
Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee in the early first...
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
| Author | Leo Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0226771873 |
Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0877286183 |
Let me say, first, that this is extraordinarily intricate and complicated. I have only the roughest knowledge of the precepts of Kabbalah, and found this to be quite difficult to get through. The book is structured into five parts (1. The first verses of creation, 2. The alphabet, 3. The Seven Voices...
Oroonoko and Other Writings
| Author | Aphra Behn |
| ISBN | 0192834606 |
The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The works included are The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The History of the Nun, The Adventure...
Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary
| Author | Robert Alter |
| ISBN | 0393348768 |
To read the books of the Former Prophets in this riveting Robert Alter translation is to discover an entertaining amalgam of hair-raising action and high literary achievement. Samson, the vigilante superhero of Judges, slaughters thousands of Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey. David, the...
The Story of Saiunkoku, Vol. 7
| Author | Kairi Yura |
| ISBN | 1421541807 |
Shurei Hong, destitute but of noble birth, has always dreamed of working as a civil servant in the imperial court of Saiunkoku, but women are barred from holding office. The emperor Ryuki, however, refuses to take command, leaving everything to his advisers. Shurei is asked to become a consort to the...
