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  • RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS
    TIMOTHY BEAL
    Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying. So too when it comes to encounters with the monsters that haunt Jewish and Christian traditions. Religion has a lot to do with horror, and horror has a lot to do with religion. Religion has its monsters, and monsters have their religion. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy Beal explores how rel...

    $1,100.00

  • THEORY FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
    WILLIAM E. DEAL / TIMOTHY K. BEAL
    In this handy volume, two professors of religious studies provide the student of religious studies - whether the motivated undergraduate, graduate student, or professor - with a brief review of theorists' work from the perspective of religious studies. For example, in 5-10 pages, the reader will get a review of Emmanuel Levinas's work as it offers insights for scholars in relig...

    $1,100.00

  • THE BOOK OF HIDING
    TIMOTHY K. BEAL
    The Book of Hiding offers a fluent and erudite analysis of the parallels between the Bible and contemporary discussions of gender, ethnicity and social ambiguity. Beal focuses particularly on the traditionally marginalised book of Esther, in order to examine closely the categories of self and other in relation to religion, sexism, nationalism, and the ever-looming legacies and ...

    $1,380.00

  • BIBLICAL LITERACY
    TIMOTHY BEAL
    "The Bible . . . is a locked treasure for those unfamiliar with the Scriptures. . . . Beal offers a key with his accessible guide." — Cleveland Plain Dealer Timothy Beal's  Biblical Literacy is a one-stop course in the Bible passages and background information that everyone needs to know to navigate our nuanced cultural landscape—from devout believers to decided atheists, avera...

    $229.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BIBLE
    TIMOTHY BEAL
    A professor of religion offers an “engrossing and excellent” look at how the Good Book has changed—and changed the world—through the ages (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   In a lively journey from early Christianity to the present, this book explores how a box of handwritten scrolls became the Bible, and how the multibillion-dollar business that has brought us Biblezines a...

    $229.00