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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Greedily she engorged without restraint, And knew not eating death;' Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan's attempts to mislead...

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Varför skriva den här boken? Muslimernas heliga bok - Koranen - har på senare tid varit under attack. Den senaste var den utförd av den danske högerextremisten Rasmus Paludan samt en del av hans anhängare då de brände koranen offentligt i Malmö oc...

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Susan Niditch's commentary on the book of Judges pays careful attention to the literary and narrative techniques of the text and yields fresh readings of the book's difficult passages: stories of violence, ethnic conflict, and gender issues. Nidit...

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Encounter Acts as a book that depicts the church as a hospitable and multicultural community on a journey in which it continues to be surprised by the new realities the Holy Spirit makes possible in the post-Easter world. Acts: An Interpretation B...

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BLA new translation from the Tibetan, with a verse-by-verse philosophical commentary in English Mulamadhyamakakarika is the foundational text for all Mahayana Buddhism and is one of the most influential works in the history of Indian philosophy.

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In 2008, The New York Times reported on the discovery of a Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Christ, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Famed religious scholar Daniel Boyarin stated that 'some Chr...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;'Milton's Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan's attempts to mislead Ev...

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Moral Infringement and Repair in Antiquity, is a series of publications related to a project on Dynamics of Moral Repair in Antiquity, run by Thomas Kazen and Rikard Roitto between 2017 and 2021, and funded by the Swedish Research Council. The vol...

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David Stern shows how the parable or mashal-the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash-was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales ...

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In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern I...

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Varför skriva den här boken? Muslimernas heliga bok - Koranen - har på senare tid varit under attack. Den senaste var den utförd av den danske högerextremisten Rasmus Paludan samt en del av hans anhängare då de brände koranen offentligt i Malmö oc...

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"Förbundstanken har alldeles för länge blivit felaktigt utlärd och missförstådd av många inomkyrkan. Det finns inte bara två förbund i Bibeln, det Gamla och det Nya, där det Nya helt enkeltersätter det Gamla och därmed avskaar det. Ari Sorko-Ram, ...

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The latest work from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher. Foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar's unique teaching style, bringing...

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The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in tradi...

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With the current turmoil in the Middle East, there is a growing interest about Islam-the world's second largest religion and one of the fastest growing-and its holy book, the Koran (or Qur'an). Now, with this easy-to-follow, plain-English guide, y...

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Contrary to popular opinion, the bulk of Islamic law does not come from the Quran but from hadith, first-hand reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds, passed from generation to generation. However, with varying accounts often only commit...

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Does Islam call for the oppression of women? The subjugation of women in many Muslim countries is often used as evidence of this, while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression and inequality. In this paradigm-sh...

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