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		Paul in the Greco-Roman World
		A Handbook		Religion
		Paul Sampley (Edited by)
		TPI 2003 690 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1563382660 230x150mm
		Published Price £50.00		Our Price £19.99
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		Christian Community in History
		Volume Two: Comparative Ecclesiology		Religion
		Roger Haight
		Continuum 2005 518 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0826416314 230x150mm
		Published Price £30.00		Our Price £12.99
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		Christian Community in History
		Volume 1: Historical Ecclesiology		Religion
		Roger Haight
		Continuum 2004 438 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0826416306 230x150mm
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		Pilgrimage
		The Sacred Journey		Religion
		Ruth Barnes; Crispin Branfoot (Edited by)
		Ashmolean Museum 2006 132 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1854442155 280x220mm
		Published Price £14.95		Our Price £5.99
	Comprising five richly illustrated essays, this volume explores the role of pilgrimage in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the religions that developed in India. It was written to coincide with an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum (2006), but it is not a catalogue of the display. It is intended to be read independently as it examines attitudes to pilgrimage in the different religions, and it also includes accounts of individual pilgrimages, both historical and contemporary.
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		Islam and Jihad
		Prejudice versus Reality		Religion
		A G Noorani
		Zed 2002 166 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1842772716
		Published Price £10.99		Our Price £3.99
	Aiming to counter ill-informed prejudices against Muslims in a post-9/11 world, this study argues that many fundamentalists are impostors misusing their faith as a political weapon, and demonstrates the politically motivated and theologically dubious nature of recent assertions by Islamic fundamentalist movements. No jacket.
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		Islam and Jihad
		Prejudice versus Reality		Religion
		A G Noorani
		Zed 2002 166 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1842772708
		Published Price £32.99		Our Price £6.99
	No jacket.
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		Treasures of the Buddha
		The Glories of Sacred Asia		Religion
		Tom Lowenstein
		Duncan Baird 2006 224 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1844833054 300x235mm
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	For around 2,500 years both wealthy patrons of Buddhism and its humble devotees have created a legacy of sacred art and architecture ranging from devotional paintings and manuscripts to some of the most magnificent temples and monasteries ever built. This volume presents a richly illustrated survey of that artistic and cultural heritage, tracing the historical path of Buddhism from its origins in Nepal, along the Silk Road to China, north into the Himalayas and Central Asia and down through South East Asia.
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		The New Testament Code
		The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant and the Blood of Christ		Religion
		Robert Eisenman
		Watkins 2006 1054 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1842931164
		Published Price £30.00		Our Price £9.99
	In the sequel to his James the Brother of Jesus, Robert Eisenmann - who was leader of the campaign to allow free access to the Dead Sea Scrolls - aims to show how those texts relate to Early Christianity. He reveals that deliberate falsifications were introduced into the New Testament: 'as James was written out, anti-Semitism was written in'. His meticulous analysis also provides the tools to decode sayings, such as 'Do not throw holy things to dogs', found in the Gospels.
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		The Forgotten Bible
		The Unknown Jesus, Visions of the Apocalypse, Prophets and Patriarchs		Religion
		JR Porter
		Watkins 2001 278 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1842931512
		Published Price £10.99		Our Price £4.99
	From the mass of Jewish and Christian sacred writings only a selection found their way into the canonical scriptures; the excluded texts often claim to be the very words of biblical figures, and include legends about the miracles of the boy Jesus and the events of his 'missing years'. This anthology contains short excerpts from such texts, with an introduction to the religious, social and political context in which each was produced.
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		The Essential Gnostic Gospels
		Including the Gospel of Thomas and The Gospel of Mary		Religion
		Alan Jacobs
		Watkins 2006 326 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1842931970
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £6.99
	This selection from the Gnostic scriptures includes 23 of the 53 texts discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945, in new poetic translations. Among them are the enigmatic dialogues between Jesus and the disciples in the Gospel of Thomas; the Pistis Sophia in which female followers play a significant part; a prayer of St Paul; and Poimandres, a tract describing the mysteries of Creation and the Destiny of Man. Introduction by Revd Dr Vrej N Nersessian, Coptic Scholar at the British Library.
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		Words on Fire
		The Unfinished Story of Yiddish		Religion
		Dovid Katz
		Basic 2004 494 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0465037305
		Published Price £11.99		Our Price £3.99
	A history of the culture and literature of Yiddish from its roots in Hebrew and Aramaic to its place in modern literature, illustrating how the language reflects the history, tenacity and humour of the Jewish people and arguing that Yiddish will continue to thrive as a language in the 21st century.
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		The Egerton Genesis
				Religion
		Mary Coker Joslin; Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson
		British Library 2001 316 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0712346481 245x172mm
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	Montague Rhodes James, who discovered the Egerton Genesis (Egerton MS 1894) in 1919, described it as 'the most puzzling book I have ever seen', and scholars have remained perplexed by its unconventional religious iconography and peculiar Anglo-Italianate style. This first comprehensive study of the 14th century Genesis Picture Book includes
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		The Book of Cerne
		Prayer, Patronage and Power in Ninth-Century England		Religion
		Michelle P Brown
		British Library 1996 258 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 071230486X
		Published Price £45.00		Our Price £14.99
	Michelle Brown presents a full-length study of the Book of Cerne (Cambridge University Library MS L1.1.10), a prayer book made around 820-840 for a patron whose cultural tastes embraced Celtic, Anglo- Saxon, Carolingian, Roman and Byzantine materials. With its complex interplay of text, script and image, it offers a fascinating insight into Insular culture and is the only surviving illuminated manuscript which can be firmly attributed to the powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
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		Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really
		Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine		Religion
		Bart D Ehrman
		Oxford University Press 2006 207 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0195307135
		Published Price £6.99		Our Price £3.99
	Dan Brown claimed that the historical information in The Da Vinci Code was factually accurate. Professor Erhman reveals its numerous historical mistakes, separates fact from literary fancy and offers a wealth of background information on early Christianity.
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		Trajectories Through the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers
				Religion
		Andrew F Gregory; Christopher M Tuckett (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2005 506 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199267839
		Published Price £79.00		Our Price £19.99
	Comprising 20 essays, this second volume ofThe New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers discusses broad theaological, literary and historical issues that arise in the comparative study of the two sets of texts (the New Testament and the texts conventionally referred to as the Apostolic Fathers).
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