We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues in this highly original, engaging, and elegant work, that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ......
Contributors survey the "state of the question" on specific issues in New Testament interpretation where interdisciplinary methods have played important roles: socioeconomic realities, communication media, the role of scribes and of social memory, orality and literacy, people's history and the study of peasant resistance.
Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486280
Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts.
Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280
Aside from the wellknown plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of Ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings these nearly lost works to modern readers with lively English translations of the surviving texts. The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of ......
Reclaiming Scriptural Narratives for Positive Psychology and Suicide P
Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a biblically-based approach to suicide prevention, designed to overcome suicidogenic patterns in fourteen patients fitting into seven Graeco-Roman suicidal syndromes. Kaplan and Cantz use biblical narratives alongside an in-depth positive psychology, aimed at promoting life instead of simply preventing ......
Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry, revised edition (POD)
Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best of the Achaeans bridged that gap, raising new questions about what could be known or conjectured about Greek heroes. In this revised edition, ......
Paul's Rhetoric of Gender and Power in 1 Corinthians
Being Subordinate Men offers a gender critical examination of Paul's use of gender and power in the argument of 1 Corinthians, showing that the apostle consistently undermines first-century Roman norms of masculinity.
Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War
A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the Athenians, since losing the battle would have led to their total defeat by Sparta and, perhaps, the ......
Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War
A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the Athenians, since losing the battle would have led to their total defeat by Sparta and, perhaps, the ......