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Classics and Religion REFERENCE WORKS
A Guide to Classical Knowledge EDITED BY JACQUES BRUNSCHWIG AND GEOFFREY E. R. LLOYD TRANSLATED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CATHERINE PORTER In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.
A Guide to the Postclassical World EDITED BY G. W. BOWERSOCK, PETER BROWN, OLEG GRABAR In eleven comprehensive essays and more than 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides the latest scholarship and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of late antiquity, an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. This intriguing era emerges completely and clearly, viewed from new vantage points, in a guide that will be enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike.
EDITED BY ROBERT ALTER, FRANK KERMODE "Robert Alter, an outstanding biblical scholar, and Frank Kermode, one of the most notable of the literary scholars, have edited a virtual encyclopedia of literary approaches to the Bible...The publication of The Literary Guide to the Bible...marks an important moment in the history of Bible studies." --New York Times
A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era JAMES L. KUGEL James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been universally praised. Here now is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. For this full-scale reference work Kugel has added a substantial treasury of sources and passages for each of the twenty-four Bible stories.
COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
JAMES L. KUGEL This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.
EDITED BY JACQUES BRUNSCHWIG, GEOFFREY E. R. LLOYD TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE PORTER In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.
Major Figures and Trends EDITED BY JACQUES BRUNSCHWIG, GEOFFREY E. R. LLOYD TRANSLATED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CATHERINE PORTER This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.
From Pagan Rome to Byzantium SERIES EDITORS PHILLIPPE ARIÈS, GEORGES DUBY VOLUME EDITOR PAUL VEYNE TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER "One of the most arresting, original, and rewarding historical surveys to be published in many years." --Atlantic Monthly PRIMARY SOURCES
This series aims to make available to a broad readership the most significant literary, historical, and philosophical works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin, with reliable English translations on facing pages.
The only series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page.
5 Volumes W. SPEED HILL, GENERAL EDITOR RICHARD HOOKER
20 Volumes WILLIAM JAMES
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