Oxford University Press

George Benston, professor of Finance, Accounting, and Economics at Emory University and an impassioned advocate for corporate integrity, died unexpectedly in January 2008. His colleagues have selected and organized his most important papers into two volumes. This first volume consists of his research in the banking and financial services industry....

What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and PseudepigraphaJews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of...

Twelve EssaysAn assessment of the economic success of Imperial Rome, consisting of eleven        previously published papers by the historian W. V. Harris, with additional comments        to bring them up to date. Harris also includes a new study of poverty and        destitution, and a substantial introduction which ties the...

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In this book, a team of well-regarded scholars digs deeper to examine the role religion played in the 2008 campaign. They take a long view, placing the election in historical context and looking at the campaign as a whole, from the primaries through all the way through election day. At the heart of their analysis is data gleaned from a national...