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Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion        dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and        environmental initiatives around the world. Despite these efforts, 20% of the world        still lives on less than $1.50 a day and the environment within which all...

A fully illustrated study of healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. The focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose   Sacred Tales is examined in the context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing....

This book analyzes the history of the interpretation of the book of Job by medieval Jewish exegetes. The scholarship on medieval Jewish thought has focused largely on the systematic philosophical aspects of this literature. Eisen, however, is concerned with exegesis qua exegesis. He offers a close examination of commentaries on Job written by six...