Oxford University Press

Since the advent of the cinema, Jesus has frequently appeared in our movie houses and on our television screens. Drawing on a broad range of movies, biblical scholar Adele Reinhartz traces the way in which Jesus of Nazareth has become Jesus of Hollywood. As the story of Jesus continues to capture the imagination of filmmakers and moviegoers, he...

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The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining tales of devastating epidemics with accessible science and fascinating history,    Deadly Companions reveals how closely microbes have evolved with us over the millennia, shaping human culture through infection, disease, and deadly pandemic....

Books 41-45 and the PeriochaeThe Third Macedonian War ended the kingdom created by Philip II and Alexander the Great and was a crucial step in Rome's dominance of the Mediterranean. Livy's narrative is also a moral study of the individuals involved. This edition includes the Periochae, later summaries of Livy's original 142-book history....

A Very Short IntroductionWhat is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? This  Very Short Introduction highlights the diversity of contemporary Anglicanism by exploring its fascinating history, theology, and structure, and reveals what it is that...

In the last decade, there have been rapid and enormous developments in the field of unit roots and cointegration, but this progress has taken divergent directions, and has been subjected to criticism from outside the field. This book responds to those criticisms, clearly relating cointegration to economic theories and describing cointegrated...