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Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A        missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles he laid the        foundations on which later Christian theology was built.In his highly original        introduction to Paul's life and thought, E. P. Sanders, whose research on Paul...

The Homeric Hymns honour the Greek gods. They are called 'Homeric' because the        ancients attributed them to Homer; it is now accepted that they were composed by        later poets working in the same tradition. Four of them stand out by reason of their        length and quality: Hymns 2-5, in honour of Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and...

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American Modernism and Depression Documentary examines literary modernism in the U.S. through the lens of the Depression-era "e;documentary book,"e; a hybrid genre that experiments with novel ways of combining photographic images with textual narratives. It thereby demonstrates often-neglected affinities between 1930s documentary expression...

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Dorothy Fields was best known as a lyricist, one of the few women who played a central role in the great period of American popular song from 1920 to 1960. Fields first became prominent writing the lyrics for Cotton Club shows in Harlem in the late 1920s and 1930s, and her most successful collaboration was with the great songwriter Jerome Kern. Her...