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Harry Stout's groundbreaking study of preaching in colonial New England changed the field when it first appeared in 1986. Here, twenty-five years later, is a reissue of Stout's book: a reconstruction of the full import of the colonial sermon as a multi-faceted institution that served both religious and political purposes and explained history and...

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Written by a team of over 70 leading international scholars from various religious backgrounds, this definitive reference work provides students, ministers, and general readers with an authoritative non-denominational commentary on the whole Bible and a number of non-biblical writings....

The tales with which Sheherazade nightly postpones the murderous intent of the Sultan Schahriar have entered our language and our lives like no other collection before or since. This, the only edition to include the complete text of the earliest English translation of the   Nights, also offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes...

`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture        and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders        of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the        course of human history?In this well-established classic, Professor Lewis...

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