Overview :Rembrandt's masterful Bathsheba Reading King David's Letter is unusual both as a history painting and as a portrayal of a nude. Instead of d... Read More
Overview :An international authority on Sumerian culture, Jeremy Black here provides an introduction to the world's oldest poetry. Sumer, in southern ... Read More
Overview :A singular collection of creative responses to the still life paintings of acclaimed artist David GarneauDark Chapters brings together 17 po... Read More
Overview :Most contemporary digital studies are interested in distant-reading paradigms for large-scale literary history. This book asks what happens ... Read More
Overview :David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he understood fiction to aim at what it means to be hu... Read More
Overview :Although the Gospel of Matthew emphasizes Jesus as the son of David, no one has systematically investigated how 1-2 Samuel influence Matthew... Read More
Overview :A champion of the human spirit, Henry David Thoreau is a true American mystic. Walden, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2004, conti... Read More
Overview :The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities ... Read More
Overview :This work argues the message of the Psalter is one of hope-utopian hope to be exact. Despite increasing scholarly consensus that the Psalter... Read More
Overview :Seventeen essays presented by an international group of scholars feature the social, economic, and political history of the period of Israel... Read More
Overview :Does your child love listening to Bible stories? Or are they all a little too boring and predictable?The Boy and the Battle is a re-imaginin... Read More