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A New New Testament

A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts

By: Hal Taussig

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A New New Testament

A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts

By: Hal Taussig

“Important both historically and theologically. Readers will not be able to see the New Testament in the same way again.” —Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of Christianity “A New New Testament does what some of us never dreamed possible: it opens the treasure chest of early Christian writings, restoring a carefully select few of them to their rightful place in the broad conversation about who Jesus was, what he did and taught, and what all of that has to do with us now.” —Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Leaving Church and An Altar in the World There are twenty-seven books in the traditional New Testament, but the earliest Christian communities were far more vibrant than that small number might lead you to think. In fact, many more scriptures were written and just as important as the New Testament in shaping early-Christian communities and beliefs. Over the past century, many of those texts that were lost have been found and translated, yet are still not known to much of the public; they are discussed mainly by scholars or within a context of the now outdated notion of gnostic gospels. In A New New Testament Hal Taussig is changing that. With the help of nineteen important spiritual leaders, he has added ten of the recently discovered texts to the traditional New Testament, leading many churches and spiritual seekers to use this new New Testament for their spiritual and intellectual growth. “Remarkable . . . Not meant to replace the traditional New Testament, this fascinating work will be, Taussig hopes, the first of several new New Testaments.” —Booklist

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A New New Testament

A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts

By: Hal Taussig

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A Bible for the Twenty-first Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts

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Many Tables

The Eucharist in the New Testament and Liturgy Today

By: Dennis E. Smith,Hal Taussig

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Many Tables

The Eucharist in the New Testament and Liturgy Today

By: Dennis E. Smith,Hal Taussig

What happens inside the church doors is its liturgy. It is there that life and fulfillment should be found, but too often today liturgy seems stale and lacking in vitality. The problem is not a lack of faith so much as it is a lack of life in the liturgy itself. In our liturgies we have let our emphasis on preserving traditional forms and expressions overrule attempts to give vital expression to the life and faith of contemporary participants. This is especially true with that part of the liturgy that is known as the Lord's Supper or eucharist. Though the practice of this sacrament is still central to the piety of most Christians today, here especially there is often a lifelessness and lack of connection with life as it is now lived. This need not be, however. The tradition is alive with meaning that we have too often overlooked. And liturgy can more effectively address the contemporary situation if we can learn better how to apply it to the aesthetic and symbolic language of today's culture. --from chapter 1

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725204797

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In Trembling Boldness

Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People

By: Natalie R. Perkins,Hal Taussig

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In Trembling Boldness

Wisdom for Today from Ancient Jesus People

By: Natalie R. Perkins,Hal Taussig

Many of us have heard about the recently discovered writings by the early followers of Jesus through newspapers, magazines, video and audio interviews, and conversations on social media. This enlightening, first-of-its-kind book draws on the words and wisdom of these ancient Jesus people to offer everyone deeper spiritual connection today. Using examples from modern life to introduce dozens of excerpts from texts like The Odes of Solomon, The Gospel of Thomas, and The Thunder: Perfect Mind, In Trembling Boldness draws meaning and connection between ancient followers of Jesus and the most pressing issues of today, including LGBTQ+ inclusion, incarceration, addiction, immigration, violence, illness, the work of social justice, civil disobedience, and more. As we ruminate on these sacred words applied to contemporary life and take in beautiful images of the ancient texts recorded on papyrus and pottery, we discover new understandings and deeper connection to God and each other--making space in our hearts for the words of these ancient Jesus people.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506485758

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Wisdom's Feast

Sophia in Study and Celebration

By: Susan Cole,Marian Ronan,Hal Taussig

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Wisdom's Feast

Sophia in Study and Celebration

By: Susan Cole,Marian Ronan,Hal Taussig

Imaging and interacting with Sophia as the feminine face of God is the focus of WisdomAIs Feast. Moving from ancient biblical references to present day context, the authors skillfully stage a series of thought-provoking and participative liturgies to integrate experience of Sophia with theory and theology. Sophia enters eucharistic situations, life festivities and shared prayer rites, impacting the reader on an emotional as well as an intellectual plane.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1556128568

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Re-imagining Life Together in America

A New Gospel of Community

By: Catherine T. Nerney,Hal Taussig

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Re-imagining Life Together in America

A New Gospel of Community

By: Catherine T. Nerney,Hal Taussig

Well written and highly accessible, this book interweaves a thorough review of developments in Christian community from the first century to the present with powerful new discoveries in scriptural, theological, and historical research that has uncovered deep communal strands in the foundational literature and notions of Christianity. The result is a profound call for the renewal of Christian community and churches as crucial models and inspirations for the new search for wholeness in America.

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Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

By: Hal M. Friedman

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Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

By: Hal M. Friedman

Product Description: Digesting History: The U.S. Naval War College, the Lessons of World War II, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945–1947, by Professor Hal M. Friedman, studies the contribution of the Naval War College, especially in the presidency of Admiral Raymond Spruance, to strategic thought during the first critical postwar years—that is, between the end of the war and the formulation of Containment. This transition period is especially valuable as a window through which to explore institutions such as the College in transition from a hot war to a cold one. While seminal studies exist of the College’s work in the interwar years, none have been published on this period.

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Digesting History

The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

By: Hal M. Friedman

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The U.S. Naval War College, The Lessons of World War Two, and Future Naval Warfare, 1945-1947

By: Hal M. Friedman

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1884733689

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The Thunder: Perfect Mind

A New Translation and Introduction

By: H. Taussig,J. Calaway,M. Kotrosits,C. Lillie,J. Lasser

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The Thunder: Perfect Mind

A New Translation and Introduction

By: H. Taussig,J. Calaway,M. Kotrosits,C. Lillie,J. Lasser

This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind - a poem of 'I am' statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream culture. This book offers a fresh, current translation (with detailed Coptic annotations) and ten chapters of introductory analysis of the text.

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Springer

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0230114776

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Arguing Over the American Lake

Bureaucracy and Rivalry in the U.S. Pacific, 1945-1947

By: Hal M. Friedman

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Arguing Over the American Lake

Bureaucracy and Rivalry in the U.S. Pacific, 1945-1947

By: Hal M. Friedman

Hal M. Friedman analyzes the major issues concerning the Pacific Basin that confronted the executive branch departments between 1945 and 1947.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603441255

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The Forbidden Lands

Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830

By: Hal Langfur

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The Forbidden Lands

Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830

By: Hal Langfur

This study concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil. It focuses on social, cultural, and racial relations among settlers, slaves, and native peoples accused of cannibalism.

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Stanford University Press

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0804751803

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Blue Versus Purple

The U.S. Naval War College, the Soviet Union, and the New Enemy in the Pacific

By: Hal M. Friedman

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Blue Versus Purple

The U.S. Naval War College, the Soviet Union, and the New Enemy in the Pacific

By: Hal M. Friedman

This book is about the war-gaming activities of the Naval War College (NWC) in the late summer and fall of 1946 in Newport, Rhode Island ... [and] how the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War impacted the Naval War College in terms of changing its focus from Japan to the Soviet Union as the primary enemy in the Pacific Basin."--From preface

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1935352318

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Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics

By: Karen Marcdante,Robert M. Kliegman,Richard E. Behrman,Hal B. Jenson

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Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics

By: Karen Marcdante,Robert M. Kliegman,Richard E. Behrman,Hal B. Jenson

Considered the resource of choice for pediatric residencies, clerkships, and exams, Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics provides comprehensive, yet concise and accessible guidance on normal childhood growth and development, as well as the diagnosis, management, and prevention of common pediatric diseases and disorders. Edited by Drs. Karen Marcdante, Robert M. Kliegman, Hal B. Jenson, and Richard E. Behrman, this edition's content was specifically developed in accordance with the 2009 curriculum guidelines of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics. It also includes many new and improved clinical photographs and images for enhanced visual reference. A user-friendly full-color format facilitate study and expedite reference. Concise text, a full-color design, high-yield tables, and numerous images provide an effective overview of pediatrics. Edited by the same authorities responsible for the Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, the most used and recognizable clinical reference in pediatrics. Content developed in accordance with 2009 COMSEP curriculum guidelines, and written and edited by leaders in pediatrics education, focuses on the core knowledge needed for a pediatric clerkship or rotation. A wealth of new images captures the clinical manifestations and imaging findings associated with Kawasaki disease, lupus, lymphoma, stroke, and many other disorders seen in children.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1455706175

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9781455706174

Iron Millionaire

Life of Charlemagne Tower

By: Hal Bridges

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Iron Millionaire

Life of Charlemagne Tower

By: Hal Bridges

Charlemagne Tower (1809-1889) was an American lawyer and businessman active in acquiring land in the Schuylkill Valley in Pennsylvania and serving as an officer for coal and railroad companies. He organized and led a company of Union soldiers from Pottsville in a 3-month enlistment during the American Civil War, when he was commissioned as captain. After the war, with sell-off of lands by the Northern Pacific Railroad, he acquired large tracts in the upper Midwest and Northwest. Charlemagne Tower was a giant of his time, leaving an indelible footprint on the history of the United States. He is credited with creating the mining industry in Minnesota, as well as attracting settlers to the area. He was deeply involved in the mining industry in Pennsylvania, and was part of the ascension of the Reading Railroad. Towns in three states are named after him. He served on the board of overseers for Harvard University, and was involved in many business ventures, many of them successful. “PROFESSOR BRIDGES has written a book which is of compelling interest from three points of view: as a story of business adventure, as a study in the character of an eminent entrepreneur, and as a chapter in the economic history of the Northwest. Founded on a large body of previously unused manuscript materials, it supplies elements of vital importance to our knowledge of the development of the iron and steel industry in the United States. The story which Dr. Bridges tells with such scholarly care and narrative verve is one which should interest all students of our past.”—Allan Nevins

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789127130

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Imperial Bedlam

Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria

By: Jonathan Hal Sadowsky

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Imperial Bedlam

Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria

By: Jonathan Hal Sadowsky

Imperial Bedlam is an intelligent, elegantly written discussion of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary debates over the nature and determinants of madness in a colonial setting."--Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University

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Univ of California Press

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0520216164

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9780520216167

Bad New Days

Art, Criticism, Emergency

By: Hal Foster

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Bad New Days

Art, Criticism, Emergency

By: Hal Foster

Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror. Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancire, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it. Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms "abject," "archival," "mimetic," and "precarious.

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1784781479

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Realigning America

McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896

By: R. Hal Williams

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Realigning America

McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896

By: R. Hal Williams

The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old, a new majority party came to power, and national policies shifted to reflect new realities. R. Hal Williams now presents the first study of that campaign in nearly fifty years, offering fresh interpretations on the victory of Republican William McKinley over Democrat William Jennings Bryan. In tracing the triumph of gold over silver in this fabled "battle of the standards," R. Hal Williams also tells how the Republicans-the party of central government, national authority, sound money, and activism-pulled off a stunning win over the Democrats-the party of state's rights, decentralization, inflation, and limited government. Meanwhile the People's Party, one of the most prominent third parties in the country's history, which also nominated Bryan, went down to a defeat from which it would never recover. Williams plunges readers into a contest that set new standards in financing, organization, and accountability, and he analyzes the transition from the long-dominant "military style" of campaign to the "educational style" that appealed to a savvier electorate. He also presents key players in new light: he views Bryan not simply as a gifted speaker whose "Cross of Gold" speech took the Democratic convention by storm, but as a more calculating politician with his eye squarely on the nomination; he depicts McKinley's campaign manager Mark Hanna not as the one-dimensional fundraising machine painted by history but rather as a shrewd, insightful politician who understood what was required to get his man elected; and he presents retiring president Cleveland as an increasingly out-of-touch, irrelevant chief executive whom the Democrats repudiated in a way no other party ever had a sitting president. With the Republicans' star on the rise and the Democrats banished to the South and the cities, the 1896 election was more than a victory of one party over another, it marked the emergence of new ways of politicking that makes this campaign especially relevant for twenty-first-century readers.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700633871

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Years of Decision

American Politics in the 1890s

By: Richard Hal Williams

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Years of Decision

American Politics in the 1890s

By: Richard Hal Williams

This well-known survey tells the story of American politics during the 1890s.

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0881337277

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Re-reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma

By: Maia Kotrosits,H. Taussig

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Re-reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma

By: Maia Kotrosits,H. Taussig

Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.

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1137342641

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After Jesus Before Christianity

A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements

By: Erin Vearncombe,Brandon Scott,Hal Taussig,Westar Institute, The

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After Jesus Before Christianity

A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements

By: Erin Vearncombe,Brandon Scott,Hal Taussig,Westar Institute, The

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination. Christianity has endured for more than two millennia and is practiced by billions worldwide today. Yet that longevity has created difficulties for scholars tracing the religion’s roots, distorting much of the historical investigation into the first two centuries of the Jesus movement. But what if Christianity died in the fourth or fifth centuries after it began? How would that change how historians see and understand its first two hundred years? Considering these questions, three Bible scholars from the Westar Institute summarize the work of the Christianity Seminar and its efforts to offer a new way of thinking about Christianity and its roots. Synthesizing the institute’s most recent scholarship—bringing together the many archaeological and textual discoveries over the last twenty years—they have found: There were multiple Jesus movements, not a singular one, before the fourth century There was nothing called Christianity until the third century There was much more flexibility and diversity within Jesus’s movement before it became centralized in Rome, not only regarding the Bible and religious doctrine, but also understandings of gender, sexuality and morality. Exciting and revolutionary, After Jesus Before Christianity provides fresh insights into the real history behind how the Jesus movement became Christianity. After Jesus Before Christianity includes more than a dozen black-and-white images throughout.

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