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In addition to the featured hardcover releases, the Penn Press fall 2009 catalog announces many new paperbacks, among them: From Civil Rights to Human Rights; W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet; Visions of Progress; Mapping Decline; The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa; Faculty Towers; Hitler's Face; Monsters; Used Books; Marriage and Violence; and The Crusades and the Christian World of the East.

Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion

Series Editors: Daniel Boyarin, Virginia Burrus, Derek Krueger

Becker, Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom: The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia (2006)

Boyarin, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (2004)

Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2003)

Burrus, Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects (2007)

Chin, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World (2007)

Dunning, Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity (May 2009)

Frilingos, Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation (2004)

Kessler, Conceiving Israel: The Fetus in Rabbinic Narratives (Jun 2009)

Krueger, Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East (2004)

Miller, The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (Jan 2009)

Penn, Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church (2005)

Powers, Muhammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet (Jun 2009)

Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity (2008)

Schroeder, Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe (2007)

Sizgorich, Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity: Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam (2008)

Steinmetz, Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law (2008)

Yadin, Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash (2004)




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