The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
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)
Frilingos, Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation (2004)
Krueger, Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East (2004)
Penn, Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church (2005)
Schott, Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity (Jun 2008)
Schroeder, Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe (2007)
Steinmetz, Punishment and Freedom: The Rabbinic Construction of Criminal Law (Feb 2008)
Yadin, Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash (2004)
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