Most Jesus specialists agree that the Temple incident led directly to Jesus' arrest, but the precise relationship between Jesus and the Temple's administration remains unclear. Jesus and the Temple examines this relationship, exploring the reinterpretation of Torah observance and traditional Temple practices that are widely considered central components of the early Jesus movement. Challenging a growing tendency in contemporary scholarship to assume that the earliest Christians had an almo...

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus – embedded in Paul’s letters and the New Testament Gospels – represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the construction of Christian identity.Readers of this book will gain a thorough understanding of how a central theme of early Christianity – the Jewish rejection of Jesus – facilitated the emergence of Christian anti-Judaism as well as t...

Do you find yourself craving deeper meaning in today’s fast-paced world?Are you overwhelmed by information but starved for true insight?Do you long to reconnect with the timeless wisdom that’s guided thinkers for millennia?If you answered yes to any of these, you must keep reading…Rediscover the Path to Lasting Clarity and PurposeEvery day we’re bombarded with noise—news feeds, endless to-dos, and fl...

Joseph Arthur Simon’s The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867–1942), a Louisiana native and the most innovative and influential leader of the United States Marine Corps in the twentieth century. As commandant of the Marine Corps from 1920 to 1929, Lejeune reorganized, revitalized, and modernized the force by developing its new and permanent mission of amphibious assault. Before that transformation, the corps was a constabu...

When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the messiah and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic materialconceptions that informed the Q tradition...

Ever since Hardy left his previous employer, his memory has failed him. Thoughts refuse to make connections, and his past has become a mystery. When he finds himself addicted to the breath of a mysterious woman, Hardy knows that his past is coming back, whether he's ready for it or not.

Get your arms around wills, trusts, probate, inheritance taxes, and other important estate planning essentialsEstate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. It’s all about drafting wills, dealing with probate, assigning powers of attorney, establishing living trusts, and beyond. Think you don’t have enough assets to merit estate planning? Think again. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through building a solid estate plan,...

“Simon Wiesenthal since the end of World War II has had one major aim in life — to track down as many as possible of the SS men who took part in the administration of the concentration and extermination camps run by the Third Reich... The writing of this book was actually done by the well-known journalist Joseph Wechsberg to whom Wiesenthal told his stories and who contributes a series of profiles of the narrator. It is a dramatic and knowledgeable account... [Wiesenthal’s is] a remarkable...

The electrifying new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Toyne.Only one boy can see the darkness. Only one man can save him from it.‘Perfect for fans of Lee Child’ SunA MURDERAn elderly tailor is found tortured and murdered in the ancient town of Cordes. Written in blood beside the body are the words: FINISHING WHAT WAS BEGUN.A SECRETBut the dead man has left a cryptic...

HOW CAN HE SAVE A MAN WHO IS ALREADY DEAD?‘Compelling, vivid and profound’ PETER JAMES‘A fast-moving thriller that makes for an exhilarating read. Perfect for any fans of Lee Child’ SUN‘Who is Solomon Creed? He's the hero of an epic new series of thrillers. Simple as that’ MARK BILLINGHAMA PLANE CRASHES IN THE ARIZONA DESERT.When Solomon Creed emerges from the wreckage he remembers just one thing: that he must save a...

THE MUST-READ NOVEL OF THE SUMMER ⭐ From Laura Pearson, the No.1 bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont!An addictive page-turner, full of 90s nostalgia, about fame, first love and the summer that changed everything... ☀️ Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid!‘This book had me totally gripped' Beth O’Leary ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'It makes your heart ache' Clare Leslie Hall, author of Broken Country ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo, the recent crisis has been used to realize the politically impossible and to re-align executive power with the interests of the finance industry.In this important book, Joseph Vogl offers a much longer perspective o...