What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text, and Commentary
These classical essays, some translated here for the first time, provide an objective, critical commentary on the traditions and language of the Koran
These classical essays, some translated here for the first time, provide an objective, critical commentary on the traditions and language of the Koran
What do the world’s Muslims think about the West, or about democracy, or about extremism itself?
The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
The first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, revealing what this legendary lost gospel contains and why it is so important
This important anthology gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era.
Contemporary, accessible translation of the holy book of Islam in a Penguin paperback edition.
This accessible volume is truly essential for both scholars and followers of Islam.
The world’s fastest-growing faith is a much more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest.
A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.
Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts.
LITERACY
UNDERSTANDING
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