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Books in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series

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    - Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash
    by Azzan Yadin
    £57.49

    Presents a study of midrash - the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis. This work examines early, tannaitic legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael. It also locates the Rabbi Ishmael hermeneutic within the religious landscape of Second Temple and post-Temple literature.

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    - Militant Devotion in Christianity and Islam
    by Thomas Sizgorich
    £26.49

    Focusing on the shared vocabulary of images and ideas with which late ancient Christians and Muslims imagined the past, present, and future, this book seeks to understand why violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries.

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    - The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
    by Daniel Boyarin
    £23.99

    "Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal

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    - Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash
    by Azzan Yadin-Israel
    £73.49

    Analyzing the layers of interpretation in the Sifra and the transformation of Rabbi Akiva's portrayal in rabbinic literature more broadly, Azzan Yadin-Israel traces an ideological shift toward scriptural authority and away from received traditions.

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    - The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam
    by Stephen J. Shoemaker
    £26.49

    Stephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-Islamic sources of the seventh and eighth centuries.

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