The Book of Sarah

Sarah Lightman

Life Support

Invitation to Prayer

Judith Cohen Margolis

“Life Support exemplifies the genre of graphic medicine. Spare and raw, we are thrust into the physicality of health and illness, bodies and fluids, as well as emotions deep and intense. She offers us feelings, ugly and unrepentant at times, with moments of grace at others, and in the process of the work, reveals a healing balm, years in the making.”
—Joel L. Kushner, Director, Kalsman Institute on Judaism and Health

After Gun Violence

Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock

Craig Rood

“Written with passion, insight, and eloquence, After Gun Violence is a compelling exploration of a tragically American problem—regular, mass gun violence. . . . Rood respects the complexity of people’s different beliefs about guns while articulating a clear vision of a way forward. A stunning achievement.”
—Robert Asen, author of Democracy, Deliberation, and Education

The Politics of the Book

A Study on the Materiality of Ideas

Filipe Carreira da Silva and Monica Brito Vieira

“This engaging, knowledgeable project significantly extends debates about the nature and stability of the sociological canon (implicitly, almost any disciplinary canon). While emphasizing the materiality of the making of intellectual authority, the authors also offer interesting interpretative analyses of the selected ‘classics.’”
—Gregor McLennan, author of Story of Sociology

Life and Mortality in Ugaritic

A Lexical and Literary Study

Matthew McAffee

While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of. . . (more)

The Law’s Universal Condemning and Enslaving Power

Reading Paul, the Old Testament, and Second Temple Jewish Literature

Bryan Blazosky

While much has been written about the apostle Paul’s view on the relationship between Gentile Christians and the Mosaic law, comparatively little attention has been paid to Paul’s writings on the laws of Moses and how they apply to Gentile unbelievers. In this book, Bryan Blazosky examines Paul’s teaching on the subject and how it relates to the lessons of the Old Testament and literature of the. . . (more)