The Stoics

A Bilingual Critical Edition

Louisa Siefert, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, and with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Adrianna M. Paliyenko

“Paliyenko and Shapiro provide readers with the opportunity to discover an underrated yet gifted nineteenth-century French poet in a bilingual edition that is powerfully supported by the introduction, notes, and bibliography. The Stoics situates itself within a vibrant movement to rediscover and reassess female writers, and the case is eloquently made for a revision of Siefert’s position in the canon.”—Rosemary Lloyd, Emerita Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

Sacred Habitat

Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic

Ran Segev

“This concise, elegantly argued study constitutes a veritable watershed in our understanding of the relationship between science and religion. Segev’s compelling narrative and well-chosen case studies lay the foundations for a non-Eurocentric and truly global alternative to the tired story of the ‘scientific revolution.’ This book is therefore to be warmly welcomed. It is a considerable achievement and deserves the widest possible readership.”—Simon Ditchfield, University of York, UK

Speculum Lapidum

A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones

Camillo Leonardi, translated with an introduction by Liliana Leopardi

In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical properties. Lorenzo de’ Medici, Philip II of Spain, and Popes Leo X and Clement VII were all treated with expensive potions incorporating ground gems such as rubies, diamonds, and emeralds. Medical and magical/astrological lapidaries, texts describing the stones’ occult and medical qualities as well as their abilities to ward off demons and incantations, were essential resources for their use. First published in Venice in 1502, Camillo Leonardi’s Speculum Lapidum is an encyclopedic summary of all classical and medieval sources of lithotherapy.

Aromas of Asia

Exchanges, Histories, Threats

Edited by Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland

“Aromas of Asia is very much at the cutting edge of the field. Many books on smell engage in a battle with the straw man of ‘smell-as-neglected’ and ‘the West as ocular-centric.’ This book has moved way beyond such simplicities, and through its varied methodologies and diverse topics we emerge with a number of fresh perspectives on smell in Asia.”—James McHugh, author of Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture

Studies in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Literature calls Brian Britt’s Religion Around Walter Benjamin a “tremendously learned and carefully crafted examination.”

CAA.reviews calls Gabrielle Moser’s Projecting Citizenship: Photography and Belonging in the British Empire “nuanced, sophisticated, and data-rich.”

We are excited to publish the first volume of our new open access journal Palestine/Israel Review in January 2024! Click here to read about the journal.

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research is available online for free until further notice. Please check out this amazing scholarship of policy-oriented articles.

Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea, volume 5

Dossiers H–K: 485 Ostraca

Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni

Since the early 1990s, about two thousand Idumean Aramaic ostraca have found their way onto the antiquities market and are now scattered across a number of museums, libraries, and private collections. This fifth and final volume of the Textbook of Aramaic Ostraca from Idumea completes the work of bringing these ostraca together in a single publication.

Understanding Abnormalities in Biblical Figures

Edited by Guido Baltes, Lukas Bormann, and Martin Meiser

Fifteen scholars examine the tension between normality and deviance in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament as well as in their reception in Second Temple Judaism and patristic literature. It becomes clear that the ideas expressed in these texts about deviant behavior are primarily influenced by changes in anthropological and theological assumptions. The authors adapt the tradition to the contemporary understanding of normality and deviance to reach their rhetorical aim to convince the reader about their interpretations of the Biblical figures.

The Prophet

A Graphic Novel Adaptation

Kahlil Gibran, Script by A. David Lewis, and art by Justin Renterķa

“While hewing close to the original text, Lewis and Rentería fill in the prophet’s backstory through wordless flashbacks, portraying him as a young man caught up in military actions and a romantic betrayal; these narrative flourishes offer fresh angles on Gibran’s words.”—Publishers Weekly

Nuking Alaska

Notes of an Atomic Fugitive

Peter Dunlap-Shohl

“This eye-opening chronicle of the domestic perils of the Cold War will resonate for any reader apprehensive of nuclear weapons.’
—Publishers Weekly