(Carl Newell Jackson Lectures) ,Walter Burkert. Harvard, 1987. Soft cover, 181pp. 12 illustrations. The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither…
Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy. Margherita Marchione, Ph.D. Paulist Press, 1997. Hard cover with dust jacket. 259pp. A member of the Religious Teachers Filippini who have a house on via Bottega Oscure, a few blocks from the Jewish Ghetto and from which they had sheltered 114 Jews from 1943-44. Sister Marchione had made it her personal quest…
Born in Warsaw, Poland and the youngest child of a cultured, Zionist family of Ashkenazi Jews, he is a survivor of Bergen-Belsen. He arrived in Palestine in 1945 and passed there in 2001. He was an Israeli professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a Holocaust survivor, an intellectual of liberal political bent, and a civil-rights advocate…
Boschi: Bernardo Gianluigi Boschi is a Domenican Priest and theologian in Bologna who has taught at the Angelicum in Rome. He is a big deal in Biblical Theology. Some of the books below were the basis for classes he taught. Before he got too old, his order commanded him to write down everything in his head. I bought all of…
Ramsay MacMullen. Yale, 1984. Softcover, 183pp. Professor MacMullen examines the question from a secular – rather than ecclesiastical – viewpoint, and his conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the opportunity for worldly advantages than simply on a “rising tide of Christian piety”. The book has a full complement of notes…
2nd revised edition, Editric Pontificio Istituto Biblico – the Biblicum, 1998. Vol. 1: Morphology, includes lessons Vol. 2: Key, Lists, Paradigms, Indices. Condition: Usual highlighting, underlining and notes from a previous student. Some of the pages are a little loose from the binding, but taped in place. I have referred back to this book when I couldn’t find the answer…
Grammar (hardcover, 476pp.) and Workbook (softcover, 303pp) Gary D. Pratico & Miles V. Van Pelt. Zondervan, 2001. Poor student price: €20. – condition: usual student notes, gives up about 1/2 way through …
Hardcover – January 1, 1953. by Bernard Orchard (Editor), Edmund F. Sutcliffe (Editor), Reginald C. Fuller (Editor), Ralph Russell (Editor), Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (Foreword), 1,296 pages, plus maps. Some of the maps were carefully removed and laminated – useful for Bible study. This is another one – like Steinmuellers’ Catholic Encyclopedia – that every serious Catholic should have. Commentary…
Steinmueller, John E. And Kathryn Sullivan. Published by Joseph F. Wagner, Inc. (1956). 1,166pp + 679pp + 13 pages on the Blessed Virgin. Hardcover, previous ownder’s nameon 2 intro pages, the rest is clean. Steinmueller was president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission in Rome. I have another series of books by him in this catalogue. This is not written for…
An Alphabetical Arrangement of every occurring inflexion of every word contained in the Greek New Testament Scriptures. Grammatical Analysis of each word. A complete series of Paradigms, with grammatical remarks and explanations. Professors don’t want you to have lexicons, because it makes it easier to find those difficult words. Zondervan, ©1968. 444 pages. It’s in pretty fair condition for being…