Würthwein. 1995 English translation. softcover, 293 pages. €5. This classic introduction to textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible is now entirely updated in the light of new critical editions of the texts and recent contributions and findings in the various areas of history of the text-especially the Masoretic text, the Septuagint, the Peshitta, and the Dead Sea Scrolls-and of textual…
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The Analytical Hebrew & Chaldee Lexicon
Benjamin Davidson. Samuel Bagster & Sons, London, 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 784 pages. Weighs 1,160 grams. €10. Every word and inflection of the Hebrew Old Testament arranged alphabetically and with grammatical analyses, also tables of paradigms. The book your professors don’t want you to have. Hebrew words change from their root dramatically – if you don’t have these changes…
Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas
5 vol., softcover. Some minor underlining. Some underlining, Looks like wax was spilled on the cover of volume 1. You could just ignore it or take the cover off. €60. For the set of 5 volumes. Weighs over 4 kilo.
Upon This Rock. Stephen Ray
St. Peter and the Primacy of Rome in Scripture and the Early Church. Ignatius Press. softcover, 331 pages, index. Autographed copy! (no other marks). €10. Ray, a former Evangelical Protestant and Bible teacher, goes through the Scriptures and the first five centuries of the Church to demonstrate that the early Christians had a clear understanding of the primacy of Peter…
Mary and the Fathers of the Church
The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought. Luigi Gambero, Ignatius Press, 1999. Softcover, 439 pages. €10. Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight centuries. Focusing on the lives and works of over thirty of the most famous Church Fathers and early Christian writers,…
Il vangelo secondo Giovanni, Zumstein
Paperback. 2 vol., 1,042 pagine. excellent condition. weighs 1.4 kilo. €40 for i 2 volume. Diverso per molti e rilevanti aspetti dai vangeli sinottici, in particolare per l’ampio respiro teologico, il Vangelo di Giovanni è uno dei più importanti testi biblici. Maestro incontestato della materia, Jean Zumstein propone un commentario, in due volumi, a un tempo scientifico e pastorale con…
I racconti post-pasquale nel vangelo di S. Giovanni. Gangemi.
Gangemi, Attilio. 2 vol copertina morbida. weighs 1.2 kilo. This is really quite good. €15 for the set.
Manual of Patrology. Cayre
Society of St. John the Evangelist, Desclée & Company, 1935. 2 vol hardcover. 742pp + 916pp. weighs 1,313 grams. €20. 1st volume has a loose front cover. Underlining in both volumes, much more in the 1st volume, because this is set up in chronological order, and everyone wants what the earliest of the earliest of the Church Fathers had to…
Patrology, Quasten
4 volumes, softcover. weighs 2.9 kilo. Not much, but occasional underlining in pencil. €65. for the set. This monumental series places at the disposal of the English reading public a solid introduction to early Christian literature. It is the first work of its kind written originally in English. The first volume appeared in 1950. Reviewers were unanimous in heaping praise…
A Brief History of The Private Lives of the Roman Emperors
Anthony blond. paperback, 234 pages, index. €5. Rome has too often been depicted as a pinnacle of culture and civilization. The same could not be said for its emperors. Examining the private lives of the Caesars from Julius to Nero, Blond shows how they really lived in stark contrast to traditional perceptions of bold leaders, tyrants and mad men. allso…