The editors cover all the bases in this chronological history of pre-Lewis and Clark western exploration. Beginning with Cabeza de Vaca's perilous journey across the southern U.S. in 1528 and culminating with the horrific massacre narrative of John Jewitt's shipmates and his eventual capture by the Nootka Indians off Vancouver Island in 1803, this book is teeming with adventure and excitement of early day exploration. The reader is lured into narrative excerpts from the de Soto and Coronado expeditions, personal accounts of Sir Francis Drake, Pierre Radisson, Father Louis Hennepin, the La Verendryes, Jonathan Carver, David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie and many more. These men sacrificed countless nerve-racking and frightening hours of survival in the unknown wilderness from Indian hostilities, weather, shortages of food, water, etc. The book not only opens new territories in real life exploration, it also opens endless new worlds of reading possibilities for armchair exploration enthusiasts.

This beautifully bound book (high quality archival paper) is a must for anyone interested in the history of the American left and labor movement. These writings are unavailable in any other published source.

In understanding early Christianity (i.e. Jesus and the first Christians), the N.T. materials can be analyzed in their various dimensions (e.g., historical, theological, experiential, etc.). What N.T. Wright has provided for us by way of his treatment of the second-temple Jewish, historical background of Jesus and the first Christians, Dunn has done for us via his treatment of the experiential dimension. This is not to "reduce" their faith to subjective experiences, but to show how their relation to God was reflected in their various experiences of God's Spirit. This helps us to discover in what ways Jesus' own experiences were distinctive (or unique), and, at the same time, like those of the first believers.

One of the major points Dunn brings out is, that both Jesus' and the first Christian's experience of the Spirit was "eschatological" in nature: they experienced an outpouring of the Spirit and understood themselves to be living, now, in the new age to come. This awareness, on Jesus' part, led him to understand himself as the one who was bringing in the kingdom of God, as his Son, and manifested itself in the first believers as a full and diversified experience of the Spirit, which was determinative for every aspect of their lives, not least in their worship. Dunn discusses the various charismata and admonitions by Paul, in responding to the disruptions in the Corinthian church, to safeguard against their misuse.

One of the major claims in his book is, that in the resurrection appearances to the apostles, the experience included a commission to proclaim the gospel--this, he maintains, was one of the "distinctive" features of the resurrection appearances. In this interpretation, of course, Dunn is trying to explain the experiential basis for the apostolic authority.

Dunn also stresses the "not yet" side of the Christian experience, and interprets Paul's comments in Romans 7 in these terms: the Christian experiences the tension caused by still living within the present age (a point Gordon Fee has challenged in his writings). In this regard, Dunn has an excellent discussion of Paul's stress on sharing (and glorying) in the suffering of Christ--it is precisely through sharing in his (Jesus') death that we may be conformed to his life. This, for Paul, was the basis of his gospel and in what he gloried.

Dunn displays an obvious appreciation of the charismatic nature of the life of the first Christains, and on several occasions cautions against simply "reading off" or dismissing the Spirit phenomena witnessed in the N.T. While he does not argue for accepting each particular incident of a "miracle" story, nevertheless, he maintains that we need to remain objective in our evaluation of such phenomena and not arbitrarily dismiss them on the basis of a supposed more enlightened modern view.

This work is one of the few of its kind, and provides another important interpretative dimension to help us understand the origin of Christian faith and actual experiences of Jesus and the first Christians. It is a very sensitive and objective treatment, and has direct relevance to Christological study in particular.

Nicholas of Lyra (fourteenth century) was a seminal figure inthe development of Biblical criticism. His commentaries were thefirst to be published and represent a transition towards a more critical approach to biblical study. In particular, his knowledge of Hebrew and Hebrew commentators may be seen as an indication of this. They were also highly influential in the development of Luther's thought. In this study of the Old Testmanent book known as the Song of Songs, Lyra follows the classic Rabbinic commentator Rashi, in approach, albeit with a marked Christian emphasis in some details, particularly in the latter chapters. Lyra reads the Song allegorically, as describing poetically the history of up to and including the foundation of Christianity and its acceptance by Constantine. The Church is seen, then, as a continuation of the Israel of the Old Testament. Although modern commentators eschew allegory as a method of interpretation, Lyra's historical significance can not be discounted, especially in his knowledge of and openness to Jewish writers. This book contains the original latin text and an accurate translation of it into English. There is also a useful introduction outlining the context and significance of de Lyra's work. At just under 130 pages, this is a succint commentary, covering the whole Song, well paced, without unnecessary detours away from the text of the Song of Songs. Those who read latin will find in Lyra a capable and appealing writer, at least in comparison to his fellow biblical commentators. This book is part of a series (Reformation Texts with Translation), which although in early stages of development, on the strength of this work, appears promising. As someone who has read a lot of commentaries on the Song of Songs, this is certainly one of the best.

This is absomully the upmand in the proper views of the malcontent and his spreavage. Dr. Keller has truly capstanded the entire essentary of what one should understand (and understate) when being discontented is one's goal. Salutes and DONE!

This book contains a number of well-written essays on the "Old Testament" "Pseudepigrapha" and how such works were first interpreted. The insights to I Enoch and Jubilees, along with 4 Ezra and various books of the Apocrypha were particularly enlightening.

It is interesting to note the possible (dis)connection between the Apostle Paul and his theory of sin entering the world through one man and the teaching in the book of Sirach that sin enters the world through the woman. Perhaps both are true? Or, perhaps, Paul was trying to address an issue that he felt was untrue?

This is one of the books that puts early Christianity in its context more than many of the others because works such as Sirach are, in this book, evaluated as being just as important and relevant as the "canon" of Scripture itself.

For those interested in early Christianity, early Judaism, the "canon" of the Bible, and the writings of the New Testament in the context they were written in, this is an essential piece of literature to have.

I was impressed by the perspective of the author that Joyce's characters are endowed with various forms of neurotic sexuality. A great deal of sensitivity to and admiration of the subject is evident in the writing. I would recommend the book to anyone who has tried to read Joyce and wants a scholarly viewpoint

It's such an old book - it's first ediotion is from 1922, but it's still so useful for all the history students and scholars dealing with early Irish history. There are two reasons for that. Firstly - Kenney gathered and made comments on a huge amount of ecclesiastical sources from the earliest times till 12 th century in one book. Without this book, dealing with Irish history would be extremely hard job. Thanks to this book, we know, what we are looking for in the archives. Secondly - Kenney's comments are extremely well written and still valid because they are based on these sources, not on the wild fantasies, as usually when you are dealing with early Irish history. I stronly recommend this book to all the people who seriously think about the subject and want to know everything about the sources. You won't be disappointed.

This solutions manual contains every odd excercise from the text. It gives great step by step solutions, even showing how to simplify the answers. Calculus can be confusing to even the brightest students, and this manual will not only insure that you get your homework complete, but also that you LEARN the material-which is the point of class last time I checked.

Interested in the later Shakespearean plays I didn't expect to be recommended a book on Shakespeare's theater quite like this one. What makes it unusual is a focus not just on Shakespeare, though he is here. He takes a back seat sometimes but only so you can get to see how something big was happening in London after the death of Queen Elizabeth and how a whole host of the leading playwrights of the day contributed to it. The importance of Jacobean Londoners' interest in Great Britain that Dr Tristan Marshall describes is a major theme and it makes for a fascinating read. King James I is rarely viewed in a positive light and this informs the way we see the dark brooding tone in plays by Webster like 'The White Devil' and in Jonson's 'Volpone'. Dr Marshall's analysis provides a context for understanding how an alternative focus for a royal interest could be communicated via setting plays in ancient Britain. As King James's biggest political manoeuver, making a British kingdom out of England, Scotland and Ireland was a highly contentious issue. The fact that so many playwrights were interested in it - and most of them very positively - means that we need to fundamentally re-think the way we view Jacobean political culture. This really is well worth reading. Dr Marshall has made an extremely valuable and timely contribution to a field of study whose champions have rarely spent time in this early seventeenth century period.