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This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians would not have considered the New Testament accounts of Jesus resurrection to be literal or historical, but instead would have recognized this narrative as an instance of the trope of divine translation, common within the Hellenistic and Roman mythic traditions. Given this framework, Miller argues, early Christians would have understood the resurrection story as fictitious rather than historical...

Featuring fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Black Voices captures the diverse and powerful words of a literary explosion, the ramifications of which can be seen and heard in the works of today's African-American artists. A comprehensive and impressive primer, this anthology presents some of the greatest and most enduring work born out of the African-American experience in the United States.

Contributors Include:
Sterling A. Brown
Charles W. Chesnutt
John Henrik...

How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially those imported from the sciences?

To answer these questions, the authors identify close-to-the-ground principles of best practice based on an analysis of examples of evidential reasoning in archaeology that are widely regarded as successful, contested, or instructive failures. They look at how archaeologists put old evidence to work in...

• Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
  
• Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
  
• Explores the relationships between work by different poets
  
• Recalls attention to a...

• Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
  
• Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
  
• Explores the relationships between work by different poets
  
• Recalls attention to a...