The importance and centrality of the topic will make the book of interest beyond the immediate circle of students of the New Testament.

Selected Poems by Knut Odegard is a long-overdue opportunity for English language readers to survey a representative selection of poems by one of the finest contemporary Norwegian poets. Described as a poet who is "intensely aware of the sacred, yet who] visits the darkest and often the most shocking corners in his determination to sanctify those places" (Kenneth Steven, Modern Poetry in Translation), Odegard draws on both the illuminating short lyric and the significantly longer meditation or sequence (often working in parallel to the liturgy of the Catholic Church) to blur the line between...

Philosophers of the Renaissance introduces readers to philosophical thinking from the end of the Middle Ages through the sixteenth century.

A candid, compelling portrait of the man who has proved so significantand so controversialin Western culture, by two of Europes best known pioneers of the anthropological study of early Christianity. Destro and Pesce bring the fruit of years of scholarship to bear on a radical figure in Roman Galilee, his encounters with others, and the movement those encounters inspired.

Bacteria, yeast, fungi and microalgae can act as producers (or catalysts for the production) of food ingredients, enzymes and nutraceuticals. With the current trend towards the use of natural ingredients in foods, there is renewed interest in microbial flavours and colours, food bioprocessing using enzymes and food biopreservation using bacteriocins. Microbial production of substances such as organic acids and hydrocolloids also remains an important and fast-changing area of research. Microbial production of food ingredients, enzymes and nutraceuticals provides a comprehensive overview of...