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Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renais Renaissance sance Scholarship
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Anthony Graft Anthony Grafton on and and Joanna Joanna Weinb einberg erg ununcover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated Editor’s Choice, New York Times Book Review achievem achi evement. ent. The Arranged Arra nged alpha alphabeti beticall callyy from from AcadAcadFrench Protestant emy to Zoology, the essays—deIsaac Casaubon signed and written to serve scholars, (1559–1614) is students, and the general reader known to us through alike—show alike—sho w how the Classical tradihis pedantic namesake tion has shaped human endeavors in George Eliot’s Midfrom art to governm government, ent, mathematdlemarch. But in this ics to medicine, drama to urban book, the real planning, legal theory to popular culCasaubon emerges as a ture. genuine literary hero, “Now here is a fabulous book—and an intrepid explorer in a bargain to boot. Harvard has prothe world of books. duced this gigantic volume, packed “This book is nothing with color color plates plates and essay essayss by some some short of a masterof the greatest scholars alive, for the piece, combining in price of a couple of hardback an unprecedented way thrillers. Better still, while The Classical Tradisound philological expertise with historical init’s action may look like a work of reference, it’s creativity ty.. The rediscovery of tually one of the best bedside books you could genuity and creativi Casaubon as a dedicated student of Jewish ask for. I know because I’v I’vee been browsing learning will revolutionize the history of Chrisaround in it with immense pleasure…[It] pleasure…[It] tian Hebraism.” shows us how deeply the stories, iconic figures —PETER SCHÄFER, and ideas of antiquity succor our imaginations PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and still suffuse the world we live in.” “A wonderful work of scholarship and a sheer —MICHAEL DIRDA, WASHINGTON POST delight to read. The book is significant beyond “Make no mistake, The Classical Tradition is the authors’ brilliant reconstruction of Isaac exceedingly delightful…An esoteric tool for Casaubon’s Hebraic passions. It provides a the scholar on the face of it, The Classical Tramodel on how to study Hebrew and Aramaic dition turns out to be a guide for living here, texts alongside Greek and Latin ones to the now, in the 21st century as we find it.” mutual benefit of both disciplines. It illustrates —MORGAN MEIS, THE SMART SET what exciti exciting ng rewards rewards exist exist for for the industr industrious ious Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library scholar willing to peruse hand-written journals 20100 150 col 201 color or ill illus. us. 1088 pp. and scribbled annotations on the pages of Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03572-0 printed books. Both Grafton Grafton and Weinberg acknowledge their debts to their late teacher ArCover art: Jacques-Louis David: naldo Momigliano, the great classical scholar. Ma rs di sa rm ed by Ven Venus us © Royal Museum of He especially would have appreciat appreciated ed their reFine Arts of Belgiu Belgium, m, Brussels. Digital photo markable collaborat collaborative ive achievement. achievement.”” by J. Geleyns/www.roscan.be. nonfiction Book of the Year Year
—DAVID B. RUDERMAN, —DAVID UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Belknap / Carl Newell Jackson Lectures 2011 43 hal halfto ftones nes 392 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04840-9
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Associate Editor Karen C. C. Dalton
Including thousands of beautiIncluding ful, moving, and often littleknown images of black people, including queens and slaves, saints and soldiers, children and gods, The Image of the Black in Western Art provides provides a treasury of masterpieces from four millennia—a testament to the black experience in the West and a tribute to art’s enduring power to shape our common humanity. “A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa’s people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes.” —KWAME —KW AME ANTHONY APPIAH
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Review of the previous editions: editions: “One concludes from these pioneering volumes that artistic representations resentati ons were historical ‘events’ ‘events’ that eventually helped to shape a mentality that justified the enslavement of millions of Africans as well as later attempts to Christianize and liberate their descendants descendants.” .” —DAVID BRION DAVIS, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS VOL UM UME E I: FROM THE PHARAOHS TO THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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VOL UME VOLUM E II I: FROM THE “AGE OF DISCOVERY” TO THE AGE OF ABOLITION
Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
Belknap / Du Bois Institute 20100 19 201 1911 colo colorr ill illus. us. 290 pp. Cloth $95.00 / £69.95 ISBN 978-0-674-05261-1
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Ancien Anc ientt Egyptian Egyptian Book of the Dead EDITED BY JOHN H. TAYLOR
The Book of the Dead is not a single text but a compilation of spells that the ancient Egyptians believed would assist them in the afterlife as they made their perilous journey toward the realm of the gods and the ultimate state of eternity. eternity. With contributions contributi ons from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinatin fascinatingg and important book affords a greater understanding understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears of mortal man about the “world” beyond death. The whole is beautifully beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photographs of these exceptional papyri and an array of contextual funerary objects. 2010 240 col color or ill illus. us. 312 pp. Clo Cloth th $35. $35.00 00 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-05750-0 Ne w
A N EW S CIENCE The Discovery of Religion in the Age of Reason GUY G. STROUMSA
“Reconsidering the origin myth for the study of religion, Stroumsa Stroumsa moves us back from the 19th to the 17th century and identifies crucial factors that made such an enterprise possible—the Catholic missionary enterprise in the New World W orld and and elsewhere elsewhere;; Protes Protestant tant practi practices ces of textextual criticism; and above all the continuing aftershocks of the wars of religion. This is a book marked by warmth and generosity of spirit, as well as formi formidable dable learni learning.” ng.” —BRUCE LINCOLN, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 2010 240 pp. Clo Cloth th $35 $35.00 .00 / £29. £29.95 95 ISBN 978-0-674-04860-7
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Reading and Writi Writing ng in Babylon Babylon introduces
Mesopotamia as the birthplace of civilization, culMesopotamia ture, and literature while addressing the technical side of writing and arguing for a much wider spread of literacy than is generally assumed. “Charpin takes up a subject that’s that’s been debated by Assyriologists for many years: Did scribes alone have the knowledge to read and write cuneiform, the earliest writing, invented by the Sumerians around 3200 BCE?…The depth and range of material Charpin includes is indeed impressive.” —JOAN W. GARTLAND, LIBRARY JOURNAL
“Many books have been written on the origins of the cuneiform script and the role of reading and writing in Mesopotamia. But Charpin’s book has no rival that could even stand in its shade.” —KAREL VAN DER TOORN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM 2011 46 halft halftone ones, s, 7 line line ill illus. us.,, 1 map map 336 pp. pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04968-0 Ne w
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“Spinoza breaks down the barriers between the“Spinoza ology and philosophy, as well as between the Jewish Jew ish and Christ Christian ian traditi traditions, ons, in a way way that has never received the scrutiny and attention it deserves. Milad Doueihi illuminates this critical moment in the history of ideas in an innovative and stimulating way.” —KARLA POLLMANN, UNIVERSITY OF ST ST.. ANDREWS 2010 128 pp. Clo Cloth th $29 $29.95 .95 / £22. £22.95 95 ISBN 978-0-674-05063-1
