多梅尼科•斯坎代拉，一位普通的磨坊主，生活于16世纪意大利东北的弗留利地区。他能读会写，读过《十日谈》、意大利本国语言版《圣经》和曼德维尔游记之类的书，也能用自己的语言重述它们。他先后面对乡邻、神父和宗教法庭的法官，表达自己的情感，阐述自己对教会和世界的看法。如果有机会觐见教皇、国王，他也想要慷慨陈词。
他不相信基督救赎，怀疑圣经文本，讥讽洗礼等诸圣事不过是一桩生意。他说上帝是一缕空气，视众天使为奶酪中的蛆虫。他大声指斥压迫穷人的教士、贵族，呼吁教会放弃特权、返朴归贫，甚至渴望发起一场激进的宗教改革。对他的两次审判相隔十五年，亲朋的退避、教士的斥责和审判官的威吓，皆未动摇他“离经叛道”的立场和信心。
最终，在近乎默默无闻中度过一生之后，由于教皇的直接干预，他被宗教法庭下令烧死在火刑柱上，就死在大名鼎鼎的布鲁诺被烧死前夕。
金茨堡在错综复杂的审判档案和精英文化、低层文化之间穿梭游走，编织了一个结构巧妙、叙述迷人的故事。通过磨坊主多梅尼科的眼睛，我们看到的不仅仅是普通人的生活和思想世界，他的奇思异想、喜怒哀乐和挑战权威的决心，16世纪欧洲大众文化的瑰丽图景乃至欧洲宏大的历史画卷也徐徐展开。
编辑推荐：
★史学巨擘金茨堡经久不衰的经典，出版45年来首次在中文世界出版
本书是几乎每一个学历史的人都知道或听过的名著，自1976年出版以来，享誉全球，至今已以意大利语、英语、法语、德语、葡萄牙语、加泰罗尼亚语、西班牙语、俄语、日语、韩语、捷克语、希伯来语、波兰语、爱沙尼亚语、芬兰语、克罗地亚语等多种文字出版了二十多个版本。本书不仅是微观史学三大代表作之一，经过半个世纪的检验，也已成为当之无愧的现代史学经典。
★抽丝剥茧，探索个体的知识来源与世界观，呈现精英文化与大众文化的碰撞
在本书中，作者花了很大的力气去探讨主人公离经叛道的思想、读过什么书、可能接触过哪些思想和团体，展示了他读过的那些书与他阅读这些书的方式之间的差异，他以相当不同的方式重述（甚至扭曲）了他读过的内容。通过他的故事，我们不仅看到了他的生活，还看到了普通民众的宗教信仰、他以一己之力向宗教和政治权威发起的挑战，也可以感受到书面文化与口头文化之间的交织渗透：启蒙运动、宗教改革和印刷术都对这个“边缘小人物”产生了影响。

In this unique collection of essays, some of today's smartest Jewish thinkers explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality. In the last few decades a number of factors - post-modernism, feminism, queer liberation, and more - have brought discussion of sexuality to the fore, and with it a whole new set of questions that challenge time-honored traditions and ways of thinking. For Jews of all backgrounds, this has often led to an unhappy standoff between tradition and sexual empowerment. Yet as "The Passionate Torah" illustrates, it is of critical importance to see beyond this apparent conflict if Jews are to embrace both their religious beliefs and their sexuality. With incisive essays from contemporary rabbis, scholars, thinkers, and writers, this collection not only surveys the challenges that sexuality poses to Jewish belief, but also offers fresh new perspectives and insights on the changing place of sexuality within Jewish theology - and Jewish lives. Covering topics such as monogamy, inter-faith relationships, reproductive technology, homosexuality, and a host of other hot-button issues, these writings consider how contemporary Jews can engage themselves, their loved ones, and their tradition in a way that's both sexy and sanctified. Seeking to deepen the Jewish conversation about sexuality, "The Passionate Torah" brings together brilliant thinkers in an attempt to bridge the gap between the sacred and the sexual. The contributors are: Rebecca Alpert, Wendy Love Anderson, Judith R. Baskin, Aryeh Cohen, Elliot Dorff, Esther Fuchs, Bonna Haberman, Elliot Kukla, Gail Labovitz, Malka Landau, Sarra Lev, Laura Levitt, Sara Meirowitz, Jay Michaelson, Haviva Ner-David, Danya Ruttenberg, Naomi Seideman, and Arthur Waskow.

"Halakhah in the Making" offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-year gap in knowledge, allowing work to begin comparing specific laws of the Qumran sect with rabbinic laws. With the publication of scroll "4QMMT" - a polemical letter by Dead Sea sectarians concerning points of Jewish law - an effective comparison was finally possible. This is the first book-length treatment of the material to appear since the publication of "4QMMT" and the first attempt to apply its discoveries to the work of nineteenth-century scholars. It is also the first work on this important topic written in plain language and accessible to nonspecialists in the history of Jewish law.

2011年6月的《读书》上，登载了周颖的一篇书评“新约圣经：绝对神授还是历史产物”。介绍这本被华盛顿邮报评为“最不可能成为畅销书的畅销书”。《错引耶稣》2005年在美国出版，之后连续九周名列《纽约时报》的畅销榜，至今销售约三十八万册。《错引耶稣》的主要内容就是用严谨、确凿的证据和深入浅出的文字，来说明《圣经》的经文不是一成不变的神授本源，是什么人、为着什么缘故改动了经文。 如周颖在文章中所说：“《错引耶稣》推理严谨、行文生动，确属深入浅出、庄谐并蓄的雅俗共赏之作。倘若读者要找一本经文校勘学的入门书，或想要了解新约的传播史，或希望略知一二美国当前的经文研究动态，此书值得尝试。”

Julia Roberts on the red carpet at the Oscars. Lady Gaga singing “Applause” to worshipful fans at one of her sold-out concerts. And you and me in our Sunday best in the front row at church. What do we have in common?
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Richard J. Foster
-- author of Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
“At last a book that takes head-on what is perhaps the capital vice of modern culture. Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung draws from the classical tradition of Christian moral thinking to introduce us to the life-giving virtues, which alone can free us from the plague of narcissism that is the cultural zeitgeist of our day. I recommend this book highly.”
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Jennifer Herdt
-- author of Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices
“In disarmingly conversational prose, DeYoung deftly unravels the twisting paths traced by the desire for glory as it roots itself ever more deeply in our characters. But she does not simply leave us in vainglory’s clutches. In conversation with Augustine, Aquinas, and the Desert Fathers, she canvasses traditional spiritual practices that re-open possibilities for truthful self-communication, and she points us to our call to become transparent to God’s glory as vessels of God’s self-giving love.”
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Robert C. Roberts
-- author of Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues
“DeYoung’s Vainglory is the best thing out there on the vices of pride. It’s profound, readable, witty, telling, historically informative, and pastorally helpful.”

Bible scholar Jennifer Wright Knust addresses the big questions that dominate today's discussions and debates when it comes to sex and the Bible: Is premarital sex a sin? When, and in what contexts, is sexual desire appropriate? With whom can I legitimately have sex? Are same-sex relations permissible? In an era where the phrases, "the Bible says," and "God says," are so often exploited, it is time to consider what the Bible actually does—or does not—say about monogamy, polygamy, homosexuality, gender roles, and sex. Unprotected Texts directly and pointedly takes on widely shared misconceptions about sex, arguing that the Bible cannot—and should not—serve as a rulebook for sexual morality, despite popular claims to the contrary. From the Song of Songs' lyrical eroticism to the rigid sexual rules of Leviticus—and everything in between—Knust parses the Bible's contradictory, often surprising messages. Skillfully revealing the latest insights from critical scholarship, Knust provides a compassionate and liberating model for navigating these deeply personal issues that affect us all.

为了完成这部巨著，薛华博士花了超过40年时间，深入研究哲学、历史、社会学、艺术等各部门学问。他从分析古罗马的败亡开始，顺着历史的发展，将基督教的兴起、中世纪时期教会的变质、启蒙运动、宗教改革，以至现代社会的形成等阶段的进程，及其间文化的特质一一展示。并以自己独到的立场加以客观的分析和评价，指出西方文化衰落的根源，是人本主义的人的自我中心，人想作宇宙的主宰。他告诉我们西方国家已迷失方向，以致整个文化体系百病丛生，*后全球都将被带入危机。他也在*后试图指出了人类的希望，在于复兴古老的道德和价值标准。

Venus and Virtue are a match made in heaven. While popular culture often tends to think of Christianity as negative about sexuality and sexual pleasure, the fact is that Christians have the best of reasons to joyfully celebrate sex as a gift. Unfortunately, there is as much confusion about sex in Christian circles as there is in the culture at large. The authors of this book believe that this confusion can only be adequately addressed by drawing from the deep wells of biblical truth and traditional theology. The writers, however, are not only experts in biblical scholarship, theology, and philosophy, but also pastoral ministry, counseling, pop culture criticism, and women's issues. This book is not sexy in the typical sense of that word, but by situating sexuality within the cosmic drama of biblical revelation, the true beauty and goodness of sex most clearly emerges. And as that beauty emerges, we can begin to see why Christian morality not only makes profound sense, but also why it positively enriches the meaning of sex in ways that far outstrip the sexy secular alternative.

《希伯来圣经的文本历史与思想世界》将运用多层次的圣经评断学方法，如历史评断学、文学评断学、形式评断学、社会学评断学、编修评断学等，尤其倚重传统史方法和正典评断学，以以色列思想史为基本维度，分析希伯来圣经中蕴含着的文本与群体、群体与群体、文本与文本之间的丰富而复杂的关系，展现其中的文学、史学与神学世界。

This classic work on literary criticism by Professor Adele Berlin introduces the reader to the colorful world of poetics (literary conventions) used in the construction of biblical narratives. Her book is divided into 6 parts: Poetics and Interpretation, Character and Characterization, Point of View, Poetics in the Book of Ruth, Poetic Interpretation and Historical-Critical Methods, and The Art of Biblical Narrative.

《圣经叙事的艺术》旨在引导读者更好地理解圣经的叙事艺术。在前两章里，作者从两个方面来着手解释，一是这种引导的必要性，二是其概念原理。《圣经叙事的艺术》的既定目标乃在阐明圣经叙事的一些独特的艺术原则。书中列举了许多实例，不论长短，都配有评析，并始终是为了举例说明基本原则，而不是为了全面地或就个别段落进行评论。这里所讲的圣经仅指希伯来圣经。

希伯来《圣经》的叙事极具艺术品质，但西人的研究于此颇为淡漠。这
本由巴埃弗拉特所著，李锋译的《圣经的叙事艺术》的关注，恰在于《圣经
》叙事的形式与结构。作者首论叙事人与叙事模式，再谈人物塑造、情节构
成、时间空间和文体细节，最后加以统括。《圣经的叙事艺术》视《圣经》
为文学，意在为其叙事提供指南，展现一番全新的阅读方式，其中所涉文学
特征以众多实例旁证之，遍及全经，惟《创世记》与《撒母耳记》为重。出
版以来，本书被誉为“圣经文学领域中划时代的创举”。

Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

How should Israel's waiting for their land shape our reading of the Pentateuch, and how should this shape the hope of the church today? Treating the Pentateuch as a coherent and progressive story, Waiting for the Land is the first book-length exploration of these questions. Following an introduction to the Pentateuch, Leder examines each book, showing that the promise of the land was not realized. He then shows how the contemporary church should wait for its land.

When it comes to the history of the universe, many believe that science and faith are mutually exclusive. But in this revised version of Origins, physics professors Loren and Deborah Haarsma explore what God's Word and God's world teach us about creation, evolution, and intelligent design.
Clearly explaining the science, the authors focus on areas where Christians agree. They also present the strengths and weaknesses of areas where Christians differ.
Origins helps you develop a deeper understanding of the origins of the universe and sort out your own views on faith and science. Small group discussion questions follow each chapter. A companion website provides resources for further study.

There is currently much interest in the history of interpretation, reader-response and the sociology of sacred texts - in what the text does as much as what it means. Isaiah, 'more evangelist than prophet' according to Jerome and others, provides an ideal case study, because of his profound influence on the language and imagery of Christianity. With illustrations from art, music, literature and the media as well as commentaries, sermons and official church pronouncements, Professor Sawyer shows how Isaiah has been used in all kinds of context, from the cult of the Virgin Mary, mediaeval passion iconography and antisemitic propaganda to Christian feminism and liberation theology. This first attempt at a comprehensive critical study of an essential part of biblical interpretation will provide a model for further research, and ensure that commentaries will never be the same again.

While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for each Old Testament book, this introduction combines a thematic approach with careful exegetical attention to representative biblical texts, ultimately telling the macro-level story, while drawing out the multiple nuances present within different texts and traditions.
The book works from the Protestant canonical arrangement of the Old Testament, which understands the story of the Old Testament as the story of God and God’s relationship with all creation in love and redemption—a story that joins the New Testament to the Old. Within this broader story, the Old Testament presents the specific story of God and God’s relationship with Israel as the people called, created, and formed to be God’s covenant partner and instrument within creation.
The Old Testament begins by introducing God’s mission in Genesis. The story opens with the portrait of God’s good, intended creation of right-relationships (Gen 1—2) and the subsequent distortion of that good creation as a result of humanity’s rebellion (Gen 3—11). Genesis 12 and following introduce God’s commitment to restore creation back to the right-relationships and divine intentions with which it began. Coming out of God’s new covenant engagement with creation in Gen 9, this divine purpose begins with the calling of a people (who turn out to be the manifold descendants of Abraham and Sarah) to be God’s instrument of blessing for all creation and thus to reverse the curse brought on by sin. The diverse traditions that comprise the remainder of the Pentateuch then combine to portray the creation and formation of Israel as a people prepared to be God’s instrument of restoration and blessing. As the subsequent Old Testament books portray Israel’s life in the land and journey into and out of exile, the reader encounters complex perspectives on Israel’s attempts to understand who God is, who they are as God’s people, and how, therefore, they ought to live out their identity as God’s people within God’s mission in the world. The final prophetic books that conclude the Protestant Old Testament ultimately give the story of God’s mission and people an open-ended quality, suggesting that God’s mission for God’s people continues and leading Christian readers to consider the New Testament’s story of the Church as an extension and expansion of the broader story of God introduced in the Old Testament.
The main methodological perspective that informs the book includes work on the phenomenological function of narrative (especially story’s function to shape the identity and practice of the reader), as well as more recent so-called “missional” approaches to reading Christian scripture. Canonical criticism provides the primary means for relating the distinctive voices within the Old Testament texts that still honor the particularity and diversity of the discrete compositions.
Accessibly written, this book invites readers to enter imaginatively into the biblical story and find the Old Testament's lively and enduring implications.

In this anticipated follow-up book, Nabeel reveals what he discovered in the decade following his conversion, providing a thorough and careful comparison of the evidence for Islam and Christianity--evidence that wrenched his heart and transformed his life.
In Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi recounted his dramatic journey, describing his departure from Islam and his decision to follow Christ. In the years that followed, he realized that the world’s two largest religions are far more different than they initially appeared.
No God but One: Allah or Jesus? addresses the most important questions at the interface of Islam and Christianity: How do the two religions differ? Are the differences significant? Can we be confident that either Christianity or Islam is true? And most important, is it worth sacrificing everything for the truth?
Nabeel shares stories from his life and ministry, casts new light on current events, and explores pivotal incidents in the histories of both religions, providing a resource that is gripping and thought-provoking, respectful and challenging.
Both Islam and Christianity teach that there is No God but One, but who deserves to be worshiped, Allah or Jesus?

现代文化让人以为：每个人都有个灵魂伴侣；成功婚姻中最重要的部分是浪漫爱情；配偶是为了帮助人实现自己的潜能；婚姻不过是暂时的，而非一生一世的；离婚后重新开始才是解开婚姻难题的最佳途径。这些现代假设完全是错误的。凯勒指出，婚姻是一种荣耀的关系，同时也是最容易被人误解和最神秘的关系；上帝创造婚姻的目的是使我们与上帝更加接近，并给我们的生活带来更多欢乐。凯勒以圣经为基础，结合自己与妻子凯西三十六年的婚姻经验，为我们揭示了婚姻的意义及通往幸福婚姻的途径。本书既适合已婚和单身的信徒，也可帮助非信徒认识幸福婚姻的福音根基。