Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions
“Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictions abounds in thoughtful perspectives on the motivation for false authorship, the extension of boundaries of apocryphal texts, comparative data from across chronological periods, and lessons from the most recent forgeries. Presenting valuable data and posing critical questions—many of which remain unanswered—this volume demonstrates how fruitful future studies of Christian apocrypha will be. . .” - Michelle Sdao
Ritual, Performance and the Senses
"The editors of Ritual, Performance and the Senses, a slim, but very fine collected volume, must be highly commended for their inspirational approach to the field of ritual studies combining cultural and cognitive methodologies. All authors share enthusiastically their interest in exploring the entangled body and embodied brain in such a way as to take seriously the effects space, time, repetition, practice, mimesis, and performance have on how we as humans perceive the world through our senses and bodies." - Katharina Wilkens
Tafsīr as Mystical Experience
“Lawson gives us privileged insights into a particular mode of mystical expectation and experience—that is, the quest for divine encounter through God’s proxy, the eschatological Qāʾim, or ‘hidden Imam.’ . . . Lawson’s style is engaging, with an original and distinctive ‘voice,’ an impressive command of his source material (both primary and secondary), and an exquisitely analytical prowess and illuminating insights—textual, historical, mystical, and otherwise.” - Christopher Burke
Reading Genesis
“This original volume succeeds in introducing the reader to the pitfalls and neuralgic points of Genesis studies. It not only invites people from diverse fields and backgrounds to read the first book of the Bible, but also encourages people to ask how the many conundrums presented by the text will be resolved by future readers. One can only wish that many people read this interesting and entertaining book to test their preconceptions and broaden their general knowledge of Genesis and its rich and thriving reception history.” - Philipp Reisner
Nietzsche and Other Buddhas
“Jason Wirth’s Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy is a tour de force that both challenges and expands our understanding of the very practice of philosophy in general, and comparative philosophy in particular. . . . Wirth skillfully shifts the practice of comparative philosophy beyond the enumeration of affinities and differences between “western” and “eastern” thinkers towards a global horizon of world philosophy.” - Joseph Markowski
