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This book offers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander's military victories and personality while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander's story, Stephen Harrison argues, is one that includes the vital roles that other figures played in historical events. By considering recent intellectual currents, Harrison highlights how contemporary experiences have shaped historical interpretation and also reflects on Alexander's portrayals through the centuries. Moving beyond polarized debates, Harrison provides a nuanced discussion of Alexander's impact. The book presents an Alexander for the twenty-first century.

It is unusual for a single scholar practically to reorient an entire sub-field of study, but this is what Chris Stray has done for the history of UK classical scholarship. His remarkable combination of interests in the sociology of scholars and scholarship, in the history of the book and of publishing, and (especially) in the detailed intellectual contextualisation of classical scholarship as a form of classical reception has fundamentally changed the way the history of British classics and its study is viewed.

A generation ago the history of classical scholarship still consisted largely of accounts of particular scholars and groups of scholars written by other scholars from a broadly biographical and 'heroic individual' perspective. In these works scholars often sought to find their own place in the great tradition, choosing to praise or blame those whose work they admired or deprecated, and to identify with particular schools or trends, and there were few attempts to provide a broader and less prosopographical perspective.

Almost all the chapters in the volume originated as papers at a conference in honour of the honorand, and have been improved both by discussion there and by the rigorous peer-review process conducted by the two experienced editors. It covers various aspects of classical reception, with a particular focus on the history of scholars, their institutions, and their writings; the main focus is on the UK, but there are also substantial engagements with continental Europe and (especially) the USA; the period covered runs from the Renaissance to the present. The cast contains a number of world-famous names. Unusually, the volume also contains an essay by the honorand, but we are very keen to include this, especially as it focusses on the topic of scholarly collaboration.

Stephen Harrison and Regine May argue that Cupid and Psyche had a broad and profound influence on certain important and specific areas of European culture; it was appropriated and adapted to suit particular cultural and generic contexts, especially the development of the fairy tale. This constitutes an important strand of the more general reception of the ancient novel, since the tale of Cupid and Psyche is arguably the most famous section of any fiction from Greece or Rome.

Apuleius' story has enjoyed an extraordinarily rich reception throughout the five centuries from its rediscovery in the Renaissance to the present day. Previous studies of this reception have focused on the tale's prominence in Renaissance art and literature, or otherwise on its status in the German Romantic period. This book goes further and wider, ranging across literary genres in English, French, German and Dutch, encompassing poetry and drama as well as prose fiction, and covering all the key elements of the tale's reception from 1650 to the present. We hereby rediscover a tale that today remains as relevant and ripe for appropriation as ever.

The presence and plurality of New Testament elders is necessary for today's local church. That's true for deacons as well. The Apostle Paul addressed both a plurality of overseers (elders) and deacons in the church at Philippi (Philippians 1:1). Jesus' church (Matthew 16:18) should have the same leadership structure today as seen in His Word. Sadly, the New Testament standards and practices of these two offices are often missing, mutated, and even mutilated in the local church! Elders are not simply board members, and deacons are not glorified janitors. Both are needed and must be understood and implemented to lovingly lead and serve the local church body. Some churches operate in a single elder (senior pastor) leadership structure often accompanied by deacons with elder-like responsibilities. Sometimes churches are led by a power-hungry board called deacons that fail to be lead servants of Jesus. By functioning incorrectly (unbiblically), quasi-deacons/elders often overlook the biblical responsibilities needed from each New Testament office. The result can produce an under-led and underserved church. What a mess that can be!

This twelve-lesson workbook was designed to help the church and its leaders understand biblical deacons. It can be used to identify, train, and commission biblical deacons in a mentoring relationship while retaining (or starting) the plurality of eldership. This workbook will help local churches distinguish between the needed responsibilities of both elders and deacons and discover how these offices function harmoniously. May the result be a well-led and well-served flourishing local church that glorifies Jesus and makes disciples of Him.

This is not just a book about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph although they are the main subjects. More than that, Dr. Harrison is presenting a book about faith, a book about personalities, and a book that raises many questions about the purpose and intent of the characters involved. To be sure, God is very much included in all the scenarios.
Abraham and Joseph are the bookends and establish the framework for God's purpose- the nation of Israel. The narrative never takes us out of Egypt; Joseph and Jacob's kin find a resting place there where they can flourish and grow into a healthy social culture some 500 years later. All part of God's plan to give the Patriarch's descendants the tools, politic and wisdom to be a distinct and lasting nation, schooled in many ways by a rich Egyptian culture.

The artist Michelangelo immortalized the image of David, using everyday tools to depict this man after God's own heart. Yet while Michelangelo's David offers us a full view of David the man, the scriptures offer us a full image of his heart and soul. So can David match the image depicted by Michelangelo? Can David match our own image of him? And can David match the heart of God?

In David and Michelangelo: Heart and Stone, authors Dr. Stephen Harrison and Richard Huizinga seek to identify the traits that justify the heart of God as an early descriptor of David. By exploring the life and trials of David--his successes as well as his failures--we can get a complete picture of this man after God's own heart, learning in the process how we too can always seek God despite our imperfections.

The heart after God's own is that portion of ourselves that remains attracted to God despite our flaws. By exploring the enduring image and character of David, we can begin to chip away at the image we had in order to find that heart of David that is man after God's own heart.

The gospels, in a nutshell, are an offensive paradox where absurd and seemingly contradictory statements reside such as in order to live we have to die to self. The gospels seek to reconcile unmerited grace with the necessity of social engagement simultaneously to people who may themselves not be deserving as well. We are welcomed home like the Prodigal, but we are not off the hook for work we are called to do. The beauty of the gospels is that as eternal as they are in their ability to inspire, that type of inspiration may manifest in as many ways over time as there are interpretations. Explore ours as you find yours.

The artist Michelangelo immortalized the image of David, using everyday tools to depict this man after God's own heart. Yet while Michelangelo's David offers us a full view of David the man, the scriptures offer us a full image of his heart and soul. So can David match the image depicted by Michelangelo? Can David match our own image of him? And can David match the heart of God?

In David and Michelangelo: Heart and Stone, authors Dr. Stephen Harrison and Richard Huizinga seek to identify the traits that justify the heart of God as an early descriptor of David. By exploring the life and trials of David-his successes as well as his failures-we can get a complete picture of this man after God's own heart, learning in the process how we too can always seek God despite our imperfections.

The heart after God's own is that portion of ourselves that remains attracted to God despite our flaws. By exploring the enduring image and character of David, we can begin to chip away at the image we had in order to find that heart of David that is man after God's own heart.

The papers focus on two main areas: Heaney's fascination with Greek drama and myth - shown primarily in his two Sophoclean versions, but also in his engagement in other poems with Hesiod, with Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and with myths such as that of Antaeus - and his interest in Latin poetry, primarily that of Virgil but also that of Horace; a version of an Horatian ode was famously the vehicle for Heaney's comment on the events of 11 September 2001 in 'Anything Can Happen' (District and Circle, 2006). Although a number of the contributions cover similar material, they do so from distinctively different angles: for example, Heaney's interest in Virgil is linked with the traditions of Irish poetry, his capacity as a translator, and his annotations in his own text of a standard translation, as well as being investigated in its long development over his poetic career, while his Greek dramas are considered as verbal poetry, as comments on Irish politics, and as stage-plays with concomitant issues of production and interpretation. Heaney's posthumous translation of Virgil's Aeneid VI (2016) comes in for considerable attention, and this will be the first volume to study this major work from several angles.

With wisdom from a father and mother instructing a son (Proverbs 1:8), the Proverbs give actionable how-to practical and sensible advice and skills needed for living out biblical manhood. This book is designed as a 30-day devotional to model and hopefully establish and encourage the daily discipline of spending time with God in His Word and presence. Every man can apply the practical advice and answers from the Proverbs on the critical issues facing men today, such as conduct, decision-making, sexual purity, finances, charity, business, contentment, and relationships.

A fascinating insight into the most talented Latin poets to occupy the Papal throne after Pius II Piccolomini in the 15th century, this book offers translations of and commentaries on the major poems of the three popes (all Italians): Urban VIII Barberini, Alexander VII Chigi and Leo XIII Pecci. Their highly accomplished Neo-Latin poems owe much to the major Latin poets and are significant instances of classical reception, but also cast an interesting light on their lives, times and papacies.

Urban (elected pope in 1623) published a mixture of secular and religious verse, drawing on the hexameter epistles of Horace and the lyrics of Catullus and writing Horatian material in praise of Alessandro Farnese, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and the Spanish martyr St Laurence. Alexander (elected pope in 1655) like Urban combines secular and religious themes and often uses Horatian frameworks, writing hexameter accounts of some of the journeys he made as a papal diplomat in Germany and an Horatian ode on the fall of the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle (1628). Leo's poetry was mostly religious and published during his papacy (1878-1903); his Horatian ode on the new millennium of 1900 was widely read, and other works include an elegy which links a shrine of the Virgin with the Battle of Lepanto; an Horatian satire on moderate diet; and hymns to saints which combine early Christian and Horatian forms.

This volume collects eighteen pieces on Horace written over the last two decades. They share a common interest in the close reading of Horace's poems, especially of the Odes, and are intended to stand alongside the more formal analyses in my commentary on Odes 2 (2017) and the readings of Horatian poems in my monograph on generic enrichment (2007).

These pieces share a number of particular concerns linked to issues prominent in classical scholarship over the period: literary career criticism, intratextuality, intertextual interaction with other poets and genres, while a further topic is the perennial question of Horace's negotiation of the major political issues of his time and the nature of his engagement with the Augustan regime. Like all the Augustan poets, Horace was writing for a Roman readership which had been sharply divided by the internecine wars of the 40s and 30s BCE, and his work can express the perspective of the defeated as well as that of the victors, just as Vergil's does in the Aeneid. The volume emphasises the original cultural context (and readers) of the poems, and seeks to present Horace's poetry with the apparatus needed for its modern literary study by scholars and advanced students.

One-on-One Discipleship: 52 Lessons Designed to Help Disciples Make Disciples of Jesus was written with that in mind. The discipleship strategy is simple. This interactive workbook is designed to be used by two believers intentionally discipling one another over the course of a year by developing a weekly routine using Scripture, memorization, prayer, accountability, conversation, and fellowship. With sections on crucial directions, essential disciplines, and foundational doctrines, you'll be well-equipped to grow spiritually and walk out your faith in Christ with another disciple.

Jesus wants us to be disciples and make disciples. Truthfully, we aren't being disciples until we are making disciples. The commitment and process can be challenging but doable and fulfilling. Whether you're a new believer or have been saved for thirty years, this discipleship process will help you put your faith into practice while growing with another believer in Christ. Start making disciples today and do as the Apostle Paul said, And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others (2 Timothy 2:2).

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Capturing the dynamic pulse of the era's jazz music, this lavishly illustrated publication explores American taste and style during the golden age of the 1920s. Following the destructive years of the First World War, this flourishing decade marked a rebirth of aesthetic innovation that was cultivated to a great extent by American talent and patronage. Due to an influx of European émigrés to the United States, as well as American enthusiasm for traveling to Europe's cultural capitals, a reciprocal wave of experimental attitudes began traveling back and forth across the Atlantic, forming a creative vocabulary that mirrored the ecstatic spirit of the times.

The Jazz Age showcases developments in design, art, architecture, and technology during the '20s and early '30s, and places new emphasis on the United States as a vital part of the emerging marketplace for Art Deco luxury goods. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations and essays by two leading historians of decorative arts, this comprehensive catalogue shows how America and the rest of the world worked to establish a new visual representation of modernity.

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