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Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perceptions in Byzantium was edited by Professor Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett and published by Harvard University Press in October 2017, as part of its Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia series.
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Yale University Press

Friendship in the Hebrew Bible (Yale University Press, 2017)

In Friendship in the Hebrew Bible, Professor Saul M. Olyan analyzes a wide range of texts, including prose narratives, prophetic materials, psalms, pre-Hellenistic wisdom collections, and the Hellenistic-era wisdom book Ben Sira.
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On Human Bondage, edited by Professor John Bodel and Walter Scheidel, is a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson’s groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death, assessing how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies.
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