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  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. The approach is ecumenical, in the sense that it seeks ... Read more

    $59.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hot Lights, Cold Steel

    Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    "An orthopedic surgeon's down-to-earth, fast-paced, and frequently funny memoir of his residency [told] with a born storyteller's skill." — Kirkus ReviewsMichael Collins' account of his four-year surgical residency at the famed Mayo Clinic traces his rise from an eager but clueless first-year resident navigating chaos and feelings of inadequacy to accomplished Chief Resident in his final year. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The "Dead Sea Scrolls"

    A Biography

    by John J. Collins ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to have been hidden in the Judean desert by the Essenes, a Jewish sect that existed around the time of Jesus, and they continue to inspire veneration and conspiracy theories to this day. John Collins tells ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Retired Ground

    A Climber's Odyssey

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    He went looking for adventure. The mountains gave him so much more.In Retired Ground, Michael J. Collins documents his fifty-year pilgrimage into wild places, braiding his lifelong travel journal together with poetry, history, philosophical musings, and hard-earned reflection. The book begins with a twenty-one-year-old hitchhiking through Ireland as The Troubles gather in the distance, then ranges ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs

    The Making of a Surgeon

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    It looked for a while like Michael Collins would spend his life breaking concrete and throwing rocks for the Vittorio Scalese Construction Company. He liked the work and he liked the pay. But a chance remark by one of his coworkers made him realize that he wanted to involve himself in something bigger, something more meaningful than crushing rocks and drinking beer.In his acclaimed first memoir, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Satan

    How God's Executioner Became the Enemy

    by Ryan E. Stokes ...
    Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satan—it is always “the Satan” in the Old Testament—portray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All Bleeding Stops

    by Michael J Collins, MD ...
    What does a doctor do when he thinks his best is not good enough? Matthew Barrett, thirty-one years old and fresh out of residency, is drafted and sent to Vietnam as a combat surgeon in 1967 at the heightof the Vietnam War. Compassionate and sensitive to a fault, he is determined to make a difference but quickly finds his idealism crushed by the pain, suffering, and indifference that surround him. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Early Judaism

    A Comprehensive Overview

    Edited by John J. Collins, Daniel C. Harlow ...
    Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars. This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Least of Men

    by Michael J. Collins ...
    Sixteen years ago, Chicago surgeon Dr. David Carroll lost everything.When Russian mafia boss Dimitri Barkov tried to seize Carroll’s medical practice, David refused. Barkov’s retaliation was swift and brutal—David’s wife murdered, federal agents gunned down, and David forced into hiding in the remote wilderness of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The world believed the story ended there, with David dead ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Bible after Babel

    Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age

    by John J. Collins ...
    Biblical scholars today often sound as if they are caught in the aftermath of Babel -- a clamor of voices unable to reach common agreement. Yet is this confusion necessarily a bad thing? Many postmodern critics see the recent profusion of critical approaches as a welcome opportunity for the emergence of diverse new techniques. In The Bible after Babel noted biblical scholar John J. Collins ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Introduction to the Hebrew Bible

    by John J. Collins ...
    John J. Collins's Introduction to the Hebrew Bible is one of the most reliable and widely adopted critical textbooks at undergraduate and graduate levels alike, and for good reason. Enriched by decades of classroom teaching, it is aimed explicitly at motivated students, regardless of their previous exposure to the Bible or faith commitments. The approach is ecumenical, in the sense that it seeks ... Read more

    $58.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The River Murder

    by Patrick J. Collins ...
    Harbour Grace Newfoundland June 1884 Sergeant Sean Ryan, an officer with the Terra Nova Constabulary, is transferred from St. John’s to police the very troubled and tense Catholic community of Riverhead, Harbour Grace, a place he thought he had left behind him. Just five months ago, the now-infamous religious riot known as the Harbour Grace Affray saw five men tragically killed—a lone Catholic, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD