The figure Balaam has interested exegetes and scribes for millennia. Jonathan Miles Robker examin...

'Phenomenal... Utterly absorbing' Sunday Times, 'Book of the Week''[A] fabulous romp of a...

'Excellent' New York Times'An instant classic. . . Hamlet but with goats everywhere' Washingt...

This commentary sets the ancient Jewish story of Tobit within a broad tradition-historical contex...

This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative no...

A New York Times Notable Book, Want Not offers funny and occasionally devastating 'portraits of h...

I have been writing since early childhood, and have compiled a book of some of my writings to fur...

Sometimes the planes don t fly on time.

“Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might e...

Who wrote the material about Jehu in the Bible, when and why did they write it, and how reliable ...

This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative no...

What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going?This reader is organi...