Books Received

Attaleiates, Michael. The History. Translated by Anthony Kaldellis and Dimtris Krallis. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 16. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-674-05799-9. Pp. 656. $29.95.

Augustine. The City of God (De Civitate Dei) (Books 1–10). Introduction and translation by William Babcock. The Works of Saint Augustine, A Translation for the 21st Century, Part I, Volume 6. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-56548-455-9. Pp. lvi + 348.

Bates, Matthew W. The Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Proclamation: The Center of Paul’s Method of Scriptural Interpretation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60258-328-3. Pp. 400.

Blosser, Benjamin P. Become Like the Angels: Origen’s Doctrine of the Soul. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8132-2001-7. Pp. vii + 290. $69.95.

Bovon, François and Christopher R. Matthews. The Acts of Philip: A New Translation. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60258- 655-0. Pp. vii + 114.

Byers, Sarah Catherine. Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-107-01794-8. Pp. xviii + 248. $99.00.

Carter, Warren. Seven Events that Shaped the New Testament World. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8010-3916-4. Pp. 192. $21.99.

Cassin, Matthieu. L’Écriture de la controverse chez Grégoire de Nysse: Polémique littéraire et exégèse dans le Contre Eunome. Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Antiquité, 193. Paris: Institut d’Études Augustiniennes, 2012. ISBN 978-2-85121-255-9. Pp. 430.

Cohn, Naftali S. The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8122- 4457-1. Pp. 248. $69.95/£45.50.

Crislip, Andrew. Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. ISBN 978- 0-8122-4445-8. Pp. 272. $65.00/£42.50.

Czachesz, István. The Grotesque Body in Early Christian Discourse: Hell, Scatology, and Metamorphosis. Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing: 2012. ISBN 978-1-84553-865-9. Pp. vii + 232. $95.00.

Dillard, Peter S. A Way into Scholasticism: A Companion to St. Bonaventure’s The Soul’s Journey into God. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co., 2012. ISBN 978-0-227-67990-6. Pp. xii + 212.

Govindaraj, Mano. The Authorized Biography of Jesus Christ: A New Interpretation of The Gospel of St. Matthew. Bloomington, IN: Westbow Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4497-6322-0. Pp. ix + 163.

Harrill, J. Albert. Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-521- 75780-5. Pp. xv + 207. $24.99.

Irvine, Susan and Malcolm R. Godden, editors and translators. The Old English Boethius with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 19. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-674-05558-2. Pp. 480. $29.95.

Jasper, Alison E. Because of Beauvoir: Christianity and the Cultivation of Female Genius. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60258-321-4. Pp. x + 178.

Jefford, Clayton N. Reading the Apostolic Fathers: A Student’s Introduction. Second Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8010- 4857-9. Pp. 224. $29.99.

Kinney, Angela M., editor. The Vulgate Bible. Volume V: The Minor Prophetical Books and Maccabees. Douay-Rheims Translation. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 17. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0- 674-06635-9. Pp. 672. $29.95.

König, Jason. Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-521-88685-7. Pp. xi + 417.

Leng, Felicity. Consecrated Spirits: A Thousand Years of Spiritual Writings by Women Religious. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0- 8091-4790-8. Pp. 288. $18.95.

Radner, Ephraim. A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012. ISBN 978...