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RITUAL PRACTICES TO GAIN POWERAdjurations in the Hekhalot Literature, JewishAmulets, and Greek Revelatory AdjurationsREBECCA MACY LESSESLesses analyzes the elaborate ritual performances thatform a part of the early Jewish mystical literaturestemming from Palestine and Babylonia in the fourththrough eighth centuries C.E. as ritual practices togain power.1-56338-219-9 320 pp. $22.00 paperback

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AND GENDER POLITICSPATRICIA E. GUENTHER-GLEASONThis illuminating study of the fate of women and thefeminine in the work of Schleiermacher, Schiller, andSchlegel is prefaced with background on the existentialfactors motivating the defense of the feminine bySchleiermacher and Schlegel, and Schiller's presence intheir consciousness.1-56338-220-2 384 pp. $23.00 paperback

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CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTUREL. MICHAEL WHITEVol. 1: Building God's House in the Roman World:Architectural Adaptation Among Pagans, Jews, Christians1-56338-180-X 224pp. $17.00 paperback

Vol. 2: Texts and Monuments for the Christian DomusEcclesiae in Its EnvironmentWhite assembles important archaeological, documen-tary, and literary sources for the development of earlyChristian architecture in the first three centuries.1-56338-181-8 520 pp. $30.00 paperback

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91:1 JANUARY 1998

3 The So-Called Therapeutae of De Vita ContemplativaJoan E. Taylor and Philip R. Davies

25 Maimonides on Freedom of the Will and MoralResponsibilityMoshe Sokol

41 Vincent Ferrer's Beati Petri Apostoli: Canonical andApocryphal Sources in Popular Vernacular PreachingAlberto Ferretro

59 Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Central Place of Worship in TheologyTheodore Vial

75 Communicative Theory and Theology: A ReconsiderationK. L Afrasiabi

Notes and Observations89 Bona Cogitare: An Epicurean Consolation in Phil 4:8-9

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