Argues that the religious movement of Mormonism branched off from mainstream Calvinist Christianity in a slow and deliberate process.

Explores the history of how the Eden story in Genesis has been understood.

Raises the radical question of how Dante’s understanding of poetry shaped his theology, his ethics, and, more generally his sense of the organization of knowledge or encyclopedia.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Explores the canon of Rabbinic literature.

Argues that academics’ intellectual engagement with a public beyond the walls of their own specialties, and even beyond the walls of the academy, was long a commonplace and significant part of the work of professors and writers in the humanities.

Thorough analysis of rabbinic thought.

Explores the lyric context of Inferno 5.

Translation of an Arabic work extolling the person and mission of Jesus.

English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.

Argues that critical comments appended to early printed editions of Petrarch’s Rime sparse inflected the reception and understanding of Petrarch’s vernacular poetry in Renaissance Europe.

A guide for appointed officials in American government.

Analyzes the responses of five states—Florida, Mississippi, New York, Washington, and Wisconsin—to the challenges of implementing welfare reform.

A new, substantially updated, and expanded version of a classic work on how to evaluate public policy published over a decade ago.

Discusses welfare reform in Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Discusses issues involved in evaluating the new reforms, and applies those issues to the evaluation of welfare reform in Wisconsin.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

A selection of papers presented at the 28th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.

Examines the history, philosophy and hermeneutics, and law and literature of formative Judaism.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Surveys the works of three important female writers of postcolonial societies.

Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.

Presents the theoretical dimension of three decades of research on African-derived concepts of helping.

Explores early Palestinian Judaic traditions.