1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996214640903316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to the Bible / / Bruce Chilton, general editor ; Howard Clark Kee ... [et al.] [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-48666-1

1-107-48157-0

1-139-16737-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 724 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

220.9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

World of the Hebrew Bible / Eric M. Meyers and John Rogerson -- Jewish responses to Greek and Roman cultures, 322 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. / Anthony J. Saldarini as revised by Amy-Jill Levine -- Formation of Christian communities / Howard Clark Kee.

Sommario/riassunto

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, 2nd edition provides in-depth data and analysis of the production and reception of the canonical writings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and also of the apocryphal works produced by Jewish and Christian writers. Unique among single-volume introductions, this book focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical authors and their original readers lived. The authors of the first edition were chosen for their internationally recognized expertise in their respective fields: the history and literature of Israel; postbiblical Judaism; biblical archaeology; and the origins and early literature of Christianity. In this second edition, all chapters have been updated and thoroughly revised,under the direction of a new volume editor, Bruce D. Chilton. More than 22 new maps, 90 new photographs and a full-color section help illustrate the book.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996393442903316

Autore

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, <1090 or 91-1153.>

Titolo

Saint Bernard, his Meditations: or, Sighes, sobbes, and teares, vpon our Sauiours passion [[electronic resource] ] : In memoriall of his death. Also his Motiues to mortification, with other meditations. all done (as they now are) by W.P. Maister of Artes, in Cambridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at London, : [by T. Creede] and are to be solde by Arthur Iohnson, dwelling in Paules Chruchyard, at the signe of the white-Horse, 1611

Edizione

[The second edition much amended.]

Descrizione fisica

[12], 440, [6], 264, [10] p

Altri autori (Persone)

W. P, Mr. of Arts.

Soggetti

Meditations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

An English translation of: Bernard of Clairvaux. Tractatus de interiori domo.

First leaf and last two leaves are blank.

Printer's name from STC.

"Most devout and diuine meditations of Saint Bernard. Concerning the knowledge of humane condition: seruing as so manie motiues to mortification." has separate title page, dated 1610, and pagination; register is continuous.

Signatures: A⁶ B-2H¹² .

Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0055



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910975307603321

Autore

Healy Kieran Joseph <1973->

Titolo

Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs / / Kieran Healy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

9786612738432

9781282738430

1282738437

9780226322384

0226322386

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

362.17/84

Soggetti

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc

Procurement of organs, tissues, etc - Economic aspects - United States

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Economic aspects - United States

Tissue banks - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Exchange in Human Goods -- 2. Making a Gift -- 3. The Logistics of Altruism -- 4. Collection Regimes and Donor Populations -- 5. Organizations and Obligations -- 6. Managing Gifts, Making Markets -- Appendix: Data Sources and Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual-often anonymous-may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United



States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent-contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor's altruism or the size of a financial incentive.