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Argues that by virtue of Jesus's conviction and crucifixion at the hands of the Romans he failed to fulfil the prophecy of his messiahship in the manner he had intended. Jesus's destiny, as he saw it, was to be condemned by the Jewish authorities to death by stoning. This is just one of the provoking insights in Alan Watson's fresh interpretation of the arrest, trial, and conviction of Jesus.

In Jesus and the Jews, Alan Watson reveals and substantiates a central yet previously unrecognized source for the composition of the Gospel of John. Strikingly antithetical to John's basic message, this source originated from an anti-Christian tradition promulgated by the Pharisees, the powerful and dogmatic teachers of Jewish law. The aims of this Pharisaic tradition, argues Watson, included discrediting Jesus as the Messiah, minimizing his historical importance, and justifying the Jewish authorities' role in his death. Jesus and the Jews joins three other works by Watson--The Trial of Jesus, Jesus and the Law, and Jesus: A Profile--to examine the early dynamism of western religion through refocused attention on biblical texts and other historical sources.

Examines the decisions of Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor Joseph Story (1779-1845). Demonstrating the odd twists and turns that legal development sometimes takes, the book is also a fascinating case study that reveals much about the relationship of law to society.

In this book, Peter Stitt presents interviews with five American poets--Richard Wilbur, William Stafford, Louis Simpson, James Wright, and Robert Penn Warren--and critical essays on their works, uniting the objectivity and insight of the critic with the words and vision of the artist.

On Jordan's Stormy Banks is a social history of southern evangelicalism from the late eighteenth century to the end of Reconstruction. By focusing on the three largest evangelical denominations in a single state - Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian - Randy J. Sparks charts the rise of evangelicals on the southern frontier and their remarkable increase in numbers, wealth, and influence throughout the remainder of the period. Beginning as a rebellious movement of the plain folk, evangelicals set themselves up to challenge the social hierarchy and even welcomed slaves into their congregations on terms approaching equality. Although evangelicals had largely abandoned formal opposition to slavery by the time the movement reached Mississippi, their relationship to the institution was complex and conflicted. Sparks demonstrates that the typical evangelical church was biracial and that the African-American influence in ritual and practice left an indelible imprint on southern religion. The egalitarian nature of these early churches created unique opportunities for women and blacks, and Sparks pays close attention to the important role of the female majority of church members. Similarly, evangelical practice and rhetoric was consciously democratic, linking the movement with republican virtue. By the 1830s, the evangelicals in Mississippi had so prospered that their churches grew from sects to major denominations. This shift to the establishment divided the traditionalists from the modernists within each denomination. As the evangelicals began to have a marked influence on southern society, they sought to perfect rather than abolish slavery, and egalitarian biracialism gave way to separateworship services, a practice that fueled the development of independent African-American churches following the Civil War. The orderly society that evangelicals labored to create - one organized around the patriarchal household - unraveled at the end of the Civil War, says Sparks. For whites, evangelicalism became entwined with the Religion of the Lost Cause; for African Americans, the Confederate defeat came as an answered prayer as they began to carve out an autonomous religious life for themselves that would prove to be the bedrock of the African-American community. This separation of Mississippi's major denominations along racial lines dramatically marked the end of the evangelical movement's first century.

With wit and insight, Thomas J. Roberts reassesses popular writing forms, such as westerns, romances, and fantasies, that are often denigrated and explores the motives and experiences of readers of these genres. Drawing widely from literary criticism, the sociology and psychology of literature, and popular culture, this is an incisive examination of our discretionary reading tastes.

Vincent Sanford was a distinguished educator instrumental in shaping higher education in Georgia and in the South during the first half of the twentieth century. Charles Stephen Gurr draws the portrait of a man for whom the ties of family, friendship, and community were immensely important and whose personal and professional legacy lives on in the lives he influenced and the institutions he led.

Each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind us that war is always about damage, even at its most heroic and even when certain people and things deserve to be damaged. Here, in short, is war.

Increasingly, literary texts have attached themselves to their sources in seemingly parasitic--but, more accurately, symbiotic--dependence. It is this kind of mutuality that Cowart examines in his wide-ranging and richly provocative study.

Analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome, offering a new perspective on the nature and development of Roman law in the early republic and empire before Christianity was recognized and encouraged by Constantine.

In this book, Alan Watson argues that the slave laws of North and South America-the written codes defining the relationship of masters to slaves-reflect not so much the culture and society of the various colonies but the legal traditions of England, Europe, and ancient Rome.

By examining law's influence from Homeric Greece to present-day Armenia, this text concludes that ancient law is both relevant and important for the understanding of history, theology, sociology and literature.

Shows how Katherine Anne Porter explored her own ambivalence about gender and creativity, for she experienced firsthand a remarkable range of ideas concerning female sexuality. This is an important study of the tensions and ambivalence inscribed in Porter's fiction, as well as the vocational anxiety and gender performance of her actual life.

Stahl looks at various Twain works with European settings and traces the manner in which he redefined European notions of class into American concepts of gender, identity, and society.

Centered around a small plantation in the heart of middle Georgia's nineteenth-century cotton culture, The Granite Farm Letters send forth from the Civil War years not simply a record of clashing armies at the front or of the fraying fabric of life at home but also the correspondence of a close-knit family

John McCown was a black civil rights worker who achieved great political power and whose career, and life, ended in a swirl of controversy. Black Boss details the rise and fall of McCown and the continuing effects of his abuse of power on the people of Hancock County. It is a story that Rozier says shows ""the good and evil that dwell in us all.

Perhaps the most prominent historian of his time, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was always at the center of public controversy. In this collection of essays, leading historians examine his writings and reveal his contributions as an activist scholar.

By no means uncritical of Woodward's work, John Herbert Roper shows that books such as Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel, Origins of the New South, and The Strange Career of Jim Crow effectively defined the terms of historical debate, often asking the "impertinent first question" that spurred other historians to seek fuller answers.

This work blends poetry with narrative, ethnography with autobiography, and philosophy with literature. It begins and ends with meditations on place, the first an excavation of the underground depths of New York City and the conclusion a travelogue of Italy.

Born in 1869 into the agrarian society of Georgia's central piedmont, Magnolia Le Guin raised eight children virtually on her own, yet never ventured farther than thirty miles from her birthplace. A Home-Concealed Woman provides a firsthand view of the hardships of subsistence farming and the codes to which Le Guin as a white woman adhered.

Ray Jenkins's research is based on new information from interviews, record searches, and unprecedented access to Moody's psychiatric profile. The result is a chilling exploration of the mind of a killer blinded by a desire for revenge.

Looking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than 20 years and included service as its first Chief Justice.

A study of politics in the 19th-century American South. It seeks to illuminate the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals.

The Religious Right's most dogmatic and resolute faction has its roots in three generations of the Bob Jones family of Greenville, South Carolina. An Island in the Lake of Fire is the first in-depth history of this militantly separatist, ultrafundamentalist dynasty to be written by an "outsider" with the Joneses' cooperation.

The first and only treatise published by a southern author on slavery law. Based on extensive scholarship on the Roman law of slavery and racist to the core, the work fully explicates the southern defense of slavery.

These essays focus on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.

By following the career of one influential trader (Lachlan McGillivray) from 1736 to 1776, Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier, as a zone of interaction between many cultures. Cashin profiles the figures who catalyzed the power struggles and explains events from the vantage points of traders and Native Americans.

Before the Civil War, two ideological cornerstones were laid that would eventually lead to Georgia's secession: the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery. Secession, the ultimate expression of white unity, flowed logically from the values, attitudes, and antagonisms developed during these decades of political strife.

This study of the secular and sacred music of colonial Georgia pieces together information drawn from court records, diaries, newspapapers, estate inventories and other documents in order to explore the ""musical landscape"" and identify the musical and cultural roots of some specific examples.