New Books at PEOSTA

Reviewed: CHE 31 Mar. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: Choice Nov 2016 vol. 54 no. 3 (Essential; Outstanding Academic Title; Recommended for Community College Libraries)

Reviewed: CHE 3 Mar. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: TLS 23 Dec. 2016 p. 26

Reviewed: CHE 13 Jan. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: TLS 10 Mar. 2017 p. 45

Reviewed: TLS 23/30 Dec. 2016 p. 6

Reviewed: WSJ 1-2 April 2017 p. C7; NYT/BR 2 Apr. 2017 p. 1; NYRB 20 Apr. 2017 p. 26; Choice Nov. 2017 vol. 55 no. 3 (Highly Recommended; Recommended for community college libraries); NPR 2 May 2017 (Author Interview); PW 30 Oct. 2017 (Best Books of 2017); LJ Dec. 2017 p. 32 (Best Books 2017); Economist 8 April 2017 p. 73.

Reviewed: FA Mar./Apr. 2017 p. 170

Reviewed: NPR ("Fresh Air" 1/17/2017)
Note: Pulitzer Prize winning author (A Midwife’s Tale; 1991—History).

Reviewed: The Historian 78(3) Fall 2016 p. 606

Reviewed: CHE 12 May 2017 (new books)
Description: Examines the history and allure of what is here termed the mistaken umbrella notion of the Muslim world as an idea held by Muslims and non-Muslims alike. (CHE)

Reviewed: CHE 13 Jan. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: CHE 10 Feb. 2017 (new books)
Note: Originally published as: Ha-Kishuf Ha-Yehudi Ha-ḳadum = הכישוף היהודי הקדום = Early Jewish Magic: Research, Method, Sources (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2010).

Reviewed: NYT/BR 15 Jan. 2016 p. 10; FA Jan./Feb. 2017 p. 96 (essay/adaptation); NPR 4 Jan. 2017 (Fresh Air) "A Diplomat Reflects On Moderate Islam In Letters To A Young Muslim."

Description: Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the Reformation, this is the vexed and sometimes shocking story of Martin Luther’s increasingly vitriolic attitude towards the Jews over the course of his lifetime, set against the backdrop of a world in religious turmoil. A final chapter then reflects on the extent to which the legacy of Luther’s anti-semitism was to taint the Lutheran church over the following centuries.

Reviewed: WSJ 1-2 April 2017 p. C5; LJ Dec. 2017 p. 32 (Best Books 2017)
Description: “…a fine account of the man, both his good and bad sides, rooted in a profound knowledge of the social milieu from which he came and through which he worked; a magnificent study of one of history’s most compelling and divisive figures.” (Prof. Richard J. Evans, in WSJ).

Reviewed: Choice (Essential; Outstanding Academic Title)
Note: October 2017 if the 500th anniv. of the start of the “Protestant Reformation,” commemorating the day Luther posted a document on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg presenting his 95 Theses for public debate.

Reviewed: CHE 13 Jan. 2017

Reviewed: CHE 14 Apr. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: Choice Aug 2017 vol. 54 no. 12 (Recommended for community college library collections)
Holdings: 1st ed. (2003) at Calmar Library; call no. 291.178 Sel
Description: From ISIS attacks to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Sacred Fury explores the connections between faith and violence in world religions. Selengut looks at religion as both a force for peace and for violence, and asks key questions such as how “religious” is this violence and what drives the faithful to attack in the names of their beliefs? (publ.)

Reviewed: LR Dec./Jan. 2016/2017 p. 50; TLS 12 May 2017 p. 34

Reviewed: CHE 21 May 2017 (new books)

Note Patron request.

Reviewed: Choice Aug 2017 vol. 54 no. 12 (Recommended)
Description: In this book Jaco Gericke is concerned with the question of what, according to the Hebrew Bible, an Elohim (God) was assumed to be. (publ.)

Reviewed: CHE 24 Feb. 2017 (new books); Choice Jul 2017 vol. 54 no. 11 (Highly Recommended)