Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing
in Nineteenth-century America
(Chicago,
) and
Hawthorne, Melville, and
the Novel
(Chicago,
).
Juan R. I. Cole
is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. A specialist on Modern Middle Eastern history, Dr Cole is the author
and editor of a number of books and articles including
Modernity and the
Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle
East
(New York,
) and
Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq:
Religion and State in Awadh,
–
(Berkeley, CA,
).
John J. Collins
is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and In-
terpretation, Yale University. The author of twelve monographs, Dr Collins
has written extensively on apocalypticism in Ancient Judaism including
The
Apocalyptic Imagination
(New York,
) and
Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea
Scrolls
(London: Routledge,
).
Benjamin R. Foster
is Professor of Assyriology, Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations, Yale University. Dr Foster is the author of
Before
the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature
(Bethesda,
) and
From
Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia
(Bethesda,
).
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
teaches at the University of Gottingen in Germany.
His publications include
Sraosa in the Zoroastrian Tradition
(Leiden,
)
and
Yezidism – Its Background, Observances, and Textual Tradition
(Lewiston,
).
Bernard McGinn
is Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of Historical
Theology and the History of Christianity, University of Chicago. Dr McGinn
has written extensively in the areas of history of Christian apocalyptic thought
and most recently in the areas of spirituality and mysticism. Among his many
books on this subject are
Apocalypticism in the Western Tradition
(Aldershot,
) and
Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages
(New
York,
).
R. I. Moore
teaches medieval European history at the University of Newcastle-
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upon-Tyne. He has edited and authored a number of books including
The
First European Revolution, c.
–
(Oxford,
) and
The Origins of
European Dissent
(London,
).
David Ownby
teaches at the Université de Montréal, where he specializes in
the history of modern China. His publications include
Brotherhoods and Secret
Societies in Early and Mid-qing China: The Formation of a Tradition
(Stanford,
) and he is co-editor of
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