Product Description: How do the New Testament documents present issues of passion, will, identity, and perception? How did the earliest followers of Jesus understand their experiences, behaviors, and suffering? These questions and more are addressed in this stimulating work by one of the most productive Continental New Testament scholars...read more

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Product Description: Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh found inspiration in Japanese art. This is a study of Japonisme, the inspiration of Japanese subject-matter and of Japanese design on Western art. The book also deals with the methods by which the Japanese influence was transmitted.