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New, and pristine. See scans and description. The 2015 bonded leather decorative edition, with the 8 classic Charles Robinson color plate illustrations, of "The Secret Garden", by Frances Hodgson Burnett. ISBN 4. Cover designs and illustration, as well as endpaper designs, by Flora Waycott. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. with Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2015. Octavo; decorative bonded leather boards in robin's-egg blue with green and gilt floral accenting and the full color central illustration by Waycott; multicolor floral endpapers; All Edges Gilt; gold satin page-marker ribbon; 291 pp. New, immaculate and flawless. Removed from publisher's shrink wrap only for scanning and description; that removed shrink wrap accompanies the book. See all scans. The timeless tale of an enigmatically magical walled garden lie within, in a decorator edition you'll probably prefer to just display. A collectible First/First Thus. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course; not a bag. L9n Read more

Maccoby's account of Paul is nothing short of a thorough shredding. If Paul was a trained Pharisee, why don't his arguments have the sound logical structure he should have learned in Pharisee School? Isn't there something a little funny about the way Paul whipped out Roman citizenship papers whenever he got into trouble? And just what _was_ the nature of the famous disagreement between Peter and Paul? Maccoby's Paul was, in short, a cunning rogue who pieced together a new religion from bits of this and that, and then dressed the whole thing up with a sprinkling of out-of-context Torah quotations. Does he denigrate Paul too far? Perhaps. Does he fail to account adequately for the rise of Christianity? Perhaps. But can we ever read the letters of Paul the same way again after Maccoby has scrutinized them? Undoubtedly not. Agree or disagree, Maccoby's volume makes a strong counterargument to those who, having reclaimed Jesus as a Jew, wish to extend the same courtesy to Paul. If this book becomes available again, grab a copy at once. And check out Maccoby's other books as well.