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8vo, br, ed. 304 pp. contents: introductio, Clean hands and shining helmets : heroic action in early Chinese and Greek culture / David N. Keightley -- The authority of the Hindu epics : genealogy, authenticity, and authorship / Barbara Stoler Miller -- Imagining idolatry : missionaries, Indians, and Jews / Judith Laikin Elkin -- Empire to commonwealth : consequences of monotheism in late antiquity / Garth Fowden -- Current Arab paradigms for an Islamic future / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- Carving for the saints / Michael R. Kapetan -- Modernizing tradition : some Catholic neo-Scholastics and the genealogy of natural rights / Robert E. Sullivan -- Puritans in Babylon : the ancient Near East and the revolution in intellectual life, 1888-1938 / Bruce Kuklick -- The search for authority in twentieth-century Judaism / Arnold Eisen -- Seeking the meridian : the reconstitution of space and audience in the poetry of Paul Celan and Dan Pagis / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi