John Zephaniah Bell, 1794-1883 (Scottish Masters)

With keen insight and lucid analysis, Adele Berlin brings the dramatic words of the great prophet Zaphaniah to life. Living under the tumultuous reign of King Josiah of Judah (640-...

With astute attention to Zephaniah’s intertextual relationships with other biblical texts, Nicholas R. Werse explores the implications of Zephaniah as a book in perpetual conversat...

Abstract This book contains the known facts and the family stories of the eighteenth-century Forbes and Gordons in the North-east of Scotland; an introduction to Sco...

“I wish I’d had this book 50 years ago … how much more effectively could we have prepared, how much better could we have performed, and how much healthier could we have been?” ...

In this commentary, Thomas Renz reads Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah as three carefully crafted writings of enduring relevance, each of which makes a vital contribution to the bibl...

Vanessa Bell’s art and life were animated by the complex emotions of motherhood: creativity and care bound up with doubt, desire and ambivalence.This is the first book to focus exc...

Starting with T. W. H. Crosland’s description in The Unspeakable Scot (1902) of the rather unwelcome ubiquity of Scots in the world of British letters, the chapter explores the imp...

In the nineteenth century James McCosh and many others identified the Common Sense school with “Scottish philosophy” tout court: the supposedly collective “Scottish” reply to Hume ...