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This series provides an excellent publishing opportunity and showcase for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows. The Academy Operates a scheme of Postdoctoral Fellowships, designed to enable outstanding younger scholars to obtain experience of research and teaching in the university environment. Publication in the Monograph series is seen as a further mark of excellence.
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Jennifer Dueck earned her D.Phil. in Modern History at Merton College, Oxford, during which time she was awarded the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. A Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Dr Dueck has held positions in Middle Eastern history at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. In support of her continuing academic research, she directs the Middle East and North Africa Initiative for the United World Colleges International.
Philip E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Heritage, North American Baptist Seminary, Sloux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Anthony R. Cross is a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK
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Philip E. Thompson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Heritage, North American Baptist Seminary, Sloux Falls, South Dakota, USA
Anthony R. Cross is a Fellow of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent's Park College, Oxford, UK
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- EditoreAuthentic Media
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 1842271229
- ISBN 13 9781842271223
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine331
- RedattoreThompson Philip E., Cross Anthony R.
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