A Book about Books and a Collection on Collections – By Drew Longacre
Drew Longacre on George W. Houston’s Inside Roman Libraries In the fall of 54 BCE, Cicero wrote to his brother Quintus, “After a
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Ancient Near East & Greco-Roman Religions
The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko on Almond’s The Devil and Korpel and de Moor’s Adam, Eve, and the Devil At first glance, these two studies of
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Recovering the World’s Oldest Language – By Nicole Brisch
Nicole Brisch on Paul Delnero’s The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature Ancient Mesopotamia, the area that today corresponds to the modern states of
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The “Age of Gold,” the Rise of Christianity, and the Fall of Rome – By John Behr
John Behr on Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550
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Eusebius of Caesarea and the Making of Early Christianity – By Michael Hollerich
Michael Hollerich on Aaron P. Johnson’s Eusebius As one of the most prolific and influential personages of the early Christian world, Eusebius of Caesarea (c.
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Reading Ugaritic – By Ola Wikander
Ola Wikander on John Huehnergard’s An Introduction to Ugaritic The Ugaritic language, spoken and written on the coast of Syria during the Late Bronze Age,
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Literary Criticism and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible – By Juha Pakkala
Juha Pakkala on David M. Carr’s The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction One cannot understand the history and religion of ancient Israel
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Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger
Katie Heffelfinger on Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts. Last January’s
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The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over
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Did the Ancient Greeks Worship Stones as Gods?
Fernande Hölscher on Milette Gaifman’s Aniconism in Greek Antiquity Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon
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