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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History
A Key Figure’s Most Important Investigations on the Septuagint
Gilles Dorival on Jan Joosten’s Collected Studies on the Septuagint Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante
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Politics and Culture Wars on the Other Side of American Evangelicalism – By Todd M. Brenneman
Todd M. Brenneman on David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused
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Wyclif’s Theology for the Laity
Ian Christopher Levy on Stephen E. Lahey’s Wyclif: Trialogus The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated
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Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity
James Carleton Paget on F. Stanley Jones’s Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque inter Judaeochristiana F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of
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Were the Theologies of Wyclif and Hus Really That Radical?
Frans van Liere on Ian Christopher Levy’s Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages Biblical hermeneutics
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The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community
Nina Caputo on Rodrigue and Stein’s A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the
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Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?
Francis J. Caponi on Michael Dodds’s Unlocking Divine Action In Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist NeoDarwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly
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An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale
Harriet Murav on Nathaniel Deutsch’s The Jewish Dark Continent One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began
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How did Origen Vindicate God Amidst the Horrors of Evil and Suffering?
Peter Martens on Mark S.M. Scott’s Journey Back to God Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least
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