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How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography – By John David Penniman

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

John David Penniman on Douglas Boin’s Coming Out Christian in the Roman World The question of what happened to the Roman Empire between ... [Read More]

A Flaccid Interpretation of Eden – By Joseph Ryan Kelly

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

Joseph Ryan Kelly on Ziony Zevit’s What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? The baculum, or os penis, is a bone in ... [Read More]

Philosophy in Dialogue – By Matthew A. Benton

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

Matthew A. Benton on Timothy Williamson’s Tetralogue: I’m Right, You’re Wrong Living in society means learning from, and disagreeing with, others. Much of what ... [Read More]

Questioning Categories and Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins – By Simon J. Joseph

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

Simon J. Joseph on George W. E. Nickelsburg and James C. VanderKam’s 1 Enoch 2 There is power in naming things. Too often, ... [Read More]

Midcentury British Catholic Church Architecture: Form, Function, and Context – By Victoria M. Young

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

Victoria M. Young on Robert Proctor’s Building the Modern Church In the decades after World War II, communities worldwide returned to worship as ... [Read More]

American Socialism and the Jews, Between Moscow and Jerusalem – By Tony Michels

March 3, 2015March 11, 2015

Tony Michels on Stephen H. Norwood’s Antisemitism and the American Far Left In the summer of 1967, American leftists began speaking about Israel in new, ... [Read More]

Divided by Faith – By Paul Harvey

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015

Paul Harvey on Nancy D. Wadsworth’s Ambivalent Miracles: Evangelicals and the Politics of Racial Healing Nancy Wadsworth’s stimulating new work on the politics of ... [Read More]

Recovering the World’s Oldest Language – By Nicole Brisch

March 3, 2015March 3, 2015

Nicole Brisch on Paul Delnero’s The Textual Criticism of Sumerian Literature Ancient Mesopotamia, the area that today corresponds to the modern states of ... [Read More]

Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry and Why Translation Matters – By Dara Barnat

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015

Dara Barnat on Rachel Tzvia Back’s In the Illuminated Dark Being a victim, again and again a victim — what a job! Here and ... [Read More]

“To Celebrate the Best Parts of His Nature:” Fiction and the Discourse of Man – By Nick Ripatrazone

February 17, 2015February 17, 2015

Nick Ripatrazone on Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 William Faulkner began his 1950 ... [Read More]

Reviews

How Gay Were the Early Christians? Or, The Perils of Hyperbole in Historiography – By John David Penniman

A Flaccid Interpretation of Eden – By Joseph Ryan Kelly

Philosophy in Dialogue – By Matthew A. Benton

Questioning Categories and Shifting Paradigms in the Study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins – By Simon J. Joseph

Midcentury British Catholic Church Architecture: Form, Function, and Context – By Victoria M. Young

American Socialism and the Jews, Between Moscow and Jerusalem – By Tony Michels

Divided by Faith – By Paul Harvey

Recovering the World’s Oldest Language – By Nicole Brisch

Tuvia Ruebner’s Poetry and Why Translation Matters – By Dara Barnat

“To Celebrate the Best Parts of His Nature:” Fiction and the Discourse of Man – By Nick Ripatrazone

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