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Reconstructing Akkadian Texts and Singing the Twelve Days of Christmas – By Jonathan Stökl

February 26, 2013February 10, 2014

Jonathan Stökl on Martin Worthington’s Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed ... [Read More]

Pieter W. van der Horst on Florentino García Martínez’s Between Philology and Theology

February 26, 2013October 28, 2013

Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) ... [Read More]

How are Tenured Professors Like Medieval Christian Bureaucrats?

February 26, 2013October 28, 2013

Patrick Hornbeck on Michael Burger’s Bishops, Clerks, and Diocesan Governance in Thirteenth-Century England Bishops played a variety of roles in the high and ... [Read More]

Art as an Arena for Interreligious Dialogue

January 29, 2013October 28, 2013

Aaron Rosen on Ruth Illman’s Art and Belief Even as interreligious dialogue sets out to discover and appreciate difference, it often begins with ... [Read More]

When did the “Easter Faith” Emerge?

January 29, 2013December 30, 2013

Mark Edwards on Geza Vermes’s Christian Beginnings This book may be regarded as a synthesis of positions which have been defended by its ... [Read More]

The Latest Volume in the Kierkegaard Research Series

January 29, 2013October 28, 2013

George Pattison on ed. Jon Stewart’s Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology, Tome III Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources is continuing to prove a remarkable ... [Read More]

A New Collection of Essays on Jewish Cinema in Hollywood

January 29, 2013October 28, 2013

Nathan Abrams on eds. Bernardi, Pomerance, and Tirosh-Samuelson’s Hollywood’s Chosen People The editors, Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson – three well-known scholars ... [Read More]

Strange Bedfellows: Peter Singer and the Church

January 29, 2013December 2, 2013

Christopher M. Hays on Charles Camosy’s Peter Singer and Christian Ethics To describe the ethics of Peter Singer and those of the Catholic Church ... [Read More]

Has Michael Coogan Seized His Opportunity? – By Charles Halton

January 29, 2013February 10, 2014

Charles Halton on Michael Coogan’s A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts The first literary anthology appeared no later than the Hellenistic period ... [Read More]

The NA28 is Here. But Don’t Scrap Your 27th Just Yet.

January 29, 2013December 30, 2013

Peter Williams on the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28 If I were just allowed one book to assist my study of the New ... [Read More]