Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms – By David W. Stowe
David W. Stowe on Susan Gillingham’s Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in
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Religion
MaddAddamology: Restoring Eden with God’s Gardeners
James McGrath on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Triology Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy explores the human potential to use science to redefine what it
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom
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To Whom is the Qur’an Addressed? – By Whitney S. Bodman
Whitney S. Bodman responds to Rachel Friedman I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would
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Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
Nancy Thebaut on Alexander Nagel’s Medieval Modern What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane
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Can a Reader use Western Literary Theory to Approach the Qur’an?
Rachel Friedman on Whitney Bodman’s The Poetics of Iblis Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the
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How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring
M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes
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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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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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