When Jesus Was Jewish
Larry W. Hurtado on Paula Fredriksen’s When Christians Were Jews This latest book by Paula Fredriksen is aimed at a broad readership, and
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Early Christianity
How Christianity Killed the Pagan Gods
A review of Larry Hurtado’s Why on Earth Did Anyone Become a Christian in the First Three Centuries? and Destroyer of the gods:
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Biblical Bridal Songs and Latin Reception – by E. Ann Matter
E. Ann Matter on Karl Shuve’s The Song of Songs Scholarly interest in the traditions of biblical exegesis of the medieval Latin tradition
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Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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The Summit of Spiritual Perfection in the Messiness of Worldly Affairs – By John Moorhead
John Moorhead on George Demacopoulos’s Gregory the Great Pope Gregory the Great was one of those people who found himself pulled in very
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What Has Practice to Do with Theology? – By Bradley Peper
Bradley Peper on J. Patout Burns Jr. and Robin M. Jensen’s Christianity in Roman Africa Traditionally, studies in early Christianity have emphasized one
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God’s Recovery – By Gregory W. Lee
Gregory W. Lee on Khaled Anatolios’ Retrieving Nicaea Debates regarding the doctrine of the Trinity are often presented as a classic example of
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In the Footsteps of Shenoute – Caroline T. Schroeder
Caroline T. Schroeder on Bentley Layton’s The Canons of Our Fathers Every year in the month of July over ten thousand pilgrims flock
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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Thomas Merton and the Benefit of Recollecting Ancient Christian Worship – By Lee M. Jefferson
Lee M. Jefferson on Andrew B. McGowan’s Ancient Christian Worship: Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective A Sufi scholar once
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