Why Livy Matters
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Judaism and the Reshaping of Medieval Historiography
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A Forum on Elad Lapidot’s Jews Out of the Question
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Religious Freedom: An American Ideal
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The Past and Future of Jewish Christianity
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A Lost Feminist Vision? The Case of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Why Josephus Matters
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No Gods, No Masters
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Alexander Hamilton and American Paranoia
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A New History of Orientalism
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