The Essenes and the Qumran Settlement – By Jodi Magness
Jodi Magness on Joan E. Taylor’s The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68
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Jesus vs. Judaism … Again – By Eva Mroczek
Eva Mroczek on David A. deSilva’s The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha In 1973,
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Literary Criticism and the Composition of the Hebrew Bible – By Juha Pakkala
Juha Pakkala on David M. Carr’s The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction One cannot understand the history and religion of ancient Israel
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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Necessary by Nature? Possibility and the Mind of God – By Robert Merrihew Adams
Robert Merrihew Adams on Brian Leftow’s God and Necessity Like their medieval scholastic predecessors, the best known Continental Rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century (Descartes,
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A Material Mind? – By William Jaworski
William Jaworski on Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False What is the mind, and
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Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Part Two.
Was the invasion of Iraq moral? [This is the second and final part of “Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar.” Catch up
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An Irish-American Zionist in the Age of Anti-Zionism – By James Loeffler
James Loeffler on Gil Troy’s Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the
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Justifying War: A Conversation with Nigel Biggar. Part One.
What is a Just War? Professor Nigel Biggar is the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. He
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Developing Genre: St. Augustine and David Foster Wallace – By Bradley M. Peper
Bradley M. Peper on Jennifer V. Ebbeler’s Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters The late David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), arguably one
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