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How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring

June 12, 2013February 24, 2014

M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes ... [Read More]

Did the Ancient Greeks Worship Stones as Gods?

June 12, 2013October 28, 2013

Fernande Hölscher on Milette Gaifman’s Aniconism in Greek Antiquity Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon ... [Read More]

A Key Figure’s Most Important Investigations on the Septuagint

June 4, 2013October 28, 2013

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 ... [Read More]

Mauro Perani talks about the Bologna Torah Scroll

June 3, 2013July 17, 2013

The oldest complete Torah scroll re-discovered in Bologna Professor Mauro Perani talked with us this morning by telephone from his office in Bologna. ... [Read More]

Peter Brown talks with Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Part 2

May 29, 2013July 17, 2013

In Part 2 of Ioannis Mylonopoulos’s interview with Peter Brown (catch up with Part 1), the eminent historian talks about his latest book, Through the ... [Read More]

Politics and Culture Wars on the Other Side of American Evangelicalism – By Todd M. Brenneman

May 29, 2013January 27, 2014

Todd M. Brenneman on David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused ... [Read More]

Wyclif’s Theology for the Laity

May 29, 2013October 28, 2013

Ian Christopher Levy on Stephen E. Lahey’s Wyclif: Trialogus The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated ... [Read More]

Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity

May 29, 2013October 28, 2013

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 ... [Read More]

On the Ritual Fringes

May 23, 2013May 23, 2013

Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling isn’t putting down her tallit. She explains the history, politics, and religious strife behind the recent court decision in ... [Read More]

Peter Brown talks with Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Part 1

May 22, 2013July 17, 2013

Peter Brown’s now famous biography of Augustine, first published in 1967, established his reputation as an authority. Since then he has made dozens ... [Read More]