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Steven Conn (Americans Against the City) thinks there’s a contradiction at the center of America’s attitude toward…

In his stimulating study of Augustine, Barth, and contemporary Trinitarian theology, Incarnational Realism, Travis Ables summarizes two tendencies…

Michael and his angels fight the dragon and his angels, and expel them from heaven (Revelation 12).…

Anti-moderns often speak nostalgically of the “crowded universe” of yesterday, when the world wasn’t just matter in…

Stephan Maul summarizes the ritual that an ancient Mesopotamian would have to go through to be released…

Students of Ancient Near Eastern religions and cultures have typically assumed that the peoples of the ANE…

I agree with all the positive things Travis LaCouter said yesterday about Adam Greene’s Bibliotheca Kickstarter campaign,…

K. van der Toorn has a 1989 article summarizing the purity system of ancient Mesopotamia. He describes…

A California book designer is cleaning up the Bible. By removing unsightly chapter and verse designations, striking…

A “Tax” in Iraq Terry Mattingly, GetReligion Books Are Alive Ned Resnikoff, The Baffler Welcome to New Urbs…

Rivka and Moshe Ulmer summarize rabbinic teaching about charitable giving in Righteous Giving to the Poor. The book…

Apocalyptic texts speak of stars falling from heaven. We moderns typically think of individual falling stars hurtling…

Lida V. Nedilsky’s Converts to Civil Society is a sociological study of civil society in contemporary Hong Kong.…

Ole Bjerg (Making Money) doesn’t believe the classic “commodity” accounts of the rise of money, found in…

Gerd Theissen’s contribution to The Depth of the Human Person sharply challenges mainstream views of Paul’s anthropology. It’s…