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Mummies don’t go to waste, Ana Ruiz tells us in The Spirit of Ancient Egypt : “By the…

Averil Cameron’s Byzantine Matters is not the popular introduction to Byzantium that it’s small page count (115 text)…

I’m always behind the trends, so I probably don’t have to worry. But if you are among…

Jesus describes His death as His glorification/exaltation. Elevated on the cross, it’s as if Jesus had taken…

From a French post describing my work on the Nones : Est-il important de donner une définition…

A Continuing Crisis of Authority Peter Schellhase, Humane Pursuits Confessions of a Christian Film Critic Ann Hornaday,…

John records Jesus saying “Amen, Amen” some twenty-five times. It’s typically understood as an oath formula, a…

Jesus has “life in Myself” (John 5:26). That appears to be an inherent quality. But Jesus doesn’t…

Why are the seven letters of Revelation addressed to churches in Asia Minor? Asia Minor isn’t a…

Derek Thompson analyzes the “savior fallacy” that drives many NBA teams in the Atlantic . It has several…

Robert Kaplan offers a brief in defense of empire at the Atlantic. “Throughout history,” he argues, “governance and…

Larry Sidentop’s Inventing the Individual is intellectual history of the old school, the broad-sweep, big-idea type. Jeffrey Collins thinks…

In a TLS review of Luke Harding’s The Snowden Files, Edward Luttwak traces things back to dynamics within…

Joan Cadden’s Nothing Natural is Shameful is many things: A careful study of the medieval reception and use…

Did the Greeks sacrifice all the animals they ate? Gunnel Ekroth (“Meat in ancient Greece”) says No,…