New Books in Ancient History
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Interview with scholars of the Ancient World about their new books
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Bryan K. Miller, "Xiongnu: The World's First Nomadic Empire" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Markus Vinzent, "Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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D. Clint Burnett, "Christ's Enthronement at God's Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context" (de Gruyter, 2020)
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Peter Scharf, "Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata" (Routledge, 2023)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Michael LeFebvre, "Collections, Codes, and Torah: The Re-characterization of Israel's Written Law" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2024 |
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Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Georgia Frank, "Unfinished Christians: Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Citizenship Across Time and Space with David Jacobson
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Robin Baker, "Hollow Men, Strange Women: Riddles, Codes, and Otherness in the Book of Judges" (Brill, 2016)
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch" (Cascade Books, 2023)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Clare K. Rothschild, "The Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary" (Mohr Siebeck, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Angela Kim Harkins, "An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and Its Role in Moral Formation" (Equinox, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Beatrice Heuser, "War: A Genealogy of Western Ideas and Practices" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Colorblindness and the Classics: A Conversation with Andre Archie
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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David J. Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard? Uncovering the Ancient Past Through Biblical Archeology with Professor Aren Maeir
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Jacob L. Wright, "Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Yair Furstenberg, "Purity and Identity in Ancient Judaism: From the Temple to the Mishnah" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Matthieu Felt, "Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Katherine D. Von Schaik, "How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness" (Galen) (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Yaron Eliav, "A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Isaac Soon, "A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Mario Baghos, "From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities" (Cambridge Scholars, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Kawi Culture: Exploring Indonesia’s Classical Civilisation
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 2: What Is Modernity?
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Greg Bailey, "The Brahmavaivarta Purana (Ganesa Khanda): Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology" (Motilal Banarsidass, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Dominik A. Haas, "Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas" (Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas" (ANU Press, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Meghan Henning, "Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Richard S. Ascough, "Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices" (Cascade Books, 2022)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Mira Balberg, "Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Steven B. Bowman, "Sepher Yosippon: A Tenth-Century History of Ancient Israel" (Wayne State UP, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Megan Nutzman, "Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Austin Surls, "Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus: From Etymology to Literary Onomastics" (Eisenbrauns, 2017)
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Stuart McHardy, "The Nine Maidens: Priestesses of the Ancient World" (Luath Press, 2023)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Chris Fraser, "Late Classical Chinese Thought" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Victoria Houseman, "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Ben Witherington III, "Paul's Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary" (Eerdmans, 2004)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Seth L. Sanders, "From Adapa to Enoch: Scribal Culture and Religious Vision in Judea and Babylonia" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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The Civic Bargain: A Conversation with Josiah Ober on Ancients and Moderns
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Matthew R. Dasti, "Vatsyayana's Commentary on the Nyaya-Sutra: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, "Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Christopher T. Fleming et al., "Science and Society in the Sanskrit World" (Brill, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Ravi Gupta and Kenneth Valpey, "The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2013)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Joshua Daniel Schachterle, "John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Barbara Sattler, "The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought: Foundations in Logic, Method, and Mathematics" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Peter Heather and John Rapley, "Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Debbie Felton, "Monsters and Monarchs: Serial Killers in Classical Myth and History" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Michael Baltutis, "The Festival of Indra: Innovation, Archaism, and Revival in a South Asian Performance" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Ruth Yun-Ju Chen, "Good Formulas: Empirical Evidence in Mid-Imperial Chinese Medical Texts" (U Washington Press, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Timothy J. Christian, "Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection: 1 Corinthians 15 as Insinuatio" (Brill, 2022)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, "The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Chris Desan on Making Money (Recall This Buck)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Yaakov Beasley, "Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: Lights in the Valley" (Maggid, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Christoph Heilig, "The Apostle and the Empire: Paul's Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome" (Eerdmans, 2022)
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Marcus A. Mininger, "Uncovering the Theme of Revelation in Romans 1:16-3:26: Discovering a New Approach to Paul's Argument" (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Joshua D. A. Bloor, "Purifying the Consciousness in Hebrews: Cult, Defilement, and the Perpetual Heavenly Blood of Jesus" (T&T Clark, 2023)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Sangraha: Digital Cataloguing of Sanskrit Manuscripts
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Craig L. Blomberg, "Jesus the Purifier: John's Gospel and the Fourth Quest for the Historical Jesus" (Baker Academic, 2023)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Lee Martin McDonald, "Before There Was a Bible: Authorities in Early Christianity" (T&T Clark, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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May 23, 2023 |
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Rila Mukherjee, "India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE" (Springer, 2022)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Geoffrey S. Smith and Brent C. Landau, "The Secret Gospel of Mark: A Controversial Scholar, a Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, and the Fierce Debate Over Its Authenticity" (Yale UP, 2023)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Britta K. Ager, "The Scent of Ancient Magic" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Education of Cyrus: A Conversation with Shilo Brooks
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May 08, 2023 |
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Plato’s Symposium: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
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May 05, 2023 |
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Plato's Republic (Books VIII and IX): A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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The Apology of Socrates: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Barak S. Cohen, "For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod" (Brill, 2017)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Barak S. Cohen, "The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia" (Brill, 2011)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Plato and the Dialogues: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Aleksandar Uskokov, "The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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A Chat with Sanskrit Scholar John Brockington
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Greg Bailey, "The Vinayaka Mahatmya" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Sharon Shalom, "From Sinai to Ethiopia: The Halakhic and Conceptual World of the Ethiopian Jews" (Gefen Books, 2016)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Amanda Podany, "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Digging for Answers: The Archaeology of Jerusalem and the Politics of Archaeology
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Jonathan Rivett Robinson, "Markan Typology: Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45" (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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David Arnovitz, "The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel: Exodus" (Koren, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Brian Lander, "The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Mary E. Sommar, "The Slaves of the Churches: A History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Walking the Via Dolorosa: An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Padma Kaimal, "Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Better Call Paul: How Did the Early Jewish Christians Understand “Works of the Law”?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Malini Ambach et al., "Temples, Texts, and Networks: South Indian Perspectives" (HASP, 2022)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Simon Brodbeck, "Divine Descent and the Four World-Ages in the Mahābhārata" (Cardiff UP, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Hung-Yok Ip, "Grassroots Activism of Ancient China: Mohism and Nonviolence" ( Lexington Books, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Patrick Olivelle, "Reading Texts and Narrating History: Collected Essays III" (Primus Books, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Joshua Kulp and Jason Rogoff, "Reconstructing the Talmud: An Introduction to the Academic Study of Rabbinic Literature" (Hadar Press, 2014)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Rock Art in the Nomadic Landscape of the Black Desert
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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The 'Queens of the Arabs' during the Neo-Assyrian Period
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Josiah Ober, "The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Nomads in the Bible
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Zachary Schrag, "The Princeton Guide to Historical Research" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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The Ancient Arabs
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Fintan Walsh, "The Road to Kells: Prehistoric Archaeology of the M3, Navan to Kells and N52, Kells Bypass Road Project" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Yannis Stouraitis, "Identities and Ideologies in the Medieval East Roman World" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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On "Genesis"
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Nathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff, "The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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On "The Mahābhārata"
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Eric Vanden Eykel, "The Magi: Who They Were, How They've Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate" (Fortress Press, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Levine, "Was Yosef on the Spectrum?: Understanding Joseph Through Torah, Midrash, and Classical Jewish Sources" (Urim Publications, 2018)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Ahmad Al-Jallad, "The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia: A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions" (Brill, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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James Mallinson and Péter-Dániel Szántó, "The Amṛtasiddhi and Amṛtasiddhimūla: The Earliest Texts of the Haṭhayoga Tradition" (Institut français de Pondichéry, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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On Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Francesca Stavrakopoulou, "God: An Anatomy" (Knopf, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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John Stillwell, "The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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On Augustine's "Confessions"
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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On Cicero's "On Friendship"
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Gerald Lalonde, "Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess" (Brill, 2019)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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P. De Vries, "The Kābôd of Yhwh in the Old Testament: With Particular Reference to the Book of Ezekiel" (Brill, 2015)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Mark D. Usher, ed. "How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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John Behr, "John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Angela Costley, "Creation and Christ: An Exploration of the Topic of Creation in the Epistle to the Hebrews" (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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On Early Christian Deathscapes
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Michael Leese, "Making Money in Ancient Athens" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Michael Slouber, "Early Tantric Medicine: Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Epistle of Barnabas: A Commentary" (Cascade Books, 2022)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Sara Ronis, "Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia" (U California Press, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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On Plato's "Apology"
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Material Matters: Reflections on the History of Settlement Development Across Mainland Southeast Asia
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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On Plato's "The Republic"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt, "Herod in History: Nicolaus of Damascus and the Augustan Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Seth M. Ehorn, "Exodus in the New Testament" (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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On Homer's "The Iliad"
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Greg Woolf, "The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Paul Robichaud, "Pan: The Great God’s Modern Return" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Matthew Mark Silver, "The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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On "The Great Learning"
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Ari D. Kahn, "The Crowns on the Letters: Essays on the Aggada and the Lives of the Sages" (OU Press, 2020)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Jason A. Staples, "The Idea of 'Israel' in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Kim Haines-Eitzen, "Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks—and What It Can Teach Us" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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David Konstan, "The Origin of Sin: Greece and Rome, Early Judaism and Christianity" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel's Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context" (de Gruyter, 2021)
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Travis W. Proctor, "Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Tova Ganzel, "Ezekiel: From Destruction to Restoration" (Maggid, 2020)
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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On the Epic of Gilgamesh
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Vered Noam, "Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabbinic Literature" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Peter Hughes, "A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues" (Aurum Press, 2021)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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On the Roman Catacombs: A Discussion with William Gruen
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Archie T. Wright, "Satan and the Problem of Evil: From the Bible to the Early Church Fathers" (Fortress Press, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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On Byzantium and 'Romanland'
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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W. H. Bellinger Jr., "Introducing Old Testament Theology" (Baker Academic, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Guy MacLean Rogers, "For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews against Romans, 66-74 CE" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Kelly Olson, "Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity" (Routledge, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Jason Sion Mokhtarian, "Medicine in the Talmud: Natural and Supernatural Therapies Between Magic and Science" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Peter Scharf, "Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha" (Sanskrit Library, 2021)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Nomi Claire Lazar, "Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time" (Yale UP, 2019)
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May 24, 2022 |
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81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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May 19, 2022 |
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Emma Natalya Stein, "Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2022 |
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David Lunt, "The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes" (U Arkansas Press, 2022)
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May 19, 2022 |
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Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Bruce Clark, "Athens: City of Wisdom" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
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May 09, 2022 |
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The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
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May 04, 2022 |
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Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: A Global History" (Basic Books, 2021)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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On Why Socrates Died
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Patrick Olivelle, "Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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On Middle Eastern Archaeology and the Historical Jesus
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Adrian J. Pearce et al., "Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide. A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration" (UCL Press, 2020)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Paul Stephenson, "New Rome: The Empire in the East" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Tao Jiang, "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The Samaritans: A Biblical People
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Carolina López-Ruiz, "Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Pratik Chakrabarti, "Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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James McHugh, "An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter, "The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Darian R. Lockett, "Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon" (InterVarsity Press, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Jarrod Whitaker, "Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Kimberly Cassibry, "Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Emma Southon, "A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome" (Abrams Press, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Paulette F. C. Steeves, "The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Erin M. Cline, "The Analects: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Judith Herrin, "Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Thomas Schmidt, "The Book of Revelation and Its Eastern Commentators: Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Ionut Moise and Ganesh U. Thite, "Vaiśeṣikasūtra: A Translation" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “Herculaneum Uncovered” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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War Stories: The Military Tactics of Ancient Egyptian Rulers As Illustrated by War Records
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Alicia D. Myers and Lindsey S. Jodrey, "Come and Read: Interpretive Approaches to the Gospel of John" (Fortress Academic, 2019)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Jason Gile, "Ezekiel and the World of Deuteronomy" (T&T Clark, 2021)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Sam Wineburg, "Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone)" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Josiah Ober, “Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Yakov Nagen, "The Soul of the Mishna" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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James Diggle, "Cambridge Greek Lexicon" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, "Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Shawn J. Wilhite, "The Didache" (Cascade Books, 2019)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Stephen Phillips, "Jewel of Reflection on the Truth about Epistemology: A Complete and Annotated Translation of the Tattva-Cinta-mani" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Antonio Panaino: What is Zoroastrianism?
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Armand D'Angour: Reimagining the Classical World
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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William Varner, "Second Clement: An Introductory Commentary" (Wipf and Stock, 2020)
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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David Potter, "Disruption: Why Things Change" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Mika Ahuvia, "On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture" (U California Press, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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McComas Taylor, "The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes" (Australian National UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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David C Mitchell, "Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word" (2021)
|
Jul 29, 2021 |
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Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Gayle Rogers, "Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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David Arnovitz, "Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel" (Koren Publishers, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Young Richard Kim, "The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Germán Campos Muñoz, "The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
|
Jul 02, 2021 |
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What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?: A Discussion with Rob Tempio
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Tae-Yeoun Keum, "Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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James Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Brian Carrier, "Earthquakes and Eschatology in the Gospel According to Matthew" (Mohr Siebeck, 2020)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Mark Storey, "Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Joel Alden Schlosser, "Herodotus in the Anthropocene" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Stephanie Burt, "After Callimachus: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Andreas J. Köstenberger, "Signs of the Messiah: An Introduction to John’s Gospel" (Lexham Press, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
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John Sellars, "Marcus Aurelius" (Routledge, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Jason Thompson, "Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology" (AU of Cairo, 2018)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Laura Eastlake, "Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Paul Vallely, "Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg" (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Joshua W. Jipp, "The Messianic Theology of the New Testament" (Eerdmans, 2020)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Michelle M. Kundmueller, "Homer's Hero: Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Sarit Kattan Gribetz, "Time and Difference in Rabbinic Judaism" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Mario Telò, "Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Michael E. Pregill, "The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Roy E. Gane, "Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch" (Eisenbrauns, 2020)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam" (U California Press, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, "Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Paul Goldin, "The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction" (Hendrickson Publishers, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Ayon Maharaj, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Anthony A. Barrett, "Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric" (Lexington Books, 2015)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Bihani Sarkar, "Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" (Shambhala, 2020)
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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M. R. Jackson Bonner, "The Last Empire of Iran" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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James Renshaw, "In Search of the Romans" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Daniel Woolf, "A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
|
Jul 17, 2020 |
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Ionut Moise, "Salvation in Indian Philosophy: Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Matthew Duncombe, "Ancient Relativity: Plato, Aristotle, Stoics and Skeptics" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, "Mary, Mother of Martyrs" (FSR, 2018)
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May 19, 2020 |
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Brian Collins, "The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Peter Adamson, "Classical Indian Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Michael Daise, "Quotations in John: Studies on Jewish Scripture in the Fourth Gospel" (T and T Clark, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Ayelet Hoffmann Libson, "Law and Self-Knowledge in the Talmud" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Filippo Marsili, "Heaven Is Empty: A Cross-Cultural Approach to 'Religion' and Empire in Ancient China" (SUNY Press, 2018)
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Jan 17, 2020 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Jerusalem: City of the Book" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Nijay Gupta, "Paul and the Language of Faith" (Eerdmans, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Adriel M. Trott, "Aristotle on the Matter of Form: A Feminist Metaphysics of Generation" (Edinburgh UP, 2019)
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Mike Duncan, "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" (PublicAffairs, 2017)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Emily Wilson, trans., "The Odyssey" (Norton, 2017)
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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David S. Richeson, "Tales of Impossibility" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Andrew Steinmann, "Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary" (IVP Academic, 2019)
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Mark McClish, "The History of the Arthaśāstra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Malcolm Keating, "Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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Patrick Schreiner, "Matthew, Disciple and Scribe" (Baker Academic, 2019)
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Amy Olberding, "The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Lynn Kaye, "Time In The Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Jackson Wu, "Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission" (IVP Academic, 2019)
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Marko Geslani, "Rites of the God-King: Śānti and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research" (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Demetra Kasimis, "The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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May 29, 2019 |
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Dirk Jongkind, "An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge" (Crossway, 2019)
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May 28, 2019 |
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Adrian Goldsworthy, "Hadrian's Wall" (Basic Books, 2018)
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May 24, 2019 |
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G. R. Lanier and W. Ross, eds., "Septuaginta: A Reader's Edition" (Hendrickson Publishers, 2018)
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May 14, 2019 |
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Dirk Jongkind, "The Greek New Testament: Produced at Tyndale House" (Crossway, 2017)
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May 09, 2019 |
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Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 07, 2019 |
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Peter J. Williams, "Can We Trust the Gospels?" (Crossway, 2018)
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation" (Routledge, 2019)
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Richard Hingley, "Londinium: A Biography" (Routledge, 2018)
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Paul K.-K. Cho, "Myth, History, and Metaphor in the Hebrew Bible" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Craig Benjamin, "Empires of Ancient Eurasia: The First Silk Roads Era, 100 BCE-250 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works" (Pantheon, 2017)
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Paul J. Kosmin, "Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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R. B. Jamieson, "Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Adrienne Mayor, "Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018)
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Kathryn Lomas, "The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Nicholas J. Moore, "Repetition in Hebrews: Plurality and Singularity in the Letter to the Hebrews, Its Ancient Context, and the Early Church" (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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Matthew Gabriele, "Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages" (Routledge, 2018)
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Harry O. Maier, "New Testament Christianity in the Roman World" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Edward J. Watts, “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny” (Basic Books, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Joshua J. F. Coutts, “The Divine Name in the Gospel of John” (Mohr Siebeck, 2017)
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Robert D. Miller II, “Covenant and Grace in the Old Testament: Assyrian Propaganda and Israelite Faith” (Gorgias Press, 2012)
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Luis Cortest, “Philo’s Heirs: Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Peter Heather, “Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Richard A. Billows, “Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great” (The Overlook Press, 2018)
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Donni Wang, “Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism” (Common Ground, 2018)
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May 23, 2018 |
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Erik Jensen, “Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World” (Hackett Publishing, 2018)
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May 15, 2018 |
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Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Sarah Bond, “Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean” (U of Michigan Press, 2016)
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Aug 12, 2017 |
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Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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Pekka Pitkanen, “A Commentary on Numbers: Narrative, Ritual and Colonialism” (Routledge, 2017)
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Jennifer T. Roberts, “The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 16, 2017 |
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Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Rajan Gurukkal, “Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Michael Bryant,” A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present,” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
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May 18, 2017 |
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David Bryan and David Pao, eds, “Ascent into Heaven in Luke – Acts” (Fortress Press, 2016)
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May 02, 2017 |
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Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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J. C. McKeown, “A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Yuval Harari, “Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah” (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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Michael E. Stewart, “The Soldier’s Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas In the Early Byzantine Empire” (Kismet Press, 2016)
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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David Rohl, “Exodus: Myth or History? (Thinking Man Media, 2015)
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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Jack M. Sasson, “From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters” (Eisenbrauns, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Eva Mroczek, “The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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Dov Weiss, “Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism” (U. Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Donald Berry, “Glory in Romans and the Unified Purpose of God in Redemptive History” (Pickwick Publications, 2016)
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Nov 13, 2016 |
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Neil Kent, “Crimea: A History” (Hurst/Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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Reza Zarghamee, “Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World” (Mage Pub, 2013)
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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Joseph Lam, “Patterns of Sin in the Hebrew Bible: Metaphor, Culture, and the Making of a Religious Concept” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jun 26, 2016 |
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Stephen L. Field, “The Duke of Zhou Changes: A Study and Annotated Translation of the Zhouyi” (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015)
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May 20, 2016 |
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David J. Meltzer, “The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an Understanding of Americas Ice Age Past” (U Chicago Press, 2015)
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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David A. Lambert, “How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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Jason Mokhtarian, “Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran” (U of California Press, 2015)
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Aviya Kushner, “The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible” (Spiegel and Grau, 2015)
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Erica Fox Brindley, “Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE-50 CE” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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Brian P. Copenhaver, “Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment” (Cambridge UP, 2015 )
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Dec 15, 2015 |
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Carlos Fraenkel, “Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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Eric H. Cline, “1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
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Oct 07, 2015 |
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Michael L. Satlow, “How the Bible Became Holy” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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Bruce A. Bradley, et al., “Clovis Technology” (International Monographs in Prehistory, 2010)
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Sep 12, 2015 |
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Douglas B. Bamforth et al., “The Allen Site: A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska” (U of New Mexico Press, 2015)
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
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Aug 10, 2015 |
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Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Jul 21, 2015 |
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Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen, “Chang’an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
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May 05, 2015 |
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A. Mark Smith, “From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Mar 21, 2015 |
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Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)
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Mar 21, 2015 |
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Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Timothy Michael Law, “When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible” (Oxford UP, 2013)
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Dec 10, 2014 |
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Mary-Jane Rubenstein, "Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse" (Columbia UP, 2014)
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Sep 29, 2014 |
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Daryn Lehoux, “What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
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Aug 16, 2014 |
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David Reimer, “Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Jun 09, 2014 |
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Sean Anthony, “Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle” (American Oriental Society, 2014)
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May 12, 2014 |
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Brent Nongbri, “Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept” (Yale University Press, 2013)
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Jan 18, 2014 |
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Darrin M. McMahon, “Divine Fury: A History of Genius” (Basic Books, 2013)
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Dec 28, 2013 |
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Rowan K. Flad and Pochan Chen, “Ancient Central China” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
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Oct 19, 2013 |
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Reza Aslan, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” (Random House, 2013)
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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Mark Byington, ed., “Early Korea: The Rediscovery of Kaya in History and Archaeology” (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)
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Jul 01, 2013 |
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Roslyn Weiss, “Philosophers in the Republic” (Cornell UP, 2012)
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Mar 01, 2013 |
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Bruce Rusk, “Critics and Commentators: The ‘Book of Poems’ as Classic and Literature” (Harvard UP, 2012)
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Feb 12, 2013 |
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Jill Gordon, “Plato’s Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Kenneth Brashier, “Ancestral Memory in Early China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)
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Aug 17, 2012 |
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Rowan K. Flad, "Salt Production and Social Hierarchy in Ancient China" (Cambridge UP, 2011)
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Apr 27, 2012 |
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Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)
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Dec 07, 2011 |
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David Potter, “The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Nov 01, 2011 |
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Gregory Nagy on Homer’s “Iliad”
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Oct 25, 2011 |
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Mark Bradley, “Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Aug 15, 2011 |
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Christopher Krebs, “A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich” (Norton, 2011)
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Jun 22, 2011 |
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Amanda Podany, “Brotherhood of Kings: How International Relations Shaped the Ancient Near East” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Aug 19, 2010 |
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Adrian Goldsworthy, “How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower” (Yale UP, 2009)
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May 01, 2009 |
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Joyce Tyldesley, “Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt” (Basic Books, 2008)
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Sep 05, 2008 |