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He was big, greasy and drunk. I couldn’t tell, as he shambled towards me with an almost empty flagon of cheap port in his large fist, whether his intentions were friendly or hostile.   I was new to the bike scene, but had learned a...

The story of The 59 Club really started on the 17th day of October in the year of Our   Lord 1919. For it was then that William Frank Shergold first saw the light of day. Forty-three years later this child became known as Father Bi...

This book—originally not a book at all but merely the introduction to the first ever edition of The Philosophy of Freedom to be published in Russian—was written in Armenia in January this year. The only alternative to embarking on a Darwinisti...

The book of Esther is a wondrous journey for its readers. Despite the plot line, which deals with the annihilation of an entire people, the irony and light-hearted atmosphere of the story create a playful, delightful reading experience. The ma...

Апокрифами (греч. «тайный, скрытый») называют npoизведения иудейской и раннехристианской литературы, содержание которых не вполне совпадает с официальным вероучением. Принятая в иудаизме традиция приписывает собрание священных книг в единое целое Езд...

The Jегоmе Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century is а one-volume resource on the entire Вiblе produced bу an international team of Catholic scholars. lts purpose is to provide in-depth analysis and interpretation of the Scriptures f...

Inspired by Pope Francis, The Paulist Biblical Commentary opens the door to the study of Sacred Scriptures for a new generation of believers. This rich resource is the work of women and men who have dedicated themselves to the study of the Scriptu...

For the Christian, the Bible has an importance far more profound than its impact on culture. The Christian believes that through the turbulent and wonderful chapters of biblical history, God speaks to us. Although expressed in genuinely human terms a...

CHRISTIANITY IN THE MAKING - 1 Это одно из самых известных и самых сильных произведений известного библеиста, которое, к сожалению, так и не было переведено на русский язык.   James D. G. Dunn - Jesus Remembered - Дж...

The book of Judges is an integral part of our story as a people. It describes the struggles of the tribes of Israel to overcome their external enemies as well as their internal differences as they are forged into the nation of Israel in its la...

Social behavior is what people do collectively, either in groups or as individuals conforming to cultural patterns. It becomes extraordinary when it is so far at variance with contemporary mainstream standards of what is normal, rational or re...

Graduate studies undertaken in Berkeley in the 1980s equipped me for professional play in that corner of church history known, rather pointedly, as “patristics.” Formed by a discipline that bore the very name of the Father(s), I resisted what...

The present collection of essays gathers together presentations delivered on the occasion of the interdisciplinary and international conference “Die Bibel im Dialog der Schriften.” Under the direction of Stefan Alkier, in cooperation with Rich...

The masterpiece of Sienese painting known as The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia is a fitting place to begin a consideration of the relationship between Christianity and the environment (Fig...

This commentary attempts to provide a careful exegesis of the Greek text of John’s Revelation, together with an interpretation which keeps in constant view the seer’s basic flow of theological thought. A detailed introduction to the Apocalypse alread...

Many think critically of historical criticism. Fewer think historically about historical criticism. Though now taken for granted as the foundation of modern biblical studies, reading texts with an eye to their own history once threw Europe int...

The earliest mention of the name ‘Israel’ in history is found in an inscription by Merenptah from about 1208 BCE (§6.3.4). We know, therefore, that an entity called Israel had its origins already in the second millennium BCE. If that entity in Merenp...

Metaphysics is prior to historiography. And there can be no value-neutral system or framework of metaphysics from which a methodological consensus about historical enquiry may proceed. It is the central thesis of this study that these two claims form...

Our Lord Jesus Christ began His public ministry with a call to repentance, and immediately He told His hearers why they must give heed. They must reorient their whole life, He said, “for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” John the Baptist had issued...

From the outside, Luther’s life passed by simply and steadily. With few exceptions, his whole life took place within the territories of Thuringia and Saxony, mostly in Wittenberg, the electoral capital at the Elbe river, and its surroundings....

Few thinkers in the history of philosophy are more controversial than Hegel. Philosophers are either for or against him. Rarely do they regard him with cool detachment, weighing his merits and faults with strict impartiality. Hegel has been di...

Antisemitism1 is a late 19th-century (1870) term based on pseudoscientific racial theory that was coined to describe in a new way opposition to, and hatred of, the Jewish People and their form of life. Though a relatively recent linguistic and...

Descartes is perhaps the most widely studied of all the great philosophers. Students in countless introductory courses find that their imagination is captured by the lonely quest for knowledge described in Descartes’ masterpiece, the Meditatio...

Compare the following two questions, both of which greatly exercised ancient Greek and Roman thinkers:   What is a good human life? Why isn’t the earth falling?   They appear about as different...