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This work presents my long-term thoughts and research on the theme of Second Temple Judaism and some aspects of Zoroastrianism that may have helped shape the former. Like so many things from each person’s youth, as a student and then a junior...

The Bible was not written at one time nor by one author. The books of the Old and New Testaments were written over a period of more than 1,000 years, and their contents cover a variety of ancient peoples and cultures. If we are to understand a...

Constructing a general bibliography for ancient philosophy is a complex task. Fortunately there are ongoing bibliographic resources to which the student may turn for assistance. The most important of these is L’Année Philologique, including we...

THE brave, large aim of this book has been to bring philosophy together between two covers better than ever before. That is not a job for one man, or one woman, or a few, or a team, although it is tried often enough. So 249 of us joined forces...

The church confesses that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah. He is God incarnate. He is the Savior. He is the Lord of the church and of the world. He is the center not only of Christian faith but also, Scripture asserts, of the universe itself,...

When we read Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians, we are literally reading somebody else's mail. This letter was originally addressed to a fledgling mission church, a small band of people in the ancient Mediterranean city of Corinth. No dou...

When Thomas Hobbes analyzed the roots of the Roman Catholic Church in 1651, he was making a polemical point designed to expose the non-  and indeed anti- Christian nature of that institution, but in fact, he made an excellent case for historic...

In 1 Samuel, the great prophet Samuel comes to announce to King Saul that the Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from him and given it to David. Saul begs him to reconsider and to pardon him, to which Samuel thunders: “the Glory of Israel doe...

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells a parable about a landowner who finds that his field has unexpectedly produced a mixture of wheat and weeds. His workers ask whether they should pull out the weeds, but the owner decides to let them grow t...

This volume at hand of the book series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses” (KCID) documents the results of a conference which dealt with the concept of “Sin” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and was held at the Catholic University of...

Mention the word archaeology, and people often conjure up images of digging under a blazing desert sun and unearthing an ancient treasure trove. Talk about biblical archaeology, and topics like the Ark of the Covenant or chariot wheels at the...

Matrix is a powerful word that comes from the same Greek and Latin roots that give us mother (méfér and mater). Matrix is the background you cannot omit—for example, British imperialism to understand Gandhi. Matrix is the context you cannot ig...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is far from new. It is already embedded in existing technologies like smartphone speech-to-text, digital assistants like Siri or Alexa, and GPS-enabled maps or routing apps. However, it was the launch of ChatGPT in...

Many people are vaguely familiar with the history of witchcraft and magic. The topic attracts regular media interest. Yet it is also a subject around which swirls much misunderstanding, misinformed opinion, and dubious facts. One such perennia...

"The principal value of precritical exegesis," says David C. Steinmetz, "is that it is not modern exegesis; it is alien, strange, sometimes even, from our perspective, comic and fantastical."^- The essays in this volume introduce the reader to...

What is it like to make a choice? The temptation we easily give way to is to think that it’s always the same kind of thing; or that there’s one kind of decision-making that’s serious and authentic, and all other kinds ought to be like this. In...

Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson - Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2013. – 520 p. ISBN 978-1444330090   Contemporary moral philosophers entertain theories about human nature, explor...

Более одного миллиарда людей разговаривают сегодня на английском, немецком, русском или французском языках. Каждый, кто говорит на языке другого народа, может, несмотря на это, строить мосты взаимопонимания друг с другом. Пусть и эта книга на...

As 1996 drew to a close, I began waking up periodically with these splitting headaches that were far worse than any hangover I’d experienced during the years when booze and drugs ruled my life. There were mornings when it felt like someone had...

As its title indicates, the main aim of this thesis is to examine the evidence of the Christian literature of the first three centuries AD concerning the general priesthood of the church and the special priesthood of the ordained clergy, showi...

The Contours of Christian Philosophy series will consist of short introductory-level textbooks in the various fields of philosophy. These books will introduce readers to major problems and alternative ways of dealing with those problems. These...

Charles Taliaferro and Elsa J. Marty - Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 2018. – 320 p. ISBN 978-1441112385   Some of the earliest recorded philosophy in the West and East concerns...

E. A. Livingstone - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. – 640 p. ISBN 978-0199659623   Abbot, George (1562–1633), Abp. of *Canterbury from 1611. He became M...

The word 'ethics' is derived from the Greekεθο$orήθος.1It means custom or usage and sometimes custom or practice as prescribed by law. The one instance in the New Testament which exemplifies more closely than any other the idea to which it has...