Katharine Dell, Who Needs the Old Testament? Its Enduring Appeal and Why the New Atheists Don't Get It (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017), pp. x + 257, $34.00.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930619000279
Abstract: the world’ and has equivalents in other Semitic languages (p. 105) from the testimony of the Old Testament itself, and if so, where? Also, is Elohim always ‘generic’ in the Old Testament? Albert de Pury… read more here.
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Like an Old Testament God: The Self and Death
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DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2025.2507511
Abstract: This essay explores the archetype of death and its interplay with the Self, as understood within Jungian analytical psychology. Through personal narrative, literary reflection, and psychological insight, the author considers how death, when unaccompanied by… read more here.
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A Secular Bible: Contesting Scientific Knowledge Claims on How to Translate the Old Testament in Sweden, 1971–1974
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DOI: 10.1080/03468755.2025.2494573
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article investigates tensions between scientific and religious knowledge in Sweden in the 1970s. As a case study, the article surveys the work of a governmental committee, appointed by the Social Democratic Government in… read more here.
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Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the Jewish priests of the Old Testament and the trope of imposture
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DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2018.1402447
Abstract: ABSTRACT In recent years, the Radical Enlightenment has been primarily associated with the philosophical criticism of Spinoza and his disciples. But the Radical Enlightenment’s attack on Christianity did not solely hinge on the philosophical grounding… read more here.
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Book Review: The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics
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DOI: 10.1177/0146107917697910h
Abstract: 127 Bauckham and N. T. Wright. Like the latter, he argues for a high early Christology. Picking up on Augustine’s warnings about three types of people who have unwittingly erred or intentionally connived to distort… read more here.
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Book Review: David Decosimo, Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue
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DOI: 10.1177/0953946816674154a
Abstract: since Jonathan Klawans’s work on the distinction between moral and ritual impurity, the boundary that scholars have drawn between these two ‘models’ of Israelite thinking is becoming far more defined than it probably was in… read more here.
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From the Rising of the Sun: Theology of Mission in the Book of Malachi
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DOI: 10.2478/perc-2025-0010
Abstract: Abstract As the brilliant and beautiful sunlight at dawn introduces the day and its blessings, the book of Malachi introduces New Testament mission. This paper argues that from the Old Testament, Malachi introduced universal mission… read more here.
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Mapping recent developments in Old Testament theology
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DOI: 10.4102/hts.v75i3.5021
Abstract: This article provides the readers with an overview of the history of the study of the Old Testament, highlighting major turning points especially during the 20th and 21st centuries. It is argued that the approaches… read more here.
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