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The latest issue of Books & Culture  arrived in my mailbox today, and I immediately turned to p. 14 and started reading Timothy Larsen ...

I'm still reading through Seth Schwartz' new book Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad  (Cambridge), mentioned earlier . As I pre...

Cambridge is about to publish a new book by Seth Schwartz  on ancient Judaism, Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad . You have to wait an...

I've posted several times on Michael Satlow's new book How the Bible Became Holy  (Yale, 2014). ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). This'll be my las...

I happened to be reading a 1987 review of a book on renaissance literature published by Columbia University Press, and I really enjoyed thi...

I finished Michael Satlow's new book. Last time I filled you in up to ch. 8, which gets you a little over half-way through. We'll p...

A recent article by Matthew Adams in Greece & Rome  explores how Greek came to be taught in schools in England. Some notes: Erasmus,...