BOOK REVIEWThe Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Criticsby David Newheiser 2022 About the EditorDavid Newheiser writes on the role of religious traditions in debates over ethics, politics, and culture. He holds an MPhil from Oxford and a PhD from the University of Chicago. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute … Continue reading The Varieties of Atheism

BOOK REVIEWThe Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul's Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Yearsby David Skrbina 2019 About the AuthorDavid Skrbina (sker-BEE-na), PhD, was a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, Dearborn from 2003 to 2018. He taught a graduate course in Technology and Sustainability at the University of Helsinki in … Continue reading The Jesus Hoax

BOOK REVIEWThe Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Nameby Brian C. Muraresku 2020 About the AuthorBRIAN C. MURARESKU graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. As an alumnus of Georgetown Law and a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing … Continue reading The Immortality Key

BOOK REVIEWUnbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubtby Alec Ryrie 2019 About the AuthorAlec Ryrie graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in history and received a doctorate in theology from Oxford University. He is the author of the prizewinning Being Protestant in Reformation Britain and The Sorcerers Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England. About … Continue reading Unbelievers

BOOK REVIEWThe Formation of Genesis 1-11: Biblical and Other Precursorsby David M Carr 2020 About the AuthorDavid M. Carr is Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. His previous publications include Holy Resilience: The Bible's Traumatic Origins (2014), The Formation of the Hebrew Bible: A New Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 2011), … Continue reading The Formation of Genesis 1-11

BOOK REVIEWThe Oxford Handbook of the Septuagintby Alison G. Salvesen and Timothy Michael Law, Editors 2021 About the EditorsAlison G. Salvesen is Professor of Early Judaism and Christianity at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and Polonsky Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Jewish Studies. Timothy Michael Law is an independent scholar. About the Book"Whether … Continue reading The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint

BOOK REVIEWThe Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religiousby Joseph Blankholm 2022 About the AuthorJoseph Blankholm is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. About the BookA radically new way of understanding secularism which explains why being secular can seem so strangely religious For much of America’s rapidly … Continue reading The Secular Paradox