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

BOOK REVIEWThe Oxford Annotated Mishnah: A New Translation of the Mishna with Introduction and Notesby Shaye J.D. Cohen, Robert Goldenberg, Hayim Lapin, Editors About the EditorsShaye Cohen is Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Harvard University. He previously taught at Brown University and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is widely recognized … Continue reading The Oxford Annotated Mishnah

BOOK REVIEWThe Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practiceby Kevin Trainor & Paula Arai, editors 2022 About the EditorsPaula Arai is Professor of Buddhist Studies at Louisiana State University, holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India. She is author of Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra--The Buddhist Art of Iwasaki Tsuneo, Women … Continue reading The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice

BOOK REVIEWThe Case for a Proto-Gospel: Recovering the Common Written Source Behind Mark and Johnby Gary Greenberg 2020 About the AuthorGary Greenberg is the author of The Judas Brief and Proving Jesus' Authority in Mark and John. He served for over a decade as the President of the Biblical Archaeology Society of New York. Presently … Continue reading The Case for a Proto-Gospel

BOOK REVIEWThe Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, Historyby Dale C. Allison Jr. 2021 About the AuthorDale C. Allison, Jr., is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, and the author of many books, including Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History and the International Critical Commentary on James. About the … Continue reading The Resurrection of Jesus

BOOK REVIEWThe Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Storyby Jonathan MS Pearce 2021 About the AuthorJonathan M.S. Pearce is a teacher from south Hampshire, UK, who has dedicated many years to studying all manner of things philosophical and theological. Having studied for a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Wales, TSD, he also … Continue reading The Resurrection