When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
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How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as...
Writing the Bible: Scribes, Scribalism and Script
Thomas Romer and Philip R. Davies
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For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in...
111 Places in Hamburg That You Shouldn't Miss
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Hamburg, Germany's second-largest city, was always one of Europe's biggest harbours. So it's no...
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home
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Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and...
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Qatar: The Rise to Power and Influence
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Qatar plays a crucial part in the Middle East today. With the second greatest natural gas resources...
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa
Victor J. Katz, Barnabas Hughes, Menso Folkerts and Roi Wagner
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Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the...
The Faith & Doubt of Holocaust Survivors
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The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors reveals the victims' frank and thought-provoking answers...
Whitechapel in 50 Buildings
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Why Whitechapel? Outside of the Square Mile (the City of London) it is probably the best known area...
Aphrodite and the Rabbis
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Hard to believe but true: The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet The Talmud rabbis...
The Munich Art Hoard: Hitler's Dealer and His Secret Legacy
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In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to the elderly recluse, Cornelius Gurlitt, German...