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Stellar performances finally gain the limelight

My good friend, Rabbi David Ostriker’s brother – one of the world’s experts on dark matter – just wrote a history of the dark stuff. I’m fascinated by the fact that – more and more – modern cosmology seems to …

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The Rarest Blue Awarded The Jewish Journal Book Prize

"The Rarest Blue is an example of a book that is worthy of attention both for its literary merit and for its Jewish interest... The making of a memorable

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Mark Mattison’s Review Paul and Jesus

Mark Mattison has just posted a review of James Tabor's new book Paul and Jesus on “The Paul Page,” a web site that critically explores current academic

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John Greene review of Digging through the Bible

(Click here for the full John Greene review of Digging through the Bible) Digging through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and Ancient Bible (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 hardback, 2009,

Full John Greene review of Digging through the Bible

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RICHARD A. FREUND DIGGING THROUGH THE BIBLE: UNDERSTANDING BIBLICAL PEOPLE, PLACES, AND CONTROVERSIES THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY NEW YORK: ROWAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC., 2009, 381

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The Secret Roots of Christianity: Decoding Religious History with Symbols on Ancient Coins [Paperback]

Here is information about a great book decoding early Christianity from coins! Click here to purchase. Traditional religious history preserves a rarely acknowledged secret that Christianity developed from at

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Paul and Jesus – New Book

This superb, well written book carefully shows just how different Paul’s religion was from that of Jesus and his first followers. Paul, of course, never met the Jesus

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Simcha Not Impressed

I just picked up a copy of a new book called “Archaeology, Bible, Politics and the Media”, Eisenbrauns, 2012. It is edited by Eric Meyers and Carol Meyers.

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The Search for the Holy Snail with the Royal Blue Dye

I’ve just come across this incredible book, called "The Rarest Blue", on the rediscovery of Biblical blue. It’s a discovery of monumental proportions. A real scientific and

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