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Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered references to        messiahs in Hellenistic- and Roman-period texts, has generally concluded that the        word ''messiah'' did not mean anything determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile,        interpreters of Paul, faced with his several hundred uses of the Greek word...

Research into the topic of distinctiveness and memory dates back over 100 years and boasts a literature of well over 2,000 published articles. Throughout this history, numerous theories of distinctiveness and memory have been offered and subsequently refined, yet there has never been a published survey of the current state of the research. This...

S/oren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbour, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate  Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. She shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in...

A recurring issue in American political life is the role that religion plays in public law making. While many believe that religious voices have been unjustly suppressed in public life and should be accorded a more prominent role in the making of public policy, others argue that religion (Christianity in particular) is already such an...

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