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Daily Archives: December 14, 2011
David Marshall: “Where Did Marx Go Wrong?”
In David Marshall’s Jesus and the Religions of Man, I read Chapter 3: “Where Did Marx Go Wrong?” Overall, I liked this chapter, for, while it overlapped with the typical right-wing rhetoric about Communism that I have heard and read … Continue reading
The Maccabees and Discerning God’s Will
In my reading of The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume Three: The Hellenistic Age, a theme that I often encountered was discerning the will of God. In this post, I’ll be drawing from Jonathan Goldstein’s contribution to the volume, “The … Continue reading
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