Perhaps the most startling thing about John P. Meier's book on Jesus is that it has been published with the…

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Gershom Scholem, who died two years ago, produced such a far-reaching revolution in our understanding of Judaism that his work…

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Gnosticism, an esoteric movement in ancient religion, has achieved surprising topicality. It may even be regarded as the form of…

Over the last decade or so, academic literary criticism has come increasingly under the influence of the French school of…

Many books could be written about the life and works of Gershom Scholem, who is perhaps the greatest Jewish scholar…

In the course of the last 2,000 years, a voluminous literature has grown up around the Song of Songs, one…

One of the most interesting things about David Pryce-Jones's book on Unity Mitford is the extraordinary row that it provoked.