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"You know the Jews only got their belief in a fiery hell from the Zoroastrians in Babylon, right?" This argument from my atheistic aunt was a new one for me. We had traveled to the Philly area to celebrate my engagement, when one morning my aunt opened up an apologetics conversation by asking me if...
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The fate of parties engaged in the intersectarian fighting that marked much the late Second Temple period was often decided by levels of internal discipline, a phenomenon which dovetailed neatly with the emphasis placed on concord (homonoia) and unanimity (homodoxia) in the Second Sophistic (AD 60-230). Counterintuitively, considering the amount of ink spilt on plugging the greater rationality of non-Abrahamic western philosophical traditions, pagan philosophers were no less obsessed with polic
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In 1141, Matilda, daughter of Henry I, sat down to a victory banquet in Westminster, certain of her imminent coronation as Queen Matilda of England. Yet it was a coronation that would never come to pass - so how was England's potential first queen regnant foiled?
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