bible
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Norm Jones, friend and scholar
I spent some time this afternoon with a book by my friend Norm Jones, who was taken from the world this morning after struggling against cancer. There is so much to say about Norm: his great stature as a historian of early modern England, his broad and deep curiosity about everything, his inimitable manner of… Continue reading
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Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary
I spent an hour today with a 1734 English translation of Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire Historique et Critique. It is really a multi-volume encyclopedia, ostensibly covering both known and obscure topics found treated in the history of ancient texts, but in fact Bayle sneaks in commentary on religious and philosophical controversies of his own day. It’s… Continue reading
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