Volume 56, Number 10 · June 11, 2009
A Surprise from Saint Augustine
By Peter Brown
Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
by Paula Fredriksen
Doubleday, 488 pp., $35.00
Palestine in Late Antiquity
by Hagith Sivan
Oxford University Press, 429 pp., $120.00
It is a pleasure to write on a book that derives from a modern scholar's brain wave about the fateful insight of a thinker over a millennium and a half ago. Paula Fredriksen's sudden inspiration occurred in an altogether appropriate place—Jerusalem:
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