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The Devil and the Flesh

The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity

by Peter Brown

February 2, 1989 issue

The Triumph of Sin

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent

by Elaine Pagels

June 30, 1988 issue

The Lost Cause

Julian the Apostate

by G.W. Bowersock

November 9, 1978 issue

The Gnostic Secrets

The Laughing Savior: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library

by John Dart

The Nag Hammadi Library in English

edited by James M. Robinson

April 20, 1978 issue

Christians vs. Christians

A History of Christianity

by Paul Johnson

Paul the Traveller

by Ernle Bradford

August 5, 1976 issue

Frustrated Father

Jerome: His Life, Writings and Controversies

by J.N.D. Kelly

April 29, 1976 issue

A New Jesus?

The Secret Gospel

by Morton Smith

Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark

by Morton Smith

August 9, 1973 issue

Success Story

Augustus to Constantine: The Thrust of Christianity into the Roman World

by Robert M. Grant

Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine

by Peter Brown

February 8, 1973 issue

2500 Years of Human Historyin Five Books

The Harvest of Hellenism

by F.E. Peters

Constantine the Great

by J. Holland Smith

The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition, 100-600 The Christian Tradition: Vol. One

by Jaroslav Pelikan

Judaism and the Early Christian Mind

by Robert L. Wilken

Jesus and Israel

by Jules Isaac, translated by Sally Gran, edited and with a Foreword by Claire Hucket Bishop

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September 2, 1971 issue

Allegrissimo

April 22, 1971 issue

Worshipping the Red Mushroom

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

by John M. Allegro

The Encounter

by Malachi Martin

December 17, 1970 issue

Letter

J.S. Cooper

Allegrissimo

April 22, 1971 issue

The Fall of Rome

The Later Roman Empire

by A.H.M. Jones

September 30, 1965 issue