Evidence from model organisms and clinical genetics suggests coordination between the
developing brain and face, but the role of this link in common genetic variation remains …

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic
disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex …

New Testament scholars typically assume that the men who pervade the pages of Luke's
two volumes are models of an implied" manliness." Scholars rarely question how Lukan men …

The oldest European novels were written in ancient Greek during the first few centuries of
the Common Era. Despite the gold rush towards these novels in the last two decades and …

In Acts, the third of eighteen volumes in the Paideia commentary series, leading biblical
scholar Mikeal Parsons gleans fresh theological insight into Acts by attending carefully to the …

This book argues that a distinctive hallmark of Cicero's oratory is a conceptual creativity that
one may loosely characterize as philosophical. A range of case studies show how this …

How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the
application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and …

Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363).
Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized, and …

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947,
this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a" sect" …

summary Early Christianity developed in a world where moral significance was often judged
based upon physical appearance alone. Exploring the manifestations of this ancient" …