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  • 'The Baptism of Queen Candace's Eunuch,' circa 1625-30, attributed to Hendrick van Balen and Jan Brueghel the Younger
    'The Baptism of Queen Candace's Eunuch,' circa 1625-30, attributed to Hendrick van Balen and Jan Brueghel the Younger
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    Leo Africanus Discovers Comedy

    A Muslim and a Jew meet in Rome

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
  • An altarpiece depicting Thomas Aquinas in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, by Carlo Crivelli, 15th century. With the rise of a wealthy merchant class in the 1100s, figures such as Saint Thomas of Aquinas looked for ways to make wealth moral.
    An altarpiece depicting Thomas Aquinas in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, by Carlo Crivelli, 15th century. With the rise of a wealthy merchant class in the 1100s, figures such as Saint Thomas of Aquinas looked for ways to make wealth moral.
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    The Christian Origins of Free Market Thought

    Early thinkers sought to turn religious self-interest into a counterbalance to earthly greed

    byJacob Soll
  • Voight in Runaway Train.(IMDB)
    Voight in Runaway Train.(IMDB)
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    I Dreamed I Quoted St. Augustine

    An old Jewish story about Jon Voight

    byMarc Tracy
  • Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in The Tree of Life. (Merie Wallace/Twentieth Century Fox Film )
    Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain in The Tree of Life. (Merie Wallace/Twentieth Century Fox Film )
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    Tree of Strife

    Terrence Malick’s new film—a cinematic meditation on God, grace, and the wretchedness of man—is an important and masterful work of art. It’s also the least Jewish film ever made.

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    True Confessions

    A new book probes Augustine’s vexing ‘defense’ of Judaism

    byAdam Kirsch
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