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sn03's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcohol, Death, Murder, Colonisation, Slavery, and War
vincenthowland's review
3.0
Not super well edited or organized, too many arcane details of Sumerian and Babylonian history for the non-specialist (and, strangely, not enough on Greece and Rome). I was most interested in the biblical discussions, which were suitably interesting but could have used more history of theological interpretations (i.e. Medieval usury laws and their eventual abandonment). Hopefully this book provides some of the raw material for a more complete volume written from either an openly Christian or a more thematic historical perspective.
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