{"id":1935,"date":"2009-11-12T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/reviews-of-the-only-true-god\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T11:26:00","slug":"reviews-of-the-only-true-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/11\/reviews-of-the-only-true-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Reviews of The Only True God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I just learned that two more reviews of my book The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context<\/a>\"\"<\/i> have appeared.<\/p>\n

One is more of a summary than anything else, and it is by Patrick Madigan<\/a> in Heythrop Journal<\/em><\/a>.
The second is by Vlad Todor at Concrete Academic<\/a>, and offers a thoughtful evaluation not only of the book\u2019s argument, but also of how well I did (or didn\u2019t) write in a way that makes the book both accessible to a general readership and interesting for scholars.<\/p>\n

I notice that so far there is only one customer review on Amazon.com, so if you\u2019ve written a review of the book on your blog, please do consider posting it on Amazon as well. Thanks!<\/p>\n

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