Gary A. Anderson is Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at the University of Notre Dame. This essay is adapted from a chapter of his book on purgatory, forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson, a contributing writer for First Things,is professor of Old Testament at Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is a contributing writer for First Things and professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

Gary A. Anderson is professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame.

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Gary A. Anderson), as well as Yoel Finkelman’s take on The 188th Crybaby Brigade, a narrative about life in the Israeli army. Also in our pages is Gilbert Meilander’s review of Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village and Mary Rose Somarriba’s rev

Gary A. Anderson, FT's leading biblical scholar and contributing writer, reviewing R. Crumb’s illustrated Book of Genesis in “The Bible, Rated R”: While some have called . . . [it] a “scathing satire” on the Bible, I would disagree. . . . No one has paid muc

Gary A. Anderson’s latest book, Sin: A History. Also, Paul J. Griffiths reads A Very Brief History of Eternity and finds the author Carlos Eire belongs “to that increasing company of our contemporaries and recent ancestors for whom the thought of death as ex

Gary A. Anderson’s “Faith & Finance” as the magazine’s investigation of “The Moral Dimension of the Economic Crisis.” Goldman, after examining all the dismal figures, says economic prosperity comes down to this: Our children are our wealth. Too few of t

Gary A. Anderson reviews Joshua A. Berman’s Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought and points out, “What is striking is the way the covenant with Israel democratizes the people. Although the Hittite king covenanted with individual ki

Gary A. Anderson’s close reading of the Book of Ruth: “‘For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried.’ Though these lines are freque

“A gift cannot so easily be severed from its giver,” writes Gilbert Meilaender, responding to the news that the prime minister of Great Britain had called for a system in which organs would simply be taken for transplant from cadavers, with their consent presu