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Books reviewed:
Allegory and Event: A Study of the Sources and Significance of Origen's Interpretation of Scripture , R.P.C. Hanson, with an introduction by Joseph W. Trigg, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22444-X), pp. xxv + 400, Pb £30
The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity , M.J. Akbar, Routledge 2003 (0-415-32814-4), pp. xxv + 338, Pb £9.99
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society , Arthur A. Berger, Rowman and Littlefield 2004, Second Edition (0-7425-2724-7), pp. xviii + 174, Pb $21.95     

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Mark S. Smith, Second Edition with a foreword by Patrick D. Miller, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel
Martin Buber, ed. Maurice S. Friedman, Third Edition, Meetings: Autobiographical Fragments
Martin Buber, The Legend of the Baal-Shem
Martin Buber, Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
Martin Buber, Between Man and Man
Martin Buber, The Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism
Maurice S. Friedman, Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue
Ira M. Lapidus, A History of Islamic Societies
Gerhard Endress, Islam: An Historical Introduction
Henry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism
Adrian Hastings, Alistair Mason and Hugh Pyper (eds), Christian Thought: A Brief History
Paul Avis, T & T Clark, Anglicanism and the Christian Church: Theological Resources in Historical Perspective     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Nicholas de Lange, Judaism
Nicholas Lash, Believing Three Ways in One God
Phyllis Trible, Texts of Terror: Literary Feminist Readings of Biblical Narratives
W.H.C. Frend, The Early Church: From the Beginnings to 461
Marc H. Ellis, Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation
Daphne Hampson, After Christianity
Gerd Theissen, A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion
John Macquarrie, Jesus Christ in Modern Thought
Karl Barth, God Here and Now     

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Books reviewed:
The Major World Religions : An Introduction with Texts , T. Patrick Burke, Second Edition, Blackwell 2004 (1-4051-1049-X), pp. xix + 380, Pb £17.99/$34.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Biblical World , two volumes, John Barton (ed.), Routledge 2004 (0-415-34954-0), Hb £45 Reviewed by Deryn Guest University of Birmingham
Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 1 : The Christbook (Matthew 1–12) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-1118-3), pp. xlviii + 604, Hb £34.95/$45 Matthew : A Commentary, Volume 2 : The Churchbook (Matthew 13–18) , Frederick Dale Bruner, Revised and Expanded Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2670-9), pp. xxxii + 854, Hb £34.95/$45 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Religion in the Medieval World , Bernard Hamilton, Second Edition, Arnold Publishers 2003 (0-340-80839-X), pp. ix + 196, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by Stephen Morris New York
A History of the Popes 1830–1914 , Owen Chadwick, Oxford History of the Christian Church, Oxford University Press 2003 (0-19-926286-1), pp. x + 614, Pb £25 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
Religion and American Culture : A Reader , David G. Hackett (ed.), Second Edition, Routledge 2003 (0-415-94273-X), pp. xvi + 550, Pb £22.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Marlett The College of Saint Rose, New York
Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue : Black Theology in the Slave Narrative , Dwight N. Hopkins and George C.L. Cummings (eds), Second Edition, Westminster John Knox Press 2003 (0-664-22521-7), pp. xvi + 205, Pb $24.95 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham     

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Books reviewed:
Till the Heart Sings: A Biblical Theology of Manhood and Womanhood , Samuel Terrien, Eerdmans & Dove 2004 (0-8028-2237-1), pp. xxiv + 260, Pb £16.99 Reviewed by Walter Moberly University of Durham
Sex and Love in the Home: A Theology of the Household , David Matzko McCarthy, Second Edition, SCM Press 2004 (0-334-02946-5), pp. xiv + 297, Pb £18.99 Reviewed by Gavin D'Costa University of Bristol
The Divine Milieu , Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, translated by Siôn Cowell, Sussex Academic Press 2004 (1-902210-29-8), pp. xxxi + 12, Hb £29.95 Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon Chester-le-Street, Co Durham     

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Books reviewed:
Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer
Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity
Maxwell E. Johnson (ed.), Documents of the Baptismal Liturgy
Roger S. Gottlieb (ed.), This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment     

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Books reviewed:
Biblical Interpretation: The Meanings of Scripture – Past and Present , John M. Court (ed.), T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (ISBN 0-8264-6658-3), pp. xii + 334, Pb £35 Reviewed by Isabel Wollaston University of Birmingham
The Psalms in Israel's Worship , Sigmund Mowinckel, The Biblical Resource Series, translated by D.R. Ap-Thomas, with a new Foreword by James L. Crenshaw, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2816-7), pp. xliv + 303, Hb £19.99/$40 Reviewed by Philip Seddon University of Birmingham
Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians 7 , Will Deeming, Second Edition, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-3989-4), pp. xxii + 271, Pb £19.99 Reviewed by Anthony Bash University of Durham     

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Books reviewed:
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 1: 1469–1839 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7308-5), xiv + 434 pp., pb $24.95
A History of the Sikhs, Volume 2: 1839–2004 , Khushwant Singh, Oxford University Press 2005 (0-1956-7309-3), xiv + 575 pp., pb $24.95 Reviewed by Nirmal Singh Hindu University of America
Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion , Megan McKenna, Seabury Books 2004 (1-59627-006-3), xi + 211 pp., pb $16 Reviewed by David Tonghou Ngong Baylor University
A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion , Anthony C. Thiselton, Baker Academic 2005 (0-8010-3120-6), viii + 344 pp., pb $24.99 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State University West
The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918 , David F. Ford, Rachel Muers (eds), Blackwells 2005 (1-4051-0277-2), xxi + 819 pp., pb £19.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, Cambridge     

". . . On the Basis of Velocity Clues Alone": Some Perceptual Themes 1946-1996

Three factors that have transformed perceptual research in the last fifty years are the digital computer, single-unit electrophysiology, and molecular biology. Amongst the developments in which members of the Experimental Psychology Society have been central are: the recognition of the role of optic flow in spatial vision; the demonstration that our perceptual systems contain parallel pathways extracting different information from the sensory array; the identification of specific detectors that can be selectively adapted in psychophysical experiments; and the transfer of the concepts of fourier analysis from audition to vision. The history of Opponent Process Theory offers an example where experimental psychologists have been misled by too simple an interpretation of physiological recordings.