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In Ontwakend Jodendom zoomt Daniël De Waele in op de politieke geschiedenis van het kleine Israël en Juda en van de grote rijken in de oude Oriënt. We

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A major interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies.

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Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical and doctri

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