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"The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices: Selected Papers from the Conference 'The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices' in Berlin, 20–22 July 2018" is an edited volume that explores the similarities and differences between the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) and the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC). The book is divided into five parts, with each part focusing on a different aspect of the two corpora. The chapters cover topics such as the reception of the DSS and the NHC in modern culture, the material context of the texts, the portrayal of patriarchs, and the use of pseudepigraphy. The volume aims to encourage further comparative scholarship and offers new insights into these ancient texts. [Extracted from the article]

Yin Cao and Yu-Ting Lee look to the archive to highlight the messy and complicated process of India's recognition of the PRC by attending to the ways in which Burma and the KMT factored into India's recognition of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the founding of the PRC. In this second special collection of research notes on the Nehru Papers archive our three authors all examine third spaces that trouble a straightforward understanding of a bilateral China - India relationship. In his article Cao looks to the Nehru Papers to complicate the narrative of early recognition of the PRC as a bilateral exercise between India and China by triangulating the relationship through Burma. [Extracted from the article]

Dardano, Dedé, Evans, Fendel, and Tronci). Tronci on Hebrew models for New Testament Greek, Kölligan and Katsikadeli & Slepoy on Greek loanwords respectively in the Armenian Bible and in post-Biblical Hebrew/Aramaic). In accordance with the guidelines of the ICAGL series of colloquia, the book - despite the selection made from the wider conference program - offers a comprehensive overview of the main current trends within Ancient Greek linguistics at different levels of analysis and covering a wide chronological range, from the archaic to the post-classical period. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, by Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros & Sonja Dahlgren (eds.). [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Magical Practice in the Latin West: Papers From the International Conference Held at the University of Zaragoza 30 Sept.-I Oct. 2005," edited by Richard L. Gordon and Franciscó Marco Simón, as part of the "Religions in the Graeco-Roman World" series, is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Codex Judas Papers: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Tchacos Codex held at Rice University, Houston, Texas, March 13-16, 2008," edited by A. DeConick.

The article reviews the book "Western Esotericism. Based on Papers Read at the Symposium on Western Esotericism, Held at Åbo, Finland, on 15-17 August," edited by Tore Ahlbäck and Björn Dahla.

A review of the book "The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul. Papers Read at the 2007 Summer Meeting and 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society," edited by Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon is presented.

The article reviews the book "Monuments, Patrons, Contexts: Papers on Ottoman Europe Presented to Machiel Kiel," edited by Maximilian Hartmuth and Ayşe Dilsiz.

The article reviews the book "Towards Further Convergence: Anglican and Old Catholic Ecclesiologies: Papers of the Anglican--Old Catholic Theologians' Conference, Leeds, 29 August-2 September 2005," edited by Urs von Arx, Paul Avis and Mattijs Ploeger.

Reviews the book "Toronto in Perspective: Papers on the New Charismatic Wave of the Mid 1990s," edited by David Hilborn.

Reviews two books by Walter Donlan. 'The Aristocratic Ideal'; 'Selected Papers.'

Molly M. Zahn, "The Levites, the Royal Council, and the Relationship between Chronicles and the Temple Scroll" (253-69), challenges the assumption of scholars that the Temple Scroll draws on 1-2 Chronicles. Ezekiel, therefore, precedes the Temple Scroll in its vision of the restoration of the Temple and the construction of a utopian temple in the future. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Dead Sea Scrolls as Background to Postbiblical Judaism and Early Christianity: Papers from an International Conference at St Andrews in 2001," edited by James R. Davila.

The article reviews the book "Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia, 1946-2005," vol. 3, edited by Craig Munro and Robyn Sheahan-Bright.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, c. 1725-1760. Introduction and Interpretation," edited by Renée Kistemaker, Natalya P. Kopaneva, Debora J. Meijers, and Georgy V. Vilinbakhov.

The article reviews the book "Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World," Jonathan M. Bloom.

The article reviews the book "Calvinus Praeceptor Ecclesiae: Papers of the International Congress on Calvin Research, Princeton, August 20-24, 2002," edited by Herman J. Selderhuis.

Reviews the book "The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early Modern France. Papers From the Exeter Conference, April 1999," by Keith Cameron, Mark Greengrass and Penny Roberts.

Reviews the book "In Pursuit of the Right to Self-Determination: Collected Papers & Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Right to Self-Determination of the United Nations," edited by Y. N. Kly and D. Kly.

Reviews the book 'Paper Landscapes: Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia,' edited by Peter Boomgaard, Freek Colombijn and David Henley.

The article reviews the book "Textual Research on the Psalms and Gospels. Papers from the Tbilisi Colloquium on the Editing and History of Biblical Manuscripts" by Christian-B. Amphoux, J. Keith Elliott and Bernard Outtier.

The article reviews several books including "Manuscripts, Texts, Theology: Collected Papers," by David C. Parker, "A Critical Study of the Euthalian Apparatus," by Louis Charles Willard and "Textual Dilemma: Studies in the Second-Century Text of the New Testament," by Timo Flink.

The article reviews several books including "Aristotle's Divine Intellect," by Myles Burnyeat, "Pleasure, Mind, and Soul: Selected Papers in Ancient Philosophy," by Christopher Taylor and "The Foundations of Aristotle's Categorical Scheme," by Paul Studtmann.

The article reviews a number of books about phenomenological psychology including "Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers," by C.H. Hoare, "The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation," by A. Paskow and "Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight," 3rd ed., by A.J. Starko.

Reviews several books on politics and society. "Painting the Middle East," by Ann Zwicker Kerr; "The Search: Personal Papers," Latifa Zayyat, translated by Sophie Benett; "To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America," by Tara Bahrampour.

Reviews several books regarding time and physics. "Papers on Time and Tense," by Arthur N. Prior and edited by Per Hasle, Peter Øhstrom, Toren Brauner and Jack Copeland; "Wounds Not Healed by Time: The Power of Repentance and Forgiveness," by Solomon Schimmel; "The Human Experience of Time," by Charles M. Sherover.

Reviews several books on religion. "Religion and Conflict in Sudan," edited by Yusuf Fadl Hasan and Richard Gray; "Sudan: Contested National Identities," by Ann Mosely Lesch; "Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan Since the Mahdiyya," by Gabriel Warburg; "Day of Devastation, Day of Contentment: The History of the Sudanese Church Across 2000 Years," by Roland Werner, William Anderson and Andrew Wheeler.

Reviews the book `Collected Papers: Volume 4,' by Alfred Schutz.

The article reviews the books "Han Shan, Chan Buddhism, and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way" by Joan Qionglin Tan and "Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature in the Twenty-first Century" edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff with a foreword by Jan Willis.

The article reviews the book "Hippocrates and Medical Education. Selected Papers presented at the Xllth International Hippocrates Colloquium, Leiden University, 24-26 August 2005," edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff.

The article reviews the book "Astronomy in Orient and Occident," by Maeyama Yasukatsu.

The article reviews the book "Herod and Augustus: Papers Presented at the IJS Conference, 21st-23rd June 2005," edited by David M. Jacobson and Nikos Kokkinos.

The article reviews the book "Studies in the Book of Ben Sira: Papers of the Third International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Shime'on Centre, Pápa, Hungary, 18-20 May, 2006," edited by Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér.

The article reviews the book "The Books of the Maccabees: History, Theology, Ideology. Papers of the Second International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books. Pápa, Hungary, 9-11 June 2005," edited by Géza G. Xeravits and József Zsengellér.

Reviews the book "Collected Papers (1962-1999)," by L. Tarán.

Reviews the book `Paper & Iron: Hamburg Business and the German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927,' by Niall Ferguson.

The article reviews the book "Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works," by T. H. Ogden.

The article reviews the book "Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive Inquiry," by F. J. Wertz, K. Charmaz, L. McMullen, R. Josselson, R. Anderson and E. McSpadden.