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Take & read: Spring books

Books in the April 29, 2015 issue
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Our spring books issue includes scholars' recommendations of the best recently published books in their fields:

Patricia K. Tull on Old Testament

Amy Plantinga Pauw on theology

D. Brent Laytham on ethics

This article appears in the April 29, 2015 issue.

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