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Books reviewed in this article: Julian Baldick, Animal and Shaman: Ancient Religions of Central Asia. David Noel Freedman, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Tod Linafelt (ed.), Strange Fire: Reading the Bible after the Holocaust. Michael Joseph Brown, What They Don't Tell You: A Survivor's Guide to Biblical Studies. Esther Fuchs, Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman. Karl Löning and Erich Zenger, To Begin with, God Created ≡: Biblical Theologies of Creation. Gregory W. Dawes (ed.), The Historical Jesus Quest: Landmarks in the Search for the Jesus of History. Kevin Ward and Brian Stanley (eds), The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999. Leslie J. Francis and Yaacov J. Katz (eds), Joining and Leaving Religion: Research Perspectives. Kimon Howland Sargeant, Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way. J. Heywood Thomas, and Paul Tillich, Outstanding Christian Thinkers. John Webster, and Karl Barth, Outstanding Christian Thinkers. Samuel M. Powell, The Trinity in German Thought. James Woodward and Stephen Pattison (eds), The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology. Marc Gopin, Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking. John Hick, The Fifth Dimension: An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm. Mark Larrimore (ed.), The Problem of Evil: A Reader. Michael Taylor, Poverty and Christianity: Reflections at the Interface between Faith and Experience. Patrick Riley, Civilizing Sex: On Chastity and the Common Good. Brian S. Hook and R. R. Reno, Heroism and the Christian Life: Reclaiming Excellence. Douglas A. Hicks, Inequality and Christian Ethics. Joseph Sittler, Evocations of Grace: Writings on Ecology, Theology and Ethics. M. W. Sinnett, Restoring the Conversation: Socratic Dialectic in the Authorship of Søren Kierkegaard. Eef Dekker, Middle Knowledge. Pierre-Marie Emonet, The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Thing... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]