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There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

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Dating back to the 7th century BC, it stretches over 13,000 miles across the Chinese landscape, snaking through rugged ...

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Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.