Philip Stern

May 8, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Philip Stern

This impressive and important book is an ambitious extension of Philip Stern’s earlier prize-winning The Company State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India (2011). There, he showed that the East India Company was, even before the battle of Plassey in 1757, concerned with sovereignty, and that the distinction between a trading empire in India and a territorial empire in the Americas was not clear-cut.

Mar 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Philip Stern

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Nov 17, 2023 | biblicalarchaeology.org | James M. Tabor |Lawrence Mykytiuk |John Drummond |Philip Stern

Paul and the New Covenant Why Paul preached to both Jew and Gentile Ben Witherington III November 17, 2023 0 Comments 20 views Share David Clausen’s article, “Five Myths About the Apostle Paul,” in the Summer 2023 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, strikes some familiar and correct notes about the apostle to the Gentiles, but also makes some mistakes along the way. Although it is certainly true that Paul did not simply abandon Judaism to found Christianity, and equally correct to say that...

Oct 25, 2023 | biblicalarchaeology.org | Philip Stern |John Ahn |Diarmaid McGleenan

Who Was Miriam? Examining Miriam the prophetess in the Bible John Drummond October 25, 2023 0 Comments 15 views Share Who was Miriam the prophetess in the Bible? It sounds like a simple question with a simple answer—Miriam was Moses’s sister.

Sep 13, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Philip Stern |Michael Ledger-Lomas

In April​ 2022, Justin Trudeau watched Richard Baker, the 39th governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, hand over ownership of its ornate department store in Winnipeg to the local First Nations. The ceremonial was Hanoverian, with Baker and Grand Chief Jerry Daniels trading pelts and a gold coin, but the rhetoric was that of postcolonial reconciliation. Though proud of his company’s longevity, Baker acknowledged it was time to repent for its ‘definitive role in the colonisation of Canada’.