From Kiev to Moscow traces how Russian rule changed its meaning as political life moved from medieval Kiev to Moscow. Meletios Semertzides presents Kiev as a society where a prince’s power still had to answer to public custom shaped by Christian duty and town approval....

In Critique of the Bible, Meletios Semertzides says the Bible is evidence of a cult system because its writers keep giving human domination a divine source. His target is the scribal method: once Yahweh speaks, ordinary human acts are recast as sacred duty. The reader...