All the Things We Do Not Know

April 30th, 2025 | 6 min read

Selena Wisnom. The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World. University of Chicago Press, 2025. $30.00, 400 pp.

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Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is the Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds a PhD in Classics from Princeton University and is the author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church; Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity; and Christians Reading Classics (forthcoming Zondervan Academic, 2025). She and her husband Dan joyfully live and homeschool in Ashland, Ohio.

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