A Pope from the Ends of the Earth – By Thomas Bolin
Francis redraws the Church’s map. It’s about time. Gesture is the language of the Roman hierarchy, and the “grammar” of the Pope’s first
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Essays
Is there a political theory in the Hebrew Bible?
Phillip Sherman looks past Athens reading Michael Walzer’s In God’s Shadow. What is the relationship between the God of Israel and the politics
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John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian world
Like Nixon in China, Benedict reshaped the image of the papacy. Two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, almost everything that
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Did the Jews abandon the Greek Bible to the early Christians?
Nicholas de Lange explores the use of the Greek Bible amongst Jews in Late Antiquity with Greek Scripture and the Rabbis. For too
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Mapping the World beyond the Garden: Is the Bible Ever Read in its Context?
Brennan Breed reflects on challenges and prospects in the emerging field of Reception History with Peter Lanfer’s Remembering Eden. ‘But does the text
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The Art of the Review Essay: David H. Aaron
How this hybrid form is a work of scholarship and how to produce it. Scholars frequently regard writing reviews as a ‘service to
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The Art of the Book Review: John Barton
How writing reviews is like writing references. Apart from books and articles, academics do two main kinds of writing: references and reviews. It
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