Leila Ahmed talks to Ingrid Lilly about Islam and feminism
Egyptian-American scholar on Islam, feminism, and the veil Leila Ahmed is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and
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Interviews
Gustavo A. Ramirez on the Rock Art of Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Peyote, shamans, and pre-Hispanic rock art At the second meeting of Historic Archaeology at Mexico’s National History Museum, which took place on May 25th
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Joseph W. Williams talks about his new book, Spirit Cure
MRB editor Joseph Williams on Pentecostal healing, Oral Roberts, and making money on the Holy Ghost
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C.L. Seow talks to Michael Law about the Illuminations Commentary
Seow’s trip to Taiwan’s National Palace Museum leads to a new commentary series C.L. Seow visited Göttingen in the autumn last year, and
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Mauro Perani talks about the Bologna Torah Scroll
The oldest complete Torah scroll re-discovered in Bologna Professor Mauro Perani talked with us this morning by telephone from his office in Bologna.
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Peter Brown talks with Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Part 2
In Part 2 of Ioannis Mylonopoulos’s interview with Peter Brown (catch up with Part 1), the eminent historian talks about his latest book, Through the
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Peter Brown talks with Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Part 1
Peter Brown’s now famous biography of Augustine, first published in 1967, established his reputation as an authority. Since then he has made dozens
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LIVE: Women of the Wall
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson is Director of the Women’s Rabbinic Network, the international support and advocacy organization for women in the Reform
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Tessa Rajak talks to Timothy Michael Law about the Reception of Josephus
Now one of the most distinguished (and ebullient) historians of ancient Jewish culture, Tessa Rajak burst onto the scene in the early 1980s
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