Social Power, Pluralism, and Religious Sound in America – By Richard Kent Evans
Richard Kent Evans on Isaac Weiner’s Religion Out Loud Philadelphia in the late nineteenth century was a noisy place. The clip-clop of horse
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Christian History
Ecumenical Protestantism’s Battle for Hearts and Knees – By James Hudnut-Beumler
James Hudnut-Beumler on David A. Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged
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Jesus vs. Judaism … Again – By Eva Mroczek
Eva Mroczek on David A. deSilva’s The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha In 1973,
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The Birth of Academic Biblical Studies – By Angela Roskop Erisman
Angela Roskop Erisman on Magne Sæbø, ed. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, Volume III/1: The Nineteenth Century — a Century of Modernism
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The Book of Job’s Past, Present, and Future Consequences – By Davis Hankins
Davis Hankins on C.L. Seow’s Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary. An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary: quite often, the biblical
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Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs – By Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson on Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry I never lost as much but twice,
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Mary Flannery, Green and Golden – By Bryan Giemza
Bryan Giemza on Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Like a Jew: Anti-Judaism in Early Islam and Medieval Iberia
Jonathan P. Decter on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study
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Anti-Judaism and Luther’s Jewish Question
Debra Kaplan on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had
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