The “Age of Gold,” the Rise of Christianity, and the Fall of Rome – By John Behr
John Behr on Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550
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History
Many Admirers, Few Disciples: The Life and Legacy of Rav Kook – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Yehudah Mirsky’s Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution In the fall of 1913, Avraham Yitzhak Kook, then serving as
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Christian Sexual Slander – By Taylor Petrey
Taylor Petrey on Susanna Drake’s Slandering the Jew The history of Christian anti-Judaism has become an important scholarly topic in the last half century, arising
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Aztec Birth Customs and Early Modern European Jews – By Adam Shear
Adam Shear on Yaacov Deutsch’s Judaism in Christian Eyes Christian thinkers have always been interested in Jews and Judaism. Some biblical exegetes in
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Relaxing the Lines between Redaction and Reception – By Andrew Perrin
Andrew Perrin on Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz (eds.) Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible Among the many lessons the Dead Sea Scrolls have
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Religious Controversies (the rest is silence) – By Sean Henry
Sean Henry on Peter Iver Kaufman’s Religion Around Shakespeare On 24th August, 1572, the feast of St. Bartholomew, the people of Paris rose up and
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Native Americans and the Colonists in the Great Awakening – By Michael Guéno
Michael Guéno on Linford D. Fisher’s The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America For some time now historians
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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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Turning King to Messiah: The Islamic King in Central Asia and India – By Roy S. Fischel
Roy S. Fischel on A. Azfar Moin’s The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam Tales of kings have always ignited the
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Remembering and Forgetting the Persian Past – By Elizabeth Urban
Elizabeth Urban on Sarah Bowen Savant’s The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion Scholars of early Islam are still seeking to
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