Violence Preceding the Myth of Jewish Sacrilege
Joshua Teplitsky on Mitchell Merback’s Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria For much
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History
The Arabic Bible before Islam – By Clare Wilde
Clare Wilde on Sidney H. Griffith’s The Bible in Arabic Non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, have spoken Arabic since before the revelation of
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The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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Traveling to Acquire Knowledge – By Daniel Majchrowicz
Daniel Majchrowicz on Houari Touati’s Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages Travel was always desirable to them And they visited every continent
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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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Islam’s Compatibility with Science – By Robert Morrison
Robert Morrison on David A. King’s Islamic Astronomy and Geography Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse. In a
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The Essenes and the Qumran Settlement – By Jodi Magness
Jodi Magness on Joan E. Taylor’s The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68
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The Lewd, the Obscene, the Lascivious in Jewish Literature – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Josh Lambert’s Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for
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In Mecca’s Backyard – By Alexandre M. Roberts
Alexandre M. Roberts on Timothy Power’s The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000 A long coastal plain called the Tihama
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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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