Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity
Leigh Ann Craig on Anna Fedele’s Looking for Mary Magdalene In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited
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History
Reconstructing Akkadian Texts and Singing the Twelve Days of Christmas – By Jonathan Stökl
Jonathan Stökl on Martin Worthington’s Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed
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Pieter W. van der Horst on Florentino García Martínez’s Between Philology and Theology
Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands)
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How are Tenured Professors Like Medieval Christian Bureaucrats?
Patrick Hornbeck on Michael Burger’s Bishops, Clerks, and Diocesan Governance in Thirteenth-Century England Bishops played a variety of roles in the high and
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When did the “Easter Faith” Emerge?
Mark Edwards on Geza Vermes’s Christian Beginnings This book may be regarded as a synthesis of positions which have been defended by its
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A New Collection of Essays on Jewish Cinema in Hollywood
Nathan Abrams on eds. Bernardi, Pomerance, and Tirosh-Samuelson’s Hollywood’s Chosen People The editors, Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson – three well-known scholars
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Has Michael Coogan Seized His Opportunity? – By Charles Halton
Charles Halton on Michael Coogan’s A Reader of Ancient Near Eastern Texts The first literary anthology appeared no later than the Hellenistic period
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The NA28 is Here. But Don’t Scrap Your 27th Just Yet.
Peter Williams on the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28 If I were just allowed one book to assist my study of the New
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Guiding the Life of the Recluse From the Literal to the Spiritual
Robert Boenig on Mari Hughes-Edwards’s Reading Medieval Anchoritism Individuals withdraw from society for a variety of reasons. Some medieval people entered a reclusive
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