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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Imagining Life Beyond Capital – By Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century There may be no more important topic to discuss at present than that
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The Paradox of wu-wei – By Andrew B. Irvine
Andrew B. Irvine on Edward Slingerland’s Trying not to Try Almost all the arts of life are enhanced when performed with unselfconscious spontaneity
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Many Roads Lead from Arimathea – By Ian Boxall
Ian Boxall on William John Lyons’ Joseph of Arimathea Whatever happened to Joseph of Arimathea? Appearing fleetingly in the gospel narratives of Jesus’s burial, he
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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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“Beneficent Incision”: Midrash and the Contemporary Critical Moment – By Adam Zachary Newton
Adam Zachary Newton on Dina Stein’s Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self In a deeply learned set of essays collected under the title
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