The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North
Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in
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Reviews
Sex in Public Among Religious Zionists
Yoel Finkelman on Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi’s Body and Sexuality in the New Religious Zionist Discourse There is no way to understand the fraught
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Variants in the Bart Ehrman Textual Tradition – By Yii-Jan Lin
Yii-Jan Lin on Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes’s The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research Described by its own practitioners as
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Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms – By David W. Stowe
David W. Stowe on Susan Gillingham’s Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in
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The Memphis Kneel-ins and the Desegregation of the Southern Church – By Phillip Luke Sinitiere
Phillip Luke Sinitiere on Stephen R. Haynes’s The Last Segregated Hour Recent panel discussions, colloquia, documentaries, and books have been celebrating pivotal moments in the
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Hobbits as Heroes
Clark Elliston on Christina Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? The popularity of the fantasy genre, perhaps more than any other medium, illustrates the human desire for transcendence.
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MaddAddamology: Restoring Eden with God’s Gardeners
James McGrath on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Triology Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy explores the human potential to use science to redefine what it
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom
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In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?
Ishay Rosen-Zvi on Hayim Lapin’s Rabbis as Romans Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the
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Plato, Bakhtin, and the Rabbis Meet Again
Eva Kiesele on Jenny Labendz’s Socratic Torah Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth. The process goes something like this. I hold a
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