The Sound of Meaning – By Vanessa De Gifis
Vanessa De Gifis on Karen Bauer’s edited volume, Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis We have all heard the philosophical question: If
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Scriptural Texts
Marcion and the Ideology of Texts – By Judith Lieu
Judith Lieu on Dieter Roth’s The Text of Marcion’s Gospel The name “Marcion” will evoke one or both of two images. The first
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Present and Future of the Hebrew Past – By Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller on William M. Schniedewind’s A Social History of Hebrew The philologist sat with his back hunched, staring, now through a looking
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Signs of a New Age in the Study of the Formation of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts – By David M. Carr
David M. Carr on Reinhard Müller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny’s Evidence of Editing and Juha Pakkala’s God’s Word Omitted Back in the
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The Ancient Origins of Qur’anic Laws – By Emran El-Badawi
Emran El-Badawi on Holger Zellentin’s The Qur’an’s Legal Culture Are the origins of the Qur’an’s laws and rituals traceable to a single ancient
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Spectres of the Real Paul and the Prospect of Pauline Scholarship – By T.J. Lang
T.J. Lang on Benjamin L. White’s Remembering Paul The fashionable dictum among historians today is that biographies do not repristinate their subjects “as
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A Flaccid Interpretation of Eden – By Joseph Ryan Kelly
Joseph Ryan Kelly on Ziony Zevit’s What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? The baculum, or os penis, is a bone in
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A Sociolinguistic History of the Jews – By Sarah Bunin Benor
Sarah Bunin Benor on Bernard Spolsky’s The Languages of the Jews Intellectual history. Political history. Cultural history. Economic history. There are so many lenses through
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Politics and Paul: Reviewing N.T. Wright’s Political Apostle – By Michael Thate
Michael Thate on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God “There is […] an elusively expansive cultural revolution curled up, as if still
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N.T. Wright and the Lutheran-ness of Paul – By Douglas A. Campbell
Douglas A. Campbell on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God is the climactic study
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