Spirit and Literacy, Prophecy and Modernity in a South African Church – by Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward on Joel Cabrita’s Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church A hundred years ago, around the time of the
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An Androcentric Discipline? The Gender Troubles of Qur’anic Exegesis – by Ali Altaf Mian
Ali Altaf Mian on Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an Gender is a widely debated topic in contemporary Islam. Many Muslims, and
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Corrective Spaces – by Sarah E. Bond
Sarah E. Bond on Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment, and Penance in Late Antiquity Curated spaces have the ability to embody our belief systems,
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Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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Problems of Poverty and the Recently Impoverished – By John Mandsager
John Mandsager on Gregg Gardner’s The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism According to Suetonius (Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II.91), once
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Augustine on Trial – Ron Haflidson
Ron Haflidson on Paul Rigby’s Theology of Augustine’s Confessions A friend of mine refers to her favorite thinkers of the departed white male
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An Immodest Proposal – By Maria Doerfler
Maria Doerfler on Kate Wilkinson’s Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity One of the distinct pleasures of living in New York City is
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The Politics of Prosperity: Pentecostalism as Critique – By Naomi Haynes
Naomi Haynes on Ilana Van Wyk’s The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa In 2013, ten years after I
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The Talmud and the Desert Fathers – By Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin on Michal Bar-Asher Siegal’s Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud The study of the Babylonian Talmud is right now a hot
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American Socialism and the Jews, Between Moscow and Jerusalem – By Tony Michels
Tony Michels on Stephen H. Norwood’s Antisemitism and the American Far Left In the summer of 1967, American leftists began speaking about Israel in new,
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