Marginalia Turns One
A note of gratitude Dear reader, One year ago today we launched this publication with an ambitious vision. But in the summer of
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The Book of Job’s Past, Present, and Future Consequences – By Davis Hankins
Davis Hankins on C.L. Seow’s Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary. An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary: quite often, the biblical
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Trajectory and Change in Islamic Law – By Ahmed El Shamsy
Ahmed El Shamsy on Behnam Sadeghi’s The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition The origins of the
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Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs – By Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson on Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry I never lost as much but twice,
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An Interview with Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann discusses prophetic imagination and the future of Old Testament theology with Charles Halton Walter Brueggemann is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament
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Mary Flannery, Green and Golden – By Bryan Giemza
Bryan Giemza on Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what
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Praying Ants and Prostrating Beasts – By George Archer
George Archer on Sarra Tlili’s Animals in the Qur’an The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the
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Move Over, Mendelssohn – By Daniel B. Schwartz
Daniel B. Schwartz on Eliyahu Stern’s The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and
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Top 10 Most Read of 2013
1. Steelers Nation and the Seriously Religious Side of Football — Arthur Remillard on the religious devotion of football fans, August 28 2.
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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