Jon D. Levenson Talks to Charles Halton about Abrahamic Religions
Which Abrahamic tradition? Jon Levenson’s Inheriting Abraham Abrahamic religions. We’ve all heard the phrase and many of us use it. It implies a
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A Conversation with Verlyn Klinkenborg on the Craft of Academic Writing
Abstract, dull & essentially passive. It doesn’t have to be this way. Short Sentences About Writing and academic literature. I’ve made my way
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Is there a political theory in the Hebrew Bible?
Phillip Sherman looks past Athens reading Michael Walzer’s In God’s Shadow. What is the relationship between the God of Israel and the politics
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John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian world
Like Nixon in China, Benedict reshaped the image of the papacy. Two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, almost everything that
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Reconstructing Akkadian Texts and Singing the Twelve Days of Christmas – By Jonathan Stökl
Jonathan Stökl on Martin Worthington’s Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed
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How are Tenured Professors Like Medieval Christian Bureaucrats?
Patrick Hornbeck on Michael Burger’s Bishops, Clerks, and Diocesan Governance in Thirteenth-Century England Bishops played a variety of roles in the high and
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Did the Jews abandon the Greek Bible to the early Christians?
Nicholas de Lange explores the use of the Greek Bible amongst Jews in Late Antiquity with Greek Scripture and the Rabbis. For too
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Mapping the World beyond the Garden: Is the Bible Ever Read in its Context?
Brennan Breed reflects on challenges and prospects in the emerging field of Reception History with Peter Lanfer’s Remembering Eden. ‘But does the text
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The Art of the Review Essay: David H. Aaron
How this hybrid form is a work of scholarship and how to produce it. Scholars frequently regard writing reviews as a ‘service to
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To the Reader
Dear Reader: This is an experiment. An idea conceived more than a year ago and refined during the past seven months has finally
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