The 10 most read reviews and essays from the past year

1. The Vanishing Jews of Antiquity — Adele Reinhartz on the question of translating the Greek term ioudaios, June 24
2. The Arabic Bible before Islam — Claire Wilde on Sidney H. Griffith’s The Bible in Arabic, June 10
3. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: A 40-Year Retrospect on Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam — Bruce B. Lawrence celebrates Hodgson’s moral vision, November 11
4. To Speak Truly about God — Rowan Williams on Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics, May 27
5. Traveling to Acquire Knowledge — Daniel Majchrowicz on Houari Touati’s Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages, May 27
6. The Multiple Ideas of India: Narendra Modi and the Meaning of Indian Secularism — Benjamin Siegel on Narendra Modi’s election as the 16th Prime Minister of India and the “idea of India”, May 27
7. The Presbyterians and I — Shaye J.D. Cohen’s op-ed on the PCUSA’s divestment decision, July 22
8. fergu(losta)son: mourning michael brown — J. Kameron Carter performs a commentary in verse on Michael Brown and Ferguson, August 19
9. Psmith’s Art of Cool: War and Zen in P.G. Wodehouse — Ted Scheinman on Psmith as philosophe and his spiritual calm, July 22
10. The Problem with Identity in Late Antiquity — Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity, November 11