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How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity – By Barbara Mujica

September 25, 2013April 29, 2014

Barbara Mujica on Cynthia Robinson’s Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe ... [Read More]

The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North

September 24, 2013February 24, 2014

Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in ... [Read More]

Sex in Public Among Religious Zionists

September 19, 2013October 28, 2013

Yoel Finkelman on Yakir Englander and Avi Sagi’s Body and Sexuality in the New Religious Zionist Discourse There is no way to understand the fraught ... [Read More]

Variants in the Bart Ehrman Textual Tradition – By Yii-Jan Lin

September 18, 2013February 24, 2014

Yii-Jan Lin on Bart D. Ehrman and Michael W. Holmes’s The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research Described by its own practitioners as ... [Read More]

Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms – By David W. Stowe

September 18, 2013January 27, 2014

David W. Stowe on Susan Gillingham’s Jewish and Christian Approaches to the Psalms Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in ... [Read More]

The Memphis Kneel-ins and the Desegregation of the Southern Church – By Phillip Luke Sinitiere

September 17, 2013January 27, 2014

Phillip Luke Sinitiere on Stephen R. Haynes’s The Last Segregated Hour Recent panel discussions, colloquia, documentaries, and books have been celebrating pivotal moments in the ... [Read More]

Hobbits as Heroes

September 10, 2013October 28, 2013

Clark Elliston on Christina Gschwandtner’s Postmodern Apologetics? The popularity of the fantasy genre, perhaps more than any other medium, illustrates the human desire for transcendence. ... [Read More]

MaddAddamology: Restoring Eden with God’s Gardeners

September 3, 2013October 21, 2013

James McGrath on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Triology Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy explores the human potential to use science to redefine what it ... [Read More]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†

August 21, 2013October 28, 2013

David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom ... [Read More]

In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?

August 15, 2013October 28, 2013

Ishay Rosen-Zvi on Hayim Lapin’s Rabbis as Romans Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the ... [Read More]