All Eyes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian for our Troubled Time
Javier Garcia on Christ, Church, and the World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics One figure who has proven particularly resilient to
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
Rachel C. Schneider on Decolonization, Sexuality, and Africa Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people
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Culturally Muslim in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Abigail Agresta on Olivia Remie Constable’s To Live Like a Moor What does it mean to be Muslim? To be Christian? Do these identities consist
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Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
A Most Fortuitous Find at Dunhuang, China (1900 C.E.) Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled
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Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
The Case of the Discovery of the “Birmingham Qur’ān” In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found
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Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
Nils H. Korsvoll on the magic of material culture Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to
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The Staffordshire Hoard and the Distance of the Past
Samuel Collins on a dazzling trove of medieval treasure Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news. Star power rests instead with discoveries from the
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Simonides’ New Testament Papyri: Their Production and Purported Provenance
Tommy Wasserman on the most notorious New Testament forger In 2014, when the so-called Gospel of Jesus Wife had been exposed as a
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“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
Roberta Mazza on cultural artifacts as commodity “The elderly owner of our new Sappho papyrus wishes to remain anonymous, and its provenance is obscure (it
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