Found in Translation – By John Hobbins
John Hobbins on Robert Alter’s translation with commentary of Joshua-2 Kings Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for
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MRB Radio #7: Peter Gardella
Art Remillard talks with Peter Gardella about his new book, American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred. Gardella is Professor of World Religions
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Crumbling Criteria: Constructing an Authentic Jesus – By Helen Bond
Helen Bond on Chris Keith and Anthony Le Donne’s Jesus Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity Historical Jesus work used to be easy. Cocooned
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The Golem and the Jinni: A Conversation with Helene Wecker
Phillip Sherman talks with Helene Wecker about incorporating Jewish and Muslim traditions into her debut novel, The Golem and the Jinni. PS: How
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The Hanukkah Dilemma – By Rachel Gordan
Rachel Gordan on Dianne Ashton’s Hanukkah in America: A History Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season. Standing
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An Interview with Stephanie Paulsell
Stephanie Paulsell discusses experimental faith and the value of fiction for understanding religion Stephanie Paulsell is Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies
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MRB Radio #6: Chad Seales
Art Remillard talks with Chad Seales about his book, The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town. Seales is Assistant Professor of
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The Birth of Academic Biblical Studies – By Angela Roskop Erisman
Angela Roskop Erisman on Magne Sæbø, ed. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, Volume III/1: The Nineteenth Century — a Century of Modernism
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MRB Radio #5: Samantha Baskind
Art Remillard talks with Samantha Baskind about her book, Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (Penn State University Press, 2014). Baskind
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Matthew’s Reaction to Mark’s Innovation – By Michael J. Kok
Michael J. Kok on J. Andrew Doole’s What was Mark for Matthew? If Matthew, Mark, and Luke were students handing in their Gospels as
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