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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Pieter W. van der Horst on Florentino García Martínez’s Between Philology and Theology
Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands)
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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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Art as an Arena for Interreligious Dialogue
Aaron Rosen on Ruth Illman’s Art and Belief Even as interreligious dialogue sets out to discover and appreciate difference, it often begins with
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When did the “Easter Faith” Emerge?
Mark Edwards on Geza Vermes’s Christian Beginnings This book may be regarded as a synthesis of positions which have been defended by its
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