40 Years On: Adela Yarbro Collins talks to Michael Thate
Adela Yarbro Collins reflects on a fruitful career of New Testament study MRB editor Michael J. Thate recently spoke with Adela Yarbro Collins,
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Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
Kalman Weiser on Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined
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Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
Nancy Thebaut on Alexander Nagel’s Medieval Modern What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane
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Karima Bennoune on Human Rights, Religion, and Democracy in the Arab Spring
What is democracy? MRB interviews Karima Bennoune Karima Bennoune is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law
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The Havoc Freedom Wrought – By David de Bruijn
Opinion: David de Bruijn proposes a reconsideration of authoritarianism They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny […] they which find themselves
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Re-Examining Hanukkah
John Ma deconstructs the Maccabean History The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple. Pious Jews revolted
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Stephen Prothero talks to Charles Halton about American Religion
Interfaith 2.0, America’s Bible, and No Common Creed Stephen Prothero is a Professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University. He specializes
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Leila Ahmed talks to Ingrid Lilly about Islam and feminism
Egyptian-American scholar on Islam, feminism, and the veil Leila Ahmed is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and
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Gustavo A. Ramirez on the Rock Art of Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Peyote, shamans, and pre-Hispanic rock art At the second meeting of Historic Archaeology at Mexico’s National History Museum, which took place on May 25th
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Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
Simon Rabinovitch on national questions, nostalgia, and the Orthodox Church in Putin’s Russia In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the
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