Wyclif’s Theology for the Laity
Ian Christopher Levy on Stephen E. Lahey’s Wyclif: Trialogus The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated
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Clement of Rome’s Mediterranean Travels, the First Christian Novel, and the Character of Early Christianity
James Carleton Paget on F. Stanley Jones’s Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque inter Judaeochristiana F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of
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On the Ritual Fringes
Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling isn’t putting down her tallit. She explains the history, politics, and religious strife behind the recent court decision in
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Peter Brown talks with Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Part 1
Peter Brown’s now famous biography of Augustine, first published in 1967, established his reputation as an authority. Since then he has made dozens
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Were the Theologies of Wyclif and Hus Really That Radical?
Frans van Liere on Ian Christopher Levy’s Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages Biblical hermeneutics
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The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community
Nina Caputo on Rodrigue and Stein’s A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the
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Tributes to Geza Vermes, June 22, 1924-May 8, 2013
Geza Vermes passed away one week ago today. On many occasions during seven years in Oxford from 2005-2012, I witnessed his captivating personality
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Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?
Francis J. Caponi on Michael Dodds’s Unlocking Divine Action In Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist NeoDarwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly
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An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale
Harriet Murav on Nathaniel Deutsch’s The Jewish Dark Continent One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began
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LIVE: Women of the Wall
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson is Director of the Women’s Rabbinic Network, the international support and advocacy organization for women in the Reform
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