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40 Years On: Adela Yarbro Collins talks to Michael Thate

July 22, 2013July 22, 2013
Adela Yarbro Collins reflects on a fruitful career of New Testament study MRB editor Michael J. Thate recently spoke with Adela Yarbro Collins, ... [Read More]

Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure

July 17, 2013October 28, 2013
Kalman Weiser on Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined ... [Read More]

Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art

July 16, 2013April 25, 2014
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 ... [Read More]

Karima Bennoune on Human Rights, Religion, and Democracy in the Arab Spring

July 15, 2013July 17, 2013
What is democracy? MRB interviews Karima Bennoune Karima Bennoune is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law ... [Read More]

The Havoc Freedom Wrought – By David de Bruijn

July 15, 2013July 21, 2014
Opinion: David de Bruijn proposes a reconsideration of authoritarianism They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny […] they which find themselves ... [Read More]

Re-Examining Hanukkah

July 9, 2013May 6, 2015
John Ma deconstructs the Maccabean History The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple. Pious Jews revolted ... [Read More]

Stephen Prothero talks to Charles Halton about American Religion

July 8, 2013July 17, 2013
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 ... [Read More]

Leila Ahmed talks to Ingrid Lilly about Islam and feminism

July 3, 2013July 17, 2013
Egyptian-American scholar on Islam, feminism, and the veil Leila Ahmed is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, and ... [Read More]

Gustavo A. Ramirez on the Rock Art of Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico

July 3, 2013
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 ... [Read More]

Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”

July 2, 2013August 15, 2013
Simon Rabinovitch on national questions, nostalgia, and the Orthodox Church in Putin’s Russia In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the ... [Read More]

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