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KALMAN WEISER | It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined the term “Zionism” is scarcely and, for the most part, uncharitably remembered in the historiography of the Zionist movement...

NANCY THEBAUT | What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane from 1909 possibly have to do with one another?...

RACHEL FRIEDMAN | Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the subject of rich and diverse commentaries, a testament to its power as experienced by Muslim and non-Muslim audiences...

BRIAN STANLEY | Is the world becoming more secular?...

FERNANDE HÖLSCHER | Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon in Greek religion...

TODD M. BRENNEMAN | Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused on the political activity of evangelicals who have energetically supported conservative causes...

FRANS VAN LIERE | Biblical hermeneutics is the key to understanding the Reformation in the sixteenth century...

PETER MARTENS | Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least two things about Origen (ca. 184-253 CE): he castrated himself, and he was condemned as a heretic of the Christian church...

LEIGH ANN CRAIG | In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited the shrine of Mary Magdalene at La Saint-Baume in Provence found themselves engaged in a lively debate about the Mass they had heard during their visit...

PATRICK HORNBECK | Bishops played a variety of roles in the high and later Middle Ages...

JONATHAN STÖKL | This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed read on textual criticism...

PETER WILLIAMS | If I were just allowed one book to assist my study of the New Testament, this edition, with its 114 year history, would be it...