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SAMUEL LONCAR | What defines us is not our leaders or our borders...

CAROLINE T. SCHROEDER | Every year in the month of July over ten thousand pilgrims flock to the White Monastery outside of the city of...

ROWAN WILLIAMS | When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming?...

ANGELA ROSKOP ERISMAN | There is no such thing as a timeless text...

RACHEL GORDAN | Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season...

NICHOLAS DE LANGE | For too long scholars have pursued the study of the Greek bible and of rabbinic Judaism separately, and have placed the two subjects...

JUHA PAKKALA | One cannot understand the history and religion of ancient Israel and early Judaism if one does not grapple with the composition history of the Hebrew Bible...

OLA WIKANDER | The Ugaritic language, spoken and written on the coast of Syria during the Late Bronze Age, provides modern scholarship with...

DAVIS HANKINS | An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary...

LUKE JOHNSON | I began reading Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry in a hospital waiting room filled with fake-leather chairs that reclined too far...

AHMED EL SHAMSY | The origins of the study of Islam in the West lie in the philological study of texts...

DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ | Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and popular thinking about the origins of Jewish modernity...