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DANI RABINOWITZ | Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight years of Spanish Jewry’s golden era, was a medieval polymath who...

GABRIEL REYNOLDS | Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein that refer to the revelation given to Muhammad...

KEVIN HECTOR | I am humbled that Rowan Williams has even heard of my book, much less read it, and genuinely grateful for the many kind things he has to say about it...

GILLES DORIVAL | Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante (LXX)...

DANIEL MAJCHROWICZ | This is how the Indian poet Altaf Husain Hali described the first generations of Muslims in an Urdu poem from the 1870s...

ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...

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

JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER | As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged to a mainline Protestant denomination...

RACHEL TZVIA BACK | The modern Hebrew word for “translation” — tirgum (root letters t-r-g-m) — can be traced back to Aramaic, with cognates in the ancient Semitic languages of Akkadian and Ugaritic...

SAMUEL THROPE | I was in New York on September 11th...

JODI MAGNESS | Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68 CE by members of a Jewish sect who deposited the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves surrounding the site...

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for violating community standards of decency?...