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TODD HASAK-LOWY | Every publishing season brings a new batch of titles dealing with Zionism, Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

HELEN BOND | Historical Jesus work used to be easy...

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...

TRENT DOUGHERTY | The Severity of God pretends to be one thing...

MICHAEL J. KOK | If Matthew, Mark, and Luke were students handing in their Gospels as assignments, they might get hauled into the professor’s office for plagiarism...

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...

MARK LEUCHTER | For those who regard the Bible as sacred Scripture, the book of Deuteronomy delineates important dimensions of the divine-human relationship...

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...