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SAMUEL THROPE | In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town...

EVA MROCZEK | The argument, brandished vigorously from the first page to the last, is that while “Jesus’ teaching was certainly innovative,” it cannot be divorced from the Judaism of his time...

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...