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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...

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

GEORGE ARCHER | The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the Qur’an, but modern academic study...

BRYAN GIEMZA | If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what would we say was on her mind?...

MARCO DEMICHELIS | While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist religion, the fate of non-Muslims has provoked significant theological discussions...

ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS | Like their medieval scholastic predecessors, the best known Continental Rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century...

MARTIN MENKE | New histories of the Shoah provoke a range of responses...

PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...

STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a minor comic art — the song parody — into a showbiz phenomenon...

ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...