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How did America’s Political Rhetoric Become so Biblical?
ROBERT E. BROWN | Martin Luther King, Jr. was the last great orator to use the Bible effectively in public discourse...
Oct 4, 2013


How Sufism and Jewish Mysticism Influenced Medieval Castilian Christianity
BARBARA MUJICA | An extraordinary sum of Passion-related texts and images produced in late medieval Europe put Christ’s humanity and suffering at the center of devotional life...
Sep 25, 2013


The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John
WENDY E.S. NORTH | We search the Gospel of John in vain for the systematic presentation of ethical teaching that we find in the “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew...
Sep 24, 2013


Sex in Public Among Religious Zionists
YOEL FINKELMAN | There is no way to understand the fraught relationship between religion, Zionism, and Israeli culture without understanding how Religious Zionists talk and teach about sex and bodies...
Sep 19, 2013


Variants in the Bart Ehrman Textual Tradition
YII-JAN LIN | Described by its own practitioners as anything from the drain clearer to the handmaiden, or even the Cinderella of literary studies, textual criticism may not be glamorous, but its defenders insist on its necessity...
Sep 18, 2013


The Memphis Kneel-ins and the Desegregation of the Southern Church
PHILLIP LUKE SINITIERE | Recent panel discussions, colloquia, documentaries, and books have been celebrating pivotal moments in the modern Civil Rights Movement at its half-century mark...
Sep 17, 2013


Hobbits as Heroes
CLARK ELLISTON | The popularity of the fantasy genre, perhaps more than any other medium, illustrates the human desire for transcendence...
Sep 10, 2013


Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms
DAVID W. STOWE | Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in contemporary popular culture, but few who stumble upon its phrases would recognize it as a Hebrew psalm...
Sep 8, 2013


MaddAddamology: Restoring Eden with God’s Gardeners
JAMES MCGRATH | Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy explores the human potential to use science to redefine what it means to be human...
Sep 3, 2013


Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
DAVID LINCICUM | When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him...
Aug 21, 2013


In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?
ISHAY ROSEN-ZVI | Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the Mishnah, the cornerstone of classical rabbinic literature...
Aug 15, 2013


Plato, Bakhtin, and the Rabbis Meet Again
EVA KIESELE | Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth...
Aug 15, 2013
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