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HARRIET MURAV | One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began his ethnographic expeditions into the Russian Pale of Settlement, the western and southern area of Russia in which most of the world’s Jews lived...

PETER MARTENS | Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least two things about Origen (ca. 184-253 CE): he castrated himself, and he was condemned as a heretic of the Christian church...

GORAZD KOCIJANČIČ | At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a lecture in Jerusalem on negative theology...

LEIGH ANN CRAIG | In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited the shrine of Mary Magdalene at La Saint-Baume in Provence found themselves engaged in a lively debate about the Mass they had heard during their visit...

PHILLIP SHERMAN | What is the relationship between the God of Israel and the politics of ancient Israel?...

PATRICK HORNBECK | Bishops played a variety of roles in the high and later Middle Ages...

JONATHAN STÖKL | This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed read on textual criticism...

PIETER W. VAN DER HORST | Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium) and as director of the well-known Qumran Institute in Groningen...

BRENNAN BREED | The instructor often poses this question to kindle a discussion on the first day of an introductory-level Bible course...

GEORGE PATTISON | Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources is continuing to prove a remarkable achievement, and is cumulatively providing an important point of reference for...

MARK EDWARDS | This book may be regarded as a synthesis of positions which have been defended by its distinguished author from the time of his first attempt to correct the vision of Christian scholars in his monograph Jesus the Jew...

PETER WILLIAMS | If I were just allowed one book to assist my study of the New Testament, this edition, with its 114 year history, would be it...