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JONATHAN KLAWANS | Many learned colleagues have written detailed analyses of these matters and I’ve been asked to explain my view.

DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ | The question whether we should use “Jew” or “Judean” when writing about antiquity should...

ADELE REINHARTZ | I am grateful for these thoughtful responses to my essay on the ioudaioi, and for the opportunity to reflect on them briefly here.

RUTH SHERIDAN | Reinhartz raises the important question of how we ought to translate the Greek word Ioudaios in the ancient sources...

JAMES CROSSLEY | My own take on the recent debate over the translation of ioudaios into English as “Jew” or “Judean” is that the translation itself might not, on one level, be so important.

JOAN TAYLOR | Bruce Malina — one of the most respected scholars of the social world of the New Testament – recently posted a provocative paper online...

Steve Mason | In 2006, when the first volumes of Brill’s Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary had appeared

RACHEL J. SMITH | According to Michel de Certeau, historians traffic in lost things...

CHRISTOPHER WHITE | One of my professors in graduate school, William Hutchison, a man sometimes called the “dean of liberal Protestant studies,” was known for insisting that religious liberalism was alive and well...

THOMAS L. HUMPHRIES | Saint Augustine of Hippo was a latecomer to Christianity...

KIMBERLY ARKIN | A central tension haunts contemporary Jewish studies...

JOSE BERNARDI | Architecture inevitably expresses something about the people for whom it is designed...