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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


Steelers Nation and the Seriously Religious Side of Football
ARTHUR REMILLARD | The Pittsburgh Steelers nearly broke Terry O’Neill’s heart...
Aug 28, 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


Synagogue Architecture in Four Nineteenth-century European Capitals
VLADIMIR LEVIN | Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four European capital cities in the second half of the nineteenth century...
Aug 15, 2013


To Whom is the Qur’an Addressed?
WHITNEY S. BODMAN | I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would like to elaborate on reader-response theory as a justifiable method in the study of the Qur’an...
Aug 15, 2013


Sacred Silence: Marijuana, God’s Law, and Kentucky’s Cornbread Mafia
JAMES HIGDON | When I started working on the book that would become The Cornbread Mafia, I never thought that I would be telling a story of God’s law versus Man’s law...
Aug 14, 2013


Joshua Dubler talks to MRB’s Joseph Williams
JOSHUA DUBLER | My project was initially slated to take place at New Jersey’s Rahway State Prison...
Aug 13, 2013


Jewish Sin City: Al Capone’s Chicago Meets Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
JEFFREY VEIDLINGER | Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the imagination...
Aug 7, 2013


The Marriage of Religion and Technology: Reading Apple’s Allegorical Advertising
BRETT T. ROBINSON | Steve Jobs invited a number of lofty comparisons during his career...
Aug 3, 2013


Sterilizing the Bible
CHARLES HALTON | I remember the first time I heard the C-word used to translate the Bible...
Jul 31, 2013
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