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DAVID DE BRUIJN | Looking at the Middle East today is much like standing atop one of the few remaining structures in a bombed-out city...

KARIMA BENNOUNE | For my forthcoming book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here, I have interviewed about 300 people from almost 30 Muslim majority countries...

JOHN MA | The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple...

GUSTAVO A. RAMIREZ | Although the mural paintings of Burgos, Tamaulipas were known since many years ago, the first time that the National Institute of Anthropology and History...

SIMON RABINOVITCH | In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the Russian Museum of Ethnography...

RACHEL FRIEDMAN | Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the subject of rich and diverse commentaries, a testament to its power as experienced by Muslim and non-Muslim audiences...

BRIAN STANLEY | Is the world becoming more secular?...

C.L. SEOW | Well, the field that has emerged as cutting edge in Biblical Studies comes under different names...

M. EUGENE BORING | Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes a bit disconcerted to be reminded that the New Testament is primarily a collection of letters...

FERNANDE HÖLSCHER | Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon in Greek religion...

IAN CHRISTOPHER LEVY | The Late Middle Ages witnessed a narrowing of the divide that had traditionally separated the clerical and lay estates throughout much of the medieval period...

JAMES CARLETON PAGET | F.C. Baur is regarded as the founder of the modern study of Christian origins and, in particular, of the New Testament...