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ANGELA ROSKOP ERISMAN | There is no such thing as a timeless text...

RACHEL GORDAN | Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season...

NICHOLAS DE LANGE | For too long scholars have pursued the study of the Greek bible and of rabbinic Judaism separately, and have placed the two subjects...

JUHA PAKKALA | One cannot understand the history and religion of ancient Israel and early Judaism if one does not grapple with the composition history of the Hebrew Bible...

OLA WIKANDER | The Ugaritic language, spoken and written on the coast of Syria during the Late Bronze Age, provides modern scholarship with...

DAVIS HANKINS | An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary...

LUKE JOHNSON | I began reading Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry in a hospital waiting room filled with fake-leather chairs that reclined too far...

AHMED EL SHAMSY | The origins of the study of Islam in the West lie in the philological study of texts...

DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ | Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and popular thinking about the origins of Jewish modernity...

GEORGE ARCHER | The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the Qur’an, but modern academic study...

BRYAN GIEMZA | If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what would we say was on her mind?...

MARCO DEMICHELIS | While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist religion, the fate of non-Muslims has provoked significant theological discussions...