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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...

DAVID NIRENBERG | We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate as fortunate as this...

JONATHAN JUDAKEN | David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of Jews and Judaism to appear in the last generation...

JONATHAN M. HESS | Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility...

JONATHAN P. DECTER | Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages...