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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...

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?...

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...

TODD M. BRENNEMAN | Much of the attention paid to contemporary evangelicalism in the United States has focused on the political activity of evangelicals who have energetically supported conservative causes...

FRANS VAN LIERE | Biblical hermeneutics is the key to understanding the Reformation in the sixteenth century...

NINA CAPUTO | The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the one Augustine applied in his Confessions, tracing the protagonist’s struggles to overcome internal weakness or external challenges that impede their effort to live a good and moral life...

FRANCIS J. CAPONI | Nagel is an atheist and makes it clear that he is speaking of a wholly natural teleology: no designers need apply...