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AVERY ROBINSON | Well over a century before “pumpkin spice latte” was uttered in Europe, coffeehouses were in the vanguard of Western...

JAMES LOEFFLER | After last October’s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, American society responded in predictable fashion: Politicians and..

AZIZ AL-AZMEH | Current scholarship on Paleo-Islam was strongly marked by the publication in 1977 of...

Larry W. Hurtado on Paula Fredriksen’s When Christians Were Jews This latest book by Paula Fredriksen is aimed at a broad readership, and...

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter to Pope John XXIII congratulating him on being...

MATTEO CANTARELLO | Today, crime speaks a universal language...

ANDREW KAU | In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his near-miss with the practice of law...

ALBA FEDELI | In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University”...

NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...

SAMUEL COLLINS | Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news...

ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...

JAKUB KOGUCIUK | Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before it could bear any fruit...