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To Speak Truly About God
ROWAN WILLIAMS | When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming?...
May 27, 2014


Found in Translation
JOHN HOBBINS | Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for quite some time...
Apr 1, 2014


Crumbling Criteria: Constructing an Authentic Jesus
HELEN BOND | Historical Jesus work used to be easy...
Apr 1, 2014




Matthew’s Reaction to Mark’s Innovation
MICHAEL J. KOK | If Matthew, Mark, and Luke were students handing in their Gospels as assignments, they might get hauled into the professor’s office for plagiarism...
Feb 24, 2014


Reading Ugaritic
OLA WIKANDER | The Ugaritic language, spoken and written on the coast of Syria during the Late Bronze Age, provides modern scholarship with...
Feb 10, 2014


Reading Deuteronomy Theologically . . . and Critically
MARK LEUCHTER | For those who regard the Bible as sacred Scripture, the book of Deuteronomy delineates important dimensions of the divine-human relationship...
Jan 27, 2014


Necessary by Nature? Possibility and the Mind of God
ROBERT MERRIHEW ADAMS | Like their medieval scholastic predecessors, the best known Continental Rationalist philosophers of the seventeenth century...
Dec 20, 2013


Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion
PHILLIP SHERMAN | Chimpanzees are prone to extreme violence when confronted with a territorial dispute...
Dec 3, 2013


Meaning and Mystery and Love
ALISSA WILKINSON | Andre Dubus III has made a career of exploring the lives of people on the margins...
Nov 20, 2013


Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible
KATIE HEFFELFINGER | Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts...
Nov 19, 2013


Place, Community, Kindness — and the Occasional Rage
THOM SATTERLEE | In the mid-1960s, after completing a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Kentucky and traveling across the country to study creative writing as a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford...
Nov 4, 2013
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