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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?...

FERNANDE HÖLSCHER | Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon in Greek religion...

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...

GORAZD KOCIJANČIČ | At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a lecture in Jerusalem on negative theology...

JONATHAN STÖKL | This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed read on textual criticism...

PIETER W. VAN DER HORST | Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium) and as director of the well-known Qumran Institute in Groningen...

CHARLES HALTON | The first literary anthology appeared no later than the Hellenistic period twenty one centuries ago and the genre remains popular today...

CHRISTOPHER M. HAYS | To describe the ethics of Peter Singer and those of the Catholic Church as oil and water may appear far too serene a metaphor...

AARON ROSEN | Even as interreligious dialogue sets out to discover and appreciate difference, it often begins with some misleading generalizations about the ‘nature of religion’...

NATHAN ABRAMS | The editors, Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson – three well-known scholars in the field of Jewish Studies – have assembled an somewhat unusual collection of scholars, which includes some high profile ones in terms of Jewish cinema...