Author(s): Zareena Grewal
In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the...
Author(s): Edited by Lance Jenott and Sarit Kattan Gribetz
The authors of this collection of essays explore different ways that ancient Jews and Christians understood the world’s creation and how this understanding shaped their world. In this volume discussions of cosmogony are not only placed within the contexts of biblical hermeneutics and the...
Author(s): Edited by: Christl M. Maier and Carolyn J. Sharp
This volume advances the scholarly discussion of Jeremiah via rigorous feminist and postcolonialist theorizing of texts and interpretive issues in that prophetic book. The essays here, by seasoned scholars of Jeremiah, offer significant traction on the biblical book's construction of the persona of...
Winner of the 2012 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication.
Finalist for the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
Elijah ben Solomon, the “Genius of Vilna,” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new...
Joel Baden, a leading expert on the Old Testament, offers a controversial look at the history of King David, the founder of the nation of Israel whose bloodline leads to Jesus, challenging prevailing popular beliefs about his legend in The Historical David.
Baden makes clear that the biblical...
Extends literary-historical analysis to impact the theological interpretation of the canonical text of the Pentateuch
Author(s): Stephen Davis, Bilal Orfali, Samuel Noble
A Medieval Arabic text from the history of Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations in Egypt
Author(s): Edited by Giorgio Bonamente, Rita Lizzi Testa, Noel Lenski
The collections here reports were presented at the University of Perugia and in the Town Hall of Spello Studies - in front of the rescript of Constantine - between 27 and 30 April 2011 in the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Emperor Galerius. Since 311 AD, was a watershed year that ushered in the...
Author(s): Harold Attridge
Internationally renowned New Testament scholar Harold Attridge illuminates key aspects of John and Hebrews, two of the most theologically compelling and complex New Testament books. Attridge explores the literary and cultural traditions at work in the text and its imaginative rhetoric, which aims...
Author(s): Christine Hayes
This book examines the small library of 24 books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles—books that preserve the efforts of diverse writers over a span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of their people, the ancient Israelites. Professor Christine Hayes...
