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Our English translations give the impression that Jesus misquotes Isaiah. Isaiah 29:13 is translated “they remove their…

NT Wright often complains that traditional Christology works only with the two poles of the gospel story—incarnation…

By most accounts, J.D. Salinger was an unpleasant piece of work. The NYTBR reviewer of Thomas Beller’s…

Todd Decker’s Who Should Sing “Ol’ Man River“ isn’t the story of the song’s origins so much as its…

David Crystal has plundered the Oxford Thesaurus to come up with a compilation of oddities and forgotten…

Allen Kerkeslager argues in a 1993 JBL article that the bowman riding on the white horse is…

Today, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ruled an Alabama law requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges…

The Road to the Holy Mountain Martin Puchner, Public Books Is This Sports Column Elite? Jason Gay,…

Ernest Simmons’s The Entangled Trinity is an effort to work out the relation of theology and science through…

In recent years, historians have argued that the state didn’t exist in the medieval period. States are…

Marcia Shoop is extraordinarily well-positioned to reflect on the theological dimensions of contemporary sports. A college athlete…

Scholars have long speculated on the astronomical imagery of Revelation. Astronomy plays a big role in Austin…

Who are the horsemen riding the white, red, black, and green horses that are summoned when the…

Mary Beard describes Ben Power’s production of Medea “impressive.” But she wonders if the modernized version of the tragedy…

Advice to young scholars and, especially, to aspiring public intellectuals: Although it is natural and, in itself,…