The Dark Interval, by John Dominic Crossan
New students’ approaches to religious texts exhibit scant sensitivity to the complex recipes by which hearers and readers construct meaning....
On the Muslim Question, by Anne Norton
The “Jewish question” was long a topic of concern in post-Enlightenment political thought....
How to Read the Qur’an, by Carl W. Ernst
In the decade since 9/11, it seems as though every trade publisher and university press has brought forth a guide to the Qur’an for the perplexed. Carl Ernst eschews the usual method for books of this sort.
Graven Ideologies
Because Idolatry has never really been about the worship of stone and wood, the mere prohibition of graven ima...