How should we understand the appearances of the king in Book V of the Hebrew Psalter?

Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

This outstanding contribution identifies significant new themes in its collective biography of some of those individuals who, for good or ill, have done most to shape the modern world...

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...

Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ, a topic of great interest in New Testament circles and one that is central to Paul's theology and spirituality...

Fones-Wolf discusses the role of religion in the CIO's Operation Dixie, and provides perspective on the participation of faith communities in the modern labor movement...

McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..

Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...

What is the most important organization you’ve never heard of?

Schlesinger writes about the intermingling of three key elements of Christian worshipping communities: the eucharist, mission and outreach to the wider world, and the unity between Christian faith traditions...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

McIntyre explores the impact of Protestantism on Catholic indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in the period directly following the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920...

Jones shows how the Crusades was a different event depending upon one’s perspective, be that of a Norman ruler, a Byzantine princess, or a Muslim chronicler....

Goldman has written a powerfully impressive new book on the long history of the political theology that he describes as “Christian Zionism"...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

What makes a good missionary makes a good spy...

In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...

Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he?

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God's promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel...

This is a conversation about a Philadelphian and his store, told by guest Nicole C. Kirk...

McCaulley examines the nature of land, prophesy, and Jewish/Christian understandings of Messianic fulfillment..

Boersma introduces readers to the historic teaching of Christian theology concerning beatitude—the eschatological reality of being in the presence of God...

This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...