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Christian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Christianity about their new books.
May 14, 2024
Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England
Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity (Brill, 2023) argues that in order to understand nati…
May 13, 2024
The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts
The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genea…
May 11, 2024
Learning for the Love of God
Today I talked to Donald Opitz and Derek Melleby about their book Learning for the Love of God: A Student's Guide to Academic Faithfulness (Brazos Pre…
May 11, 2024
Onomantic Divination in Late Medieval Britain
When will I die? What is the sex of my unborn child? Which of two rivals will win a duel? As today, people in the later Middle Ages approached their u…
May 9, 2024
Knocking at the Brothel Door (with Michael John Cusick)
Michael John Cusick argues that our addictions and disordered sexual desires are really a misdirected effort to reach God and live in connection with …
May 8, 2024
Reading the Way, Paul, and "the Jews" in Acts Within Judaism
The book of Acts is often misunderstood as reflecting anti-Judaism or promoting supersessionism. Jason Moraff, however, argues that Acts binds the Way…
May 7, 2024
The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus
Dr. Sean Griffin's book, The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus (Cambridge UP, 2019), takes on the question of the source materials for the Pr…
May 7, 2024
Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland
Lucy Barnhouse of Arkansas State University talks with Jana Byars about her new book, Hospitals in Communities of the Late Medieval Rhineland: Houses …
April 30, 2024
Resetting the Origins of Christianity
How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of …
April 27, 2024
Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek
The defining feature of this textbook is the treatment of classical and New Testament Greek as one language using primary sources. All the example sen…
April 25, 2024
Making Moves (and Making Movies) in the Mission Field (with Temeko Richardson)
Temeko Ricardson grew up in the Protestant American tradition; she was a “GPK” (grand-pastor-kid) from a family of church leaders. She has been thinki…
April 24, 2024
J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) describes the work of one of the most important and under-studied theolo…
April 23, 2024
Christian Shakespeare
The enigma of William Shakespeare's religious beliefs has long tantalized scholars and enthusiasts alike. Vernon Press's latest publication, Christian…
April 22, 2024
England's Jews
In 1290, Jews were expelled from England and subsequently largely expunged from English historical memory. Yet for two centuries they occupied importa…
April 20, 2024
The Gospel of the Son of God
What does it mean for the Gospel of Mark to portray Jesus as Son of God? Apparently far more than what past scholarship has recognized! James Neumann …
April 19, 2024
Loyal Dissent
Over the course of our 60th anniversary in 2024, we'll be revisiting some classic Georgetown books. First up is Loyal Dissent by Charles E. Curran. …
April 17, 2024
Two Lives of Saint Brigid
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men an…
April 13, 2024
Christ's Enthronement at God's Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context
How did Psalm 110:1 become so widely used as a messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Part of the explanation may be related…
April 13, 2024
Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
In Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities—Je…
April 11, 2024
Catholic in Palestine (with Fr Firas Abedrabbo)
There have been Christians in the Holy Land for two thousand years; “we are the first church,” says Father Firas Abedrabbo who is from Bethlehem and w…