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Interviews with Brill authors about their new books.
October 23, 2024
Possessed by the Right Hand
In this episode, we interview Prof. Bernard Freamon on his new book Possessed by the Right Hand:The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultu…
October 15, 2024
Riding with the Revolution
Dan La Botz's book Riding with the Revolution: The American Left in the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1925 (Brill, 2024) tells the story of Americans who f…
September 26, 2024
Collectivization and Social Engineering
In Collectivization and Social Engineering: Soviet Administration and the Jews of Uzbekistan, 1917-1939 (Brill, 2015), Zeev Levin seeks to provide a c…
September 22, 2024
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War
Hebrew Literature and the 1948 War: Essays on Philology and Responsibility (Brill, 2019) is the first book-length study that examines the diversity of…
September 19, 2024
Alternative Evangelicals
Today I talked to Iemima Ploscariu about Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands (Brill, 2024…
September 6, 2024
Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John
Recent scholarship focused on the role of embodiment within cognition and communication reminds us that part of how we “know” is through our physical …
August 8, 2024
Faces of God
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South As…
August 3, 2024
Promised Lands North and South
This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pa…
July 28, 2024
Women’s Human Rights and the Elimination of Discrimination
Despite global undertakings to safeguard the full enjoyment of human rights, culture, traditional practices and religion are widely used to discrimina…
July 26, 2024
The Concept of Citizenship in International Law
Several trends justify why it is worth analysing the concept of citizenship in international law. On the one hand, human mobility enhanced in the last…
July 19, 2024
Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan
Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two …
July 8, 2024
Priesthood, Cult, and Temple in the Aramaic Scrolls from Qumran
The Hellenistic period was a pivotal moment in the history of the Jewish priesthood. The waning days of the Persian empire coincided with the continue…
July 1, 2024
The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture
Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancie…
June 22, 2024
Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan
In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the earl…
June 21, 2024
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan
How is Buddhism seen and practiced in Taiwan? And how do neighbouring countries influence Taiwanese Buddhism? In this episode we explore the religious…
June 18, 2024
Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī
Nahj al-Balagha is among the most powerful, consequential, and linguistically brilliant masterpieces of Arabic and of Islamic thought and literature. …
June 8, 2024
Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes
In this beautiful new book, Dr. Youngna Kim draws on her vast understanding of Korean art to provide an overview of the peninsula’s contemporary art s…
June 8, 2024
Luke Was Not a Christian
One orthodoxy of critical biblical scholarship on the Third Gospel, attributed by later Christian tradition to a companion of Paul named Luke, holds t…
May 23, 2024
The Secret of Time
Arjen F. Bakker's book The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill, 2023) contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Sc…
May 22, 2024
Fragile Images
In Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945 (Brill, 2019), Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origi…