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Jewish Studies September 30, 2023

Living Under the Evil Pope

The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (16th Cent.)

Martina Mampieri

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In Living under the Evil Pope (Brill, 2019), Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Italian …

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Chinese Studies September 15, 2023

Nation and Ethnicity

Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)

Julia C. Schneider

Hosted by Julia Keblinska
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Julia Schneider’s Nation & Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s), published with Brill in 2017, is an erudite study of early twentieth century theories of Chinese nationalism …
Jewish Studies August 15, 2023

Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato

Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa

Yehuda Halper

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
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In Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato: Permitting and Forbidding Open-Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa (Brill, 2021), Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning …
Biblical Studies July 31, 2023

Paul and the Rhetoric of Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15 as Insinuatio

Timothy J. Christian

Hosted by Michael Morales
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Have you ever wondered why Paul leaves the resurrection discussion in 1 Corinthians 15 for the end of the letter? Have you pondered how 1 Corinthians 15 functions as the …
Biblical Studies July 30, 2023

Luke the Chronicler

The Narrative Arc of Samuel-Kings and Chronicles in Luke-Acts

Mark Giacobbe

Hosted by Michael Morales
Did the author of the two-part narrative of Luke-Acts have a literary and historical paradigm in mind? Mark Giacobbe says, yes, that in certain key respects, Luke-Acts, using literary mimesis, was …
East Asian Studies July 18, 2023

Moulding the Socialist Subject

Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966)

Xiaoning Lu

Hosted by Victoria Lupascu
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Xiaoning Lu received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature and Language from Nanjing University and Fudan University respectively. She then earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from the State …
Japanese Studies July 11, 2023

Tōhoku Unbounded

Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan

Anne Giblin Gedacht

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
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Anne Giblin Gedacht’s Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan (Brill, 2022) centers cross-border mobility in its narrative of the history of Japan’s Tōhoku region in …
Islamic Studies July 10, 2023

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice

Liana Saif, Francesca Leoni, and Matthew Melvin-Koushki

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
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Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice (Brill, 2020) brings together the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies, and …
Critical Theory July 6, 2023

Ontologies of Violence

Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement

Maxwell Kennel

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement (Brill, 2023) provides a new paradigm for understanding the concept of violence through comparative interpretations of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, philosophical theologians in …
Asian Review of Books July 6, 2023

Regnum Chinae

The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735

Marco Caboara

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
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Regnum Chinae: The Printed Western Maps of China to 1735 (Brill, 2022) does something that no one has ever done before: collect just about every Western printed map of China …
Biblical Studies June 21, 2023

The "Exodus" in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31)

A Lukan Form of Israel's Restoration Hope

W. Gil Shin

Hosted by Michael Morales
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There has been a dearth of study in Lukan scholarship on the transfiguration account and the enigmatic statement about Jesus' "exodus" in Jerusalem. Now Gil Shin has provided a model …
Military History June 4, 2023

Guibert's General Essay on Tactics

Jonathan Abel

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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"'The God of War' is near to revealing himself, because we have heard his prophet." So wrote Jean Colin, naming Napoleon the God of War and Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert …
Religion May 14, 2023

The Politics of Religious Literacy

Education and Emotion in a Secular Age

Justine Ellis

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
Religious Literacy has become a popular concept for navigating religious diversity in public life. In The Politics of Religious Literacy: Education and Emotion in a Secular Age (Brill, 2022), Justine …
Library Science May 5, 2023

Spoils of Knowledge

Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries

Emma Hagström Molin

Hosted by Jen Hoyer
In Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries (Brill, 2023), Emma Hagström Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront of her study …
Indian Religions May 4, 2023

Saint Joseph in South India

Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi

Francis Xavier Clooney

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi was an Italian Jesuit who worked in South India from 1710 to 1747. A brilliant scholar of Tamil, his works include hymns, instructions for catechists, and a …
Religion April 24, 2023

Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Things of Conflict

Lucien van Liere and Erik Meinema

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations, and how …
Jewish Studies April 21, 2023

For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod

The Quest for Babylonian Tannaitic Traditions

Barak S. Cohen

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In For Out of Babylonia Shall Come Torah and the Word of the Lord from Nehar Peqod (Brill, 2017), Barak S. Cohen reevaluates the evidence in Tannaitic and Amoraic literature of …
Jewish Studies April 20, 2023

The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia

Barak S. Cohen

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Barak S. Cohen's The Legal Methodology of Late Nehardean Sages in Sasanian Babylonia (Brill, 2011) consists of a systematic analysis of the halakhic/legal methodology of fourth and fifth century Nehardean …
Biblical Studies April 19, 2023

Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible

Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-battle Narratives

Joshua Berman

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Hebrew Bible is filled with narrative doubling, which can be a challenge to interpret. Through an interdisciplinary model, Joshua Berman offers new insights into how battle reports may serve …
Chinese Studies April 16, 2023

Beyond Citizenship

Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945

Di Luo

Hosted by Yi Ren
Beyond Citizenship: Literacy and Personhood in Everyday China, 1900-1945 (Brill, 2022) focuses on the role of literacy in building a modern nation-state by examining the government provision of adult literacy …