This might seem self-serving, but I want to give everyone a warning: there is a role for historical critical biblical studies. Many theologians, Catholic and otherwise, decry, disparage, deprecate and ...

I WANT to talk about the historical interpretation of literature — that is, about the interpretation of literature in its social, economic, and political aspects. To begin with, it will be worth while ...

One of the momentous developments in criticism in the past two decades has been the revival of the historical method as a way of studying literature, the arts, and the world of ideas. Scholars who ...

How as a scholar and a historian do you reconcile studying the Bible in a rationalist way with your Christian faith? I suppose it's an important part of my theological commitment that I believe that ...

Irish Historical Studies, the joint journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies, is published twice yearly (May and November). Established in 1938 under ...

Biblical scholarship in Europe and North America is in an unhealthy state. For two and a half centuries academic critics have purported to explain how biblical texts came about and therefore what ...

Gladiator II star Connie Nielsen addressed criticism over the movie's historical accuracy, admitting she finds it "so silly". The movie, which acts as a sequel to the 2000 hit, sees Nielsen return to ...