American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature 2025
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What Animals Teach Us About Families: Kinship and Species in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature
by Beth A. Berkowitz (Author)Jan 2026
Between Dung and Blood: Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
by Manuela Ceballos (Author)Dec 2025
The Chronicle of John of Nikiu: Coping with Crisis in Post-Roman Egypt
by Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (Author)Dec 2025
Ministries of Song: Women's Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity
by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Author)Dec 2025Open Access
The Eloquent Tyrant: Speech and Empire in Umayyad Iraq under al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf al-Thaqafi, 694–714
by Pamela Klasova (Author)Dec 2025
The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
by Susanna Elm (Author)Nov 2025Open Access

Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge, and the Late Ancient World
by Ellen Muehlberger (Author)Nov 2025Open Access
A Prophecy of Empire: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius from Late Antique Mesopotamia to the Global Medieval Imagination
by Christopher J. Bonura (Author)Nov 2025
Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination
by Jennifer Barry (Author)Sep 2025
What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics
by Carlo Rotella (Author)Sep 2025
Open Access
A Memory of Violence: Syriac Christianity and the Radicalization of Religious Difference in Late Antiquity
by Christine Shepardson (Author)Aug 2025
Industrial Islamism: How Authoritarian Movements Mobilize Workers
by Utku Baris Balaban (Author)Jul 2025Open Access
Black Muslim Refugee: Militarism, Policing, and Somali American Resistance to State Violence
by Maxamed Abumaye (Author)Jun 2025

Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity
by Chris L. de Wet (Author)May 2025
Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea
by Courtney Handman (Author)Apr 2025Open Access
Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia
by Sara Ronis (Author)Apr 2025