In recent decades, reception history has become an increasingly important and controversial topic of discussion in biblical studies. Rather than attempting to recover the original meaning of biblical texts, reception history focuses on exploring the history of interpretation. In doing so it locates [...]

Are Milton's "Paradise Lost", Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' missile defence program, our culture's fascination with UFOs and alien abductions, and Louis Farrakhan's views on racial Armageddon somehow linked? In "Children of Ezekiel", Michael Lieb reveals the connections between these phenomena and the[...]