As a work of disability advocacy, Julia Watts Belser’s book, Loving Our Own Bones, declares the unabashed right of everyone created in the image of God, to cherish oneself on one’s own terms. As a guide to disability studies interpretation, it insists on reading...
Professor Rocheleau’s new book defends a conservative cautionary corrective to some recent applications of “just war” principles to justify outsiders using armed force to address domestic violations of basic human rights. The book challenges as unwarranted or...
Loving Our Own Bones is a powerful and important book that simultaneously opens up new understandings of biblical texts and offers important insights into disability and ableism. Belser’s astute observations and questions about even very familiar biblical narratives...
Max Botner has written a detailed yet elegantly readable monograph on one of the most vexing passages in Mark’s Gospel, the Question about David’s Son (or Davidssohnfrage). This is an excellent book with sparkling prose and a manageable scope. Since, unlike the...
It is my pleasure to present comments on Professor Jordy Rocheleau’s book, New Interventionist Just War Theory: A Critique. In his thought-provoking and densely argued book, Rocheleau argues against individualist perspectives that base the ethics of war on human...
