Faithful Narratives

Andrea Sterk is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is the author most recently of Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity. Nina Caputo is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. She is the author of Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: Community, History, and Messianism.

Introduction: The Challenge of Religion in History

ANDREA STERK AND NINA CAPUTO

Part One: Late Antique and Medieval Religious Debates and Their Modern Implications

1. Pagan Challenge, Christian Response: Emperor Julian and Gregory of Nazianzus as Paradigms of Interreligious Discourse

SUSANNA ELM

2. Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work, and the "Holy Poor"

PETER BROWN

3. Medieval Monks on Labor and Leisure

JOHN VAN ENGEN

4. Sibling Rivalries, Scriptural Communities: What Medieval History Can and Cannot

Teach Us about Relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

DAVID NIRENBERG

Part Two: Early Modern Perspectives on Spirituality, Culture, and Religious Boundaries

5. The People and the Book: Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture in Early Modern Europe

DAVID B. RUDERMAN

6. The Jewish Book in Christian Europe: Material Texts and Religious Encounters

ANTHONY GRAFTON

7. Mission and Narrative in the Early Modern Spanish World: Diego de Ocaña's Desert in Passing

KENNETH MILLS

8. Incombustible Weber: How the Protestant Reformation Really Disenchanted the World

CARLOS EIRE

Part Three: From the Premodern to the Modern World: Sacred Texts, Individual Agency, and Religious Identity

9. Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency

PHYLLIS MACK

10. Constructions of Jewish Identity through Reflections on Islam

SUSANNAH HESCHEL

11. Bible, Translation, and Culture: From the KJV to the Christian Resurgence in Africa

LAMIN SANNEH

12. Reflections on the Bible and American Public Life

MARK A. NOLL

Notes