The essays gathered here expose and explore various aspects of the field of tafsir, and their potential for scholarly research. The essays are divided into four main sections: formation and development; genres; sectarian dimensions; and modern trends.

Engaging Holocaust theology by critiquing Zachary Braiterman's idea of antitheodicy, Garner develops the complementary idea of 'atheodicy'. This helps in understanding the Holocaust theologies of K.Shapira, E.Fackenheim, A.Cohen and M.Raphael, whilst also helping to explain their appeals to Jewish mysticism.

Corpus of Cyriacus of Tagrit, including his major work, the Book on Divine Providence. Volume 1 is a monograph on Cyriacus of Tagrit and his writings, and Volume 2 contains the text and translation of all surviving works by Cyriacus.

GPN provides an authoritative world center for up-to-date information on ongoing genocidal events as well as on developing threats of mass killing, including recognized warning signs and incitement to mass killing by leaders, governments, media, and terrorist organizations, and information on genocide denial and prevention of genocide.

The journal "Ural-Altaic studies" is concerned with linguistic matters, connected with the Uralic and Altaic languages. It is bilingual; all papers are published in both Russian and English.

This work presents a putative reconstruction in testing the hypothesis that Islam is historically linked to Jewish Christianity. The argument takes the Qur'anic text to be a valid start-point for historical enquiry and reconstructs from biased views of Jewish Christianity the notion of an enduring Nasorean movement. The effective link between the Nasorean movement and the Meccan religious awakening is the preaching of Qur'anic Prophet Shucayb in Midian, on the border of Arabia.