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The Many True Meanings of Christmas
TIMOTHY LARSEN | While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not...
Dec 18, 2020


White Noise and White Silence: Evangelicals and Race
MATTHEW A. BENTON | American social unrest after George Floyd’s death (and Breonna Taylor’s, and Ahmaud Arbery’s, and Jacob Blake’s...
Dec 4, 2020


The Ramayana and The Birth of Poetry
AMIT MAJMUDAR | Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of his body, a stick he uses to hit everyone...
Nov 6, 2020


Racial Murder: American Memory, American Tragedy
SAMUEL LONCAR | We are what we remember...
Jun 5, 2020


The Unity Death Yields: Assassination Through A Theologian’s Eyes
PAUL GRIFFITHS | In a time of intractable political division in America, it’s instructive to observe what unites those on both sides of...
Nov 15, 2019


Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Israel: A Plea for Consistency
GARY A. RENDSBURG | I am a strong supporter of Israel and a great admirer of its manifold accomplishments in its 71 years of independence...
Nov 1, 2019


Death at the Border: A Theologian’s Perspective on Migration
PAUL GRIFFITHS | Early in the twentieth century, Australians built a supposedly rabbit-proof fence across that continent...
Oct 18, 2019


St. Augustine’s Jews and the Undeserving Poor
AZZAN YADIN-ISRAEL | That the Republican Party has championed laws hostile to the poor is more a factual observation than political...
Aug 30, 2019


Things Jewish: A View from Judeo-Arabic
BY JONATHAN DECTER | In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth
Jul 5, 2019


Was the Word in the Beginning? On the Relationship between Language and Concepts
BY ADELE REINHARTZ | As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book
Jul 5, 2019


Time to Provincialize Christianity: A Response to Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism
BY SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude
Jul 5, 2019
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