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JOEL S. KAMINSKY | A number of years ago I wrote an essay examining the humorous elements in the narratives

LARRY W. HURTADO | In its first two centuries, early Christianity effectively laid the basis for religious pluralism...

JAMES LOEFFLER | After last October’s synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, American society responded in predictable fashion: Politicians and..

LINN TONSTAD | First, I want to express my thanks to Paul Griffiths for his review—not just its generosity, but the degree of seriousness...

BRAD HOLDEN | Fantasies, like dreams, can surprise you...

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter to Pope John XXIII congratulating him on being...

SAMUEL LONCAR | We can confront the fact that antisemitism is a deeply internalized part of American and European culture...

JOEL F. HARRINGTON | After nearly seven centuries of relative obscurity, the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart has emerged...

ED SIMON | Edmund Spenser knew how to turn a phrase...

ROSEBUD BEN-ONI | It was not until our very last conversation— when you asked if I read you Amichai’s Poems of Jerusalem to keep...

BRIAN CUMMINGS | Images of Martin Luther abound in his anniversary year, and they tend to conform to a type

DAVID NORTON | Luther’s 95 Theses were written, as their opening says, “out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it”