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SIMON RABINOVITCH |Defining Israel provides complete translations of all of the proposed basic laws attempting to legally clarify what it means for Israel to be a Jewish and democratic state.

RUTH GAVISON AND SIMON RABINOVITCH | To understand that Israel is a Jewish state is not the same as to understand what it means for a state to be Jewish.

MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS | A forum edited by Simon Rabinovitch.

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | When did the Greek term ioudaios come to mean “Jew”?

MALCOLM LOWE | The contemporary debate over the use of “Judean” or “Jew” when translating ancient texts has its ultimate source in my two long articles in Novum Testamentum.

MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS | Have scholars erased the Jews from Antiquity?

JONATHAN KLAWANS | Many learned colleagues have written detailed analyses of these matters and I’ve been asked to explain my view.

DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ | The question whether we should use “Jew” or “Judean” when writing about antiquity should...

ADELE REINHARTZ | I am grateful for these thoughtful responses to my essay on the ioudaioi, and for the opportunity to reflect on them briefly here.

RUTH SHERIDAN | Reinhartz raises the important question of how we ought to translate the Greek word Ioudaios in the ancient sources...

JAMES CROSSLEY | My own take on the recent debate over the translation of ioudaios into English as “Jew” or “Judean” is that the translation itself might not, on one level, be so important.

JOAN TAYLOR | Bruce Malina — one of the most respected scholars of the social world of the New Testament – recently posted a provocative paper online...