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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...

Steve Mason | In 2006, when the first volumes of Brill’s Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary had appeared

ADELE REINHARTZ | As a young girl in 1950s and 60s Toronto, I attended the Workmen’s Circle Peretz School (Arbeter Ring Peretz Shul) each day after public school.

DAVID NIRENBERG | We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate as fortunate as this...

JONATHAN JUDAKEN | David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of Jews and Judaism to appear in the last generation...

JONATHAN M. HESS | Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility...

JONATHAN P. DECTER | Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages...

DEBRA KAPLAN | In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had he been a Jew, he too would have refrained from converting to Catholicism...

MOSHE ROSMAN | Deuteronomy 25:19 is one of the more memorable — and malleable — commands the Torah proclaims...