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The Heartbreak of Modernity
BY MARTIN KAVKA | The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion.
Jul 5, 2019
“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives
BY SIMCHA GROSS | The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand
Jul 5, 2019
Is “Judaism” Necessary?: A Response to Boyarin’s Judaism
BY SHAUL MAGID | “One has to square away one’s philology before doing one’s philosophy”
Jul 5, 2019
Hyperphilology and the Anachronism of Anachronism
BY ELLIOT R. WOLFSON | Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion attests once again to Daniel Boyarin’s restlessly inquisitive mind
Jul 5, 2019
Do Bible Scholars Need Theology?
JON D. LEVENSON | Professor Sommer brings the whole range of Jewish learning to bear...
Dec 28, 2018
Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
ALBA FEDELI | In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University”...
Aug 3, 2018
Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
DANIEL A. HIRSHBERG | Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled the great Tang...
Aug 3, 2018
Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...
Jul 20, 2018
The Staffordshire Hoard and the Distance of the Past
SAMUEL COLLINS | Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news...
Jul 20, 2018
(Still) Rethinking the Origins of the Nag Hammadi Codices
NICOLA DENZEY LEWIS | The find story of the Nag Hammadi codices is well known to anyone who works in the field of Gnosticism...
Jul 6, 2018
“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...
Jul 6, 2018
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