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BRUCE GORDON | The Reformation was a revolution that created a new form of Christianity.

JOSEPH LEO KOERNER | We in the field of Northern Renaissance art have hardly finished celebrating one big anniversary

SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Racist oppression, as J. Kameron Carter has made clear, is a theological construct transferred to the political institutions of society.

A forum on Cynthia Baker's Jew.

In her discussion of the term Ioudaios, or “Jew” as it emerges from antiquity, Cynthia Baker in her new book Jew makes the following comments:

The introduction to my book, Jew, concludes as follows:

My starting point is the striking idea suggested by Cynthia Baker that the word Jew is or was received as a kind of blow, forming the subject not from within...

The questions raised by Cynthia Baker’s terse, sophisticated intervention in Jew resonate in, with, and for Islam in numerous complex ways.

Calling someone a Jew is not a neutral act. In her new book, Cynthia Baker explains with exemplary clarity how for much of their history the term Jew and its adjacencies...

As Leopold Zunz once wrote, “Genuine scholarship is generative.”

When my nephew was about eight or so, he went to school one day and, upon returning home, announced, “I saw a Jew in school today.”

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | It is a potent time to rethink identity.