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The Essenes and the Qumran Settlement
JODI MAGNESS | Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68 CE by members of a Jewish sect who deposited the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves surrounding the site...
May 1, 2014
The Lewd, the Obscene, the Lascivious in Jewish Literature
STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for violating community standards of decency?...
Apr 29, 2014
In Mecca’s Backyard
ALEXANDRE M. ROBERTS | This entire Red Sea rim is dotted with the ruins of ancient and medieval ports...
Apr 29, 2014
Enlightened Religion? Idealism as the History and Destiny of Modern Theology
SAMUEL LONCAR | Is a truly modern religion possible...
Apr 15, 2014
“Arab,” “Jew,” and Identity in Israel
SAMUEL THROPE | In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town...
Apr 15, 2014
Jesus vs. Judaism … Again
EVA MROCZEK | The argument, brandished vigorously from the first page to the last, is that while “Jesus’ teaching was certainly innovative,” it cannot be divorced from the Judaism of his time...
Apr 15, 2014
A Tragedy of the Most Ironic Sort
TODD HASAK-LOWY | Every publishing season brings a new batch of titles dealing with Zionism, Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Apr 1, 2014
Crumbling Criteria: Constructing an Authentic Jesus
HELEN BOND | Historical Jesus work used to be easy...
Apr 1, 2014
The Birth of Academic Biblical Studies
ANGELA ROSKOP ERISMAN | There is no such thing as a timeless text...
Mar 10, 2014
The Hanukkah Dilemma
RACHEL GORDAN | Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season...
Mar 10, 2014
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