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The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community
NINA CAPUTO | The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the one Augustine applied in his Confessions, tracing the protagonist’s struggles to overcome internal weakness or external challenges that impede their effort to live a good and moral life...
May 22, 2013


Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?
FRANCIS J. CAPONI | Nagel is an atheist and makes it clear that he is speaking of a wholly natural teleology: no designers need apply...
May 6, 2013


An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale
HARRIET MURAV | One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began his ethnographic expeditions into the Russian Pale of Settlement, the western and southern area of Russia in which most of the world’s Jews lived...
May 3, 2013


How did Origen Vindicate God Amidst the Horrors of Evil and Suffering?
PETER MARTENS | Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least two things about Origen (ca. 184-253 CE): he castrated himself, and he was condemned as a heretic of the Christian church...
Apr 4, 2013


Can “Neutral” Historical Scholarship Successfully Grasp a Theologian Who Deconstructed his Own Self?
GORAZD KOCIJANČIČ | At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a lecture in Jerusalem on negative theology...
Mar 26, 2013


Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity
LEIGH ANN CRAIG | In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited the shrine of Mary Magdalene at La Saint-Baume in Provence found themselves engaged in a lively debate about the Mass they had heard during their visit...
Mar 26, 2013


How are Tenured Professors Like Medieval Christian Bureaucrats?
PATRICK HORNBECK | Bishops played a variety of roles in the high and later Middle Ages...
Feb 26, 2013


Reconstructing Akkadian Texts and Singing the Twelve Days of Christmas
JONATHAN STÖKL | This book is a rare jewel: an enjoyable, learned and very well informed read on textual criticism...
Feb 26, 2013


Pieter W. van der Horst on Florentino García Martínez’s Between Philology and Theology
PIETER W. VAN DER HORST | Spanish scholar Florentino García Martínez spent most of his academic career as professor of Early Judaism at the universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Leuven (Belgium) and as director of the well-known Qumran Institute in Groningen...
Feb 26, 2013


The Latest Volume in the Kierkegaard Research Series
GEORGE PATTISON | Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources is continuing to prove a remarkable achievement, and is cumulatively providing an important point of reference for...
Jan 29, 2013


When did the “Easter Faith” Emerge?
MARK EDWARDS | This book may be regarded as a synthesis of positions which have been defended by its distinguished author from the time of his first attempt to correct the vision of Christian scholars in his monograph Jesus the Jew...
Jan 29, 2013


The NA28 is Here. But Don’t Scrap Your 27th Just Yet.
PETER WILLIAMS | If I were just allowed one book to assist my study of the New Testament, this edition, with its 114 year history, would be it...
Jan 29, 2013
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