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DANIEL WOOLF | Two very different historians, two complementary visions of the past, and two equally valuable bequests to future . . .

VITTORIO HÖSLE | Long into the nineteenth century science and natural philosophy were connected, and that one of the great events in . . .

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Studying how ancient sources conceive and legislate wealth, poverty, and charity highlights the extent . . .

We are delighted to bring our WINTER 2023 ISSUE with you, sharing over 150 pages of thoughtful writing and rigorous thinking..

AVI LOEB | We cannot jump off the train of time as we age. It keeps going, so we better look through its windows. . .

LEAH ALPERN | Was the work feminist? Was it Orthodox? Was the combination a contradiction in terms?

DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .

YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | It’s not easy to befriend sages who have been dead for centuries, but only human attachment is strong . . .

PETER HARRISON | Studying how science actually works as a human enterprise—with fallible human actors—gives you a very different view. . .

SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The book’s focus on the pursuit of hidden wisdom and the quest to overcome human limitations . . .

DANIEL WOOLF | The titular “kingdom of darkness” derives from a biblical phrase originally referencing Satan’s dominion and . . .

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .