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A forum on Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion by Daniel Boyarin

BY ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED & SHAUL MAGID | At first sight, “Judaism” might seem like a word that hardly needs explaining.

BY SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude

BY DANIEL BOYARIN | I thank all of the participants in this forum who have given my book such significant attention

BY MARTIN KAVKA | The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion.

BY SIMCHA GROSS | The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand

BY SHAUL MAGID | “One has to square away one’s philology before doing one’s philosophy”

BY ELLIOT R. WOLFSON | Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion attests once again to Daniel Boyarin’s restlessly inquisitive mind

MOHAMMED H. FADEL | Mairaj Syed’s book provides a highly readable introduction into how a group of Muslim theologians and jurists...

AUDREY FARLEY | In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone...

THOMAS GREENE | The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an Israeli tank...

J.J. CARNEY | In 2018, my family enjoyed a lovely Christmas in Rwanda...