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ANNE FREELAND | On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in...

DAVID BENNETT | A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century...

WESLEY HILL | Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus...

BY JONATHAN DECTER | In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth

BY ADELE REINHARTZ | As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book

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”