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ED SIMON | Chidiock Tichborne, of unlikely name but aristocratic birth, spent the evening of September 19, 1586, in the Tower of London...

STEPHEN S. BUSH | Nick Cave has said that in Until, his massive, elaborate, and provocative installation at MASS MoCA, he intends to pose...

LAURA MOFFATT | I’m becoming increasingly convinced that architectural history is the most inclusive of studies...

ABRAM LUEDERS | In 1995, Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam sounded the alarm...

SOHAIB I. KHAN | Pakistan’s descent into violent forms of religious extremism has recently become the subject of best-selling books...

SUSANNAH HESCHEL | Racist oppression, as J. Kameron Carter has made clear, is a theological construct transferred to the political institutions of society.

A forum on Cynthia Baker's Jew.

In her discussion of the term Ioudaios, or “Jew” as it emerges from antiquity, Cynthia Baker in her new book Jew makes the following comments:

The introduction to my book, Jew, concludes as follows:

BRAD EAST | Should the Bible be read like any other book?...

NATHAN HOFER | One of the more difficult tasks facing historians of early Sufism is to disentangle its development as an identifiable...

My starting point is the striking idea suggested by Cynthia Baker that the word Jew is or was received as a kind of blow, forming the subject not from within...