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What a Difference a Translation Makes! An Ideological Analysis of the Ioudaios Debate
JAMES CROSSLEY | My own take on the recent debate over the translation of ioudaios into English as “Jew” or “Judean” is that the translation itself might not, on one level, be so important.
Aug 26, 2014


“Judean” and “Jew”, Jesus and Paul
JOAN TAYLOR | Bruce Malina — one of the most respected scholars of the social world of the New Testament – recently posted a provocative paper online...
Aug 26, 2014


Ancient Jews or Judeans? Different Questions, Different Answers
Steve Mason | In 2006, when the first volumes of Brill’s Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary had appeared
Aug 26, 2014


Writing History on the Medieval Blood Libel
SUSAN EINBINDER | The subject of Hannah Johnson’s recent monograph is not really the blood libel ...
Jun 24, 2014


The Vanishing Jews of Antiquity
ADELE REINHARTZ | As a young girl in 1950s and 60s Toronto, I attended the Workmen’s Circle Peretz School (Arbeter Ring Peretz Shul) each day after public school.
Jun 24, 2014


A Key Figure’s Most Important Investigations on the Septuagint
GILLES DORIVAL | Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante (LXX)...
Jun 4, 2014


Traveling to Acquire Knowledge
DANIEL MAJCHROWICZ | This is how the Indian poet Altaf Husain Hali described the first generations of Muslims in an Urdu poem from the 1870s...
May 27, 2014


Islam’s Compatibility with Science
ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...
May 27, 2014


To Speak Truly About God
ROWAN WILLIAMS | When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming?...
May 27, 2014


Ecumenical Protestantism’s Battle for Hearts and Knees
JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER | As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged to a mainline Protestant denomination...
May 27, 2014




The Essenes and the Qumran Settlement
JODI MAGNESS | Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68 CE by members of a Jewish sect who deposited the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves surrounding the site...
May 1, 2014
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