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Are Evangelicals the New Liberals?
SAMUEL LONCAR | It’s an old story. As the world becomes modern, the forces of modernization destroy...
Dec 9, 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
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 3, 2014
Islam’s Compatibility with Science
ROBERT MORRISON | Islam’s compatibility with science remains a prominent topic in public discourse...
May 26, 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...
Apr 30, 2014
The Lewd, the Obscene, the Lascivious in Jewish Literature
STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD | Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for violating community standards of decency?...
Apr 28, 2014
In Mecca’s Backyard
ALEXANDRE M. ROBERTS | This entire Red Sea rim is dotted with the ruins of ancient and medieval ports...
Apr 28, 2014
“Arab,” “Jew,” and Identity in Israel
SAMUEL THROPE | In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town...
Apr 14, 2014
Jesus vs. Judaism … Again
EVA MROCZEK | The argument, brandished vigorously from the first page to the last, is that while “Jesus’ teaching was certainly innovative,” it cannot be divorced from the Judaism of his time...
Apr 14, 2014
A Tragedy of the Most Ironic Sort
TODD HASAK-LOWY | Every publishing season brings a new batch of titles dealing with Zionism, Israel, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Mar 31, 2014
Found in Translation
JOHN HOBBINS | Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for quite some time...
Mar 31, 2014
Crumbling Criteria: Constructing an Authentic Jesus
HELEN BOND | Historical Jesus work used to be easy...
Mar 31, 2014
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