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Marilynne Robinson in the World of the Patriarchs
TIMOTHY LARSEN | For the Bible to speak to our world it has to be set in it, acknowledging the reality of the worst evils that befall us...
Mar 15, 2024


Sports in Jewish Culture
IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.
Mar 1, 2024


Philanthropy in Ancient Judaism and Why it Matters Today
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Studying how ancient sources conceive and legislate wealth, poverty, and charity highlights the extent . . .
Feb 2, 2024


What Do Vivekananda and Theodor Herzl Have in Common?
DEREK PENSLAR | For a professional historian, no life, no matter how absorbing and consequential, is removed from context. . .
Nov 24, 2023


How to Read Like a Human
YONAH LAVERY-YISRAELI | It’s not easy to befriend sages who have been dead for centuries, but only human attachment is strong . . .
Nov 24, 2023


Secrets of Time: The Pursuit of Divine Wisdom and The Dead Sea Scrolls
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | The book’s focus on the pursuit of hidden wisdom and the quest to overcome human limitations . . .
Nov 10, 2023


Kingdom of Darkness: Challenging the Master-Narrative of Modernization
DANIEL WOOLF | The titular “kingdom of darkness” derives from a biblical phrase originally referencing Satan’s dominion and . . .
Nov 10, 2023


The Paradigm Shift: A New Vision of Science and Religion with Peter Harrison
PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .
Nov 10, 2023


Human Freedom, Evil, and Theodicy in a Time of Genocide
BYRON BELITSOS | If we are to face these next few decades with courage, then we need be honest about what deeds we are all capable of ...
Oct 27, 2023


Why Lorca Matters
NOËL VALIS | Memory and death. The solid and the spectral. The murdered Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca . . .
Oct 13, 2023


How Do Humans Make Progress?
DANIEL WOOLF | It’s difficult to dispute that the human species has done, and continues to do, unintelligent things. Not only individually
Sep 15, 2023


Writing the Black Death: Jewish Responses to Italy’s Plague Years
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | With its close readings and reconstructions that are at once imaginative and provocatively tempting, the book
Jun 8, 2023
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