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SARAH IFFT DECKER | The thirteenth century was a tumultuous time for the Jews of France...

ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | It is a potent time to rethink identity.

SUSAN EINBINDER | The subject of Hannah Johnson’s recent monograph is not really the blood libel ...

GILLES DORIVAL | Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante (LXX)...

RACHEL GORDAN | Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season...

JUHA PAKKALA | One cannot understand the history and religion of ancient Israel and early Judaism if one does not grapple with the composition history of the Hebrew Bible...

DAVIS HANKINS | An irony pervades the practice of writing the critical biblical commentary...

MARK LEUCHTER | For those who regard the Bible as sacred Scripture, the book of Deuteronomy delineates important dimensions of the divine-human relationship...

DANIEL B. SCHWARTZ | Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and popular thinking about the origins of Jewish modernity...

DAVID NIRENBERG | We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate as fortunate as this...

JONATHAN JUDAKEN | David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of Jews and Judaism to appear in the last generation...

JONATHAN M. HESS | Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility...