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Cynthia Baker's "Jew" and the Making of the Christian Gaze
ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED | It is a potent time to rethink identity.
May 5, 2017


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


Violence Preceding the Myth of Jewish Sacrilege
JOSHUA TEPLITSKY | For much of their history, Judaism and Christianity co-existed as rival siblings...
Jun 10, 2014


A Unified Reading of Maimonides’ Guide
DANI RABINOWITZ | Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight years of Spanish Jewry’s golden era, was a medieval polymath who...
Jun 10, 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


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


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 29, 2014


“Arab,” “Jew,” and Identity in Israel
SAMUEL THROPE | In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town...
Apr 15, 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 15, 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...
Apr 1, 2014


Found in Translation
JOHN HOBBINS | Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for quite some time...
Apr 1, 2014


The Hanukkah Dilemma
RACHEL GORDAN | Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season...
Mar 10, 2014
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