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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...

JONATHAN P. DECTER | Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages...

DEBRA KAPLAN | In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had he been a Jew, he too would have refrained from converting to Catholicism...

MOSHE ROSMAN | Deuteronomy 25:19 is one of the more memorable — and malleable — commands the Torah proclaims...

PAULA FREDRIKSEN | There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely familiar sense of horror would pulse through me...