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The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John
WENDY E.S. NORTH | We search the Gospel of John in vain for the systematic presentation of ethical teaching that we find in the “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew...
Sep 24, 2013
Sex in Public Among Religious Zionists
YOEL FINKELMAN | There is no way to understand the fraught relationship between religion, Zionism, and Israeli culture without understanding how Religious Zionists talk and teach about sex and bodies...
Sep 19, 2013
Domus Magna: The Enduring Power of the Psalms
DAVID W. STOWE | Psalm 137 is one of the more ubiquitous psalms in contemporary popular culture, but few who stumble upon its phrases would recognize it as a Hebrew psalm...
Sep 8, 2013
In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?
ISHAY ROSEN-ZVI | Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the Mishnah, the cornerstone of classical rabbinic literature...
Aug 15, 2013
Plato, Bakhtin, and the Rabbis Meet Again
EVA KIESELE | Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth...
Aug 15, 2013
Synagogue Architecture in Four Nineteenth-century European Capitals
VLADIMIR LEVIN | Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four European capital cities in the second half of the nineteenth century...
Aug 15, 2013
Jewish Sin City: Al Capone’s Chicago Meets Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans
JEFFREY VEIDLINGER | Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the imagination...
Aug 7, 2013
Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
KALMAN WEISER | It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined the term “Zionism” is scarcely and, for the most part, uncharitably remembered in the historiography of the Zionist movement...
Jul 17, 2013
Re-Examining Hanukkah
JOHN MA | The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple...
Jul 9, 2013
How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament
M. EUGENE BORING | Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes a bit disconcerted to be reminded that the New Testament is primarily a collection of letters...
Jun 12, 2013
The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community
NINA CAPUTO | The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the one Augustine applied in his Confessions, tracing the protagonist’s struggles to overcome internal weakness or external challenges that impede their effort to live a good and moral life...
May 22, 2013
An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale
HARRIET MURAV | One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began his ethnographic expeditions into the Russian Pale of Settlement, the western and southern area of Russia in which most of the world’s Jews lived...
May 3, 2013
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