Re-Examining Hanukkah
John Ma deconstructs the Maccabean History The Seleucid king Antiochus IV persecuted the Jews, prohibited Judaism, and profaned the Temple. Pious Jews revolted
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Essays
Searching for the Meaning of “Russian”
Simon Rabinovitch on national questions, nostalgia, and the Orthodox Church in Putin’s Russia In St. Petersburg the Russian Museum stands next to the
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On the Ritual Fringes
Rabbi Kari Hofmaister Tuling isn’t putting down her tallit. She explains the history, politics, and religious strife behind the recent court decision in
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The Church’s New Abraham
No longer an ark in a flood, the Church under Francis is on a journey. In the wake of Pope Benedict’s resignation, some
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A Pope from the Ends of the Earth – By Thomas Bolin
Francis redraws the Church’s map. It’s about time. Gesture is the language of the Roman hierarchy, and the “grammar” of the Pope’s first
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Is there a political theory in the Hebrew Bible?
Phillip Sherman looks past Athens reading Michael Walzer’s In God’s Shadow. What is the relationship between the God of Israel and the politics
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John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian world
Like Nixon in China, Benedict reshaped the image of the papacy. Two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, almost everything that
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Did the Jews abandon the Greek Bible to the early Christians?
Nicholas de Lange explores the use of the Greek Bible amongst Jews in Late Antiquity with Greek Scripture and the Rabbis. For too
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Mapping the World beyond the Garden: Is the Bible Ever Read in its Context?
Brennan Breed reflects on challenges and prospects in the emerging field of Reception History with Peter Lanfer’s Remembering Eden. ‘But does the text
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The Art of the Review Essay: David H. Aaron
How this hybrid form is a work of scholarship and how to produce it. Scholars frequently regard writing reviews as a ‘service to
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