Why Joseph Smith Matters
John G. Turner on Mormonism J oseph Smith may not be a name that matters to you, but he matters a great deal
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Essays
What’s So Jewish about Hellenistic Judaism?
Paul Michael Kurtz on the Complexities of Jewish Identity I f “all men are either Jews or Greeks,” as Heinrich Heine had it,
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Easter and the Parable of the Sower
Sarah Ruden on Easter, the World’s End, and Hope T he shock of mourning in the face of the world going on as
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Humor and Hope: From Purim to Passover
Joel S. Kaminsky on The Significance of Humor in biblical persecution This essay was originally published on April 12, 2019. A number of years
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Marcel Proust, Physics, and Lost Time
Stanley Deser, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Brandeis University In 1941, aged ten, I came to the US with my parents as a
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The Gita According to Marcus Aurelius
Amit Majmudar 1. Among the Quadi, on the river Gran. Both the Meditations and the Gita offer a statement of place. In the
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Snake Mythology: From Ancient Aztec Sculptures to Instagram Fans
Erica Wright At seven months pregnant, I’ve never felt less like Mother Earth. At least not like most of the depictions: a woman
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The Origin of Jewish American Literary Studies
Benjamin Schreier Resentful and tacit hostility persists as an enduring, though not particularly productive, academic affect. But I wonder if expressed antagonism—having principled
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Weimar’s Lost Existence: An Introduction to Heidegger
Samuel J. Loncar on Scholarship Out of Time PDF available here It’s coming, believe me, and soon. Of course it will not ‘improve’
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Does Religion Exist?
Aaron W. Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon In the once well-known (and still cited) appendix to his 1912 book, A Psychological Study of
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