A Unified Reading of Maimonides’ Guide – By Dani Rabinowitz
Dani Rabinowitz on Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight
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Jewish History
Violence Preceding the Myth of Jewish Sacrilege
Joshua Teplitsky on Mitchell Merback’s Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria For much
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The Essenes and the Qumran Settlement – By Jodi Magness
Jodi Magness on Joan E. Taylor’s The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea Qumran was occupied from around 100 BCE to 68
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The Lewd, the Obscene, the Lascivious in Jewish Literature – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Josh Lambert’s Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture Have Jewish writers shown a proclivity for transgressions of good taste, for
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Jesus vs. Judaism … Again – By Eva Mroczek
Eva Mroczek on David A. deSilva’s The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha In 1973,
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“Arab,” “Jew,” and Identity in Israel – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Shadow in Baghdad Shadow in Baghdad – Trailer from Zygote Films on Vimeo. In 1946, Baghdad was a Jewish town.
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A Tragedy of the Most Ironic Sort – By Todd Hasak-Lowy
Todd Hasak-Lowy on Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Every publishing season brings a new batch of titles dealing with
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Found in Translation – By John Hobbins
John Hobbins on Robert Alter’s translation with commentary of Joshua-2 Kings Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for
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The Hanukkah Dilemma – By Rachel Gordan
Rachel Gordan on Dianne Ashton’s Hanukkah in America: A History Dianne Ashton’s new history of Hanukkah in America had particular poignance this holiday season. Standing
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The Birth of Academic Biblical Studies – By Angela Roskop Erisman
Angela Roskop Erisman on Magne Sæbø, ed. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of its Interpretation, Volume III/1: The Nineteenth Century — a Century of Modernism
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