Reading Deuteronomy Theologically . . . and Critically – By Mark Leuchter
Mark Leuchter on Jerry Hwang’s The Rhetoric of Remembrance: An Investigation of the “Fathers” in Deuteronomy For those who regard the Bible as sacred
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History
Prayers amidst Parodies and Empty Praisesongs – By Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson on Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson, Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry I never lost as much but twice,
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Mary Flannery, Green and Golden – By Bryan Giemza
Bryan Giemza on Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal If A Prayer Journal were our only window into Flannery O’Connor’s thoughts in her early twenties, what
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Praying Ants and Prostrating Beasts – By George Archer
George Archer on Sarra Tlili’s Animals in the Qur’an The classical period of Islamic scholarship produced a fruitful and developed body of commentary on the
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Move Over, Mendelssohn – By Daniel B. Schwartz
Daniel B. Schwartz on Eliyahu Stern’s The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism Biography has long figured prominently in scholarly and
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Extra Islam salus est? – By Marco Demichelis
Marco Demichelis on Mohammad Hassan Khalil’s Islam and the Fate of Others and Between Heaven and Hell While outsiders often view Islam as an exclusivist
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How We Choose to Write History
David Nirenberg responds to the Forum on Anti-Judaism We know that “books, too, have their fates,” but all too seldom is that fate
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Deconstructing Anti-Semitism and Eternal Anti-Judaism
Jonathan Judaken on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of
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The Figure of the Jew: Anti-Judaism in the Enlightenment
Jonathan M. Hess on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility. Few of us
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Like a Jew: Anti-Judaism in Early Islam and Medieval Iberia
Jonathan P. Decter on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Prior to Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, David Nirenberg was best known for his impressive study
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