Anti-Judaism and Luther’s Jewish Question
Debra Kaplan on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition In his 1523 treatise, That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew, Martin Luther provocatively wrote that had
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History
Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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Judaism-Hatred vs. Jew-Hatred
Moshe Rosman on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition [This review is the first of seven pieces in our forum, “His Blood Be Upon Us.”
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Anti-Semitism and the Evolving Catholic Conscience
Martin Menke on John Connelly’s From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews New histories of the Shoah provoke
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No Escaping the Cliché: The Legacy of Allan Sherman – By Stephen J. Whitfield
Stephen J. Whitfield on Mark Cohen’s Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman In the early 1960s Allan Sherman turned a
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Metaphor Theory and Societal Change: Exile in the Hebrew Bible – By Katie Heffelfinger
Katie Heffelfinger on Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor Enduring Exile: The Metaphorization of Exile in the Hebrew Bible Metaphors are powerful shapers of cultural concepts. Last January’s
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Capturing the Paradox of Distaste and Desire – By Nick Ripatrazone
Nick Ripatrazone on Unruly Catholic Women Writers: Creative Responses to Catholicism The editors of Unruly Catholic Women Writers identify Flannery O’Connor as their
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McMansions, Megachurches, and Meaning
Deborah Justice on Justin Wilford’s Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism The town square — complete with churches, shops, and public buildings
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The Canon(s) of the Jewish Scriptures
Edmon L. Gallagher on Timothy H. Lim’s The Formation of the Jewish Canon We don’t know where the Bible came from. It took shape over
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An Irish-American Zionist in the Age of Anti-Zionism – By James Loeffler
James Loeffler on Gil Troy’s Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight Against Zionism as Racism Only one of the thousands of UN resolutions issued by the
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