Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom
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History
In What Sense Were the Rabbis Roman?
Ishay Rosen-Zvi on Hayim Lapin’s Rabbis as Romans Pinchas Kehati used to say that he toiled doubly over his popular commentary on the
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Plato, Bakhtin, and the Rabbis Meet Again
Eva Kiesele on Jenny Labendz’s Socratic Torah Confusion often precedes the discovery of truth. The process goes something like this. I hold a
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To Whom is the Qur’an Addressed? – By Whitney S. Bodman
Whitney S. Bodman responds to Rachel Friedman I appreciate the effort involved in Rachel Friedman’s review of my new book, but I would
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Synagogue Architecture in Four Nineteenth-century European Capitals
Vladimir Levin on Saskia Coenen Snyder’s Building a Public Judaism Building a Public Judaism offers a fascinating journey to Jewish communities in four
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Jewish Sin City: Al Capone’s Chicago Meets Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Jarrod Tanny’s City of Rogues and Schnorrers Odessa is one of those cities that somehow never fails to stimulate the
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Rescuing the Memory of a Dynamic and Visionary Figure
Kalman Weiser on Jess Olson’s Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity It is one of the ironies of history that the man who coined
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Can a Reader use Western Literary Theory to Approach the Qur’an?
Rachel Friedman on Whitney Bodman’s The Poetics of Iblis Since the time of its appearance in seventh-century Arabia, the Qur’an has been the
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A Sustained Protestant Onslaught Against Indian Religion
Brian Stanley on Robert A. Yelle’s The Language of Disenchantment Is the world becoming more secular? Debate on this persisting question shows no sign of
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How Ancient Jewish Letter-writing Shaped the New Testament – By M. Eugene Boring
M. Eugene Boring on Lutz Doering’s Ancient Jewish Letters and the Beginnings of Christian Epistolography Even readers conversant with the Bible are sometimes
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