When Christians Became Iranian – By Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith on Richard Payne’s A State of Mixture The story typically told about the Christians of the Sasanian Persian Empire is not
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Reviews
Scripture in the Age of Non-mechanical Reproduction – By Mira Balberg
Mira Balberg on Robert Gregg’s Shared Stories, Rival Tellings In 1996, when DreamWorks Pictures decided to produce an animated musical about the life
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The Sagacious Scholar and the Censor – By Adam Ferziger
Adam Ferziger on Marc Shapiro’s Changing the Immutable Halfway through this exceedingly erudite and equally disturbing study, Marc Shapiro tells a story that
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Vichy Syndrome Revisited – By Sophie B. Roberts
Sophie B. Roberts on Daniel Lee’s Pétain’s Jewish Children A century after France became the first country in Europe to grant Jews citizenship,
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Holy Ghosts – By Christopher Mayo
Christopher Mayo on Rebecca Suter’s Holy Ghosts Francis Xavier kicked off a “Christian century” when he arrived in Japan in 1549. Over the
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Killable Monks and Socialist Sovereignty – By Matthew W. King
Matthew W. King on Christopher Kaplonski’s The Lama Question In December 1911, Khalkha Mongol Buddhist monks and nobility met in secret to declare
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Being Frum in Medieval Ashkenaz – By Julie Mell
Julie Mell on Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz Long before second-wave feminism brought egalitarian practices into Judaism, medieval women were taking
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Charisma and the Place of the Prophet in Our Times – By Girish Daswani
Girish Daswani on Ruy Llera Blanes’ A Prophetic Trajectory In 2013, T.B. Joshua, the controversial Nigerian prophet and founder of the Synagogue Church
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A History of Violence – By Arie Dubnov
Arie Dubnov on Hillel Cohen’s Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict If Israel/Palestine is to be compared to a powder keg, Jerusalem/al-Quds, no
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Why Place Matters – By James Bielo
James Bielo on Mark Mulder’s Shades of White Flight Racial inequality plagues America. This fact is central to our national story and continues
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