The Problem with Identity in Late Antiquity – By Todd Berzon
Todd Berzon on Aaron P. Johnson’s Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity We know Porphyry of
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Reviews
Not Like the Egyptians – By Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin on Beth A. Berkowitz’s Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present Trigger warning: devotees of popular Kabbalah and Judaism may be distressed
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A Radical Reassessment of the French Revolution – By Sinéad Fitzgibbon
Sinéad Fitzgibbon on Jonathan Israel’s Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre If ever there were
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Pig Pickin’ in North Carolina: Southern Secularism and Religion
Michael J. Altman on Chad E. Seales’s The Secular Spectacle: Performing Religion in a Southern Town The pig is a sacrifice in the American South.
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The “Age of Gold,” the Rise of Christianity, and the Fall of Rome – By John Behr
John Behr on Peter Brown’s Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550
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Locating Memory between Story and History – By Mark McEntire
Mark McEntire on Jacob L. Wright’s David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory The field of biblical studies has yet to escape
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Many Admirers, Few Disciples: The Life and Legacy of Rav Kook – By Samuel Thrope
Samuel Thrope on Yehudah Mirsky’s Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution In the fall of 1913, Avraham Yitzhak Kook, then serving as
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Christian Sexual Slander – By Taylor Petrey
Taylor Petrey on Susanna Drake’s Slandering the Jew The history of Christian anti-Judaism has become an important scholarly topic in the last half century, arising
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Aztec Birth Customs and Early Modern European Jews – By Adam Shear
Adam Shear on Yaacov Deutsch’s Judaism in Christian Eyes Christian thinkers have always been interested in Jews and Judaism. Some biblical exegetes in
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Relaxing the Lines between Redaction and Reception – By Andrew Perrin
Andrew Perrin on Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz (eds.) Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible Among the many lessons the Dead Sea Scrolls have
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