Feasting Eyes and Scopic Torah – By Eva Kiesele
Eva Kiesele on Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture Rachel Neis’s The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing
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Reviews
Writing History on the Medieval Blood Libel – By Susan Einbinder
Susan Einbinder on Hannah R. Johnson’s Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History In spite of its title, the subject
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Letter to the Editors: The Rowan Williams Review – By Kevin Hector
Kevin Hector responds to Rowan Williams’s review I am humbled that Rowan Williams has even heard of my book, much less read it, and
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A Unified Reading of Maimonides’ Guide – By Dani Rabinowitz
Dani Rabinowitz on Josef Stern’s The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide Moses Maimonides (1135 – 1204), born in Córdoba during the twilight
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Violence Preceding the Myth of Jewish Sacrilege
Joshua Teplitsky on Mitchell Merback’s Pilgrimage and Pogrom: Violence, Memory, and Visual Culture at the Host-Miracle Shrines of Germany and Austria For much
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The Arabic Bible before Islam – By Clare Wilde
Clare Wilde on Sidney H. Griffith’s The Bible in Arabic Non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians, have spoken Arabic since before the revelation of
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The Qur’an according to Itself – By Gabriel Reynolds
Gabriel Reynolds on Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même Early Muslims took to naming their scripture the Qurʾan because of the passages therein
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Traveling to Acquire Knowledge – By Daniel Majchrowicz
Daniel Majchrowicz on Houari Touati’s Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages Travel was always desirable to them And they visited every continent
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To Speak Truly About God – By Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams on Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming? We might
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Ecumenical Protestantism’s Battle for Hearts and Knees – By James Hudnut-Beumler
James Hudnut-Beumler on David A. Hollinger’s After Cloven Tongues of Fire As late as 1960, more than half of all adult Americans belonged
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