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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Reviews
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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Looking to the Medieval to Understand Modern Art
Nancy Thebaut on Alexander Nagel’s Medieval Modern What could Cimabue’s 1280 panel painting, Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels, and Louis Blériot’s airplane
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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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Did the Ancient Greeks Worship Stones as Gods?
Fernande Hölscher on Milette Gaifman’s Aniconism in Greek Antiquity Aniconism was a concept created in nineteenth century Germany to describe an important phenomenon
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A Key Figure’s Most Important Investigations on the Septuagint
Gilles Dorival on Jan Joosten’s Collected Studies on the Septuagint Dans ce livre, Jan Joosten a réuni dix-sept articles portant sur la Septante
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