A Conversation with Sayed Kashua
Margaret Litvin and Simon Rabinovitch with Sayed Kashua In Emile Habibi’s satirical novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist (1974), the Arab
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Religion
Jacques Lacan: An Unarchived Life – By Davis Hankins
Davis Hankins on Élisabeth Roudinesco’s Lacan In a recent conversation with my mother, she expressed to me with slight exasperation that pondering the fate
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The Spilling of Women’s Blood – By Gabino Iglesias
Gabino Iglesias on Laura Ellen Joyce’s The Luminol Reels Luminol is a chemical commonly used to give lightsticks their characteristic glow. The compound also
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How Not to Criticize the (Evolutionary) Cognitive Science of Religion – By Jonathan Jong
Jonathan Jong on Fraser Watts and Léon Turner (eds.), Evolution, Religion, & Cognitive Science: Critical & Constructive Essays That human beings are incorrigibly religious is
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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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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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Incarnational Poetics and the New Theological Literary Studies – By Ryan McDermott
Ryan McDermott on Cristina Maria Cervone’s Poetics of the Incarnation: Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love I often have to explain to friends who
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The Paradox of wu-wei – By Andrew B. Irvine
Andrew B. Irvine on Edward Slingerland’s Trying not to Try Almost all the arts of life are enhanced when performed with unselfconscious spontaneity
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Many Roads Lead from Arimathea – By Ian Boxall
Ian Boxall on William John Lyons’ Joseph of Arimathea Whatever happened to Joseph of Arimathea? Appearing fleetingly in the gospel narratives of Jesus’s burial, he
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