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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Ioudaios before and after “Religion” – By Annette Yoshiko Reed
Annette Yoshiko Reed in the Jew and Judean Forum When did the Greek term ioudaios come to mean “Jew”? The debate surrounding this question
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The Vanishing Jews of Antiquity – By Adele Reinhartz
How should one translate the Greek term ioudaios? As a young girl in 1950s and 60s Toronto, I attended the Workmen’s Circle Peretz School
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