The Many Tales of Joseph Oppenheimer
Joshua Teplitsky on Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker’s new book on crime, sensation, religious-ethnic difference, power, and perspective could not be more timely. The Many
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Pagan Arabs, Arabian Prophecy, and Monotheism
Aziz Al-Azmeh reviews Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur’an. The book under review assembles articles on the Qur’an, the religious
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How I Became a Jewsuit
Sarit Kattan Gribetz Reflects on Jewish-Christian Difference in the 21st Century In 1962, my grandfather, a Swiss Jew from Zurich, sent a letter
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Antisemitism Is Our Problem
Editor Samuel Loncar Reflects on Christianity’s Antisemitic Legacy Tree of Life Synagogue Daniel Stein Joyce Fienberg Richard Gottfried Rose Mallinger Jerry Rabinowitz brothers,
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The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
Jakub Koguciuk reviews Jonathan J.G. Alexander’s The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before
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God on the Brain: Cognitive Science and Natural Theology
Karolina Prochownik on Helen De Cruz and Johan de Smedt’s A Natural History of Natural Theology Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is a
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First Impressions # 71: Marc Van De Mieroop on the Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia
Long before Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Babylonians developed their own rational system for exploring truth. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Marc Van De
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Capital in the (Seventeenth to) Twentieth Century – By Diane Winston
Diane Winston in the One Nation Under God Forum ※ See the Forum’s homepage here. ※ Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God offers the
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Conversations in Black: Alexander G. Weheliye
Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll talk with Alexander G. Weheliye about the world of Man, racializing assemblages, and the black body. ※ Dr. Alexander G. Weheliye is
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First Impressions #47: Steven K. Green
When did Americans start making the claim that the United States was founded as a Christian nation? Why has this myth been so
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