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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A Response to the Jew and Judean Forum – By Adele Reinhartz
Adele Reinhartz wraps up the Jew and Judean Forum I am grateful for these thoughtful responses to my essay on the ioudaioi, and
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Hiding from the Fourth Gospel’s Tragic Reception History – By Ruth Sheridan
Ruth Sheridan in the Jew and Judean Forum Reinhartz raises the important question of how we ought to translate the Greek word Ioudaios in
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Ancient Jews or Judeans? Different Questions, Different Answers – By Steve Mason
Steve Mason in the Jew and Judean Forum In 2006, when the first volumes of Brill’s Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary had appeared, an
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Concepts and Words – By Malcolm Lowe
Malcolm Lowe in the Jew and Judean Forum The contemporary debate over the use of “Judean” or “Jew” when translating ancient texts has its
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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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