First Impressions # 95: Eva Mroczek on the Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity
There was no such thing as the Bible when ancient Jewish literature was composed. With a more expansive view of sources, we can
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Judaism
Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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Problems of Poverty and the Recently Impoverished – By John Mandsager
John Mandsager on Gregg Gardner’s The Origins of Organized Charity in Rabbinic Judaism According to Suetonius (Lives of the Twelve Caesars, II.91), once
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The Death of God, Again by Ed Simon
The fullest affirmation of God comes in His denial. A young, attractive blonde woman with a fashionable pixie haircut sits anxiously in the
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First Impressions #78: Benjamin Sommer on Revelation and Authority in Judaism
Can the religious texts and traditions of Judaism be authoritative and sacred while also being human and sometimes fallible? Joseph Ryan Kelly talks
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Scripture in the Age of Non-mechanical Reproduction – By Mira Balberg
Mira Balberg on Robert Gregg’s Shared Stories, Rival Tellings In 1996, when DreamWorks Pictures decided to produce an animated musical about the life
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The Sagacious Scholar and the Censor – By Adam Ferziger
Adam Ferziger on Marc Shapiro’s Changing the Immutable Halfway through this exceedingly erudite and equally disturbing study, Marc Shapiro tells a story that
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Vichy Syndrome Revisited – By Sophie B. Roberts
Sophie B. Roberts on Daniel Lee’s Pétain’s Jewish Children A century after France became the first country in Europe to grant Jews citizenship,
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Being Frum in Medieval Ashkenaz – By Julie Mell
Julie Mell on Elisheva Baumgarten’s Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz Long before second-wave feminism brought egalitarian practices into Judaism, medieval women were taking
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Late Ancient Judaism: Beyond Border Lines – By Mira Balberg
Mira Balberg in the Late Antiquity and the New Humanities Forum ※ Visit the Forum home to see all of the essays. ※ At the
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