The Jewish Evangelion: A Resistance Polemic on the Margins
Shlomo Zuckier on reading from the margins Central to Christian theology is the concept of the “evangelion” (εὐαγγέλιον), literally the good news, used
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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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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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“Beneficent Incision”: Midrash and the Contemporary Critical Moment – By Adam Zachary Newton
Adam Zachary Newton on Dina Stein’s Textual Mirrors: Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self In a deeply learned set of essays collected under the title
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