Forbidden Hunger: The Rabbis’ Path to Wellness
Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli My Auntie lied about literature, extensively and very well. Sometimes she would take it into her head to gather the kids
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Do Bible Scholars Need Theology?
Jon D. Levenson on Sommer’s Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Before beginning my critique of Benjamin Sommer’s new book,
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Jewish Girls in Medieval Egypt
Amit Gvaryahu Reviews Eve Krakowski’s Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt Eve Krakowski’s masterful new book shows how minority community concerns are not
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Descending the Mountain: Questions after Sinai
Paul Mendes-Flohr reviews Revelation and Authority by Benjamin Sommer It is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury once approached the Chief Rabbi of
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Can We Separate Scripture and Tradition?
John C. Cavadini responds to Benjamin Sommer’s Revelation and Authority In his thoughtful, creative, and learned book, Revelation and Authority, Benjamin Sommers reflects
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Reading the Bible with Authority
Bruce Gordon on the problem of who says? Perhaps the most well-known aspect of the Reformation was how it made the Bible available in
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The Protestant Reformation as a Metaphysical Revolution
Samuel Loncar on the intellectual revolution of the modern age Read as a PDF The Protestant Reformation, like any historical event, is a
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Out of This World: Virtual Reality and Philosophical Talmud – By Zachary Braiterman
Zachary Braiterman on Sergey Dolgopolski’s The Open Past As a “religious” document, the Babylonian Talmud is as strange as it gets. A web
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Here, There, and Everywhere – By Amit Gvaryahu
Amit Gvaryahu on on Richard Kalmin’s Migrating Tales When ISIS recently took over the historic city of Palmyra on the Silk Road, they
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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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