Found in Translation – By John Hobbins
John Hobbins on Robert Alter’s translation with commentary of Joshua-2 Kings Robert Alter has been Englishing the Hebrew Bible to wide acclaim for
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Deconstructing Anti-Semitism and Eternal Anti-Judaism
Jonathan Judaken on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism is surely the most important single monograph on the history of representations of
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The Figure of the Jew: Anti-Judaism in the Enlightenment
Jonathan M. Hess on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Reviewing David Nirenberg’s magisterial volume is by necessity an exercise in humility. Few of us
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Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion – By Phillip Sherman
Phillip Sherman on Frans De Waal’s The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Chimpanzees are prone to extreme
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