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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Bondage and Freedom in Luther
David Fink on some recent biographies of the reformer To make the way smoother for the non-specialist—for only them do I serve—I shall
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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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After Revelation and Authority: Reflections from the Author
My reading of the Torah’s account of what happened at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19-20 and 24 forms the generative core of the
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Architecture, Ascetics, and Agency – By Katherine Kasdorf
Katherine Kasdorf on Tamara Sears’s Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings In a village in central India, two medieval buildings stand side by side.
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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Present and Future of the Hebrew Past – By Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller on William M. Schniedewind’s A Social History of Hebrew The philologist sat with his back hunched, staring, now through a looking
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The Ghost of Jabotinsky and the Future of Israel – By Jeffrey Veidlinger
Jeffrey Veidlinger on Hillel Halkin’s Jabotinsky: a Life There is little question that Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist Movement, was one of
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Learning to Read the Victorian Church – By David Frazer Lewis
David Frazer Lewis on Michael Hall’s George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America What do Victorian churches mean?
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Peddler on the Hoof – By Shari Rabin
Shari Rabin on Hasia Diner’s Roads Taken A colleague and I once came up with a party game for the field of American Jewish history.
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