Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism: A Forum
Forum Contents “Introduction: Marginalia Forum on Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism,” Annette Yoshiko Reed and Shaul Magid “Was the Word in the Beginning? On the
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Introduction: Marginalia Forum on Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism
Annette Yoshiko Reed & Shaul Magid on Boyarin’s Judaism At first sight, “Judaism” might seem like a word that hardly needs explaining. It
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Was the Word in the Beginning? On the Relationship between Language and Concepts
Adele Reinhartz on Boyarin’s Judaism As part of the Key Words in Jewish Studies series by Rutgers University Press, Daniel Boyarin’s book, Judaism: The
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“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives
Simcha Gross on Boyarin’s Judaism The key insight of Daniel Boyarin’s provocative new book is that to better understand the “different ways that”
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Is All Forgiven? Democracy and Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda
J.J. Carney on Timothy Longman In 2018, my family enjoyed a lovely Christmas in Rwanda. Although I had conducted research in Rwanda on
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Theology after the Death of God
Paul R. Hinlicky on Robert W. Jenson I. The theology of Robert W. Jenson signals epochal change. An American Lutheran who studied under
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Songs of a Sufi Martyr: Poetry and Hersey in Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
Nathaniel A. Miller on Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj Al-Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj is as well-known for his unorthodox statements and execution as he is for his poetry.
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The Many Tales of Joseph Oppenheimer
Joshua Teplitsky on Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker’s new book on crime, sensation, religious-ethnic difference, power, and perspective could not be more timely. The Many
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Religion and National Loyalty
Larry W. Hurtado on the origins of religious pluralism In its first two centuries, early Christianity effectively laid the basis for religious pluralism.
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Rhina Espaillat and the Lyre of Orpheus
Alfred Nicol Reviews Rhina P. Espaillat The power of even the best poets begins to flag as they reach their eighth and ninth
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