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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The Many True Meanings of Christmas
Timothy Larsen on Christmas While the season of Christmas often brings out the best in people, somehow the subject of Christmas does not.
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The Trials and Tribulations of A New Jewish Canon
Claire E. Sufrin and Yehuda Kurtzer on our relation to the past For five years, we have been working on a book project
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Terrence McNally: Life and Love Onstage
John M. Clum on Raymond-Jean Frontain’s The Theater of Terrence McNally Playwright Terrence McNally, who died on March 24, was one of the
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The Inevitable Lies of Unorthodox
Shaul Magid on Netflix’s Unorthodox A Rosh Yeshiva (Yeshiva Dean) in Jerusalem once said to me, “One of the biggest problems with the yeshiva
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Irony in the Age of Trump
Samuel Loncar on Irony as a Lost Virtue in Need of Recovery Irony traces the curve of human existence striving to be a
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But Is Torah True?
Rabbi Katz on Orthodoxy after Scholarship Maimonides claims that “we have to believe that the whole Torah was given to us by Moses,
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History Is Not Enough: The Bible After Modernity
Amy Peeler on reading the Bible today Biblical Studies is changing. This is not news; the discipline has been undergoing methodological shifts
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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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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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