Heidegger and the Holocaust
Re-Thinking Martin Heidegger, the Jews, and Judaism: Shaul Magid on Elliot Wolfson’s The Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow: Heidegger, Nazism, and the Jewish Other Martin
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Reviews
Last Words
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey analyzes the ritual of public execution in early modern Britain On the evening of his execution by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas,
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Tracing the Construction of Arab Identity in Medieval Iraq
Jessica Mutter reviews Peter Webb’s Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam Who is an Arab? Earlier this year a handful
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All Eyes on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian for our Troubled Time
Javier Garcia on Christ, Church, and the World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics One figure who has proven particularly resilient to
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How Toni Morrison Hunts the White Whale
Dan Grossman on Toni Morrison’s The Origin of Others Why aren’t literary critics on the nightly news? America has become a battleground over what
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Gay Rights Comes to Africa?
Rachel C. Schneider on Decolonization, Sexuality, and Africa Over the last decade, countless news stories, focusing on the difficult situation of LGBTQI people
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Like a Bride: The Qur’an and Arabic Prose
Kevin Blankinship Reviews Sarah R. bin Tyeer’s The Qur’an and the Aesthetics of Premodern Arabic Prose and The Qur’an and Adab edited by Nuha Alshaar
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A State of Their Own: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights
Gil Rubin reviews James Loeffler’s Rooted Cosmopolitans In a 1938 speech in Prague, Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the right-wing Zionist
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Trump and the Specter of Christian Withdrawal
Jonathan Tran on James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology. The Trump presidency provides a kind of Rorschach test for
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Islam and Black Emancipation
Robert Dannin reviews Patrick D. Bowen’s The African American Islamic Renaissance, 1920-1975 Twenty-five years ago I undertook similar research, and I felt like
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