An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale
Harriet Murav on Nathaniel Deutsch’s The Jewish Dark Continent One hundred years ago Shloyme Zanvil Rapoport, better known by his pen-name An-sky, began
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LIVE: Women of the Wall
Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson is Director of the Women’s Rabbinic Network, the international support and advocacy organization for women in the Reform
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How did Origen Vindicate God Amidst the Horrors of Evil and Suffering?
Peter Martens on Mark S.M. Scott’s Journey Back to God Anyone with a smattering of training in religion or philosophy knows at least
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Tessa Rajak talks to Timothy Michael Law about the Reception of Josephus
Now one of the most distinguished (and ebullient) historians of ancient Jewish culture, Tessa Rajak burst onto the scene in the early 1980s
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Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity
Leigh Ann Craig on Anna Fedele’s Looking for Mary Magdalene In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited
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Can “Neutral” Historical Scholarship Successfully Grasp a Theologian Who Deconstructed his Own Self?
Gorazd Kocijančič on Charles M. Stang’s Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite At the end of the 1980s Jacques Derrida gave a
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Papal Roundup
February 27: Brian Flanagan, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the upcoming conclave: Considering the role of the pope in a post-Christian
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The Church’s New Abraham
No longer an ark in a flood, the Church under Francis is on a journey. In the wake of Pope Benedict’s resignation, some
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