Interpreting Miracles
Madeline McMahon on Robert A. Orsi & Karin Vélez The defining feature of a miracle is that it does not make sense in its context.
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Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
Wesley Hill on Paul Griffiths Christianity’s central preoccupation is with a tortured body, now radiantly transformed—the human body of Jesus, once crucified and
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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam
David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd
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Mexico and the 1968 Generation
Anne Freeland on Susana Draper On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas
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Can We Be Spiritual and Not Religious?
Caroline Henley on David Zahl David Zahl coined the term “seculosity” to encompass the everyday activities of the 21st century that attempt to replace
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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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“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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Things Jewish: A View from Judeo-Arabic
Jonathan Decter on Boyarin’s Judaism In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, of
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Is “Judaism” Necessary?: A Response to Boyarin’s Judaism
Shaul Magid on Boyarin’s Judaism “One has to square away one’s philology before doing one’s philosophy” – Hermann Cohen There is a joke
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