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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The Heartbreak of Modernity
Martin Kavka on Boyarin’s Judaism The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern
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Hyperphilology and the Anachronism of Anachronism
Elliot R. Wolfson on Boyarin’s Judaism “Gegen die Wissenschaft der Philologie wäre nichts zu sagen: aber die Philologen sind auch die Erzieher. Da
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Time to Provincialize Christianity: A Response to Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism
Susannah Heschel on Boyarin’s Judaism Daniel Boyarin has been a courageous pioneering scholar to whom we owe major gratitude not only for amazing
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Responsum
Daniel Boyarin responds to the forum I thank all of the participants in this forum who have given my book such significant attention, honoring
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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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Coercion and Justice in Islam
Mairaj Syed’s book provides a highly readable introduction into how a group of Muslim theologians and jurists understood coercion as a theological, ethical
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Tripping to Enlightenment? Science, Religion, and Psychedelics
Audrey Farley on Michael Pollan In 1855, while on an expedition of the interior of Africa, the British missionary and explorer David Livingstone
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After Orientalism: The Muslim Left Today
Thomas Greene reviews With Stones in Our Hands The photograph is iconic: a 14-year-old Palestinian boy stands on a dirt road facing an
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