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Cultural Creativity in the Cosmopolitan Caliphate: Philosophy and Theology in 3rd-Century Islam

August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

David Bennett on Racha el Omari A confluence of unusual circumstances allowed for an explosion of original thought in the 9th Century—the 3rd ... [Read More]

Mexico and the 1968 Generation

August 9, 2019

Anne Freeland on Susana Draper On October 2, 1968, Mexican police fired on unarmed student protesters in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas ... [Read More]

Can We Be Spiritual and Not Religious?

July 20, 2019

Caroline Henley on David Zahl David Zahl coined the term “seculosity” to encompass the everyday activities of the 21st century that attempt to replace ... [Read More]

Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism: A Forum

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019

Forum Contents “Introduction: Marginalia Forum on Daniel Boyarin’s Judaism,” Annette Yoshiko Reed and Shaul Magid “Was the Word in the Beginning? On the ... [Read More]

Was the Word in the Beginning? On the Relationship between Language and Concepts

July 5, 2019August 29, 2019

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 ... [Read More]

“Judaism” Here, There, but not Everywhere: Persian and Other Non-Western Perspectives

July 5, 2019August 29, 2019

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” ... [Read More]

Things Jewish: A View from Judeo-Arabic

July 5, 2019August 29, 2019

Jonathan Decter on Boyarin’s Judaism In his current work, Carlo Ginzburg raises questions about “the emergence, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, of ... [Read More]

Is “Judaism” Necessary?: A Response to Boyarin’s Judaism

July 5, 2019August 29, 2019

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 ... [Read More]

The Heartbreak of Modernity

July 5, 2019August 29, 2019

Martin Kavka on Boyarin’s Judaism The argument of Boyarin’s book is right there in the title – Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern ... [Read More]

Hyperphilology and the Anachronism of Anachronism

July 5, 2019August 29, 2019

Elliot R. Wolfson on Boyarin’s Judaism “Gegen die Wissenschaft der Philologie wäre nichts zu sagen: aber die Philologen sind auch die Erzieher. Da ... [Read More]