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The Earliest Known Memoir in Ladino Reveals the Struggles of a Nineteenth Century Ottoman Jewish Community

May 22, 2013October 28, 2013
Nina Caputo on Rodrigue and Stein’s A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica The modern memoir typically follows a narrative arc similar to the ... [Read More]

Tributes to Geza Vermes, June 22, 1924-May 8, 2013

May 15, 2013November 14, 2013
Geza Vermes passed away one week ago today. On many occasions during seven years in Oxford from 2005-2012, I witnessed his captivating personality ... [Read More]

Has the Grasp of Science Outstripped its Reach?

May 6, 2013October 28, 2013
Francis J. Caponi on Michael Dodds’s Unlocking Divine Action In Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist NeoDarwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly ... [Read More]

An-sky’s Vast Verbal Museum of Jewish Life in the Pale

May 3, 2013October 28, 2013
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 ... [Read More]

LIVE: Women of the Wall

April 24, 2013July 17, 2013
  Rabbi Jacqueline Koch Ellenson is Director of the Women’s Rabbinic Network, the international support and advocacy organization for women in the Reform ... [Read More]

LIVE: Syria under Assad: A Heritage in Peril

April 24, 2013July 17, 2013
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How did Origen Vindicate God Amidst the Horrors of Evil and Suffering?

April 4, 2013October 28, 2013
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 ... [Read More]

Tessa Rajak talks to Timothy Michael Law about the Reception of Josephus

April 3, 2013May 22, 2014
Now one of the most distinguished (and ebullient) historians of ancient Jewish culture, Tessa Rajak burst onto the scene in the early 1980s ... [Read More]

LIVE: The Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptic Gospels

March 29, 2013July 17, 2013
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Pilgrimage to Reclaim a Matriarchal Christianity, Celebrate the Sacredness of Sexuality and Femininity

March 26, 2013October 28, 2013
Leigh Ann Craig on Anna Fedele’s Looking for Mary Magdalene In the summer of 2004, a group of women who had just visited ... [Read More]

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