Al-Ḥarīrī’s Fifty Tales: The Tongues of God and Man
Bruce Fudge on al-Ḥarīrī translated by Michael Cooperson Impostures is ostensibly the translation of a twelfth-century Arabic text entitled “The Maqāmas.” Nobody knows
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Hebrew Philological Practices from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman, and Ishay Rosen-Zvi The Forum provides a home for substantial original and creative works of scholarship with the goal
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Understanding the Arab World Between Language and Culture
Lawrence Rosen on Tim Mackintosh-Smith A civil war rages outside Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s window, trapping him in his Sana’a, Yemen home. This travel writer, expatriate,
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Language Scattered, Treasures Revealed: Tibet’s First Millennium Manuscripts
A Most Fortuitous Find at Dunhuang, China (1900 C.E.) Among its many accomplishments, the Pugyal empire of Tibet (ca. 7th–9th century C.E.) rivaled
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The Dictionary is Holy – By James Chapin
The book lords over my living room. A shelf sags under its weight of ink and wood-pulp. Inside are pages the size of
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MRBlog | The Emoji Bible and Bourgeois Legitimation
By Thomas J. Whitley Not many things related to the Bible get me excited these days. It’s not that the Bible’s not interesting,
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The Limits of Language – By Michael P. Jensen
Michael P. Jensen on Rowan Williams’s The Edge of Words Talking seems so simple and so habitual, that we forget how fraught with
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MRBLog | What Can We Learn From Mike Huckabee’s Holocaust Analogy?
By Thomas J. Whitley Here we go again. In an interview Saturday with Breitbart, Former Arkansas Governor and 2016 GOP Presidential hopeful Mike
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Jacques Lacan: An Unarchived Life – By Davis Hankins
Davis Hankins on Élisabeth Roudinesco’s Lacan In a recent conversation with my mother, she expressed to me with slight exasperation that pondering the fate
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To Speak Truly About God – By Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams on Kevin Hector’s Theology without Metaphysics When we say that something is true or adequate, what are we claiming? We might
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