The Limits of Imperial Political Theology
SUPRIYA GANDHI | The recent global rise in authoritarianism and hyper-nationalism underscores the need for complex, nuanced histories...
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Print Culture, Kabbalah, and Popularizing Jewish Mysticism
AVRAHAM ORIAH KELMAN | Prophetic visions, vast accounts of reincarnations, mythic conceptions of cyclical time, and messianic aspirations—
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The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule
ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...
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The Spirit of '76: A Jewish Perspective on the American Revolution
MICHAEL HOBERMAN | The new nation that early American Jews helped to create wasn’t the fulfillment of a preexisting ideal or a club . . .
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A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .
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Celebrating 7 Years of Our Human-Centered Vision
Summer 2024 | Celebrating 7 years of our human-centered vision.
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Moral Decisions and Desired Outcomes: The Diverse Histories of Consequentialism
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Marilynne Robinson in the World of the Patriarchs
TIMOTHY LARSEN | For the Bible to speak to our world it has to be set in it, acknowledging the reality of the worst evils that befall us...
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Sports in Jewish Culture
IRA GLICK & NEIL EISENBERG | The Jewish problem with athletics literally arose in the locker room.
Feb 2
Greek Mathematics and the Origins of Science: A Conversation with Vittorio Hösle
VITTORIO HÖSLE | Long into the nineteenth century science and natural philosophy were connected, and that one of the great events in . . .
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Philanthropy in Ancient Judaism and Why it Matters Today
SARIT KATTAN GRIBETZ | Studying how ancient sources conceive and legislate wealth, poverty, and charity highlights the extent . . .
Dec 6, 2023
Orthodox Feminism: A Contradiction in Terms?
LEAH ALPERN | Was the work feminist? Was it Orthodox? Was the combination a contradiction in terms?
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