The Talmud and Rabbi Akiva
March 27, 2017
Barry W. Holtz— What does it mean to live in a culture that is rooted in a foundational document, a document from an earlier time written in a language that… READ MORE
Category: Humanities
The Nuances of Irish-English Translation
March 21, 2017
Tim Robinson— More talked about than read, for over threescore years Cré na Cille has been the buried treasure of modern Irish-language literature. Our aim in this translation is modest:… READ MORE
A Time for Russian-U.S. Repentance
March 9, 2017
Johh P. Burgess— Tens of thousands of people gathered in Orthodox churches throughout Russia on Sunday, February 26th. In the church that I attended, the priest spoke of a God… READ MORE
On a Hot Summer’s Day
March 8, 2017
Avner Holtzman— Warsaw, August 1900. Two very young men, Yosef Hayim Brenner and Uri Nissan Gnessin, later to be known as the giants of modern Hebrew literature, were staying in… READ MORE
What the Soviet Story Teaches Us about Sincerity
March 7, 2017
Ellen Rutten— Concerns about sincere expression matter hard today. Social media and e-services are transforming the meaning of trust – in both bad ways (online frauds, hacker interventions) and good (when that… READ MORE
The Gift Economy of the Earliest Christians
March 6, 2017
Thomas R. Blanton IV— The apostle Paul, a Jewish preacher of the “good news” of Jesus of Nazareth, promoted a “spiritual economy” within the small groups of the early Christian movement… READ MORE
On Writing “William the Conqueror”
March 3, 2017
David Bates— Since William the Conqueror was published, I have often been asked how long it took me to write the book. Although the actual answer is fifteen years, I… READ MORE
William Shakespeare: Political Commentator
March 2, 2017
Peter Lake— It is, of course, notoriously difficult to say anything novel, or even arrestingly interesting, about Shakespeare. In fact, I never intended to write a book about Shakespeare at all…. READ MORE
Are Adversarialism and Justice One and the Same?
February 27, 2017
Amalia D. Kessler— For many, if not most Americans, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s is all but synonymous with the iconic litigation that led to the United States… READ MORE
Translating a Sixteenth-Century Sufi Advice Book
February 15, 2017
Adam Sabra— Most of what Western readers know about Islamic political thought pertains to institutions such as the caliphate and sultanate or to the role of Islamic law in the… READ MORE
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