History & Ideas
That’s the contention of a new book by a major historian of ancient Judaism. It deserves serious attention, but it also overstates its case.
Christian Renaissance paintings of the Temple are the visual record of a theology that had devastating consequences in the lives of Jews from antiquity to the Middle Ages and beyond.
Why do Christian depictions of the Jewish Temple look like the Dome of the Rock, the 7th-century Muslim structure built on that site?
The author of our July essay joins us to talk about his ideas.
Latter-day Saints patterned themselves after biblical Israel, and used its traumas to explain their own.
A brief history of an indifferent word.
There are formidable new interpretive resources to make that case.
Two Israelis on a road trip venture to Arlington National Cemetery and encounter there the graves of brothers.
The editor and writer joins us to talk about a figure whose watchwords were the very opposite of America’s present utopian fever.
In English, one “wears” just about everything, from clothes to hats to perfume. In Hebrew, there’s a different verb for each of these items and more.
An engaging and revelatory new biography is a necessary reminder of the Jewish historian’s important place among 20th-century American intellectuals.
Christians are today closer to the Jewish people than they’ve been in thousands of years. What are the sources of this momentous rapprochement, and how likely is it to hold?
The Supreme Court’s ruling this week will help mend America’s frayed culture by strengthening its religious institutions. It couldn’t have come at a better time.
Elaborate comparisons between the stare of the judge and the stare of the kangaroo, begone.
