...Michael Fishbein Sidney H. Griffith’s recent book, The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the “People of the Book” in the Language of Islam , discusses how the Bible was translated into Arabic, the language of Islam, but increasingly the vernacular of Jewish and Christian communities in the Middle...

...Christopher Livanos; Mohammad Salama Abstract The medieval tendency to view Islam as a Christian heresy continues to influence Qurʾanic studies in the Western academy due to the academy's origins as a religious institution and the absence of systematic reckoning by contemporary scholars. Ludovico...

..., in Western traditions, is presupposed through a binary schema of power whereby potency is exhausted in actuality. This binary of power corresponds historically to the Christian Trinitarian oikonomia that predates the transcendental foundationalism of sovereign power/law and secular government. Hence, the age...

... and allegory). Building out from the “Dylan controversy” of spring 2011, the analysis probes Dylan’s post-Beat poetic tactics from works like “All along the Watchtower” and “Chimes of Freedom” to socialist-Judeo-Christian works of blasted prophecy from Modern Times and Tempest . “Bob Dylan in China, America...

... the divine (7) not at all 32. At least to this reader, it seems clear that Jullien is arguing against event- based, theological philosophies in these pages of The Silent Transformations. Yet in his books De l Intime and Ressources du christianisme, he also appears to praise the event as a resource...

... of the current, unsettling political conditions of Western society, which Calasso directly puts in relation to the equally secular development of Islamism and Christianity. Book Reviewed: Calasso Roberto , The Unnamable Present , trans. Dixon Richard ( New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

... to imagine a new progressivism in Capitalism and Christianity, American Style . Duke University Press 2009 Do They Believe in Magic? Politics and Postmodern Literature John A. McClure “You should really try and make an adult...

...Lawrence Venuti This article offers a historical examination and ideological critique of Jerome's famous Letter to Pammachius (395 CE), exploring its complex relations to the Roman translation tradition, on the one hand, and to an emerging Christian tradition, on the other hand, with examples taken...

.... First, a meditative Stevens: unagonistic, verbally ruminative, romantic (but called “postromantic”), a repository of human responses, post-Christian yet lyric—a poet whose verse does not make truculent, discordant claims but rather “eke[s] out the mind,” forming “the particulars of sounds.” Secondly...

.... The unexpected intertext of “Fortunata” is a then‐recent bestseller about Nero's persecution of the Christian, Quo Vadis? (1896), by the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, in which Peter and Petronius feature as major characters and as each other's doubles. Reading Mimesis through this lens helps one see...

... : New American Library . Butler Judith . 2012 . Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism . New York : Columbia University Press . Cohen Arthur Allen . 1971 . The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition, and Other Dissenting Essays . New York : Schocken Books...

.... Les enfances Renier reveals the way that Latin Christian ambivalence toward Muslims can be negotiated through a complex management of difference; in turn, the text expands our understanding of Orientalism and its deployment in medieval French literature. Orientalism functions through the ambivalent...

...Jason Stevens Duke University Press 2007 Interventions Should We Forget Reinhold Niebuhr? The theologian and political ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr died in 1971, but ritualistically liberals and members of the Christian Left...

...:1 (2013) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2072927 © 2013 by Duke University Press 224 boundary 2 / Spring 2013 pagan and Christian individuals drawn out of the standard Byzantine cur- riculum and the empire’s history, the hero faces a panel of judges, who will decide whether he truly belongs...

.... In their eyes, even the most advanced forms of secu- larism at hand betrayed too much of a Christian particularism to justify any claim to universalism. In a way, their Jewish particularity served as a critical test case for gauging exactly how nineteenth-century variants of European secularisms would work...

... understandably to appreciate their implicit subtext: first, that this fantasy pop culture religion I like to call faux Catholicism provides the only effective defense against the forces of evil as embodied in the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, and second, that the battle between good and evil is most...

... in Said’s oeuvre, as a figure of secular criticism in exile, a defender of literary worldliness in an era of cultural standardization, and an explicator of Dante who drew Christian ontology into concert with the representation of earthly realism. Drawing on Said’s preface to a new edition of Auerbach’s...

... onward, would correct this convention by specifically arguing that atheism is but an extension of the Christian imagination and thereby carries—perhaps even exemplifies—Christianity’s significations, even if in another language. This tendency has been offered as an indica- tion of and has been...

... or, more ominously, from Islamophobia.”9 In order for secularism to become a target of choice, of course, it had to be delinked from other, equally press- ing political contexts, such as the rise of Christian fundamentalism as a reactionary force in the United States. The screen had to be entirely...

... deriving from Latin but ideologically unintelligible without the Christian doctrine of Incar- nation (and hence of the Roman Church) as well as its secular underpin- ning in the Holy Roman Empire. An additional factor was the development out of Latin of the various demotic languages, from Provençal...