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...Jack Miles deSilva David A. , The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 ), 343 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... and Judaism. Although not Jewish, Barlach was perceived as insensitive to the exigent demands of National Socialism and its insistence that Germany achieve a culture engrained with the themes of muscular heroism and belligerence. But Barlach’s sculptures—shorn of all filigree...

... ways of understanding the content of the Christian reve- lation is a service to believers and nonbelievers alike. —Glenn Holland Tikva Frymer-Kensky, David Novak, Peter Ochs, David Fox Sandmel, and Michael A. Signer, eds., Christianity in Jewish Terms (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000), 438 pp...

...Shira Wolosky The Jewish Annotated New Testament , ed. Levine Amy-Jill and Brettler Marc Zvi ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 700 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late...

...Avinoam Rosenak For some years now, an opposition has been drawn, not only among Israeli academics but among politicians and journalists as well, between Jewish nationalist or Zionist thought and the kind of thinking that is called “postmodern.” The argument is that a Zionist cannot...

... and hence peaceful. Duke University Press 2009 articles THE HUMILITY of hypocrisy On the Irenic Illiberalism of Jewish Law Alick Isaacs The summer of 2006 — my summer in Lebanon — was not my first taste of mili- tary...

...Michael Fagenblat Hilary Putnam, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 121 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints’ Stories...

...Gábor Németh Duke University Press 2009 not for sale Translated by Tim Wilkinson poetry and fiction FROM JEWISH ARE YOU? Gábor Németh Translated by Tim Wilkinson I went out to Margaret Island with my father’s father...

...Israel J. Yuval 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 COLUMNS THE MYTH OF THE JEWISH EXILE FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL A Demonstration of Irenic Scholarship Israel J. Yuval More than that of any other nation, Jewish identity...

...Joseph Frank Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 438 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History...

...Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy Duke University Press 2002 THE FUTURE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS In Light of the Visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy The celebration of the Jubilee Year...

... Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 432 pp. Soviets used to love watching the foreign news. Obedient to government dictate, the correspondents pointed out capitalist racism...

...Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Gluck Mary , T he Invisible Jewish Budapest: Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècl e ( Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2016 ), 240 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Jack Miles; Jeffrey M. Perl deSilva David A. , The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude: What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012 ), 343 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Sara Lipton Nisse Ruth , Jacob’s Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2017 ), 235 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 8 2 did not radically break...

...Robert E. Lerner Zachary Karabell, Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence (New York: Knopf, 2007), 343 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New...

... as a brilliant reformer who had learned his monotheism from Talmudic scholars and subsequently adapted it to his Arab audience. Geiger’s Muhammad was in essence a Jewish reformer: not strictly a Jew, to be sure, but nonetheless a better Jew than Geiger’s Orthodox Jewish critics. Other Jewish scholars...

...Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Jamey Gambrell; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay is a translated excerpt from the first volume of Solzhenitsyn’s controversial history of Russian-Jewish relations, Dvesti let vmeste: 1795 – 1995 , which was first published in Russian in 2001 and 2002. Solzhenitsyn writes from...

... and regress from mutual understanding of Jewish and Muslim undergraduates in a course on Christianity that he teaches at an Israeli university. He offers, in addition, documentary, anecdotal, and personal evidence of Jewish and Christian Islamophilia, Muslim and Christian philo-Semitism, and Jewish and Muslim...

... as a Jew in 1958. Rufeisen, while permitted to move to Israel to join a Carmelite monastery in Haifa, was denied the right to immediate citizenship of Israel which the Law of Return guarantees to all bona fide Jews. And this particular Soloveitchik has largely been forgotten, given the limits of Jewish...