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... (in particular, Gustav Weil and Ignác Goldziher) embraced and refined this image of the Muslim prophet as a model for Jewish reform. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 xenophilia Islamophilia Jewish reform movement Gustav Weil Ignác Goldziher Abraham Geiger Heinrich Graetz ...

...Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Robert D. Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 463 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II...

...Glenn S. Holland Horsley Richard , The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel: Moving Beyond a Diversionary Debate . ( Grand Rapids, MI : W. B. Eerdmans , 2012 ), 161 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...) in Toledo, of a boy who had ecstasies and visions in which he traveled to the Hereafter and received revelations. Though considered by his followers and also by the Inquisition a prophet of Muhammad, Agustin and his visions appear to have arisen in a context held in common with the Christian majority...

...Adir H. Petel Common Knowledge 27:1 © 2021 by Duke University Press 104 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Orphaned Land, Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs (Century Media Records, 2018), 64 mins. In the music video Like Orpheus, by the Israeli heavy metal band Orphaned Land, an ultra- Orthodox Jewish man...

... Prophets Facing Backwards...

...Christopher de Bellaigue This essay is a review of The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism (2014), the last book that Patricia Crone wrote before she died, as well as an overview of her career and a tribute to her as a great historian of Islam. In Crone's...

... Métaphysiques cannibales of 2009, was laid in the 1970s by the controversial French anthropologists Pierre and Hélène Clastres. It is argued that the Clastres took the intellectual practices of Guarani shamans and prophets as analogous to the those of ancient Greek philosophers but also as sharply critical...

...—and content to implement them partially—hypocritically. The religious value of such a system is that the truth claims of the law are thus modeled upon—and duplicate—the paradoxical opaqueness of prophetic revelation. Ultimately, this essay argues that this conception of the halakha is inherently tentative...

...Dominic Green; Marsha Keith Schuchard This article comprises a dialogue between two historians who have attempted, individually, to narrate the life of Lord George Gordon (1751 – 93), the Scottish prophet, revolutionary, and convert to Judaism. For modern cultural historians, Gordon's...

...Carlos Fausto; Caco Xavier; Elena Welper Sociocultural transformations brought about by indigenous leaders in Amazonia have been described as prophetic, millenaristic, or messianic and contrasted with modern reformism. This article addresses new ways of describing processes of change negotiated...

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... the three readings that concern us directly at this time. The first one offers us a prophetic portrait of the person of the Messiah — a portrait that receives its full meaning from the moment when Jesus reads the text in the synagogue at Nazareth and says, “Today this Scripture passage...

... assimilated by the Assyrians, adopting their language, Aramaic, and their religion and merg- ing into the people of the conquerors. Common Knowledge 10:3 Copyright 2004 by Duke University Press 518 Thinking of Defeat: Hosea Naturally, the Hebrew prophets had something...

... gods and images: “The people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only.”3 Such assimilation and even cohabitation among worshippers of Yahweh and of the Baals is greeted with anxious reserve by prophets and sages aware of the strength of will required not to veer...

.... At that consequential moment, art of the recent past acquires its status as prophetic sign, allowing us to discern mean- ing in our present situation. Recognizing the prophecy, we mark both beginning and end of the historical period we have been living. Interpreting a more distant past, modern thinkers have...

..., at the point where Tiresias has his vision of the young man carbuncular. Some quatrains later, T. S. Eliot has the prophet saying “may,” and Pound has crossed out the word, then explained: “make up yr. mind—you Tiresias if you know you know damn well or else you...

... on by Isaiah and other Jewish prophets. Hence my task here is like that of David Katz when, in 1992, he responded to a Common Knowledge article of Cardinal Common Knowledge 11:1 Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 48...

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... or puzzling identifications of seemingly strange details. The result of doing so is, however, to gain not only the reward of Hamburger's ingenious conclusions but also a lesson in how to look. For example, in a discussion of Gilbert Universalis's commentary on the Lamentations of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah...