October 1994
What Jesus Said
What Jesus Said Richard B. Hays’ critical analysis of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic…
Truth and Tolerance
“Tolerance is not a religious virtue,” a feisty rabbi is fond of declaring in public, gleefully scandalizing…
Fidel and the Faithful
The tang of the fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and the bouquet of moist avocados still linger in my…
The Sinner and the Fool
When we read of a murder in the newspapers or hear of one on television, we often…
Judge Not?
We are a society awash in exculpatory strategies. We’ve devised lots of fascinating ways to let ourselves…
Jungians and Gnostics
Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…
The Modern Jewish Condition
Autonomy means to live under one’s own law: to discover the norms of a lawful life, a…
Life at the Intellectual Barricades
“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…
The Scandal of the Gospels
The Scandal of the Gospels: Jesus, Story, and Offense by david mccracken oxford university press, 216 pages,…
The Formation of Hell
The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds by alan e.…
The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan: A Novel in Seventeen Stories by lionel abrahams academy chicago publishers, 256…
The Scar of Race
The Scar of Race by paul m. sniderman and thomas piazza belknap press, 228 pages, $19.20 When the…