An edition of the Christian Bible edited entirely by Jews
I confess that I am among those Jews about whom Professors Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler write in the introduction to their recently published The Jewish Annotated New Testament who tend to...
View ArticleHappy Chanukah!
Not much time for posting these days. Too much teaching and grading and dealing with the situation at school which only seems to be getting worse. Right now, it appears as if the administration has...
View ArticleI Have Decided I Will Be Changing Blog Themes
For a variety of reasons that I will probably write about over the next couple of months, I have decided I want to change the nature of my online presence, beginning with the look and focus of this...
View ArticleFrom “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” by Joseph Campbell
So I have been reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces to prep for my myth and folklore class, and I really like this quote, not so much because I agree with everything it says or implies–that is...
View ArticleBecause Reading is Fundamental
I miss reading. I really do. In a big, big way. And it has, especially over the past couple of days, been making me very, very sad. It started after I read Joshua Bodwell’s article in the most recent...
View ArticleResponding to a question someone asked on Alas about my “Reading is...
RonF, in my recent post on reading, Because Reading is Fundamental, which I cross-posted over at Alas, asked if I could give an example of the kind of reading I was talking about when I wrote but it...
View ArticleA Pretty Good Working Definition of Religious Fundamentalism
I found this in Barbara C. Sproul’s introduction to Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World. It has been a long time since I have thought of myself as a religious person or had much to do with...
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Because antisemitism means never having to say you’re sorry
From Jewcy: Now, to be fair, this ad seems to be part of a theme. Go to Wodka Vodka’s website, scroll through the gallery just under the navigation bar and you’ll find–or at least I did just now when I...
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