Will the U.S. Abandon Israel at the United Nations?
The White House is threatening to.
March 31, 2015
Explaining the Ten Plagues
Are they a mirror-image of the creation story?
Scholars have interpreted the account of the ten plagues in the book of Exodus with reference to ancient Egyptian ecology, by theorizing that the plagues are structured as a polemic against the Egyptian pantheon, and in various other ways. Ziony Zevit argues instead that the best explanation comes from within the biblical text, and that the ten plagues are meant as a mirror-image of the creation story:
March 31, 2015
Explaining the Ten Plagues
Are they a mirror-image of the creation story?
A Science-Fiction Classic’s Bizarre Obsession with Jews
Why does Dune portray the Jews as a "fossil-people"?
Desmond Tutu, Liberation Theology, and Anti-Semitism
The South African clergyman has become the patron of a Christian BDS organization.
Documenting the Musical Heritage of Moroccan Jewry
What is Judeo-Arab music?