Iran Is Back on Israel’s Doorstep
What Monday’s shelling in the Golan portends.
February 15, 2019
How the Specter of an Ancient Heresy Has Shaped Christian Attitudes toward Jews
The Marcionite legacy.
When Marcion of Sinope (85-160 CE) argued that the Christian Bible should include his own modified version of the New Testament but nothing of the Old, and, furthermore, that the God of the Hebrew Bible was not the God worshipped by Christianity’s founders, he was excommunicated by the early church. Yet, argues Brad East, his ideas have continually resurfaced in Christian thought, especially among those who embrace an extreme version of supersessionism—the idea that God has rejected the Jews as his chosen people, and replaced them entirely with the Christian church:
February 15, 2019
What Middle Easterners Really Think about the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Do populations agree with their leaders?
German Anti-Americanism, the Holocaust, and the Jews
Filling the vacuum left when anti-Semitism went out of fashion.
How the Specter of an Ancient Heresy Has Shaped Christian Attitudes toward Jews
The Marcionite legacy.
How the Pomegranate Became a Jewish Fruit
Significant in the Bible and in Jewish iconography.