Will President Trump Stand Up to Iran in Syria?
Mixed messages.
August 29, 2017
On the Irrelevance of Biblical Criticism
To read the Bible as a great work, one must assume that it’s something more than a hodgepodge of disparate texts.
Engaging with the recent series in Mosaic on the problems with academic scholarship of the Bible, Jerome Marcus argues that the documentary hypothesis—the regnant claim that the Tanakh was synthesized from a series of earlier texts that can be disentangled through critical reading—should be ignored by anyone who wishes to take the holy book seriously. He writes:
August 29, 2017
Using the U.S.-Saudi Alliance to Keep Radical Islam out of India and Indonesia
Riyadh won’t stop exporting Wahhabism, but it can be pressured to curb its efforts.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Love of Tyrants and Terrorists, and Tolerance for Anti-Semitism, Shouldn’t Get a Pass
The British opposition leader is a threat to his country, his party, and to democracy.
On the Irrelevance of Biblical Criticism
To read the Bible as a great work, one must assume that it’s something more than a hodgepodge of disparate texts.
Ireland’s Unheroic Holocaust History
Closing doors to refugees.