Through “historical anthropology” Rituals of Childhood traces the development of a rite of passage for Jewish boys, the school initiation ceremony, from its origins in…
“Earlier Christian groups (including, or even especially, the Johannine one) distinguished themselves from non-Christian Jews not theologically, but only in their association of various Jewish…
Not an uncommon story: I was raised Christian, and woke up one day in my teens to discover myself an atheist. Since then, I’ve been…
There’s excitement a-cloven-foot for the Ann Vendermeer and Jeff Vandermeer’s forthcoming Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals. The Manticore? Not kosher. Kosher? The Vegetable Lamb of…
Via Jeffrey’s Twitter account, look out for Anne Rice’s Angel Time, in which an angel offers redemption to a young federally-funded assassin if he travels back in time…
Once you come out of your food coma, and once you’ve read Michael O’Rourke’s review below, you may have to start compiling next semester’s syllabi.…
Arthurian scholars may already know the contents of this fragmentary translation of an Italian work: Uther’s trickery of Igraine (here called Izerna), Lancelot’s lust for…
A young man, disrespectful of institutional religion, is hailed by two women as Jesus. He allows himself to be crucified, wounded in five places. Elsewhere,…
During Steven Kruger’s plenary at SEMA, I got to thinking about the dynamic of supersessionarity in St. Erkenwald. I’m sure K. Biddick has handled this…
In the most recent Nation Corey Robbin (BC-CUNY History Prof) reviews Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative, the collection Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in…
