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On AJR

The Society of Biblical Literature panel on Paul continues: "How Faith effects the Incorporation of the Gentile"

Hayes: "...I am inclined to agree that Paul's offer of cosmic rule for gentiles of faith has the ring of a marketing ploy. This is not to say that Paul does not sincerely believe that faith - for both gentile and Jews - bestows Christ's pneuma...It is to say, however, that for Paul, the kingdom of God was at hand but would not be realized until the gentiles recognized the god of Israel."

Articles and News

A new cache of Roman tablets discovered at Vindolanda, England.
Katz Center Director Steve Weitzman's new book on Jewish origins featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Matt Chalmers discuses what it means to talk about medieval "anti-Semitism" and the epistemological risks and rewards of anachronism.
SOAS (London) receives five million pounds to create a dedicated Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.
Completed forum on Cynthia Baker's Jew (Rutgers University Press, 2017) published on Marginalia.
On Hypatia, Synesius, Rebecca Tuvel, and competing definitions of philosophy at Eidolon.
Discussion at Vox of the recent Planet of the Apes movie as biblical epic.
Special exhibition on the menorah on display at the Vatican Museum and the Museo Ebraico.
Collaborative, crowdsourced online database traces movement of Jewish material texts.
Alison Joseph discusses Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale as a reading of Genesis at the Shiloh Project.

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