Mystical Politics

I just discovered another discussion of JANT, by Walter Russell Mead - Faith Matters Sunday: The Jewish Discovery of Jesus . He doesn't,...

Messianic Jewish Musings has just published a review of JANT - Jewish Annotated New Testament . An anti-semitic review of the book at Maur...

Good New York Times article on A Jewish Edition of the New Testament . Some highlights: The book she [A.J. Levine] has just edited with a Br...

I participated in a panel jointly sponsored by the Religious Experience and Esotericism and Mysticism sections of the SBL, giving a response...

I spent the morning going through the book exhibit, and came upon a booth for Jewish Voice for Peace, where I argued with them for a long ti...

Yesterday morning I went to the fabulous first panel sponsored by the Esotericism and Mysticism in Antiquity section of the SBL (we used to ...

I arrived in San Francisco earlier this evening for the AAR/SBL conference. I just noticed that both April DeConick of Forbidden Gospels an...

Noah Schachtman of Wired's Danger Room has called attention to a bunch of strange structures out in the Chinese desert. After the jump,...

Joseph W reports on Rev. Stephen Sizer's debate with Dr. Calvin Smith last night, in particular focusing on Sizer's closeness to the...

I wondered whether there might be student response at Penn State last night to Paterno's firing. Well, there was, and it turned into a r...

Dr. Calvin Smith has a brief report on his debate last night with Rev. Stephen Sizer on his blog - Calvin L. Smith: That TV Debate . He will...

Some random thoughts, in no particular order - The scandal at Penn State is really unbelievable. When I read the story yesterday about ho...

This morning I received an email from my favorite correspondents, US Boat to Gaza, informing the world that boats are now sailing to Gaza. F...

I don't have the time to say much about this right now, but Richard Goldstone (of Goldstone Report fame or infamy) has just written an o...

Inspired by Jared's post on zombie Halloween, I decided to do some investigation about Jews and Halloween. I grew up, like most American...

A great post by Jared of Antiquitopia on Ancient Zombies (his Halloween post): As everyone begins preparations for the most important relig...

I just received an email from Marc Brettler, the editor, that the Jewish Annotated New Testament has just been published. I contributed the...

I was visiting Israel in the summer of 2006 when Gilad Shalit was kidnapped, and I remember the two-week mini-war that his kidnapping caused...

Interesting article on Palestinian Jewish Temple denial and where it comes from, by Yitzhak Reiter in the American Interest. He explains wh...

I just saw on TPM that Steve Jobs has just died. I find myself quite sad, which surprises me, because the death of public figures usually d...