In this book, Kalimi intends to treat the books of Chronicles like any other biblical book, with its own particular history of transmission, reception, and interpretation as it travels through Jewish culture. The Retelling of Chronicles in Jewish Tradition and Literature: A Historical Journey He tr...
Maine, Van Vliet poured different colors of paper pulp into prepared forms to create three sheets of paper on which to print and then collage into the image that suggests dual images: that of a volcano and that of a woman reclining on her side or ...
He focuses on a "heyday of Egyptology" bookmarked by two epoch-making events: the decipherment of hieroglyphics, thanks to the Rosetta Stone, in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb a century later. Our interview with Toby on Ancient Egypt is one of our most-read interviews on ...
Bea, Bette, Rhoda, and Jackie — five Jewish octogenarians who continue to gather for lunch and Bridge on Mondays as they have for over fifty years. When I set out to learn about the women behind the matching outfits and accessories, I never expected...
Dozens of books on Jewish history, culture, and literature are published each month. Here are some debuting this November. The vile and tragic murder of Jews at prayer in a Pittsburgh synagogue has compelled us at theJewish Review of Books, like so many others, to again ponder therising ti...
Aristotle: Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher is the latest book by John Sellars, a Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, who excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. For those of us not yet brave enough to embark on the...
In the 1980s there appeared two books about the Victorian attitude towards the ancient Greeks, or about how the Victorians felt about incorporated the ancient Greek culture. The two books are Richard Jenkyn, The Victorians and Ancient Greece (Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1980) and Fran...
Below eb compares modern surveying hand signals with the unexplained stilted posturing found everywhere in ancient Egyptian art. Besides being presented on the backs of the tiles, these theories, along with many others, are also included in eb’s hand-assembled “Nobel Prize Application” pamphlet,...
For a b’nai mitzvah present, get a taste of how Judaism and secular culture collide and coexist. buy on amazon.com buy on bookshop.com AGE 14 The Illustrated Pirkei Avot by Jessica Deutsch The gorgeous illustrations will trick you into studying Jewish ethics – and remind you that while yo...
The premise is simple – the book has biographies of 100 brave and interesting Jewish women spanning from ancient biblical times through the modern day. These one page run downs are paired with stunning art. It’s a book that can be given to middle schoolers to learn about the power of ...