October 1994
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What Jesus Said
What Jesus Said Richard B. Hays’ critical analysis of The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic…
Truth and Tolerance
“Tolerance is not a religious virtue,” a feisty rabbi is fond of declaring in public, gleefully scandalizing…
Fidel and the Faithful
The tang of the fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice and the bouquet of moist avocados still linger in my…
The Sinner and the Fool
When we read of a murder in the newspapers or hear of one on television, we often…
Judge Not?
We are a society awash in exculpatory strategies. We’ve devised lots of fascinating ways to let ourselves…
Jungians and Gnostics
Heresies perish not with their authors, but like the river Arethusa, though they lose their currents in…
The Modern Jewish Condition
Autonomy means to live under one’s own law: to discover the norms of a lawful life, a…
Life at the Intellectual Barricades
“But why do you have to be so polemical?” It’s a not unfamiliar complaint (see, for example,…
The Scandal of the Gospels
Even occasional readers of the Gospels notice that Jesus offends or astonishes most of the other characters…
The Formation of Hell
The author of this book did not intend to write it. Originally this material was supposed to…
The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Some years ago, during a spell of back trouble, I spent half an hour being wheeled around…
The Scar of Race
When the movie JFK was released in 1992 amid controversy over its historical accuracy, one commentator, explaining…
