How the Syrian Government Helped Create Islamic State
And kept it afloat by buying its oil.
July 23, 2021
How the Bible Gave the World the Idea of Human Equality
Why the Torah appropriates images from pagan Egypt in describing God’s revelation.
In the description of the revelation at Sinai in Deuteronomy 5:4, read this Sabbath in synagogues, Moses tells the Israelites, “Face to face God spoke with you at the mount, from amid the fire.” Joshua Berman observes a precedent for this phrase in ancient Egyptian iconography:
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Calling Israel an “Apartheid State” Has Its Roots in Soviet-Style Disinformation Techniques
And Jewish groups have been duped.
How the Bible Gave the World the Idea of Human Equality
Why the Torah appropriates images from pagan Egypt in describing God’s revelation.
Saul Bellow, Cancel Culture, and the Dangers of Setting Limits on Imaginative Freedom
It’s a cop-out to explain away a novel’s improprieties on the grounds that they are of another age.
The 7th-Century Massacre of Arabian Jews, and Its Legacy
“Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews.”