To the Anti-Semite, Jews Aren’t Just One Problem among Many, but the Source of All Problems
Blood libels, old and new.
October 6, 2022
What Today’s Academic Scholars Can Learn from Their Precursors
Talmudic medicine and bad research.
Reviewing a recent scholarly monograph on talmudic medicine, Shai Secunda finds it “philologically sloppy, theoretically obtuse, and astonishingly lazy,” while at the same time demonstrating “the chutzpah to dismiss earlier scholars for not having been trained in the fields of knowledge that [the author] never actually puts to work.” Some of those earlier scholars in fact still have quite a lot to offer, and even if their works need updating, they have been spared “the toxic positivity” that, according to Secunda, produces so much mediocre scholarship today:
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American Diplomats Know the Truth about the Palestinian Authority, but Won’t Act on It
Mahmoud Abbas’s rhetoric about a two-state solution is only lip service.
The Two Presidents Who Examined Their Evil Deeds and Turned Away from Them
U.S. Grant, Chester Arthur, and Yom Kippur.
The Musical and Religious Poetry of Israel of Najara
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What Today’s Academic Scholars Can Learn from Their Precursors
Talmudic medicine and bad research.