Center for Online Judaic Studies

The book of Jubilees belongs to a category of literature that contemporary scholars designate by the pleasantly vague tag “the Rewritten Bible.” The author of the book, like a number of othe...

https://cojs.org/james-c-vanderkam-jubilees-bible-review-86-1992/

True or not, Anita Hill told the story of her alleged sexual harassment by the now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to a nationwide television audience of millions, fascinated by the drama o...

https://cojs.org/carey-a-moore-susanna-bible-review-83-1992/

A mix of folktale and prayer, biblical themes and classical motifs, Tobit depicts a fantastic tale of Diaspora life. Containing an angel in disguise, a murderous demon, a magical fish and a young...

https://cojs.org/amy-jill-levine-tobit-bible-review-84-aug-1992/

In Dominic Green’s review of Palestine 1936 (Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2023), he presents two concepts of the book that are inherently flawed. First, his assertion that Jewish-Arab tens...

https://cojs.org/letter-to-the-editor-of-the-wall-street-journal-in-reference-to-palestine-1936-review_-the-storm-before-the-storm-short-version-george-blumenthal/

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https://cojs.org/the-fertile-crescent-and-egypt/

In August of 1847, the British Museum mounted the first major display of Assyrian antiquities in England. For a year, the public had pored over sketches from Austen Henry Layard’s Mesopotamian ...

https://cojs.org/mad-to-see-the-monuments-steven-w-holloway-bible-review-17-6-dec-2001/

No more cynical veto was ever applied by a major power to a United Nations decision than Great Britain’s refusal to comply with the recommendation of the General Assembly on November 29 that �...

https://cojs.org/conspiracy-against-partition-lillie-schultz-january-31-1948/

“I’m like a Genoese mercenary. I get paid to do a job. I calculate the risks, and while I may get killed, I’ll never get ulcers.” These words are John Phillips’ own summing up of his qu...

https://cojs.org/odd-world-a-photo-reporters-story-john-phillips-1959/

June 1941. The Wehrmacht attacks the Soviet Union, for Hitler the center of the Jewish world conspiracy. From there, he intends to push further towards the Middle East. For this plan, Hitler find...

https://cojs.org/the-association-between-nazism-and-arab-antisemitism/

The Arab defeat in the War of Independence did not bring an end to Arab violence against Israel. Despite numerous overtures of peace from the Israeli government, the Arab world continued to threa...

https://cojs.org/1949-1951-the-young-state/