Posts by Marc H. Ellis
Lamentations, Mourning And Doom : A Response To “Competing Trends In Messianic Judaism
A few years ago a group from the local Jewish community met with the president (an evangelical Christian) of my university and demanded that he fire me from my position in Jewish Studies. The charge, repeated in a subsequent meeting with the group, with myself and the provost present, was anti-Semitism. How could I be…
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This month my new book arrives in the bookstore and I am wondering whether its arrival is already too late. The subject matter is Israel and Palestine and carries two subtitles. The first, “Out of the Ashes,” is easily understood with the situation on the ground in the Middle East as it is today. During…
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