Большинство христианских экзегетов I-V вв. в своих интерпретациях Книги пророка Ионы обращаются к теме противостояния Ниневии и Израиля, трактуя его таким образом, что ниневитяне являются прообразом язычников, поверивших Христа, то время как иудеи Его отвергли. В статье рассматривается вопрос, соотносят ли экзегеты это духовное противостояние с реальным, военным противостоянием ниневитян евреев...

The southern African Lemba have long maintained that they are a Jewish people directly descended from Jewish Babylonian exiles via Yemen. Cultural (linguistic) and Y-chromosome genetic analysis of their male lineages confirms a link to other Semitic-speaking peoples. The Lemba have also clearly have been influenced by neighboring Bantu-speaking peoples but at their core, their historical Jewish...

A few years ago, William Logan wrote, “Poetry has long been a major art with minor audience.”1 We could more accurately call it many audiences grouped, like the poets, around region, identity, ideology, and artistic affiliations—a fragmentation that makes generalizations difficult. It is not easy to place in larger context three books I am reviewing here—Tyler Chadwick's Litany Wings, Scott Hal...

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, easy tool,Deferential, glad be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full high sentence, but bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—Almost, at Fool.—T. S. Eliot, from “The Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock”I accepted new calling, course...