These critical essays apply new perspectives, methodologies and viewpoints to understand ancient writings and events. Chronologically by the antiquity of their sources, Dr. Keenan Baca-Winters examines
the Histories of Agathias, focusing on Agathias’s emotional trauma as he processed these wars, battles, wins and losses. Dr. Jordan Lavender examines the complex linguistic problems involved in reading 
one of the Christian Gospels, noting the historical Jesus “was a multilingual person in a multilingual society.” In "Titus and Other Jesus Missionaries on Crete: Encountering the Legacy of the Goddess,” Dr. Valerie Abrahamsen adds to her pioneering work on Goddess figures within early Christianity by examining Titus as an example of an early missionary of the Jesus movement. Dr. James Magrini studies the cut-and-paste Christian Bible assembled by Thomas Jefferson to arrive at Jefferson’s version of Christian ethics. Jefferson aimed to remove all references to the supernatural, especially miracles. What, then, was the ethical program of a Deist?

CRITICAL ESSAYS:

Keenan Baca-Winters. "Where the Line is Drawn: Trauma and Narrative in the Histories of Agathias."

James M. Magrini. "Reading the Jefferson Bible: Elucidating the Ethics of Jesus of Nazareth."

Jordan Lavender. "The Hebrew Gospel in the Hebrew Script: Fourth Century Interpretation of Ἑβραΐδι Διαλέκτῳ as Alphabet."

Valerie A. Abrahamsen. "Titus and Other Jesus Missionaries on Crete: Encountering the Legacy of the Goddess."

2022 EISENSTEIN ESSAY PRIZE:

Winner: Gianncarlo Muschi. "U.S.-Peruvian Business Relations and Their Effects on the Pioneer Migration of Peruvians to Paterson, New Jersey 1920–1950." First published in The Latin Americanist, Volume 65, Number 2, June 2021, pp. 286-311.

Runner-up: Vanessa Mongey. "Protecting Foreigners: The Refugee Crisis on the Belize–Yucatán Border, 1847–71." First published in Law and History Review, February 2021, Vol. 39, No. 1.
 

OBITUARY:

Joanne Lafler 

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