Judaism

"This is abstracting the relationships that are built through prayer. It’s abstracting just the petitionary from all these other kinds of Christian prayers, which just makes it a less rich experience as part of a community and a less rich prayer life,"...

HDS Professor Jon Levenson discusses finding God in the Book of Esther ahead of the upcoming Purim holiday.

Whether a new book makes a convincing case for “two Gods in heaven” in ancient Judaism is a complicated question, writes Professor Jon Levenson.

"Seeking a basis for reconciliation between Jews and Christians has been a much-pursued enterprise over the past few centuries. For the most part, the quest has been founded upon a mutual willingness to dilute religious conviction or bracket it altogether...

Houseplants stand in for Lenten palms and seder cuisine gets creative as Harvard’s faith communities mark Easter and Passover from a distance.

Professor Jon Levenson examines—and critiques—an Orthodox rabbi who was fascinated with Jesus and wrote commentaries on the gospels.

In November 2018, the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature sponsored a session “Krister among the Jews and Gentiles,” to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Krister Stendahl, who taught at HDS from 1954-1989, with a hiatus to...

On the latest episode of the OnScript podcast, Professor Jon Levenson talks about his book, Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel, which explores the origins of the Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the dead.

Professor Jon Levenson on how Jewish obsolescence as described by the early Christian church echoes in contemporary anti-Zionism.

In the deadliest incident of anti-Semitic violence in U.S. history, 46 year-old Robert Bowers allegedly shot dead 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh during morning Shabbat services on Saturday, October 27. During a gunfight with...