Spanish abstract: ‘El juego de Ender’ (1977, 1985) es una de esas ficciones en las que la realidad flojea, donde se circula de modo inesperado o sorpresivo entre niveles de realidad y de representación, donde a veces no queda claro si la acción está transcurriendo en un mundo sólido o en uno virtual, y donde a veces creemos estar en uno y est…[Read more]

This article asks the question how post-exilic readers would have read 1-2 Samuel in Yehud. It answers the question by looking at ancient Mediterranean models of textual authority and education.

This essay explores how and why three early Christian figures–Epiphanius, Romanos the Melode, and Ambrosiaster–have, at various times, been imagined as former Jews. By applying a hermeneutics of conversion, this essay argues that the significance of these three Christians’ ex-Jewishness lies not in its historicity (or falsity) but in the way…[Read more]