4 Quotes by Jonathan Kirsch

The human imagination abhors a vacuum, after all, and seeks to fill in the blanks in a life or a history.

The faith of ancient Israel, according to some scholars, was not Judaism or even Yahwehism but “Davidism.

Once available, the inquisitorial toolbox could be put to use by any authoritarian regime with the will and the means to unpack and use it.

All the weaponry and tactics that have been deployed in the war on terror are justified by precisely the same theological stance once invoked by the war on heresy.