Notes
1 See, e.g., Jack Miles, Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story (New York: W.W. Norton, 2019), 28–35.
2 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Routledge Classics (London: Routledge, 2001), 6:52.
3 Merchant of Venice 4:1.
4 Malcolm Bull, On Mercy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 6.
5 Annie Dillard, “An Expedition to the Pole,” in Teaching a Stone to Talk (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), 36.
6 Dillard, 37.
7 “King James Version, Newly Revised Standard Version, and Joel Hoffman,” in Who By Fire, Who By Water, ed. Lawrence A. Hoffman (Woodstock: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013), 36, 37, n. 7.
8 See, e.g. Kevin Sullivan and Michelle Boorstein, “King Charles III May Bring New Approach to ‘Defender of the Faith,’” Washington Post, September 13, 2022.
9 Caroline Davies, “King tells Faith Leaders he Has Personal ‘Duty to Protect Diversity of Our Country,’” The Guardian [U.S. Edition], September 16, 2022.
10 Jacob Kornbluh, “Jacob DeSantis Campaign Ad Features Christian Nationalist Pastor with Antisemitic Views,” The Forward, September 18, 2022.
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Lawrence A. Hoffman
Lawrence A. Hoffman is professor emeritus of liturgy, worship, and ritual at Hebrew Union College, in New York. He is the author or editor of fifty books and past-president and Berakah Award recipient of the North American Academy of Liturgy to which he has belonged since 1975.