Like all scholars, Samuel Stern was profoundly influenced by his teachers and mentors. This article focuses on four scholars with whom forged especially close relationships: S.D. Goitein (1900–1985), D.H. Baneth (1893–1973), Paul Kraus (1904–1944), Richard Walzer (1900–1975). Through an analysis of their ideas about Islam, Judaism, Islamic Studies, this paper aims to situate Stern’s work in its...

In this essay, I explore how Christians can relate to the Sabbath in a way that adequately expresses Christian traditions about sacred time while showing respect for distinctly Jewish practices. My basic claim is sanctification of presents an entirely new challenge Christianity does not view Judaism as superseded or outdated. Thus, ask: What should be meaning commandment Christians? How sanctif...