Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the author, most recently, of Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Princeton University Press). Also by this author Dual-Covenant Theology vs. Dual-Truth Theory Get Commonweal’s latest, delivered twice weekly. Email address Published in the 2004-11-05 issue: View Contents Most Recent Poem | The Say-but-the-Word Centurion Attempts a Summary By Les Murray April 18, 2025 Failures of Will By Dominic Preziosi April 18, 2025 Trump’s Offshore Gulag By The Editors April 17, 2025