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The show's depictions of courtly pleasures delight: gods and maharajahs gambol with busty dancing girls, rendered in golds, greens and russets by delicate, squirrel-tail brushes. But the standouts are the paintings of otherworldly subjects, works unlike any others produced in India at the time. Three Aspects of the...
No one who hasn't witnessed an Indian summer can imagine the unyielding heat that sucks the earth bone-dry and churns up the fearsome dry wind - the loo - that wilts everything in its path. By mid- to end-June, the monsoon usually covers most of India, bringing down the...
But when a book editor suggested Bernstein write a memoir, he countered with an ambitious proposal for an intellectual history. The result was Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, an improbably charming tale of index funds, mathematical options-pricing models and new theories of corporate finance. It...
Josiah was probably a monolatrist, not a monotheist. But within a few decades of his death, true monotheism would finally emerge. In 586 B.C.E., Israelite élites were exiled to Babylon after conquest by the neo-Babylonian Empire. In passages from Isaiah that are thought to have been written during...
It would seem so. The author of these monotheistic passages (known by scholars as second Isaiah, to distinguish him from the author of earlier chapters in Isaiah) sees an Israel long tormented by "oppressors" who are due for a comeuppance. The punishment that Isaiah envisions for these enemies seems to...