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Discusses the Logos theology in Christianity which symbolizes the separation of Judaism and Christianity. Logos of the Jews; Obstacles to seeing the connection between the Memra and Logos; Logos of the prologue to the gospel of Saint John.

The untimely death of Michel Foucault in 1984 left unfinished his influential and controversial multivolume "History of Sexuality." Indeed, volumes 2 and 3 appeared on bookshop shelves in Paris only a few days before his death. The fourth volume, entitled "Les Aveux de la chair," (Confessions of the flesh) and devoted to the discourse of sexuality in late ancient Christianity, remains at Foucault's request unpublished. This special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality is devoted to exploring some of the Jewish and Christian sources from the period Foucault sought to explore in his fourth volume and thereby to engaging imaginatively in a continuation of Foucault's work-a continuation that, at important moments, necessarily includes some measure of critique. This introduction attempts to articulate a theoretical response to Foucault and his critics as a framework for regarding the essays included in this issue. Numerous readers of Foucault's writing after 1976 have described it as departing from or even reneging of the promise of his earlier work.

The article explores the rabbinic Orthodoxy and definition of Jewish identity. It examines the first Mishna of the book "Tractate Sanhedrin," which expresses a rule of faith for who is orthodox or Israel and not. Pace Cohen interpretration of the passage is that the three who were denied a place in the next world were not Israel. This paper contends that the passage projects a state in which there are historical and genealogical Israelites who are not Israel. It also proposes that the passage offers a learning that for rabbinic discourse, there are Jews who are outside of Israel, and these Jews care called minim and Sadducees.

Traces the history of the Jewish race which brought about the negative connotation of the Jewish identity. Racism; Torah; Letters of Paul; Christianity; Jean-Luc Nancy's `The Inoperative Community'; Particularism; Diaspora; German liberalism; Dissociation.

Examines circumcision and carnality in Israel during the first century. The connection Augustine draws between anthropology and hermeneutics; Origen's description of the failure of the Jews as owing to a literalist hermeneutic; Allegorical and Midrashic anthropology; Gregory of Nyssa and Midrash on the Manna: Allegory and asceticism; Origen and Midrash on the Song of Songs 1:2; Dialogue of Justin Martyr and the Jew Trypho on circumcision; Details.

Discusses the cultural circumstances that lead to the feminization of the image of the Jewish male and the women's condition during ancient times. Rejection of masculine superiority; Cultural and religious importance of circumcision; Christian and Jewish image of gender crossing.

The article presents the response of the author to Allan Arkush's critique of his book "Unheroic Conduct." The author contrasts several beliefs, reactions and interpretations including the belief that his book only focuses on its polemic against Zionism and that he maltreats Theodor Herzl. He claims that he did not read Dohm but relied on his brief references because he is not sure if reading it will materially changed his readings of Herzl. The author though is certain that he has read every word of Herzl's work. He also includes his explanation on telling a different historical story.

Presents an article analyzing the concept of love by some Jews with some manifestations of Christianity. Factors that draw some Jews to Christianity; Problematic aspect of love.

Several letters to the editor are presented including one in response to the article "Religious Humanism: Dead, Alive, or Bifurcating?" by Re Fl in the October-November 2013 issue, and a response to review of article "A Suspect Sales Pitch" by William Harwood is also presented.