Naomi Sheindel Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, has recently published a new book, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation (University of Chicago Press). The author of A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish and the translator of texts from Hebrew and Yiddish, Dr. Seidman focuses on contemporary Jewish thought, gender and sexuality, and modern Hebrew literature and literary theory. Faithful Renderings explores translation history through the lens of Jewish-Christian difference, which, it concludes, is a direct effect of translation itself. Thinking both theologically and politically, Dr. Seidman wonders about the implications of Christianity’s dependence on the texts of a competing religion. Ultimately, Faithful Renderings suggests that the very act of translation is a decisive issue in Jewish-Christian relations. “In this book what interested me were the spaces, the misunderstandings, the opacities and mistranslations that connect and divide Jews and Christians,” Dr. Seidman wrote. “Nearly every aspect of the book is informed by my experiences and friendships at the GTU, and many people—faculty and students—have helped me think through the implications of my research.”