Mark Twin

Why turn the erudite review of a very good book into a vicious anti-semitic tirade?, February 20, 2009

As the above reviewer says this is a splendidly written, and extensively documented work. Yet his review is full of venom, spiteful innuendos, and ends in a vicious and off-the-point anti-semitic tirade.

The authors start by analyzing written Roman records ranging from poetry to the law in order to explain various features of patriarchy. By doing so they convincingly show that Roman patriarchy still pervades the Western - and one would add the non-Western- world.
As the reviewer acidly says "The authors employ the by-now standard postmodernist techique of close reading of texts selected by them, through which they construct "voices" that convey to us the desires,… Read more