Podcast: Joshua Berman on Traveling to Biblical Egypt
A rabbi and Bible scholar joins us to talk about his trips to biblical Egypt, and about the role of Egypt in the Jewish imagination.
Who Wrote Judaism's Canonical Creed?
Untangling the history of the Ani Ma’amin, usually but misleadingly ascribed to Maimonides.
Podcast: Joshua Berman on How Traditional Jews Can Respond to the Challenges of Academic Bible Criticism
On reading the Hebrew Bible in a spirit of intellectual honesty without losing your faith.
Podcast: Joshua Berman on Evidence for the Exodus
The eminent bible scholar and author of the essay “Was There an Exodus?” joins us in the studio.
What's Next for Biblical Studies
Source criticism has failed, and a systemic bias pervades academic biblical studies. But computational linguistics promises to open up the Bible in new and reliable ways.
The Corruption of Biblical Studies
Academic scrutiny of scripture, a discipline prey to intellectual fashion since its inception, is today pursued by many in the service of secular liberal positions.
The Chasm That Separates Modern Readers from the World of the Biblical Text
Reading and interpreting the Bible from within the fishbowl of our own cultural assumptions, we fail to understand it on its own terms.
Diving and Divinity
How a Bible scholar with a yen for scuba diving ended up introducing Judaism to Christians on a remote island in Fiji.
Was Israel Taken out of Egypt, or Egypt out of Israel?
Why some scholars want to see the exodus as just a great story.
Was There an Exodus?
Many are sure that one of Judaism’s central events never happened. Evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests otherwise.
