In conversation with Yoram Hazony, Joshua Berman discusses his own path to becoming a biblical scholar, why he thinks that Bible criticism—the prevalent academic theory that the Hebrew Bible was spliced together from numerous contradictory texts—rests on shaky empirical foundations, and why we should look to the Tanakh as a source of political wisdom. Some of the arguments Berman mentions in this discussion can be found in his own writing in Mosaic, both here and here. (Video, 51 minutes.)
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