Bible
Or is it more similar to Christian marriage than Sam Schulman suggests?
The greater threat to Jewish mores stems not from same-sex marriage but from heterosexual promiscuity.
A new commentary on the Book of Job breaks new ground by combining historical-critical scholarship with reception history, thereby revealing fresh levels of meaning.
An ancient flood narrative inscribed on a 4,000-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablet gives precise instructions for building an ark and recruiting its animal cargo—two by two.
Evidence from ancient silver hoards discovered in Phoenicia corroborates the thesis that biblical Tarshish can be identified with modern Sardinia.
A reply to my respondents.
The film Twelve Years a Slave uncritically accepts its protagonist’s assertion that the Bible legitimized the enslavement of African Americans. The truth is more. . .
Orthodox rabbis need to stop worrying about 200-year-old battles with “Reformers” and allow Jewish law to develop organically, as it always did in the past.
There have been two moments in the last 150 years when the assumptions behind Jewish law seemed poised to change. Nothing happened. Is today different?
Despite claims that it is closer to purple, ample evidence suggests that the ritual color t’khelet is the same shade as lapis lazuli.
A new “reception history” of the Book of Job is let down by its reluctance to choose among the work’s myriad interpretations.
The Jewish Legal Tradition and Its Discontents
Biblical scholars used to claim that discrepant accounts of the sale of Joseph indicate the presence of two separate sources. Recent scholarship shows otherwise.
How the idea of exile, in the Bible only one punishment among many, evolved into a metaphor for Israel’s alienation from God—a condition that could. . .