Biblical criticism

The original critical scholarship.

Yitzchak Etshalom
April 14 2023 12:01AM

The Torah’s unity and God’s.

Feb. 15 2023 12:01AM

A leading professor explains how the two can coexist properly.

Jon Levenson
May 7 2021 12:01AM

Samson Raphael Hirsch wades into an intra-Christian controversy.

April 5 2021 12:01AM

Can we believe the Torah? And can we find therein political wisdom?

Dec. 30 2020 12:01AM

On reading the Hebrew Bible in a spirit of intellectual honesty without losing your faith.

Feb. 13 2020 12:01AM

Academic Bible scholars should abandon their fixation on dating biblical texts.

Benjamin Sommer
Dec. 27 2019 12:01AM

The strengths and weaknesses of a recent study.

Ysoscher Katz
Nov. 6 2019 12:01AM

An impressive but flawed new book tries to do so.

Feb. 13 2019 12:01AM

To read the Bible as a great work, one must assume that it’s something more than a hodgepodge of disparate texts.

Jerome Marcus
Aug. 29 2017 12:01AM

Samson Raphael Hirsh’s critique of biblical criticism.

Aug. 11 2017 12:01AM

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.

Aug. 2 2017 12:01AM