Biblical criticism
An event like the exodus can’t be “proved” in the manner of a scientific experiment. The way to judge is through the adding-up of suggestive details and reliable witnesses.
Many are sure that one of Judaism’s central events never happened. Evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests otherwise.
By the beginning of the 21st century, Bible scholars had become divided into rival interpretive schools, each locked into its own rigid orthodoxies, writes Mark. . .
Academic study of the Bible in order to shed light on its origins presents a theological minefield; but this does not mean that traditionalist Jews. . .
At an academic conference in the heart of the Bible Belt, an Orthodox Jew savors the variety and profundity of shared religious experience.
The Reform and Conservative branches of the Jewish religious world have been eager to institute gay marriage. The only outlier is Orthodoxy. What's at stake?
A literary and political masterpiece, the book of Deuteronomy deserves to be appreciated both for its final theological teaching and in light of the transformative. . .
Biblical scholars used to claim that discrepant accounts of the sale of Joseph indicate the presence of two separate sources. Recent scholarship shows otherwise.
“I grew up on a huge, mighty God who expects us to be faithful to all His demands. By now, I have adopted a merciful. . .
Biblical fundamentalism diverts people from the real message of Torah while setting up the “received” text as an object of faith.
Is it sacrilegious to interpret the Torah against its ancient historical background? According to medieval scholars, not only can the Torah be understood in context, it must be.
The evolution of texts across the ancient Near East calls into question longstanding assumptions about the composition of the Hebrew Bible.
Almost every methodological approach used by modern Bible critics finds a parallel in the works of “traditional” Jewish exegetes in the Middle Ages.