Deuteronomy
No judge is so great as to be exempt from showing deference to the judicial hierarchy at large.
Does God command genocide in the book of Joshua?
A passage that encapsulates the ethos of rabbinic Judaism.
What does it mean to be God’s chosen people? As Moses counsels the Israelites before he dies, their failure will have consequences—and failure is unavoidable.
Rational and irrational hatred.
Ancient rabbis got it right; modern scholars got it wrong.
Deuteronomy erases the separation between leader and led; for better or for worse, they’re yoked together.
More a contract than a prayer.
Renewing the covenant.
Renewing the covenant.
Samuel Pepys goes to shul.
Covenantal love, erotic love, or both?
One of the Bible’s most important and most overlooked ideas.
Over a century after its discovery.