Hebrew Bible
Conservative Christians not welcome.
“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?”
How did Noah and his family look after all those animals?
Reading Exodus as a tale of two ancient Near Eastern construction projects.
A professor of Jewish studies joins us to talk about why the Hebrew Bible sometimes portrays God as a mother, and what that means.
Nearby lie Hebron, Gilboa, Canaan, two Shilohs, and even a Sodom.
The Codex Sassoon.
Cherubic anxiety.
The best way to read one book of the Tanakh can be through the lens of another.
Seeing the tale of Abraham and Sarah through mature eyes.
The exiles from Judah clung to the conviction that it was their own God who had brought humanity into being.
And became a guest at the seder.
The taming of the shrewd.
“You will give truth to Jacob, lovingkindness to Abraham.”