Torah

The hidden meaning of Bava Metzia.

Dovid Bashevkin
June 28 2024 12:01AM

For the Torah, humanity itself is a source of dignity.

Kate Rozansky
Aug. 15 2023 12:01AM

A theory of “cumulative revelation” enhances the status of the rabbinic tradition.

Tamar Ross
May 5 2023 12:01AM

What makes this ancient Near Eastern law code different from all other ancient Near Eastern law codes?

Jeremiah Unterman
Jan. 17 2022 12:01AM

Precisely as prohibited in the Torah.

Aryeh Savir
Sept. 9 2021 12:01AM

A new book argues that the Hebrew Bible has a distinct and consistent intellectual tradition. The author joins us to explain.

June 24 2021 12:01AM

A leading professor explains how the two can coexist properly.

Jon Levenson
May 7 2021 12:01AM

The case of the leprous house.

Martha Himmelfarb
April 16 2021 12:01AM

Finding the rationale for the nonrational.

July 3 2020 12:01AM

A Palestinian thief or an “inside job.”

Daniel Estrin
May 1 2018 12:01AM

From a 3rd-century synagogue to the Library of Congress.

Gary Rendsburg
March 22 2018 12:01AM

Judaism beyond slogans.

Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin
Jan. 25 2018 12:01AM

A literary-midrashic approach.

Jerome Marcus
Nov. 3 2017 12:01AM