The Deep Humanity of Jewish Law
Zalman Rothschild on Moshe Halbertal Jewish law considers the topic of doubt worthy of occupying an entire category of law unto itself, and
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Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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The Devil – Writ Large and in the Details – By Adam Kotsko
Adam Kotsko on Almond’s The Devil and Korpel and de Moor’s Adam, Eve, and the Devil At first glance, these two studies of
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Present and Future of the Hebrew Past – By Aaron Koller
Aaron Koller on William M. Schniedewind’s A Social History of Hebrew The philologist sat with his back hunched, staring, now through a looking
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Signs of a New Age in the Study of the Formation of Biblical and Other Ancient Texts – By David M. Carr
David M. Carr on Reinhard Müller, Juha Pakkala, and Bas ter Haar Romeny’s Evidence of Editing and Juha Pakkala’s God’s Word Omitted Back in the
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A Flaccid Interpretation of Eden – By Joseph Ryan Kelly
Joseph Ryan Kelly on Ziony Zevit’s What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? The baculum, or os penis, is a bone in
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A Sociolinguistic History of the Jews – By Sarah Bunin Benor
Sarah Bunin Benor on Bernard Spolsky’s The Languages of the Jews Intellectual history. Political history. Cultural history. Economic history. There are so many lenses through
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Locating Memory between Story and History – By Mark McEntire
Mark McEntire on Jacob L. Wright’s David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory The field of biblical studies has yet to escape
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Relaxing the Lines between Redaction and Reception – By Andrew Perrin
Andrew Perrin on Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz (eds.) Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible Among the many lessons the Dead Sea Scrolls have
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Can the Bible Survive Science? – By John Walton
John Walton on Mark Harris’s The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science In 2003, an international research group successfully mapped the human genome,
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