Do Bible Scholars Need Theology?
Jon D. Levenson on Sommer’s Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition Before beginning my critique of Benjamin Sommer’s new book,
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Descending the Mountain: Questions after Sinai
Paul Mendes-Flohr reviews Revelation and Authority by Benjamin Sommer It is said that the Archbishop of Canterbury once approached the Chief Rabbi of
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Can We Separate Scripture and Tradition?
John C. Cavadini responds to Benjamin Sommer’s Revelation and Authority In his thoughtful, creative, and learned book, Revelation and Authority, Benjamin Sommers reflects
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After Revelation and Authority: Reflections from the Author
My reading of the Torah’s account of what happened at Mount Sinai in Exodus 19-20 and 24 forms the generative core of the
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First Impressions #78: Benjamin Sommer on Revelation and Authority in Judaism
Can the religious texts and traditions of Judaism be authoritative and sacred while also being human and sometimes fallible? Joseph Ryan Kelly talks
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Not Like the Egyptians – By Jonathan Boyarin
Jonathan Boyarin on Beth A. Berkowitz’s Defining Jewish Difference: From Antiquity to the Present Trigger warning: devotees of popular Kabbalah and Judaism may be distressed
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Mauro Perani talks about the Bologna Torah Scroll
The oldest complete Torah scroll re-discovered in Bologna Professor Mauro Perani talked with us this morning by telephone from his office in Bologna.
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