Biblical criticism
A secular victory at the International Bible Quiz.
Did ancient rabbis get their idea of divine law from the ancient Greeks?
A participatory theory of revelation.
Why is the founder of the Israelite kingdom portrayed in so many shades of gray?
An interview with the author of Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition.
“Reading the Bible was a kind of escape from Russia.”
Why some scholars want to see the exodus as just a great story.
The extent to which biblical criticism challenges believers has been vastly exaggerated; there is no reason to doubt the core of the Bible’s presentation of Israel’s history.
The exodus as we know it didn’t happen. But it’s a great story.
An event like the exodus can’t be “proved” in the manner of a scientific experiment. The way to judge is through the adding-up of suggestive details and reliable witnesses.
Many are sure that one of Judaism’s central events never happened. Evidence, some published here for the first time, suggests otherwise.
By the beginning of the 21st century, Bible scholars had become divided into rival interpretive schools, each locked into its own rigid orthodoxies, writes Mark. . .
Academic study of the Bible in order to shed light on its origins presents a theological minefield; but this does not mean that traditionalist Jews. . .
At an academic conference in the heart of the Bible Belt, an Orthodox Jew savors the variety and profundity of shared religious experience.