Ezekiel’s Moses.
Making sense of a famous biblical image.
What’s so bad about coveting your neighbor’s donkey?
The goal of Shabbat is to experience an already-completed world.
During two exoduses, defiance proved better than comfort.
They refused to see human procreation in purely naturalistic terms.
“The Lord is a man of war.”
Why Sephardi Jews throw coins and candy to close the holiday.
Are they a mirror-image of the creation story?
Why some scholars want to see the exodus as just a great story.
You can hear the man’s voice as he keeps changing his mind. What’s the point of such a Shakespearean portrayal?
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.