Genesis
What the Maccabees called their enemies reveals much about how both cultures saw themselves and what the conflict between them meant for the world.
The author and businessman joins us to talk about what can and can’t be learned about labor, wealth, trade, debt, and credit from the Hebrew Bible.
An argument against original sin.
Where cruelty was encouraged and compassion punished.
Along with a warning about globalization.
Changing the past.
Contrary to what scholars have claimed, the camels in Genesis are not anachronistic.
Isaac, Ishmael, . . . and Fatimah.
It’s not about the tension between human moral sensibilities and divine command.
A form of radical expressive individualism at odds with the Judeo-Christian tradition.
#ThouToo.
A literary-midrashic approach.
Truth, fiction, and John Milton.
The first anti-Semite.