Hebrew Bible
Not just for the priests.
In his paintings of Jacob and his twelve sons, the 17th-century Spanish master humanizes his subjects, rendering them approachable and individual rather than remote and ethereal.
God’s spirit and God’s image.
In praise of Hershel Shanks.
“Your story is our story and your God is our God.”
The tenth commandment.
The Cecil B. DeMille version of the revelation at Sinai, in which Moses ascends the mountain on his own and returns bearing tablets, misses key aspects of the Israelites’ experience.
Whence, and whither, religious liberty?
The story of the biblical word b’liya’al.
One engages in dialogue with his fellow Jews, and one engages in a dialogue with God. What’s the meaning of the difference?
People stopped hearing God.
Critics accuse it of threatening the separation of church and state; in truth, Washington’s new museum makes an invaluable contribution to American (and Jewish) cultural literacy.
Why did God stop talking to people? And did the Exodus really happen?
