Hebrew Bible
The author of a new book about Israel’s diplomatic history joins us to discuss the enduring lessons he’s learned from surveying 3,000 years of Jewish history.
Its meaning in the Bible is “Truly said!” or “So be it!” After that it acquired its intense liturgical emotion, and then hasn’t changed much since.
This week, Kass looks at what the ten plagues of Egypt reveal about the God who metes them out.
This week, we look at the religious, political, and cultural matrix out of which Israel emerges, and the human alternative against which Israel will be defined.
Read along with one of our time’s great readers of the Bible as he works his way through the book of Exodus.
A false dichotomy between the particularist king and the universalist prophet nevertheless discloses a truth about its author.
A rabbinic lesson in civic comity.
Surprisingly unchanging.
A handbook for nurturing the civic virtues necessary for self-government.
Not the exclusive domain of scribes
Women played key roles in economic and ritual life.
Using archaeological seeds to recreate an ancient variety.
And for why it matters.
A remnant of the time of the Judges.