At Israel’s Bible Lands Museum, on display for the first time is a collection of some 100 clay tablets documenting the lives of Jews exiled. . .

The figurative description of God in Psalm 23 expresses stewardship, companionship, attendance, nurturing, and love: qualities as precious today as then.   

The Song of Songs, the Bible’s most profound meditation on love, projects a Judaism of lived experience, not abstract principle. (2010.)