Index
Index
Every article, cross-referenced by subject.
A
Abraham
Abraham and Sarah
Abraham Narrative
Academic Method
Acrostic Poetry
Adam
Adoption
Afterlife
Afterlife and Resurrection
Agricultural Law
Akedah
- Akedah: The Binding of Isaac
- Book Review: Unbinding Isaac
- Isaac Betrayed and Triumphant
- Isaac Tells the Akeda Story
- Isaac: A Life of Bitter Laughter
- Letter to the Editor
- Master of Life
- Peril and Deliverance
- Testing God: A Midrash on the Akeda
- The Akedah – A Test of God
- The Meaning of Abraham’s Test: A Reexamination of the Akedah
- The Testing of Abraham
- The Trauma of Isaac
- Why Isaac Wasn't Permitted to Resist at the Akedah
Akkadian Studies
Allegorical Interpretation
Amalek
Amalek Tradition
Ammon and Moab
Amos
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Ancient Near East
- “How Much Is She Worth?” A Comparison of Six Ancient Near East Laws Relating to Bride-Price, Dowry, Inheritance, and Divorce
- "Irrevocability" of Persian Law in the Scroll of Esther
- “Ones Who Have Fallen Out” (Nefel): Spontaneous, Accidental, and Intentional: Miscarriage Laws in Ancient Israel
- "You Shall Not Eat with the Blood"
- A Fresh Look at Nebuchadnezzar
- A Lost Battle of King Ahab Rediscovered
- A Missing Hexateuchal Narrative Concerning Child Sacrifice
- A Nameless City
- A Slip of the Reader and Not the Reed – Part I
- A Slip of the Reader and Not the Reed – Part II
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- A Visit to Armageddon
- Abraham and Atlantis
- Abraham's Ten Trials and a Biblical Numerical Convention
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 2
- Ambiguities of the Eagle
- Amos
- An Examination of Aaron's Role in the Sin of the Golden Calf
- And Ekron as a Jebusite (Zechariah 9:7)
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Are Most Jews B'nai-Judah?
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Azazel: The Scapegoat in the Bible and Ancient Near East
- Balaam: Some Aspects of His Character
- Baruch Ben-Neriah: The Man Who Was Not a Prophet
- Belshazzar’s Folly
- Biblical Hebrew: A Socio-Linguistic History
- Biblical Literature and Contemporary Parallels: Alike but Different
- Book Review: Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith
- Book Review: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic and the Biblical Flood Story by I. Rapaport
- Book Review: The Babylonian Poem Enuma Elish and Genesis Chapter One by I. Rapaport
- Building in Biblical Times
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Chronology of Ancient Jewish History
- Conundrum: Why Wasn’t the Verse Ki Ha’adam Etz HaSadeh (Deut. 20:19) Used as a Prooftext for the Halakhic Concept of Man Being Gidulei Karka (Something That Grows From the Ground)?
- Cyrus in the Perspective of the Bible and History
- Dagon: The Fish God?
- Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho
- Divided They Stand: The United Monarchy Split in Twain
- Divination in the Bible
- Egypt and Israel
- Excavations at Tel Dan
- Exodus: How Big Was the Population?
- Ezion-Geber: Solomon’s Seaport
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Monolatry to Monotheism
- From the Euphrates to the Nile
- From the Nuzi Tablets
- Gematria in the Hebrew Bible
- Genesis 14 – Meaning and Structure
- Giving Birth on Someone's Knees
- Hammurabi and Biblical Laws
- Hosea and the Fertility Cult
- How Many Hebrews Left Egypt?
- I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26)
- In Search of the Biblical Hammurabi
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Isaiah and Cyrus
- Israel and Edom
- Jacob's Blessing for Dan
- Jerusalem in the Days of Jeremiah
- Jewish Education in Biblical Times: Joshua to 933 BCE
- Joseph and Revolutionary Egypt
- Joseph Under Suspicion
- Ketovet Ka'aka (Leviticus 19:28): Tattooing or Branding?
- King and Commoner in Proverbs and Near Eastern Sources
- King Cyrus, Anointed (Messiah) of the Lord
- King Solomon’s Golden Wealth
- Laban and Jacob
- Large Numbers in the Hebrew Bible
- Letters to the Editor
- Listening to the Chalil: Biblical Instrument of Feasts and Funerals
- Magical Transformations: Sukkoth and the Four Species
- Mesopotamia and Israel
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Military and Archaeological Aspects of the Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua
- Military Intelligence in the Bible
- Military Intelligence in the Bible Part 2
- Military Intelligence in the Bible: Part 3
- Military Intelligence in the Bible: Part 4
- More on the Seven Nations
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- Music and Prophecy
- Music in the Bible
- Nahum – The Prophet and His Message
- Nahum: The Little-Known Prophet
- Nahum's Theological Perspectives
- New Light on Unknown Prophets: The Lachish Letters
- Nimrod Found?
- Noah and the Ark Reexamined
- Noah’s Vintner Tale: Divine Literature in Human Language
- Not a Blacksmith Could be Found
- Obadiah: The Smallest Book in the Bible
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part I
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part II
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part V
- On Musical Instruments
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 1
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 2
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 3
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 4
- Parallel Lists of Prediluvian Patriarchs: A Psychological Interpretation
- Pi-Hahirot: The Mouth of Freedom
- Problems and Solutions of Habakkuk 3:8
- Prolegomena to the Book of Proverbs
- Psalm 92, Shabbat, and the Temple
- Purchase of the Machpelah
- Residual Magic in the Bible
- Review Essay: Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
- Sacrifices for the Dead
- Sarah's Treatment of Hagar (Genesis 16)
- Semitic Influences and the Bible Text
- Sheol
- Sisera and Harosheth-Goiim
- Six Biblical Signatures Discovered
- Slavery in the Bible
- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Subsistence Struggles of Early Israel
- Switching Brides: Conspiracy and Cover-Up
- The ‘Molten Sea’ and the Value of Pi
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Annihilation of Sennacherib's Army
- The Babylonian Captivity
- The Biblical Number 12 and the Formation of the Ancient Nation of Israel
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Blood of the Covenant in the Bible
- The Camel in the Bible and Talmud
- The Cathexis of Israel to Egypt
- The City of Babel and Its Tower
- The Code of Hammurabi and the Laws of the Torah
- The Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua: Military and Archeological Aspects
- The Cult of Moloch
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah 40-50
- The Daughters of Zelophehad: Biblical Women’s Rights Activists (?)
- The Destroying Angel
- The Earthquake That Turned the Course of the War
- The Enuma Elish Hoax
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Fertility of the Early Israelites
- The Flood Story in the Bible and Cuneiform Literature: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic Wrongly Interpreted
- The Funeral of Jacob: A Joint Hebrew-Egyptian Affair
- The Garden of God
- The Gold of the Ark
- The Golden Calf and Ra
- The Golden Calf in Exodus 32: A Foundry Engineer’s Interpretation
- The Habiru and the Hebrews: From a Social Class to an Ethnic Group
- The Journey of Terah: To Ur-Kasdim or Urkesh?
- The Large Numbers in the Bible
- The Location of Ai
- The Magical Sound of Priestly Bells
- The Marriage and the Dowry
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Mystery of Genesis 36
- The Ninth Plague
- The Nuzi Tablets: Reflections on the Patriarchal Narratives
- The Original Palestinians
- The Pillars of the Temple
- The Plague in I Samuel 5 and 6
- The Power of Hebrew Names
- The Prowess of the Benjaminites
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- The Rabshakeh’s Speech (II Kings 18-25): A Study of Rhetorical Intimidation
- The Rebellion of Jehu
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Rise of the House of Omri
- The Satanic Verses – Part II
- The Siege of Jerusalem, Part II
- The Siege of Jerusalem: Part I
- The Significance of Joseph’s Agrarian Policy
- The Solomon and Sheba Story in Ethiopia
- The Story of Creation in the Bible
- The Suk in Ancient Jerusalem
- The Symbols of Nature in Israel and in the Ancient Near East
- The Tel Dan Excavation
- The Ten Lost Tribes
- The Tower of Babel
- The Tower of Babel Revisited
- The Tower of Babel: God’s Towering Pride
- The Tragic King
- The Warhorse of the Lord
- The Weight of the Ark of the Covenant
- The Westcar Papyrus and Genesis 42–44: An Overlooked Reference?
- The Wrath of Moab
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- Thou Shalt Not Abhor an Egyptian
- Tiles and Bricks in Biblical Poetry
- Transportation in the Bible
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- Was Abram Born in Ur of the Chaldees?
- Was the Egyptian Experience Necessary?
- Water in Biblical Times
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- What Happened to Uzziah’s Bones?
- Who is Afraid of Edom: Reflections on a Theme in Lamentations
- Who Was a Teacher in Biblical Days?
- Who Was Lamenting and Why? Lamentations and the Sumerian City Laments
- Who Was Melchizedek
- Who Was Shamgar Ben Anath
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Why Start Jacob and Joseph with a "J"?
- Witchcraft in the Bible
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Ancient Near East Law
Ancient Near Eastern Diplomacy
Ancient Near Eastern Law
Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
Ancient Technology
Ancient Warfare
Angels
Animal Ethics
Anthropomorphism
Apocalyptic Literature
Apocrypha
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Apotropaic Magic
Aramaic
Aramaic Literature
Aramaic Translation
Archaeology
- A Nameless City
- A Visit to Armageddon
- Abraham and Atlantis
- An Update on the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Archaeological Adventures in Israel
- Archaeological Research
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Are Most Jews B'nai-Judah?
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Book Review: Archeology of the Bible: Book by Book by Gaalyah Cornfeld
- Building in Biblical Times
- City of David
- Dating the Exodus: A New Perspective
- David’s Conquest of Jerusalem
- Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho
- Egypt and Israel
- Excavating the Cardo and the Ophel
- Excavations at Tel Dan
- Ezion-Geber: Solomon’s Seaport
- From the City of David to Jerusalem
- From the Nuzi Tablets
- Gilgal, the Site of the First Passover
- Holy Cities in the Land of Ephraim Revisited
- How David Captured Jerusalem
- Incised Stone Fragment “Korban”
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Israel Museum Exhibit
- Jerusalem in the Bible
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 2
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 3
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 4
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 4
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 5
- King Solomon’s Golden Wealth
- Mesopotamia and Israel
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Military and Archaeological Aspects of the Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part I
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part II
- New Findings in Archeology
- New Light on Unknown Prophets: The Lachish Letters
- Nimrod Found?
- Not a Blacksmith Could be Found
- On and Off the Beaten Track in Tel Azeka
- Reconstructing Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem
- Settlement of the Tribe of Dan
- Sisera and Harosheth-Goiim
- Six Biblical Signatures Discovered
- Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, Esther Ruth Jonah Deciphered
- Subsistence Struggles of Early Israel
- The Anti-Hybridization Laws and Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Bed of Og
- The Bible Exhibit
- The Bible Lands Museum
- The City of David
- The Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua: Military and Archeological Aspects
- The Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah 40-50
- The Dead Sea Scrolls – 40 Years Later
- The Development of the Mezuzah
- The Earthquake That Turned the Course of the War
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Fall of Jericho as an Earthquake Myth
- The First Biblical Family: When Did They Live?
- The Gold of the Ark
- The Habiru and the Hebrews: From a Social Class to an Ethnic Group
- The Jerusalem Streets Abraham Walked On
- The Journey of Terah: To Ur-Kasdim or Urkesh?
- The Layout of the Decalogue on the Tablets and Archaeology
- The Location of Ai
- The Negev
- The Nuzi Tablets: Reflections on the Patriarchal Narratives
- The Origin of the Synagogue
- The Original Palestinians
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- The Qumran Settlement: Scriptorium, Villa or Fortress
- The Route of the Exodus
- The Suk in Ancient Jerusalem
- The Tel Dan Excavation
- The Temple Plan Revealed: A Mishnaic Formula for Building the Temple
- The Western Wall
- The Western Wall Part 2
- The Western Wall: Part 5
- The Western Wall: Part 6
- The Western Wall: Part 7
- The Western Wall: Part 7
- The Wrath of Moab
- This Issue Is Dedicated to Dr. Herbert Rand on His 95th Birthday
- Transportation in the Bible
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- Was Abram Born in Ur of the Chaldees?
- Was There a Fourth Temple
- Water in Biblical Times
- What Happened to Uzziah’s Bones?
- Where Was the Mountain of God?
- Why the Walls of Jericho Came Tumbling Down
- Zedekiah: Last King of Judah
Architecture
Argument from Design
Ark Narrative
Ark of the Covenant
Assassination Narratives
Assimilation
Assyria
Assyrian Empire
Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem
Assyriology
B
Babylonian Captivity
Babylonian Exile
Babylonian Influence
Bal Tashhit
Balaam
- "Moses Wrote His Book and the Portion of Balaam"
- Abraham and Balaam: A Biblical Contrast
- Balaam and His Talking Donkey
- Balaam Is Laban
- Balaam, Shakespeare, Shylock
- Balaam: An Unauthentic Prophet
- Balaam: Did God Change His Mind?
- Balaam’s Mission – Failure or Success?
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part I
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part II
- When God's Will Can and Cannot Be Altered: The Relationship Between the Balaam Narrative and I Kings 13
Balaam Narrative
Ben Gurion
Bible and Literature
Bible and Medicine
Bible and Science
Bible Contest
- 22nd Youth Bible Contest
- 23rd World Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- 24th World Bible Contest
- After the Youth Bible Contest
- American Youth Win Bible Contest
- Annual Bible Contest
- Bible Quiz on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
- Canadian Wins Eleventh World Youth Bible Contest
- International Bible Contest
- Our Bible Quiz for Youth: Joshua, Judges and Samuel
- Quiz on the Book of Kings
- Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Seventeenth World Youth Bible Contest
- Spotlight on the Diaspora Winners of the International Bible Contest for Youth
- Spotlight on the Winners of the International Bible Contest for Youth
- Suggestion for Future Bible Contests
- The 18th World Jewish Youth Bible Contest
- The 19th World Jewish Youth Bible Contest
- The 2010 Adult Bible Contest: The First in 30 Years
- The 20th World Jewish Youth Bible Contest
- The 39th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 40th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 41st Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 42nd Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 43rd Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 44th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 45th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 46th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 47th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 48th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 49th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 52nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5775
- The 56th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5779
- The 59th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 62nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The Annual Bible Contest
- The Annual International Bible Contest
- The Fifth Adult International Bible Contest
- The Fifth Annual Bible Contest for Adults
- The Fiftieth Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5773
- The Fifty-First International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5774
- The Forthcoming International Adult Bible Contest
- The Twenty First Youth Bible Contest
- The Youth Corner: Bible Quiz on Hoshea, Joel and Amos
- The Youth Corner: Our Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Third Adult Bible Contest 2013
- Twenty-Fifth World Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- Youth Corner: Our Bible Quiz on Flying
Bible Education
- 22nd Youth Bible Contest
- 23rd World Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- 24th World Bible Contest
- A Report to the President
- A World Jewish Bible Center in Jerusalem
- Abstracts From “Beth Mikra”
- Abstracts From Beth Mikra
- Addresses by Dr. Israel Goldstein
- After the Youth Bible Contest
- Aggadah in Bible Study
- American Youth Win Bible Contest
- Annual Bible Contest
- Beit HaTenakh in Jerusalem: Address by Ben-Gurion at Groundbreaking
- Bible News Around the World
- Bible Quiz on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
- Bible Trivia: Soferim – Scribes – Counters
- Bible Trivia: The First Bible Translation
- Bible Trivia: The Number of Letters in the Shma
- Bible: The Concomitant of Human Growth – Based on Genesis 3
- Biblical Trivia: The Number Seven
- Biblical Trivia: Vavei Ha’amudim
- Book Review: A Rabbi’s Bible
- Book Review: Lexikon der biblischen Personen
- Book Review: Pursuing Peshat – Tanakh Parshanut and Talmud Torah
- Book Review: The Encyclopaedia Biblica, vols. 1-8
- Book Review: Torah Dialogues, by Hayyim Halpern
- Book Review: Torah for the Family by Lipis and Katzoff
- Canadian Wins Eleventh World Youth Bible Contest
- Compulsory Education
- Darshanim Project
- Editorial
- Fifteenth World Youth Bible Contest
- First International Bible Society Conference in Jerusalem
- Fourteenth World Bible Contest
- Go and Learn
- Greater Hartford Bible Study Group Takes Names of Fallen Israeli
- International Bible Contest
- Israel Museum Exhibit
- Jewish Aspects on the 500th Anniversary of Printing
- Jewish Education in Biblical Times: Joshua to 933 BCE
- Know What to Answer: Part 1
- Know What to Answer: Part 2
- Know What to Answer: Part 3
- Message to the Bible Readers’ Union
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Our Bible Quiz
- Our Bible Quiz for Youth: Joshua, Judges and Samuel
- Our Bible Quiz on Isaiah
- Quiz on the Book of Isaiah
- Quiz on the Book of Kings
- Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Reminiscences About Ben-Gurion
- Review: Bible Scholar Computer Program
- Review: Mac Bible Version 2.0
- Seventeenth World Youth Bible Contest
- Sixteenth World Youth Bible Contest
- Sixth Triennial Index
- Spotlight on the Diaspora Winners of the International Bible Contest for Youth
- Spotlight on the Winners of the International Bible Contest for Youth
- Suggestion for Future Bible Contests
- The 18th World Jewish Youth Bible Contest
- The 19th World Jewish Youth Bible Contest
- The 20th World Jewish Youth Bible Contest
- The 32nd International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 33rd International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 34th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 35th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 36th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 37th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 38th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 50th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5773
- The 55th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5778
- The 59th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 60th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 62nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The Annual Bible Contest
- The Annual International Bible Contest
- The Author of the Haggadah as an Educator
- The Bible Exhibit
- The Bible Lands Museum
- The Bible of My Youthful Days
- The Bible: Israel’s Spiritual and National Roots
- The Family Corner
- The Family Corner
- The Family Corner
- The Family Corner – Deuteronomy
- The Family Corner: Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Bereshit
- The Family Corner: Book of Shemot
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Exodus
- The Family Corner: Genesis
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: The Book of Exodus
- The Fifth Adult International Bible Contest
- The Forthcoming International Adult Bible Contest
- The Patriarchs
- The President’s Bible Study Group
- The Twenty First Youth Bible Contest
- The Verse of the Week
- The Youth Corner: Bible Quiz on Hoshea, Joel and Amos
- The Youth Corner: Our Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Thirteenth World Youth Bible Contest
- To the Bible Readers’ Union, England
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues (Fourth Series)
- Torah Dialogues (Third Series)
- Torah Dialogues (Third Series)
- Torah Dialogues (Third Series)
- Torah Dialogues: Bemidbar
- Torah Dialogues: Bemidbar
- Torah Dialogues: Deuteronomy
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Part 2
- Torah Study and Peace of Mind
- Twelfth World Youth Bible Contest
- Twenty-Fifth World Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- Who Was a Teacher in Biblical Days?
- Youth Corner: Our Bible Quiz on Flying
Bible Quiz
Bible Readers Union
Bible Study
Bible Translation
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- "Irrevocability" of Persian Law in the Scroll of Esther
- A Suggested Translation of Psalm 91:1-2
- A Theological Reason for Ambiguity
- An Inner Light
- And a Wind from God: Genesis 1:2
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Bible Mistranslations: A Supplementary Note
- Bible Translations and Mistranslations
- Bible Translations: How Reliable?
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part II
- Bible Trivia: The First Bible Translation
- Book Review: A New English Translation of the Septuagint
- Book Review: Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress
- Book Review: Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- Book Review: The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
- Book Review: The JPS Tanakh: The Gender-Sensitive Edition
- Comment on "The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob"
- Darshanut: It’s All in the Translation
- Death in the Bible
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- Hesed – Mercy or Loyalty?
- Imperative Verbs Followed by the Preposition Lamed: Compulsory or Precatory?
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Isaiah 7:14b in New Major Christian Bible Translations
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Modern Biblical Translations
- More Bible Curiosities and Mistranslations
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- On the Inadequacy of Translation: As Exemplified by a Literary Analysis of Four Translations of Psalm 102 – Part I
- On the Inadequacy of Translation: As Exemplified by a Literary Analysis of Four Translations of Psalm 102 – Part II
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Pronunciation: A Key to Meaning — I Kings 3:16-28
- Septuagint Vocabulary in the Gospels and Acts
- Sparks Flying? Job 5:7
- Tamar Times Three
- The "Name" of God in Psalms
- The Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568-1573): A Triumph of Hebraism
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 1 and 2
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 3 and 4
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 5 and 6
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 7 and 8
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Some Afterthoughts
- The Horns of Moses
- The Humpty Dumpty Principle in Biblical Translation
- The LXX and the Bible: Matter for Thought
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Old and the New JPS Translations
- The Status of Women and Exodus 25:2
- The Translation of the Biblical Word Shofar
- The Translators’ Dilemma: What is Itti?
- Translating the Torah: Some Reflections on the New ArtScroll Humash
- Why Start Jacob and Joseph with a "J"?
Bible Translation History
Biblical Anthropology
Biblical Aramaic
Biblical Archaeology
- Camels in the Bible
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Literary Parallels Between Homer's Epics and the Biblical Philistines
- Metallurgy in the Bible: Ironworking and the Disposal of the Golden Calf
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Remembering Adam Zertal
- The Siege of Jerusalem: Part I
Biblical Architecture
Biblical Canon
Biblical Characterization
Biblical Chronology
- Age Is Not a Factor: Age Differentials in Genesis
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- Are Most Jews B'nai-Judah?
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Biblical Historiosophy
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Characteristics of Biblical Historiography
- Chronology in the Book of Judges
- Chronology of Ancient Jewish History
- Dating the Exodus: A New Perspective
- Exodus: How Big Was the Population?
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Horeb to Kadesh in Eleven Days
- From the Euphrates to the Nile
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- How Many Hebrews Left Egypt?
- Large Numbers in the Hebrew Bible
- Patriarch Without a Narrative
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part I
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part II
- The First Biblical Family: When Did They Live?
- The Jewish Calendar
- The Journey of Terah: To Ur-Kasdim or Urkesh?
- The Large Numbers in the Bible
- The Length of the Rule of Joshua and the Periods of Subjugation in the Book of Judges
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Number 40 in the Bible
- The Tragic King
- Was Bishop Ussher's Chronology Influenced by a Midrash?
- Who Was Jonathan Son of Gershom in Judges 18:30?
- Why Is Pesach So Late?
biblical commentary
Biblical Commentary
Biblical Composition
Biblical Continuum
Biblical Cosmology
Biblical Criticism
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- A First Century C.E. Date for the Closing of the Book of Psalms?
- A Missing Hexateuchal Narrative Concerning Child Sacrifice
- A Secular-Humanist View
- A Traditionalist View
- Abstracts From “Beth Mikra”
- Abstracts From Beth Mikra
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Book Review: A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism From Max Weber to the Present
- Book Review: Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith
- Book Review: From Gods to God
- Book Review: How to Read the Bible
- Book Review: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: The Hebrew Bible and its Modern Interpreters
- Book Review: Understanding the Hebrew Bible
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Bridging Tradition and the Academy: The Literary-Theological School in Orthodox Bible Study
- Characteristics of Biblical Historiography
- Chronology in the Book of Judges
- Current Trends in Academic Biblical Studies
- Dating the Book of Daniel: The Legitimacy of the Traditional View
- Ecclesiastes: Part 1: Authorship
- Isaiah and his Audience
- Isaiah and the Computer
- Isaiah: How the Book Entered Holy Writ
- Judah HaHasid: Three Controversial Commentaries
- Know What to Answer: Part 1
- Know What to Answer: Part 2
- Know What to Answer: Part 3
- Learning from Isaiah
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part I
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part II
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part II
- Nahum – The Prophet and His Message
- Nahum 1: Acrostic and Authorship
- Nahum's Theological Perspectives
- Rav Kook on Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
- Recent Trends in Biblical Source Criticism
- Revisionist Intellectual History and the Bible
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research: Part 2
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research: Part 3
- The Bible: Transmission and Interpretation
- The Book of Chronicles
- The Da'at Mikra Commentary Series: Between Tradition and Criticism
- The Literary Significance of the Name Lists in Ezra-Nehemiah
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The School of Isaiah: Biography and Transmission of the Book of Isaiah
- The Universalism of the Book of Jonah: According to the Teaching of Yehezkel Kaufmann
- Tribute to Yehezkel Kaufman
- Two Views of the Bible
- Who Wrote the Psalms? Controversy and Confusion Regarding Authorship
- Who Wrote the Story of Moses’ Death
- Yehezkel Kaufman: An Evaluation
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Biblical Endings
Biblical Ethics
- "... And Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- A Biblical Protest Against the Violation of Women
- A Comment on You Shall Not Boil a Kid in its Mother’s Milk
- A Note on Job 6:8-10: Suicide and Death Wishes
- A Perfect Wife
- A Unique Biblical Law
- Abraham's Great Sin – A Reevaluation
- Abraham's Hospitality
- Abraham's Moment of Decision: According to Levinas and Rembrandt
- Abraham’s Trials: Tests of Strength or Learning Experiences?
- Adam’s Conquest
- Adam’s Sin
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 1
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 2
- Amos 5:24: Prophetic, Chastising, Surprising, Poetic
- Amos: Prophet and Worldly Man
- An Inner Light
- And Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
- Beauty in the Bible
- Bereshit and the Courage of New Beginnings
- Biblical and Talmudic Attitudes Toward Intermarriage: Part 1
- Biblical Teaching of Peace
- Book Review: Recipes For Better Living
- Book Review: The Ethics of Genesis
- Cain and Abel
- Cain and Abel: Story of Creation: Part 4
- Cain: Why Is He Featured So Prominently in the Bible?
- Communication Problems
- Darkness and Light
- David and Ahab: A Study of Crime and Punishment
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- Displacement in the Matriarchal Home: A Psychological Study of the Abraham-Sarah Marriage
- Do That Which Is Right and Good in the Sight of the Lord
- Ecological Motifs in the Bible
- Ecology in the Bible
- Editorial: On Martyrdom
- Eikev: The Consequences of God’s Judgement
- Excess: The Hidden Root of Evil
- Eye for an Eye: An Old Canard
- Eye For Eye
- Final Judgement: The Ambiguous Moral Question That Culminates Genesis 34
- Five Questions of Abraham
- Four Biblical Options of Moral Choice
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- Friends, Strangers, Enemies
- From Enemy to Friend
- Had Noah Lived in Abraham’s Generation
- Hesed – Mercy or Loyalty?
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- Hosea – His Message
- Hospitality in Sodom – A Biblical Contrast
- In Defense of Esau
- In the Shadow of Amalek
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Isaac’s Blessing – Who Has Deceived?
- Ishmael, Son of Abraham
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Jacob's Choice in Genesis 25:19 – 28:9
- Jacob’s Deception of his Father
- Joseph and His Brothers: Vengeance or Reconciliation
- Joseph's Emotional Development
- Justice for Esau
- Kedushah, Holiness, and Ethics
- Laban and Jacob
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Looking and Privacy
- Lot's Failed Trial
- Love of Neighbor and Its Antecedent Verses
- Micah’s Ideals: Stevenson’s Guide
- Nabal, the Villain
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Noblesse Oblige
- Not to Inflict Hurt on Animals
- Obligatory and Voluntary War
- Of Parents and Children
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Parents Have Eaten Sour Grapes
- Phinehas and Micah
- Phinehas: Hero or Vigilante?
- Prevention of Cruelty
- Psalm XV : A Liturgical or Ethical Psalm
- Questions and Response in Micah 6:6-8
- Rabbinic Attitudes Toward Intermarriage: Part 2
- Race Relations
- Rape and Vengeance: The Story of Dinah
- Reaction to Terror – A Biblical Perspective
- Rebekah’s Deceit or Isaac’s Great Test
- Rebekah's Hoax
- Redeeming Cain: A Comparative Literary Reading of Genesis
- Royal Building Projects and the Ethics of Royalty
- Sacrificing Isaac: A New Interpretation
- Saul and Genocide
- Sex and Violence in the Bible
- She Shall Mourn
- Sibling Relationships in the Bible: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- Slavery in the Bible
- Sodom: Manner, Morals, Misdeeds
- The Abel Syndrome
- The Akedah Test: What Passes and What Fails
- The Akedah: Machloket L'Shem Shamayim Sofa L'Hitkayeim
- The Anatomy of the First Lies
- The Biblical Tradition of Popular Democracy
- The Bird’s Nest Mitzvah: A Personal Aggadic Interpretation
- The Blood of Naboth
- The Book of Job as a Book of Morality
- The Book of Jonah: An Ethical Confrontation Between God and Prophet
- The Cain and Abel Narrative: Its Problems and Lessons
- The Concubine of Gibeah (Jud. 19-21)
- The Connection Between the Idol of Micah and the Concubine at Gibeah: A Rabbinic View
- The Destruction of the Wicked
- The Education of Abraham: The Encounter Between Abraham and God Over the Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Fall and Rise of Job the Dissenter
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Illegitimate Child (Mamzer) in Jewish Law
- The Jewish Way of Loving
- The Lex Talionis in the Torah
- The Messages of Chapter 4 of Genesis
- The Mission of Abraham: Genesis 18:17-22:19
- The Problem of Deception in Genesis 27
- The Punishment of Cain
- The Rape of Dinah
- The Rape of Dinah and the Conquest of Shechem
- The Rape of Tamar
- The Rebellious Son: Can His Execution Be Justified?
- The Selling of the Birthright
- The Seven Mitzvot of B'nai Noah: Varieties of Theft
- The Sin of Amalek in Bible and Midrash
- The Third Commandment
- The Tragedy of Jephthah
- The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality – Part I
- The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality – Part II
- Thou Shalt Not Abhor an Egyptian
- Thus They Stripped the Egyptians
- TV: Breast, Robbery or the Devil?
- Two Sinners
- Was Abraham Heartless?
- Was Adam's Action "Disobedience"?
- Was Habakkuk Presumptuous?
- Was Jonathan Guilty: A Study of I Samuel Chapter 14
- What Never Was and Never Will Be: Rebellious Son – Subverted City – Infected House
- When Did We Become a Nation?
- Wherefore Mitzvot, the Divine Commandments?
- Who is the Villain?
- Why Did Joseph Let His Father Mourn For Him?
- טוב ורע במקרא
- כי יצר לב האדם רע מנעוריו
Biblical Etymology
Biblical Exegesis
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 1
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 2
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 3
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 6
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 7
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter IX
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter VIII
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter X
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapters 4 and 5
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapters XI-XII
- A Provincial Who Married a Princess
- An Electric Ark
- Book Review: Al Hasetumot Bamizmor (Commentary on the Psalms)
- Book Review: Ayin Lamikra by Mazal Weigert
- Book Review: Masters of the Word, Vol. I
- Book Review: Pursuing Peshat – Tanakh Parshanut and Talmud Torah
- Can One Criticize the Biblical Heroes?
- Chaos or Chiasm? The Structure of Abraham's Life
- Comment on "The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob"
- Comments on Biblical Verses
- Critical Notes on Psalm 22:30
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- Interpreting B-R-KH in Genesis 47
- Introduction to a New Kohelet Commentary
- Job's Perspectives on Death
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Maimonides’ Approach to the Bible
- Masters of the Word, Vol. II
- Rashi's Midrashic Comments Are Supported by a Broad Range of Biblical Texts
- Sacrificing Isaac: A New Interpretation
- Seeing the Good of Israel
- The Book of Esther: Some Questions and Responses
- The Exegesis of Demetrius the Chronographer
- The Hebrew Word Shem: A New Interpretation of Several Biblical Passages
- The Lesson at Marah
- The Three-Day Plan
- The Tower of Babel in Eliezer Ashkenazi's Sefer Ma'aseh Hashem
- The Weight of the Ark of the Covenant
- Their Ruler Shall Rise Above Agag (Numbers 24:7): Does This Biblical Verse Reference the Future King Saul?
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
Biblical Genre
Biblical Geography
biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew
- ‘Garments of Skin’ (Gen. 3:21)
- “... Upon the Doorposts ...”
- “Awesome” Artistry: Ayummah Kannidgalot in Song of Songs 6:4, 10
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- “Hidden Treasure” in Scripture
- "Irrevocability" of Persian Law in the Scroll of Esther
- A Biblical Freudian Slip: II Samuel 12:6
- A Drop of a Bucket (Isaiah 40:15)
- A Latch and Clasp Connecting Deuteronomy 33:27-29 with Genesis 3:22-24: A Proposed Interpretation
- A Note on “Watergate” in the Tanach
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- A Reconstruction of Matzor: Habakkuk 2:1
- A Significant Insignificance: The Meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh
- A Slip of the Reader and Not the Reed – Part I
- A Slip of the Reader and Not the Reed – Part II
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- A Suggested Translation of Psalm 91:1-2
- A Theological Reason for Ambiguity
- About Some Scriptural Divine Designations
- Abraham's Hospitality
- Accentuation: A Tool for Interpreting the Text of the Hebrew Bible
- Ambiguities of the Eagle
- Amen and Hallelujah: Their Development as Liturgical Responses
- Amos 5:24: Prophetic, Chastising, Surprising, Poetic
- An Anomalous Antonym
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- And a Wind from God: Genesis 1:2
- And Ekron as a Jebusite (Zechariah 9:7)
- Another Look at Job 18:2,3
- Arami Oved Avi
- Ason, a Fate Worse than Death
- Atbash in Jeremiah
- Atbash in Jeremiah – Part II
- Atbash in Jeremiah, Its Literary Significance – Part III
- Babel or Babylon?
- Bdellium
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Bible Mistranslations: A Supplementary Note
- Bible Translations and Mistranslations
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part II
- Bible Trivia: The 72 Letter Name of God
- Biblical Formatting: Visual and Virtual
- Biblical Hebrew: A Socio-Linguistic History
- Biblical Puns
- Book Review: Links to Our Legacy
- Book Review: The Hebrew Word Shem and its Original Meaning by I. Rapaport
- Comments on Biblical Verses
- Death in the Bible
- Decalogue or Dodecalogue?
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Did the Patriarchs Know God's Name?
- Distinguishing Jacob and Israel
- Divine Names
- El Shaddai
- Expletives in the Bible
- From “Seventh Day” to “Shabbat”: Dualities in Genesis 2:1-3
- From Yerushalem to Yerushalayim
- Gematria in the Hebrew Bible
- Gid Hanasheh as Forgetfulness
- Gideon and the Ephraimites
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- God Rested on the Seventh Day
- Habakkuk 3:13 – A Problematic Verse
- Hatan Damim – The Bridegroom of Blood
- Height Theology
- Hesed – Mercy or Loyalty?
- Hinds in Psalm 29
- How Did Moses Die?
- Ibn Ezra on the Torah: Observations
- Ibn Ezra the Bible Exegesist
- Imperative Verbs Followed by the Preposition Lamed: Compulsory or Precatory?
- In the Language of Man
- Inheritance – Heritage
- Isaac and Laughter
- Isaac's Personality and the Meaning of La-Su'ah Ba-Sadeh
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Joseph and the Enslavement of the Egyptians
- Kedusha – Holiness
- King of Princes: An Exegesis of Hosea 8:10
- L’maan: The Teleological Cause in the Pentateuch
- Leah’s Eyes
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: The Meaning of Mayim
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Linguistic Elements in the Book of Ruth
- Metzora(at) Kasheleg: Leprosy
- Midrashic Implications of the Term Holid
- Milk and Honey
- Moses at the Inn: New Light on an Obscure Text
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Nimrod Found?
- Nineveh and Sodom Juxtaposed: Contrasts and Parallels
- Note on the Term Pakad
- Notes on Biblical Hebrew
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Meaning of Mikhtam in Psalms
- Observations on Biblical Hebrew
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part I
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part II
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part III
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part IV
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part V
- Obstetrical and Lexicographical Complications: The Birth of Benjamin and Death of Rachel
- On “Dukhan”
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Pi-Hahirot: The Mouth of Freedom
- Pronunciation: A Key to Meaning — I Kings 3:16-28
- Puns Upon Names: Subtle Colophons in the Bible
- Reflections of Readers: Year or Season?
- Reverence: For God and for the Lord
- Saul and Genocide
- Seeking Vindication, Especially in Jonah
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part I
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part II
- Sheol
- Sign – אות
- Silence in the Bible
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Sparks Flying? Job 5:7
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- The "Name" of God in Psalms
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Atbash-Acrostic
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Book of Ruth
- The Book of Samuel: A Literary Masterpiece
- The Book of Zephaniah: Allusions to the Tower of Babel
- The Destruction of the Golden Calf: A Reply
- The Dew of Heaven
- The Difficult Verse in Genesis 4:26
- The Divine Name E-L Shad-dai: He Who Created Families
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Funniest Word in the Bible: Purim Torah
- The Hand on the Door (Song of Songs 5:4)
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 1 and 2
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 3 and 4
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 5 and 6
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 7 and 8
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Some Afterthoughts
- The Hebrew Word Shem: A New Interpretation of Several Biblical Passages
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Meaning of Dammesek Eliezer
- The Meaning of Tzemah HaShem in Isaiah 4:2
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Multiple Functions of “How” in the Tanakh
- The Names of God
- The Power of Hebrew Names
- The Price of Assimilation
- The Prophet as Watcher
- The Repeated Use of “Vayo’mer” Within One Character’s Speech
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Root G-R-A in the Bible: The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad and Beyond
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Speech Defect of Moses
- The Strange History of ‘Kasher’
- The Torah as Divine Fire
- The Tower of Babel: God’s Towering Pride
- The Translators’ Dilemma: What is Itti?
- The Trope
- The Use of Two Synonymous Prepositions Lema'an and Le- in Ezekiel 21
- The Verb נער in the Bible
- The Word "Ger" in the Bible and Its Implications
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- Three Nuances of Sexual Intercourse
- Three Singular Plurals: Job 18:2,3
- Thus They Stripped the Egyptians
- Twins in Transition: Genesis 32:25-31 Re-examined
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Two Notes on the Exceptional Shalshelet
- Understanding the Beginning of Genesis: Just How Many Beginnings Were There?
- Va-Yafog Libbo (Gen. 45:26)
- Was Habakkuk Presumptuous?
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- What is a גב?
- What is Teruah
- What’s in a Biblical Name
- Why Shamayim as Sky
- Why Start Jacob and Joseph with a "J"?
- Wordplay in Genesis 2:25–3:1
- Yah: A Name of God
- כי יד על כס י-ה
Biblical Hebrew Grammar
biblical hermeneutics
Biblical Heroes
Biblical Historicity
Biblical Historiography
Biblical History
Biblical Ideology
biblical interpretation
Biblical Interpretation
Biblical Irony
Biblical Law
- “... Upon the Doorposts ...”
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- "And These Are the Judgments That You Shall Set Before Them" (Ex. 21:1): "As a Set Table"
- “Chattel or…?”: Laws Relating to Female Slaves in Ancient Israel
- “Ones Who Have Fallen Out” (Nefel): Spontaneous, Accidental, and Intentional: Miscarriage Laws in Ancient Israel
- “We Will Do and We Will Hearken”
- A Closer Examination of Deuteronomy 20:19-20
- A Comment on You Shall Not Boil a Kid in its Mother’s Milk
- A Pair of Contradictory Texts
- A Problem in the Book of Ruth
- A Unique Biblical Law
- Acharei Mot and the Strange Fire
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 1
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 2
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 3: The Age of Return
- Altars and Tables in the Bible
- And Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
- At the Mouth of Two Witnesses
- Beauty in the Bible
- Between the Judges and the Spies: The Courtroom as a Microcosm for the Battlefield and Beyond
- Biblical and Talmudic Attitudes Toward Intermarriage: Part 1
- Blood Feud
- Centralization of Worship
- Changing Laws
- Creation and Commandment
- Darshanut: The Defiant Son
- Decalogue or Dodecalogue?
- Did Pythagoras Follow Nazirite Rules?
- Divination in the Bible
- Divine and Human Curses
- Do Not Destroy the Fruit Trees
- Do That Which Is Right and Good in the Sight of the Lord
- Ecology in the Bible
- Eye for an Eye: An Old Canard
- Eye For Eye
- Ezra Rejects Patrilineal Descent
- Fasting and Atonement
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- Free to Set a King Over Thee
- Friends, Strangers, Enemies
- From Enemy to Friend
- Hammurabi and Biblical Laws
- Hatan Damim – The Bridegroom of Blood
- He is Like a Tree Planted Beside Streams of Water
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- Imperative Verbs Followed by the Preposition Lamed: Compulsory or Precatory?
- In Search of the Biblical Hammurabi
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Inheritance – Heritage
- Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 4: Under Ezra and Nehemia
- Israelites and Aliens: The Period of Proselytizing
- Jerusalem in Jewish Law: Part 4
- Jethro the Convert
- Josiah
- Justice in Solomon’s Court
- Kedushah, Holiness, and Ethics
- Ketovet Ka'aka (Leviticus 19:28): Tattooing or Branding?
- L’maan: The Teleological Cause in the Pentateuch
- Laws of Mourning: Biblical Sources – Part 4
- Laws of Shabbat – Biblical Sources: Part 5
- Laws of Tzara'at in Leviticus 13-14 and Medical Leprosy Compared
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: The Word Ger
- Letters to the Editor
- Looking and Privacy
- Love of Neighbor and Its Antecedent Verses
- Magical Transformations: Sukkoth and the Four Species
- Metzora(at) Kasheleg: Leprosy
- Minhag in Judaism
- Moses and Josiah
- Mystery of the Red Heifer
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Noahide Laws From Genesis to Genizah
- Not to Inflict Hurt on Animals
- Notes on Megillat Ruth, Chapter 4
- Obligatory and Voluntary War
- Of Parents and Children
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Prevention of Cruelty
- Prophecy and Halacha
- Rabbinic Attitudes Toward Intermarriage: Part 2
- Rational Torah
- Reading the Pentateuch Politically
- Residual Magic in the Bible
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part I
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- Shakespeare's Forgivable Portrayal of Shylock
- She Shall Mourn
- Shemittah and the Geography of Israel
- Sinai and the "Shabbat-Cycle" Laws
- Slavery in the Bible
- Tamar Times Three
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- The Biblical Beginning of the Jewish Calendar
- The Biblical Concept of Government
- The Bird’s Nest Mitzvah: A Personal Aggadic Interpretation
- The Circumcision Performed by Zipporah
- The Code of Hammurabi and the Laws of the Torah
- The Cult of Moloch
- The Daughters of Zelophehad
- The Daughters of Zelophehad Revisited
- The Development of the Mezuzah
- The Dilemma of the Sanctuary
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Expanding Perspectives of the Sabbath
- The Fourth Commandment
- The Gold of the Ark
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Illegitimate Child (Mamzer) in Jewish Law
- The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab
- The Laws of Marriage: Biblical Sources
- The Laws of Marriage: Biblical Sources: Part 2
- The Laws of Mourning – Biblical Sources Part 2
- The Laws of Mourning – Biblical Sources: Part 3
- The Laws of Mourning: Biblical Sources: Part 1
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources Part 2
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources Part 3
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources: Part 1
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources: Part 4
- The Layout of the Decalogue on the Tablets and Archaeology
- The Lex Talionis in the Torah
- The Marriage and the Dowry
- The Meaning of Bikkoret in Leviticus 19:20
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Nature of the Decalogue
- The Problem of the Levirate Marriage
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Punishment of Achan: The Poetic Justice of Success and Failure
- The Rebellious Son: Can His Execution Be Justified?
- The Red Heifer Mystery
- The Red Heifer Ritual: A Rational Explanation
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The Ritual of the Red Heifer
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Root G-R-A in the Bible: The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad and Beyond
- The Sabbath Commandment: Its Two Versions
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Saga of the First Born
- The Seven Mitzvot of B'nai Noah: Varieties of Theft
- The Strange History of ‘Kasher’
- The Subtle Grammar of the Biblical Dietary Laws
- The Tassel and the Blue Cord
- The Ten and the Torah
- The Third Commandment
- The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality – Part I
- The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality – Part II
- The Trial of Jeremiah
- The True Sin of Nadab and Abihu
- The Two Tablets of the Covenant
- The Word "Ger" in the Bible and Its Implications
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- Thou Shalt Not Abhor an Egyptian
- Three Nuances of Sexual Intercourse
- What Never Was and Never Will Be: Rebellious Son – Subverted City – Infected House
- Wherefore Mitzvot, the Divine Commandments?
- Why Did the Torah Allow Servitude?
- Why Is 20 the Minimum Age in the Bible for a Kohen to Minister in the Temple, for a Person to Be Counted in the Census, and for a Man to Join the Army?
- Why Isaac Wasn't Permitted to Resist at the Akedah
- Witchcraft in the Bible
- Yom Kippur: Cover Up or Plea for Probation?
- You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother's Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19
Biblical Motherhood
Biblical Mystery
biblical narrative
Biblical Narrative
- A Biblical Freudian Slip: II Samuel 12:6
- A Biblical Protest Against the Violation of Women
- A Calculated Risk: A Speculative Excursion Into the Mind of Pharaoh’s Butler
- A Midrashic View of Ruth Amidst a Sea of Ambiguity
- A Nameless City
- A Significant Insignificance: The Meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh
- Abishag the Shunammite
- Abraham Plants a Flag
- Abraham's Great Sin – A Reevaluation
- Abraham's Ten Trials and a Biblical Numerical Convention
- Absalom’s Revolt
- Absalom’s Story: Drama and Tragedy
- Ahab: A “Poor” Character
- Ahasuerus the Villain
- Ahitophel of Gilo: Two Literary Portraits
- Another Look at the Tree of Good and Evil
- Archetypes in the Patriarchal Family
- Balaam the Magician
- Balaam: An Unauthentic Prophet
- Balaam: Some Aspects of His Character
- Balaam’s Mission – Failure or Success?
- Baruch Ben-Neriah: The Man Who Was Not a Prophet
- Beauty in the Bible
- Bereshit and the Courage of New Beginnings
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part II
- Biblical Notes: Four Who Hesitated
- Book of Esther – A Novelle
- Book Review: Understanding the Hebrew Bible
- Cain and Abel
- Cain and Abel: Story of Creation: Part 4
- Cain, the Anti-Establishment Hero
- Cain: Why Is He Featured So Prominently in the Bible?
- Chaos or Chiasm? The Structure of Abraham's Life
- Characteristics of Biblical Historiography
- Checkmate: The King is Dead
- Communication Problems
- Concealment and Irony in the Samson Story
- Could Moses’ Hands Make War?
- Cut the Baby in Half: Understanding Solomon's Divinely-Inspired Wisdom
- Darshanut: Domestic Politics
- Darshanut: Enoch’s Shoes
- Darshanut: Jethro – Who Was He?
- Darshanut: Noah and His Family Relations
- David and Bathsheba Part 2
- David and Batsheba: Part 1
- David and Batsheba: Part 3
- David Dances – Michal Scoffs
- David’s Census: Additional Reflection
- David’s Last Sin: Was It the Census?
- Derekh Hokhma: Two Aspects of the Exodus Narrative, Part I
- Distinguishing Jacob and Israel
- Divided They Stand: The United Monarchy Split in Twain
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part II
- Eastward and Westward: The Movement of Prophecy and History in the Book of Yonah
- Eldad and Medad: The Men Who Were Not There
- Elijah
- Elijah: The Unique Prophet
- Elijah’s Recovery from Depression
- Elisha the Prophet
- Esther 3:3: The Question With No Response
- Esther Hamalka the Royal Mistress and Mordecai Hayehudi the Jewish Judge
- Esther: A Story of Jewish Defense
- Esther’s Plan to Save the Jews
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Fathers and Sons
- Final Judgement: The Ambiguous Moral Question That Culminates Genesis 34
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- Gideon and the Ephraimites
- God Called: Abraham! Abraham! Jacob! Jacob! Moses! Moses! Samuel! Samuel!
- Height Theology
- Hezekiah and Josiah: A Comparison
- His Brothers’ Keeper
- In the Shadow of Amalek
- Irony in I Samuel (Chapters 8-15)
- Isaac Tells the Akeda Story
- Isaiah and Hezekiah: Prophet and King
- Israel’s Defining Experience: From Family to Nations
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Jacob, Man of Destiny: His Youth
- Jacob, Man of Destiny: Part 3: The Turning Point
- Jacob: Father of a Nation
- Jacob's Choice in Genesis 25:19 – 28:9
- Jacob’s Growing Understanding of His Experience at Beth-El
- Jacob’s Love for Rachel
- Jacob's Paradoxical Encounters
- Jacob’s Two Dreams
- Jephthah
- Jephthah’s Daughter
- Joab, Captain of the Host
- Jonah and Nineveh: The Tragedy of Jonah
- Jonah, the Reluctant Prophet: Prophecy and Allegory
- Jonah: Toward the Re-Education of the Prophets
- Jonah: Transition From Seer to Prophet
- Jonah’s Confession
- Jonah’s Race to Nineveh
- Jonathan
- Joseph and Daniel: Court Jews and Dreamers
- Joseph and his Brothers
- Joseph and His Brothers: Vengeance or Reconciliation
- Joseph and Revolutionary Egypt
- Joseph Under Suspicion
- Joseph's Emotional Development
- Judah and Tamar
- Judah and Tamar: A Scriptural Enigma
- King Balak: Happy Endings
- King David’s Aging: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- Korah and His Aspirations
- Laban and Jacob
- Leadership in the Book of Numbers
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor: A Further Note on the Torn Robe
- Matriarchal Influence in the Bible: A Medical-Psychological Study
- Military Intelligence in the Bible
- Military Intelligence in the Bible Part 2
- Military Intelligence in the Bible: Part 3
- Military Intelligence in the Bible: Part 4
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- Moses and the Spies
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part I
- Moses: The Tragedy of his Personal Life
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- Nabal and Abigail
- Nabal, the Villain
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Noah and the Ark Reexamined
- Noble Jonathan
- Not a Blacksmith Could be Found
- Notes on Megillat Ruth, Chapter 4
- Oded, a Prophet of God
- Parallel Lists of Prediluvian Patriarchs: A Psychological Interpretation
- Patriarchal History: Action and Reaction
- Polarization in the Mosaic Period
- Power of Persuasion: Judah, Abigail, and Hushai
- Puns Upon Names: Subtle Colophons in the Bible
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part I
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part II
- Rachel: A Woman Who Would Be a Mother
- Rahab the Harlot and Other Philosophers of Religion
- Rebecca’s Encounter with Abraham’s Servant
- Rebekah’s Beguilement of Isaac
- Redeeming Cain: A Comparative Literary Reading of Genesis
- Reflections of Readers: Judah and Joseph: A Study in Contrasts
- Reply to “Ahasuerus the Villain”
- Revisiting the Garden of Eden
- Ruth and Naomi: Foremothers of David
- Said the Thistle to the Cedar
- Samson and Samuel: Two Styles of Leadership
- Samson in Timnah: Judges 14-15: Form and Function
- Samson: A Tragedy in Three Acts
- Samuel and Saul: The Psychological Dimension
- Saul and the Witch of Endor
- Saul’s Kingship: The Tragedy of a Leader
- Seeking Vindication, Especially in Jonah
- Seize the Moment
- Settlement of the Tribe of Dan
- Sex and Violence in the Bible
- Sibling Relationships in the Bible: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- Simeon the Scapegoat
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Sodom: Manner, Morals, Misdeeds
- Solomon’s Humiliation
- Some Psychological Insights into the Life of Abraham
- Some Reflections on the Nature and Provenance of the Book of Esther
- Spectacle Culture: Vision as a Narrative Plot Device in the Samson Cycle
- Spies, Princes and Korach’s Rebellion
- Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, Esther Ruth Jonah Deciphered
- Strife in the Household of King David
- Struggling with Angels and Men
- Suicide in the Bible
- Switching Brides: Conspiracy and Cover-Up
- The Abel Syndrome
- The Akedah Drama
- The Anatomy of the First Lies
- The Anatomy of the Joseph Cycle
- The Art of Biblical Narrative: Part 1
- The Art of Biblical Narrative: Part 2
- The Art of Narration in the Scroll of Esther
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Biblical Number 12 and the Formation of the Ancient Nation of Israel
- The Book of Esther and its Motifs
- The Book of Esther: Some Questions and Responses
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 1
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 2 – By Way of Reply
- The Book of Samuel: A Literary Masterpiece
- The Bridegroom of Blood
- The Cain and Abel Narrative: Its Problems and Lessons
- The Confirmation of Noah’s Blessing: An Interpretation of Genesis 8:21-9:11
- The Earthquake That Turned the Course of the War
- The Enigma of the Joseph Narrative
- The Epilogue to Jonah
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The Fertility of the Early Israelites
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Function of the Root Y-R-KH in Genesis
- The Funeral of Jacob: A Joint Hebrew-Egyptian Affair
- The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron
- The Ghost of Samuel: Real or Imaginary?
- The Great Ladies
- The Hand on the Door (Song of Songs 5:4)
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes: Part 3
- The Hidden Hand of God
- The Hidden Mission of Biblical Angels
- The Incident at the Lodging House
- The Jacob-Esau Reunion
- The Listing of the Tribes of Israel
- The Literary Significance of the Name Lists in Ezra-Nehemiah
- The Love of David and Michal
- The Messages of Chapter 4 of Genesis
- The Miracle at the Red Sea
- The Nature of Kinat David: Public or Private?
- The Oedipus Complex and its Biblical Parallels
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Paradox in the Book of Esther
- The Plague in I Samuel 5 and 6
- The Positive and Negative Traits of Gideon as Reflected in His Sons Jotham and Abimelech
- The Problem of Deception in Genesis 27
- The Prophet and the King
- The Prophet and the King
- The Prowess of the Benjaminites
- The Punishment of Achan: The Poetic Justice of Success and Failure
- The Punishment of Cain
- The Rebellion of Jehu
- The Rebellion of the Bechorim
- The Rise and Fall of Israel in the Desert
- The Rise of the House of Omri
- The Saga of the Ark
- The Saga of the First Born
- The Significance of Joseph’s Agrarian Policy
- The Sin of Amalek in Bible and Midrash
- The Striking of the Rock
- The Three Day Syndrome
- The Torn Robe: A Study of I Samuel 15:26-28
- The Tower of Babel Revisited
- The Trial of Jeremiah
- The Trial of Jeremiah and the Killing of Uriah the Prophet
- The True Sin of Nadab and Abihu
- The Use of Symbolism and Hidden Messages in the Book of Ruth
- The Wilderness Experience
- Themes in the Book of Esther
- These are the Generations of Isaac
- Thoughts on an Allegorical Reading of Jonah
- Three Charismatic Judges and Their Strategies
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Three Women
- Tragedy in the Bible
- Two Biblical Parables: Irony and Self Entrapment
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Two Righteous Men: Isaiah and Hezekiah
- Vashti: An Unsung Heroine
- Was Father Isaac a Co-conspirator?
- Was Jonathan Guilty: A Study of I Samuel Chapter 14
- Was Simeon Not Included in Moses' Blessing
- What Ailed the Son of Kish?
- When God's Will Can and Cannot Be Altered: The Relationship Between the Balaam Narrative and I Kings 13
- Who is the Villain?
- Who Killed Goliath – A Response to Steven Moss
- Who Killed Goliath?
- Who Was Shamgar Ben Anath
- Why Did God Want to Kill Moses?
- Why Moses Smashed the Tablets
- Why No Message from Joseph to His Father?
- Why the Walls of Jericho Came Tumbling Down
- Why Was Aaron Punished?
Biblical Numbers
Biblical Numerology
Biblical Occupations
Biblical Onomastics
biblical orthography
Biblical Orthography
Biblical Patterns
Biblical Philology
Biblical Phonetics
Biblical Poetics
biblical poetry
Biblical Poetry
- A Biblical Reverie
- A Drop of a Bucket (Isaiah 40:15)
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- A Psalm for Sabbath? A Literary View of Psalm 92
- A Stylistic-Exegetical Analysis of Jeremiah 46:1-12
- About Books: The Song of Songs by Eliezer Levinger
- Ambiguities of the Eagle
- Amos 5:24: Prophetic, Chastising, Surprising, Poetic
- An Elegy of David: To Teach the Sons of Judah the Bow
- At the Rivers of Babylon
- Biblical Motifs in the Poetical Works of Chaim Nachman Bialik
- Book Review: Torah Song: The Theological Role of Torah Poetry
- Books 3-5 of the Book of Psalms: From Harshness to Hallelujah
- Bulrush and Bramble
- Creation and the Torah in Psalm 19
- Darshanut: The Torah as Poetry
- Deborah: Judge, Prophetess and Poet
- Double Meanings in the Song of Songs
- Flattering Earth
- Four Repetitions in the Song of Songs
- Genesis I
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- Hinds in Psalm 29
- Let Everything Praise the Lord
- Letters to the Editor
- Literary Patterns in the Song of Songs
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Moses as Poet: Ha'azinu as Poem
- My Beloved is Gone Down to his Garden to the Beds of Spices
- Nahum – The Prophet and His Message
- Nahum 1: Acrostic and Authorship
- On the Inadequacy of Translation: As Exemplified by a Literary Analysis of Four Translations of Psalm 102 – Part I
- On the Inadequacy of Translation: As Exemplified by a Literary Analysis of Four Translations of Psalm 102 – Part II
- Praise Waiteth For Thee (Ps. 65:2)
- Problems and Solutions of Habakkuk 3:8
- Prolegomena to the Book of Proverbs
- Proverbs 31:10-31: The Woman of Valor as Allegory
- Psalm 119
- Psalm 145: Its Two Faces
- Psalm 147
- Psalm 23: A Pattern Poem
- Psalm 47: Numerical and Geometrical Devices Used to Emphasize the Author’s Message
- Psalm 68: Echoes of the Song of Deborah?
- Psalm 91 as Responsory
- Psalm XXIV
- Psalms of Zion
- Responsive Voices in the Song of the Sea
- Restructuring Psalm 47
- Restructuring Psalm 85
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part I
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part II
- Silence in the Bible
- Sing to Me
- Sisera and Harosheth-Goiim
- Some Surprises in Psalm 78
- Song of Songs
- Sound and Silence
- Sparks From the Psalms
- Sulamith Unallegorized
- Tehilim: The Book of Psalms
- Tehillim – The Psalms
- Tehillim: The Book of Psalms
- The Book of Proverbs: Everyman's Guide to the Higher Life
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Dew of Heaven
- The Earth Is Full of Your Creations (Psalms 104:24)
- The Living Testament of Jacob-Israel
- The Makers of Israel: A Note on Psalm 149
- The Metaphors of the Vine and Olive Tree
- The Nature of Kinat David: Public or Private?
- The Riddle of Psalm 49
- The Song of Solomon – A Dream Ballet
- The Song of Songs: The Bible’s Celebration of Love
- The Sound of Music
- The Symbols of Nature in Israel and in the Ancient Near East
- The Testament of Jacob: An Analysis of Gen. 49:18
- The Theme of the Song of Songs
- The Warhorse of the Lord
- Tiles and Bricks in Biblical Poetry
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Two Hymns to Wisdom
- Understanding Psalm 46
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Yakov Azriel, Threads from a Coat of Many Colors: Poems on Genesis
- איכה כלב משירי שזר
- לידער פון זלמן שזר
Biblical Prayer
Biblical Prophets
Biblical Reference Works
Biblical Rhetoric
Biblical Symbolism
Biblical Syntax
Biblical Theology
- "... And Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “And Against All the Gods of Egypt I Will Execute Judgements ...”
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- “We Will Do and We Will Hearken”
- A God Who Cares
- A Latch and Clasp Connecting Deuteronomy 33:27-29 with Genesis 3:22-24: A Proposed Interpretation
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- A Theological Reason for Ambiguity
- A Traditionalist View
- About Some Scriptural Divine Designations
- Adam’s Conquest
- Adam’s Sin
- Akedah: The Binding of Isaac
- An Inner Light
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- And the Writing Was the Writing of God
- Another Look at the Tree of Good and Evil
- Balaam: Did God Change His Mind?
- Bible and Science – A Symposium
- Biblical Cosmogony: A Symbolic Interpretation of Genesis 1-4
- Biblical Historiosophy
- Biblical Literature and Contemporary Parallels: Alike but Different
- Biblical Man and His Questions of Faith
- Biblical Metaphor and the Dynamics of Jewish Demography: A Modern Midrash
- Biblical Monotheism: Some of its Implications
- Biblical Teaching of Peace
- Book Review: A Theology of Holiness
- Book Review: Creation in the Old Testament
- Book Review: Eschatology in the Old Testament
- Book Review: The Challenge of God to Man: A Theology of Responsible Freedom
- Book Review: Torah Song: The Theological Role of Torah Poetry
- Consequences of the Akedah
- Could Moses’ Hands Make War?
- Creation and Commandment
- Creation and the Limitations of the Creator
- Darkness and Light
- Darshanut: The Promise of Enduring Life
- Darshanut: The Universal Message of Death
- David’s Census: Additional Reflection
- David’s Last Sin: Was It the Census?
- Death in the Bible
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Divine and Human Curses
- Divine Names
- Dynamics of the Divine-Human Interaction
- Eikev: The Consequences of God’s Judgement
- El Shaddai
- End of Exile?
- Excess: The Hidden Root of Evil
- Exile and Return
- Face to Face (Exodus 32-34)
- Five Questions of Abraham
- For I am God and Not Man
- For the Love of the Land
- For the Sake of My Name
- Forget Not Your Forebears!
- From Biblical Religion to Judaism
- From Monolatry to Monotheism
- Gid Hanasheh as Forgetfulness
- God and Man in Biblical Action
- God and Man on Trial
- God Rested on the Seventh Day
- God, Abraham, Moses: A Comparison of Key Questions
- God’s Reply to Job
- God's Voice: From Creation to the Sanctuary
- I Believe
- Implications of the Wager in the Book of Job
- In the Image of God
- In the Language of Man
- In the Presence
- Jacob’s Growing Understanding of His Experience at Beth-El
- Jacob's Paradoxical Encounters
- Jeremiah, the Suffering Prophet, and Ezekiel, the Visionary
- Kedusha – Holiness
- Koheleth
- L’maan: The Teleological Cause in the Pentateuch
- Letters to the Editor
- Look Unto Abraham Your Father (Isaiah 51:2)
- Man the Pinnacle of Creation
- Monarchy and the Bible
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- Nahum's Theological Perspectives
- National and Eschatological Messianism: Biblical Writers of the Second Commonwealth
- On Angels
- Particularism and Universalism in Psalms
- Problem of Theodicy
- Rational Torah
- Redemption in the Bible
- Redemption: Time and Space
- Religion by the River
- Reverence: For God and for the Lord
- Revisiting the Garden of Eden
- Reward and Punishment in Jewish Thought: A Symposium
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- Samuel and Saul: The Prophetic Dimension
- Satan: Psychologist
- Sheol
- Sign – אות
- Silence in the Bible
- Some Surprises in Psalm 78
- Struggling with Angels and Men
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- The "Name" of God in Psalms
- The Akedah – A Test of God
- The Bible and Life After Death
- The Biblical Mind
- The Blood of Life: The Hatat Offering and September 11, 2001
- The Blood of the Covenant in the Bible
- The Book of Job: Its True Significance
- The Cain and Abel Narrative: Its Problems and Lessons
- The Destruction of the Wicked
- The Development of Biblical Prayer
- The Direction and Purpose of Time: Isaiah's Vision of the “End of Days”
- The Divine Name E-L Shad-dai: He Who Created Families
- The Doctrine of Reward
- The Education of Abraham: The Encounter Between Abraham and God Over the Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Fall and Rise of Job the Dissenter
- The Fourth Commandment
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The God of Abraham, Rebekah and Jacob
- The Hidden Hand of God
- The How, What and Why of Creation
- The Importance of Place
- The Meaning of Abraham’s Test: A Reexamination of the Akedah
- The Messages of Chapter 4 of Genesis
- The Messianic Idea: The Real and the Hidden Son of David
- The Mission of Abraham: Genesis 18:17-22:19
- The Mystery of Being
- The Names of God
- The Nature of the Decalogue
- The Ninth Plague
- The Problem of the “Chosen People”
- The Prophet Versus the King
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Prophets: Nationalist or Universalist
- The Punishment of Job’s Friends
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Satanic Verses – Part II
- The Story of Creation in the Bible
- The Story of Creation: Part 2: Genesis Chapter 2
- The Story of Creation: Part 3: Garden of Eden
- The Tabernacle: A Psycho-Theological Enterprise
- The Testing of Abraham
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 1
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 2
- The Third Commandment
- The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
- The Trials of Abraham
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- Theodicy in the Bible
- They Are No Longer, For God Has Taken Them
- Thou Worm Jacob
- Two Concepts of the Covenant
- Two Views of the Bible
- Understanding Redemption Through the Metaphor of the Family
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- What About the Tree of Life?
- What was the Actual Effect of the Tree of Knowledge?
- When Did We Become a Nation?
- Why Moses?
- Why Was God Optimistic After the Flood?
- טוב ורע במקרא
- כי יד על כס י-ה
- כי יצר לב האדם רע מנעוריו
biblical translation
Biblical Translation
Biblical Trial Narratives
Biblical Warfare
Biblical Zoology
Biography
Birth and Fertility
Birthright
Blessing and Birthright
Blessing and Inheritance
Blood Vengeance
Book of Daniel
Book of Esther
Book of Job
Book of Jonah
Book of Judges
Book of Kings
Book of Samuel
Book Review
- About Books: A Time for Loving by Herbert Tarr
- About Books: Ben Gurion Looks at the Bible
- About Books: Sabbath Chapters of Talmud by Rabbi B. Elizur-Epstein
- About Books: The Song of Songs by Eliezer Levinger
- Book Review: A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: A New English Translation of the Septuagint
- Book Review: A Rabbi Reads the Psalms
- Book Review: A Rabbi’s Bible
- Book Review: A Theology of Holiness
- Book Review: Al Hasetumot Bamizmor (Commentary on the Psalms)
- Book Review: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Traditions
- Book Review: Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism From Max Weber to the Present
- Book Review: Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith
- Book Review: Archeology of the Bible: Book by Book by Gaalyah Cornfeld
- Book Review: Assimilation Versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
- Book Review: Ayin Lamikra by Mazal Weigert
- Book Review: Cain v. Abel: A Jewish Courtroom Drama
- Book Review: Creation in the Old Testament
- Book Review: Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism
- Book Review: Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology
- Book Review: Eschatology in the Old Testament
- Book Review: Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary
- Book Review: Ezra and the Law in History and Tradition
- Book Review: From Gods to God
- Book Review: Gevuroth Haromah
- Book Review: God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry
- Book Review: Haim M. I. Gevaryahu Memorial Volume
- Book Review: Have You Considered My Servant Job? Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
- Book Review: How to Read the Bible
- Book Review: I Kings – Torn in Two
- Book Review: Identity and Ethos: A Festschrift for Sol Liptzin
- Book Review: Jacob's Family Dynamics: Climbing the Rungs of the Ladder by Gad Dishi
- Book Review: Jephthah and His Vow by David Marcus
- Book Review: Jerusalem
- Book Review: Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress
- Book Review: JPS Bible Commentary — Jonah
- Book Review: JPS Guide: The Jewish Bible
- Book Review: Kohelet: A Map to Eden — An Intertextual Journey
- Book Review: Lev Avot by Simon P. Toperoff
- Book Review: Lexikon der biblischen Personen
- Book Review: Lilith’s Daughters: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction by B. H. Rigney, and In Light of Genesis by P. W. Hadas
- Book Review: Links to Our Legacy
- Book Review: Masters of the Word, Vol. I
- Book Review: Midrash of a Kind: Biblical Themes in World Literature by Sol Liptzin
- Book Review: New Testament People – A Rabbi's Notes
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures – Volume 2
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Outside the Bible: Ancient Writings Related to Scripture
- Book Review: Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah
- Book Review: Pursuing Peshat – Tanakh Parshanut and Talmud Torah
- Book Review: Qohelet – Searching for a Life Worth Living
- Book Review: Rashi by Chaim Pearl
- Book Review: Recalling the Covenant
- Book Review: Recipes For Better Living
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Exodus: Explorations in Text and Meaning
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Leviticus
- Book Review: Religion and Contemporary Management: Moses as a Model for Effective Leadership
- Book Review: Sefer Ha-Aggadah
- Book Review: Song of Riddles — Deciphering the Song of Songs
- Book Review: Studies in the Period of David and Solomon and Other Essays
- Book Review: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic and the Biblical Flood Story by I. Rapaport
- Book Review: Talks on Scripture, vol. 2: The Latter Prophets
- Book Review: Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- Book Review: Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Revised and Expanded 4th Ed.
- Book Review: Textual History of the Bible — The Hebrew Bible, Volumes 1B and 1C
- Book Review: The Babylonian Poem Enuma Elish and Genesis Chapter One by I. Rapaport
- Book Review: The Biblical Hero
- Book Review: The Book of Job: A Commentary
- Book Review: The Commentators’ Bible — The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot, Genesis
- Book Review: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption
- Book Review: The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
- Book Review: The Encyclopaedia Biblica, vols. 1-8
- Book Review: The Epic of the Patriarch
- Book Review: The Ethics of Genesis
- Book Review: The Ethics of Numbers
- Book Review: The Exile of the Word: From the Silence of the Bible to the Silence of Auschwitz by André Neher
- Book Review: The God of Job
- Book Review: The Hebrew Bible and its Modern Interpreters
- Book Review: The Hebrew Word Shem and its Original Meaning by I. Rapaport
- Book Review: The Invention of Monotheist Ethics
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary — Ruth
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120–150. The Traditional Hebrew Text with the JPS Translation
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs
- Book Review: The JPS Tanakh: The Gender-Sensitive Edition
- Book Review: The Mark of Cain by Ruth Mellinkoff
- Book Review: The Matriarchs of Genesis: Seven Women, Five Views
- Book Review: The Queen and the Spymaster
- Book Review: The Seven Days of the Beginning by Elie Munk
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Book Review: The Torah: A Modern Commentary by W. Gunther Plaut
- Book Review: The Torah: A Modern Commentary Revised Edition
- Book Review: The Torah: A Women's Commentary
- Book Review: The Words of Gad the Seer
- Book Review: Thinking About the Prophets
- Book Review: Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar
- Book Review: Torah for the Family by Lipis and Katzoff
- Book Review: Torah Song: The Theological Role of Torah Poetry
- Book Review: Unbinding Isaac
- Book Review: Understanding the Hebrew Bible
- Book Review: Unto Us a Child is Born
- Book Review: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
- Book Review: Women's Bible Commentary
- Masters of the Word, Vol. II
- Remembering Adam Zertal
- Review Essay: Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
- Review: Bible Scholar Computer Program
- Review: Mac Bible Version 2.0
brotherhood
Brotherhood
C
Cain and Abel
Calendar and Chronology
Calendar and Festivals
Camels
Canaanite Nations
Canaanite Peoples
Canon
- A First Century C.E. Date for the Closing of the Book of Psalms?
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures – Volume 2
- Citing Chapter and Verse
- Ezra the Scribe
- Isaiah: How the Book Entered Holy Writ
- Some Reflections on the Nature and Provenance of the Book of Esther
- Sources on the History of Torah and Haftarah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading
- The Book of Daniel: A Guide for Judaism in Exile
- The Maccabees and the Transmission of the Text of the Torah
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The School of Isaiah: Biography and Transmission of the Book of Isaiah
Canon Formation
Cantillation
Census
Character Comparison
Character Studies
Character Study
Characterization
Cherubim
Chiasm
Child Abuse
Chosenness
- A Nation Without a State: Part 2
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone
- Being Jewish: A Parallel Line to Other Faiths
- Israel’s Defining Experience: From Family to Nations
- Jacob's Choice in Genesis 25:19 – 28:9
- Particularism and Universalism in Psalms
- Restoration of a Holy Nation (445 BCE)
- The Problem of Deception in Genesis 27
- The Problem of the “Chosen People”
- The Prophets: Nationalist or Universalist
- The Universalism of the Book of Jonah: According to the Teaching of Yehezkel Kaufmann
- Universalism and/or Particularism
Christian-Jewish Dialogue
Christianity and the Bible
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- Kaddish and the Lord’s Prayer
- More Bible Curiosities and Mistranslations
- Moses: Intermediary or Teacher?
- Parallelisms Between the Tanakh and the Gospels
- Septuagint Vocabulary in the Gospels and Acts
- Tanakh Sources of Judas Iscariot
- The Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568-1573): A Triumph of Hebraism
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Horns of Moses
- The Jewish and Christian Covenants and the Holocaust
- The Jewish Origins of the Lord’s Prayer
- Was Adam's Action "Disobedience"?
- Was Bishop Ussher's Chronology Influenced by a Midrash?
Chronicles
- Chronicles: The Neglected Book of the Bible (Part II)
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Chronicles' Levitical Covenant
- In Search of Bithiah Bat Pharaoh and the Meaning of I Chronicles 4:18
- Letters to the Editor
- The Book of Chronicles
- The Prophet Micaiah in Kings and Chronicles
- Worship and Four Kings in Chronicles
chronology
Chronology
- "There Is No Chronological Order in the Torah"
- Be-Dorotav: Noah's "Generations" in Light of Antediluvian Longevity
- Daniel as the Embodiment of Exile and Redemption
- In the Second Year of the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:1)
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Sojourn in Egypt
Circumcision
Cities of Refuge
Civil Disobedience
Civil War
Clothing Symbolism
Collective Memory
Collective Obedience
Commandments
Communal Identity
Comparative Ancient Law
Comparative Exegesis
Comparative Law
Comparative Literature
- Book Review: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Traditions
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Noah’s Vintner Tale: Divine Literature in Human Language
- The Book of Job as a Way of Relating to Jewish National Suffering
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- Who Was Lamenting and Why? Lamentations and the Sumerian City Laments
Comparative Mythology
Comparative Narrative
Comparative Philology
Comparative Religion
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Azazel: The Scapegoat in the Bible and Ancient Near East
- Did Pythagoras Follow Nazirite Rules?
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 6: The Story of Joseph and Assenath
- Israelites and Aliens: The Period of Proselytizing
- Jethro the Convert
- Know What to Answer: Part 1
- Know What to Answer: Part 2
- Know What to Answer: Part 3
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- Noahide Laws From Genesis to Genizah
- Review Essay: Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
- Ruth and Medea
- Shepherd's Instruments
- Solomon and Sheba: Aggadic Roots of the Koran Story
- The Enoch Tradition
- The Enuma Elish Hoax
- The Flood Story in the Bible and Cuneiform Literature: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic Wrongly Interpreted
- The Oedipus Complex and its Biblical Parallels
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Satanic Verses – Part I
- Were Job’s Friends Gentiles?
- Who Knows Seven?
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Comparative Semitic Philology
Comparative Semitics
Composition History
Conquest
Conquest Narrative
Conquest Narratives
Conquest of Canaan
Contemporary Application
Contemporary Jewish Life
Conversion
Correspondence
Court Intrigue
Court Politics
covenant
Covenant
- Chronicles' Levitical Covenant
- Isaac: A Life of Bitter Laughter
- Letter to the Editor
- Master of Life
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 1
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 2 – By Way of Reply
- The Prophecy of Joel: The Prophet's Message, Beliefs, and Prophetic Style
- The Two Tablets of the Covenant
- Two Concepts of the Covenant
Covenant Curses
Covenant Theology
creation
Creation
- ‘Garments of Skin’ (Gen. 3:21)
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- A Torah With 70 Different Faces
- Adam I and Adam II
- Adam: Created in the Image and Likeness of God
- Adam’s Conquest
- Adam’s Missing Years: Evolution of a Legend
- Adam’s Rib
- Adam’s Sin
- And a Wind from God: Genesis 1:2
- Another Look at the Tree of Good and Evil
- Bible and Science – A Symposium
- Biblical Cosmogony: A Symbolic Interpretation of Genesis 1-4
- Biblical Literature and Contemporary Parallels: Alike but Different
- Book Review: Creation in the Old Testament
- Book Review: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic and the Biblical Flood Story by I. Rapaport
- Book Review: The Babylonian Poem Enuma Elish and Genesis Chapter One by I. Rapaport
- Book Review: The Seven Days of the Beginning by Elie Munk
- Cain and Abel
- Cain and Abel: Story of Creation: Part 4
- Cain: Why Is He Featured So Prominently in the Bible?
- Creation and Commandment
- Creation and the Limitations of the Creator
- Creation and the Torah in Psalm 19
- Creation, Tabernacle and Sabbath
- Creation: Something from Something, Something from Nothing, or Something from Hardly Anything?
- Did the Earth Rebel Against God on the Third Day of Creation?
- Ecological Motifs in the Bible
- Ecology in the Bible
- Evolution in the Bible
- Evolution’s Fateful Implication
- From “Seventh Day” to “Shabbat”: Dualities in Genesis 2:1-3
- Genesis I
- God Rested on the Seventh Day
- God's Voice: From Creation to the Sanctuary
- In the Image of God
- Letters to the Editor
- Man the Pinnacle of Creation
- Noah and the Ark Reexamined
- Noah's Ark as Metaphor
- Omphalos Revisited
- On Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- Psalm 19 Revisited
- Reflections of Readers
- Revisiting the Garden of Eden
- Sons of God, Daughters of Men?
- The Abel Syndrome
- The Anatomy of the First Lies
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Difficult Verse in Genesis 4:26
- The Duality of Man
- The Earth Is Full of Your Creations (Psalms 104:24)
- The Enuma Elish Hoax
- The Expanding Perspectives of the Sabbath
- The Flood Story in the Bible and Cuneiform Literature: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic Wrongly Interpreted
- The Garden of Eden as God’s First Sanctuary
- The How, What and Why of Creation
- The Legacy of Two Adams
- The Messages of Chapter 4 of Genesis
- The Mystery of Being
- The Punishment of Cain
- The Story of Creation in the Bible
- The Story of Creation: Part 2: Genesis Chapter 2
- The Story of Creation: Part 3: Garden of Eden
- The Symbols of Nature in Israel and in the Ancient Near East
- The Tower of Babel
- The Tower of Babel Revisited
- The Tower of Babel: God’s Towering Pride
- The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
- Understanding the Beginning of Genesis: Just How Many Beginnings Were There?
- Was Adam's Action "Disobedience"?
- What About the Tree of Life?
- What was the Actual Effect of the Tree of Knowledge?
- Why Shamayim as Sky
- Why Was God Optimistic After the Flood?
- כי יצר לב האדם רע מנעוריו
Creation ex nihilo
Creation Ex Nihilo
Creation Narrative
Cyrus the Great
D
Daniel
David
- Abraham Cowley and the David Story
- Absalom’s Story: Drama and Tragedy
- Ahitophel of Gilo: Two Literary Portraits
- An Elegy of David: To Teach the Sons of Judah the Bow
- Book Review: Studies in the Period of David and Solomon and Other Essays
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- City of David
- David Took Goliath's Sword
- David’s Marriage to Michal
- From the City of David to Jerusalem
- How David Captured Jerusalem
- King David’s Aging: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- Nabal and Abigail
- Nabal, the Villain
- Psalm 34 – Does the Heading Fit?
- Psalms Chapter 63: David in the Wilderness
- The Hidden Storyline Within the Biblical Texts Regarding David and Saul
- The Historical Background of Psalm 24
- The Love of David and Michal
- The Messianic Idea: The Real and the Hidden Son of David
- The Rape of Tamar
- When Love and Politics Mix: David and His Relationships with Saul, Jonathan, and Michal
- Who Killed Goliath – A Response to Steven Moss
- Who Killed Goliath?
- Worship and Four Kings in Chronicles
David and Goliath
Davidic Authorship
Davidic Covenant
Davidic Dynasty
Davidic Kingship
Davidic Monarchy
Davidic Narrative
Day of the Lord
Dead Sea Scrolls
Death and Afterlife
Death and Burial
Death and Dying
Death and Mourning
Death and Punishment
Death and the Grave
Death and the Underworld
Death of Moses
Deception
Deception Motif
Demography
Demonstrative Pronouns
Deutero-Isaiah
Deuteronomy
- After All, the Lord Does Not Ask for Much!
- Between the Judges and the Spies: The Courtroom as a Microcosm for the Battlefield and Beyond
- Considering the Genre and Audience of Deuteronomy 9:7
- Conundrum: Why Wasn’t the Verse Ki Ha’adam Etz HaSadeh (Deut. 20:19) Used as a Prooftext for the Halakhic Concept of Man Being Gidulei Karka (Something That Grows From the Ground)?
- The Bed of Og
- The Cries of Our Rivals
- Why Was Mount Gerizim Chosen for the Blessing Ceremony?
Diaspora
- A Fresh Look at Nebuchadnezzar
- A Nation Without a State: Part 2
- American Youth Win Bible Contest
- Book Review: Assimilation Versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
- Canadian Wins Eleventh World Youth Bible Contest
- Daniel
- Esther: A Story of Jewish Defense
- Greater Hartford Bible Study Group Takes Names of Fallen Israeli
- Joseph and Daniel: Court Jews and Dreamers
- No Happy Ending for Esther
- Spotlight on the Diaspora Winners of the International Bible Contest for Youth
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The Babylonian Captivity
- The Book of Daniel: A Guide for Judaism in Exile
- The Book of Esther and its Motifs
- The Hidden Message of the Book of Esther
- The Paradox in the Book of Esther
- The Ten Lost Tribes
- To the Bible Readers’ Union, England
Diaspora Identity
Divided Kingdom
Divine Anger
Divine Command
Divine Election
Divine Encounter
Divine Glory
divine intervention
divine names
Divine Names
Divine Providence
Divine Punishment
Divine Retribution
Divine Revelation
Divine Service
Divine Warrior
Divine-Human Interaction
Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith
- Book Review: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses?
- Recent Trends in Biblical Source Criticism
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
Dream Interpretation
Dreams
Dreams and Visions
E
Early Human History
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes Studies
Editorial Guidance
Editorial Leadership
Editorship
Eglah Arufah
Egypt
Egyptian History
Egyptian Parallels
Egyptian Sources
Egyptology
Ehyeh asher Ehyeh
Elder Abuse
Elijah
Empathy in the Torah
Enemies of Israel
English Poetry
Environment
Environmental Ethics
Esau and Jacob
Eschatology
Eshet Hayil
Esther
- Ahasuerus the Villain
- Allusions to the Jacob-Esau Story in the Book of Esther
- Book of Esther – A Novelle
- Book Review: The Queen and the Spymaster
- Divine and Human Anger and Grace
- Esther 3:3: The Question With No Response
- Esther Hamalka the Royal Mistress and Mordecai Hayehudi the Jewish Judge
- Esther: A Story of Jewish Defense
- Esther’s Plan to Save the Jews
- Ha'achashtranim Bnei Ha'ramachim
- In the Spirit of Purim
- Month-Naming and Ideology in Esther
- No Happy Ending for Esther
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Purim and Adloyada
- Purim and Hallel
- Reclaiming Esther: From Sex Object to Sage
- Reply to “Ahasuerus the Villain”
- Tattenai and Haman
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The Art of Narration in the Scroll of Esther
- The Book of Esther and its Motifs
- The Book of Esther: Some Questions and Responses
- The Hidden Hand of God
- The Paradox in the Book of Esther
- Themes in the Book of Esther
- Vashti: An Unsung Heroine
Ethics and Morality
Ethics of War
Etymology
- Could Pre-Hebrew Be the Safa Ahat of Genesis 11:1?
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Letter to the Editor: The Meaning of Mayim
- Names of Settlements in Israel: Biblical Terms Turned Into Names
- Ramah: Upswept, Uplifted, Upraised
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- Shifra, Shfoferet and an Ancient Therapeutic Technique
evolution
Exegesis
Exile
- A Dream of a Dream in Daniel 2
- A New World and a New Man: Utopias in the Era of the Babylonian Exile and the Return to Zion
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 3: The Age of Return
- At the Rivers of Babylon
- End of Exile?
- Exile and Return
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Ezekiel, the Neglected Prophet
- Ezekiel: From Destruction to Redemption
- For the Sake of My Name
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 4: Under Ezra and Nehemia
- Jeremiah, the Suffering Prophet, and Ezekiel, the Visionary
- Sacrificial Cult among the Exiles in Egypt but not Babylon – Why?
- The Fall of Samaria
- The Secret of the Returning Exiles
- The Symbolic Acts of Ezekiel (Chapters 3-5)
- The Utopian Map in Ezekiel (48:1-35)
- The Vision of the Dry Bones
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
- Zerubbabel
Exile and Destruction
Exile and Redemption
Existentialism
Exodus
- "What Is It?" Interpreting Exodus 16:15
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Exodus: Explorations in Text and Meaning
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Derekh Hokhma: Two Aspects of the Exodus Narrative, Part I
- Did the Patriarchs Know God's Name?
- Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh
- Extra-Biblical Evidence of the Exodus
- Glimpses of the Past in Genesis-Exodus
- How God Introduced Himself to the Patriarchs
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- Letter to the Editor
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Moses Is Cured of Leprosy
- Old Ammunition for Today: Joseph’s Legacy as a Source of Spiritual Resilience
- Pharaoh's Three Offers, Moses' Rejection, and the Issues They Foreshadowed
- Ramah: Upswept, Uplifted, Upraised
- Reflections of Readers
- Responsive Voices in the Song of the Sea
- She Named Him Moses
- Significant Anonymity in Exodus 2
- The Exodus Census: Evading the Evil Eye or Military Stratagem?
- The Golden Calves: What Happened?
- The Mixed Multitude According to the Zohar
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Use of the Term "Pharaoh" in the Bible
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Tzefarde'a: Frogs or Crocodiles?
Exodus Chronology
Exodus from Egypt
- “And Against All the Gods of Egypt I Will Execute Judgements ...”
- Biblical Literature and Contemporary Parallels: Alike but Different
- Dating the Exodus: A New Perspective
- Egypt and Israel
- Exodus: How Big Was the Population?
- From Horeb to Kadesh in Eleven Days
- How Many Hebrews Left Egypt?
- Israel’s Defining Experience: From Family to Nations
- Letters to the Editor
- Pharaoh Now Has Only One Option
- Pi-Hahirot: The Mouth of Freedom
- The Cathexis of Israel to Egypt
- The Fertility of the Early Israelites
- The Miracle at the Red Sea
- The Ninth Plague
- The Route of the Exodus
- The Wilderness Experience
- Thus They Stripped the Egyptians
- Where Was the Mountain of God?
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
Exodus Narrative
- Face to Face (Exodus 32-34)
- Glorification of God at the Sea
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- How Chapter Six Put the Exodus Back on Track
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Jethro the Convert
- Moses at the Waters of Meribah: A Case of Transference
- Moses the Inarticulate
- Moses: Man of Indecision
- Moses: Not a Man of Words
- Moses’ Three Signs: Symbol and Augury
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Outsmarting God: Egyptian Slavery and the Tower of Babel
- Resetting the Exodus Mission
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Shiphrah and Puah: Two Strong Women in Exodus
- The “Bloody Bridegroom” in Light of the Joseph Narrative
- The Call of Moses
- The Circumcision Performed by Zipporah
- The Evolving Symbolism of the Burning Bush
- The Exodus Syndemic: The Epidemiology of the Tenth Plague
- The Golden Calf in Exodus 32: A Foundry Engineer’s Interpretation
- The Leadership Qualities of Pharaoh
- The Plague of Darkness
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Rise and Fall of Israel in the Desert
- The Seven Weeks That Turned Newly-Freed Slaves into a Nascent People of God
- The Sojourn in Egypt
- The Ten Plagues
- The Three-Day Plan
- Was the Egyptian Experience Necessary?
Exodus parallel
Exodus Parallels
Extra-Biblical Evidence
Ezekiel
Ezra
Ezra-Nehemiah
F
Faith and Covenant
Faith and Doubt
Fall of Jerusalem
False Prophets
Family and Genealogy
Family Dynamics
Family Relations
Family Relationships
Feminist Biblical Criticism
Feminist Biblical Scholarship
Feminist Interpretation
Fertility and Procreation
Fertility Symbolism
Festivals and Holidays
First Fruits Declaration
Firstfruits
Flood Narrative
Folk Religion
Food Symbolism
Forced Labor
Forgiveness
Form Criticism
Fraternal Conflict
Free Will
Free Will and Determinism
G
Garden of Eden
Gematria
Gender and Deception
Gender and Language
Gender and Translation
Gender in the Bible
Genealogy
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Esau’s Wives
- From Noah to Abraham
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- In Search of Bithiah Bat Pharaoh and the Meaning of I Chronicles 4:18
- Midrashic Implications of the Term Holid
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Parallel Lists of Prediluvian Patriarchs: A Psychological Interpretation
- Queen Athaliah: The Daughter of Ahab or Omri?
- The Biblical Number 12 and the Formation of the Ancient Nation of Israel
- The Confirmation of Noah’s Blessing: An Interpretation of Genesis 8:21-9:11
- The Enoch Tradition
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Listing of the Tribes of Israel
- The Mystery of Genesis 36
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Sojourn in Egypt
- The Ten Lost Tribes
- The Wives of Esau
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- These are the Generations of Isaac
- Was Simeon Not Included in Moses' Blessing
Genealogy in Chronicles
Genesis
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- Abraham and Isaac: Human Frailty and Trauma in Genesis
- And Dinah the Daughter of Leah Went Out: The Meaning of Yatz'anit in Rashi's Commentary
- Babel or Babylon?
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Book Review: The Commentators’ Bible — The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot, Genesis
- Book Review: The Ethics of Genesis
- Book Review: The Matriarchs of Genesis: Seven Women, Five Views
- Could Pre-Hebrew Be the Safa Ahat of Genesis 11:1?
- Death Sentences: The Torah's Treatment of Its Major Characters' Deaths
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part I
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Flood, Salt, and Sacrifice
- For in His Days the Earth Was Divided: Classic Jewish Sources for a Physical Division of the Earth
- Interpreting B-R-KH in Genesis 47
- Isaac's Counter Legacy
- Jacob and the Wife-Sister Stories
- Jacob's Farewell Interdependence Address
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Lot's Failed Trial
- Meeting an Angel
- My Brother's Keeper
- Nimrod
- Patriarch Without a Narrative
- Saving Zoar: How Did Lot Succeed?
- Seize the Moment
- Sons of God, Daughters of Men?
- The Ages of the Personalities in Genesis
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash on the Early Chapters of Genesis
- The Deceiver Deceived: Rereading Genesis 27
- The Enigma of the Joseph Narrative
- The First Biblical Family: When Did They Live?
- The Function of the Root Y-R-KH in Genesis
- The Hidden Mission of Biblical Angels
- The Image of God and the Literary Interdependence of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3
- The Meaning of Dammesek Eliezer
- The Role of Terah in the Foundational Stories of the Patriarchal Family
- The Transition to the Second Trip to Egypt
- Thoughts on Creation
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- What Sarah Saw
- Who Counted Righteousness to Whom?
- Who Wrestled with Jacob?
Genesis 1:1
Genesis Commentary
Genesis Genealogies
Genesis Narrative
- And When He Saw the ‘Agalot Joseph Had Sent to Carry Him Back, the Spirit of Their Father Jacob Revived (Gen. 45:27) – Why?
- Be-Dorotav: Noah's "Generations" in Light of Antediluvian Longevity
- Rape and Vengeance: The Story of Dinah
- Subtleties in the Story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
- Tamar Triumphant: Rewritten Bibles
Genesis Narratives
- Allusions to the Jacob-Esau Story in the Book of Esther
- Cain and Abel
- Isaac: A Life of Bitter Laughter
- Rachel, A Mother of Israel
- Tamar Triumphant and the Deception of Judah: Contemporary Scholarship/Feminist Views
- The Use of the Term "Pharaoh" in the Bible
- Why Did Joseph Not Send a Messenger to His Father? – A Tragedy of Errors
Genesis Structure
Genetics
Gentiles in the Bible
Geology
Giants
Giants in the Bible
God-Israel relationship
Golden Calf
Grammar and Syntax
H
Habakkuk
Hagar
Halacha
Halakha
Halakhah
Halakhic Interpretation
Halakhic Method
Hallel
Hammurabi
Hannukah
Hapax Legomenon
Hasidic Thought
Hebrew Bible Editions
Hebrew Bible Translation
Hebrew Calendar
Hebrew Etymology
Hebrew Grammar
Hebrew Language
Hebrew Lexicography
Hebrew Melodies
Hebrew Names
Hebrew Philology
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- "What Is It?" Interpreting Exodus 16:15
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Isaiah 7:14b in New Major Christian Bible Translations
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- What Is Keseh in Psalm 81:4?
Hebrew Root Analysis
Hebrew Word-Pairs
Hellenism
Hellenistic Judaism
Hermeneutics
Hezekiah and Sennacherib
Hidon Ha-Tanakh
Hidon HaTanakh
High Priest
Historical Criticism
Historical Dating
Historical Fiction
Historical Geography
Historical Linguistics
Historical-Critical Method
Historiography
history
History of Bible Study
History of Interpretation
- About Books: Ben Gurion Looks at the Bible
- Abraham Cowley and the David Story
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- Belshazzar’s Folly
- Bible and Aggada
- Bible Trivia: The First Bible Translation
- Biblical Influence on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
- Book Review: Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism From Max Weber to the Present
- Book Review: Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress
- Book Review: Learning to Read Midrash
- Book Review: The Hebrew Bible and its Modern Interpreters
- Book Review: The Mark of Cain by Ruth Mellinkoff
- Cain, the Anti-Establishment Hero
- Citing Chapter and Verse
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Ecclesiastes: Part 1: Authorship
- Editorial: A Lawsuit over the Spoils of Egypt
- Elijah in Yiddish Literature
- Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Shimon Bakon on His 90th Birthday
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- Ibn Ezra the Bible Exegesist
- Jabotinsky’s Samson
- Jacob and Esau: Their Struggle in the Second Century
- Jephthah’s Literary Vogue
- Jewish Aspects on the 500th Anniversary of Printing
- Judah HaHasid: Three Controversial Commentaries
- Kimchi and Tanhum Ben Joseph Hayerushalmi on Chronicles
- King Saul in World Literature
- Lady Asenath
- Learning from Isaiah
- Letters to the Editor
- Midrash and Pesher: Two Classical Forms of Biblical Interpretation
- Midrash on Maps
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part I
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part II
- Moby Dick and the Wisdom of Solomon
- More Bible Curiosities and Mistranslations
- P’shat – An Innovative Method in Torah Commentary
- Parallelisms Between the Tanakh and the Gospels
- Philo Judaeus: Linking Biblical Judaism and Hellenistic Beliefs
- Proof Texts
- Rahab of Jericho
- Revisionist Intellectual History and the Bible
- Richard Beer-Hofmann and the Bible
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Schiller on Moses
- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research: Part 2
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research: Part 3
- Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, Esther Ruth Jonah Deciphered
- Sulamith Unallegorized
- Tanakh Sources of Judas Iscariot
- The Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568-1573): A Triumph of Hebraism
- The Aqedath Jishaq Theme in Yiddish Literature
- The Bible: Transmission and Interpretation
- The Book of Jonah as Allegory
- The Da'at Mikra Commentary Series: Between Tradition and Criticism
- The Death of Moses
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes: Part 2
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes: Part 3
- The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature: The Case of Innate Heat
- The Literary Impact of Jonah
- The Motif of Job in Modern Literature
- The Narration of Joseph and Rabbinic Interpretation
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- This Issue Is Dedicated to Dr. Herbert Rand on His 95th Birthday
- Thoughts on an Allegorical Reading of Jonah
- Tribute to Yehezkel Kaufman
- Was Bishop Ussher's Chronology Influenced by a Midrash?
- William Blake and Biblical Imagery
- Yehezkel Kaufman: An Evaluation
History of Medicine
History of Science
Holiday Customs
Homeric Literature
Homiletics
- Darshanim Project
- Darshanut: Bread on Water
- Darshanut: Counting the Omer: Two Perspectives
- Darshanut: Does God Have a Sense of Humor?
- Darshanut: Domestic Politics
- Darshanut: Enoch’s Shoes
- Darshanut: Genesis 33:6 vs. Genesis 33:7
- Darshanut: It’s All in the Translation
- Darshanut: Jethro – Who Was He?
- Darshanut: Jonah and Yom Kippur
- Darshanut: Jonah: A Transitional Prophet
- Darshanut: Judah: ‘This Time I Will Praise the Lord’ (Genesis 29:35)
- Darshanut: Mothers and Sons: In Defense of Lot’s Wife
- Darshanut: Noah and His Family Relations
- Darshanut: The Defiant Son
- Darshanut: The Inner Voice
- Darshanut: The Promise of Enduring Life
- Darshanut: The Torah as Poetry
- Darshanut: The Universal Message of Death
- Do That Which Is Right and Good in the Sight of the Lord
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- In the Presence
- King Balak: Happy Endings
- Phinehas and Micah
- The Funniest Word in the Bible: Purim Torah
- The Price of Assimilation
Hospitality
House of David
Human Nature
human sacrifice
Human Unity
I
Idolatry
- “And Against All the Gods of Egypt I Will Execute Judgements ...”
- Acharei Mot and the Strange Fire
- Balaam the Magician
- Biblical Monotheism: Some of its Implications
- Book Review: God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry
- Dagon: The Fish God?
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Divination in the Bible
- Elijah the Zealot: A Foil to Moses
- Elisha the Prophet
- For the Statutes of Omri are Kept (Micah 6:16)
- From Monolatry to Monotheism
- From Noah to Abraham
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- Gods, Tents, and Authority: A Study of Exodus 32 and I Kings 12
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- Hosea and the Fertility Cult
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Letter to the Editor
- Residual Magic in the Bible
- Rosh Hodesh as a Woman's Holiday
- Sacrifices for the Dead
- Saul and the Witch of Endor
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Connection Between the Idol of Micah and the Concubine at Gibeah: A Rabbinic View
- The Cult of Moloch
- The Destruction of the Golden Calf: A Reply
- The Ghost of Samuel: Real or Imaginary?
- The Golden Calf and Ra
- The Golden Calf in Exodus 32: A Foundry Engineer’s Interpretation
- The Liturgical Function of Exodus 33:16-34:26
- The Ninth Plague
- The Plague in I Samuel 5 and 6
- The Religion of the Israelites in Egypt
- The Triple Tragedy of the Gedaliah Assassination
- The Wrath of Moab
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- Who Was Jonathan Son of Gershom in Judges 18:30?
- Why Moses Smashed the Tablets
- Why Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
- Witchcraft in the Bible
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
Idolatry and Polytheism
Image of God
Infertility Narratives
Inner-biblical Interpretation
International Bible Contest
Intertextuality
- Allusions to the Jacob-Esau Story in the Book of Esther
- Book Review: Kohelet: A Map to Eden — An Intertextual Journey
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Joseph and the Biblical Echo
- Noah and the Dove
- Psalm 68: Echoes of the Song of Deborah?
- Reading Mordecai in the Shadow of Saul: Intertextuality and Shared Motifs Between the Books of Samuel and Esther
- The “Bloody Bridegroom” in Light of the Joseph Narrative
- The Akeda as Measure for Measure
- The Book of Ruth
- Understanding Balaam's Donkey
Intra-biblical Interpretation
Iron Age Technology
Isaac
Isaiah
Isaiah 53
Ishmael
Israel
- A Bar Mitzvah Ceremony at the Kotel
- A Name and Rememberance to the Soldiers Who Fell in the Yom Kippur War
- A Report to the President
- About Books: Ben Gurion Looks at the Bible
- Archaeological Adventures in Israel
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Fifteenth World Youth Bible Contest
- First International Bible Society Conference in Jerusalem
- For the Love of the Land
- Fourteenth World Bible Contest
- Greater Hartford Bible Study Group Takes Names of Fallen Israeli
- Greetings to Ben-Gurion on his 86th Birthday
- Israel Museum Exhibit
- My Youth in the Company of Shazar
- Names of Settlements in Israel: Biblical Terms Turned Into Names
- President Katzir’s Address at the Ben Gurion Yizkor Gathering
- Reaction to Terror – A Biblical Perspective
- Reminiscences About Ben-Gurion
- Shazar: The Man of Many Crowns
- Shemittah and the Geography of Israel
- Sixteenth World Youth Bible Contest
- The 32nd International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 33rd International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 34th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 35th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 36th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 37th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 38th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 45th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 47th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 48th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 49th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 50th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5773
- The 52nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5775
- The 56th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5779
- The 59th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 62nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The Bible Exhibit
- The Bible Lands Museum
- The Day Ben-Gurion Died
- The Fifth Annual Bible Contest for Adults
- The Fifty-First International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5774
- The Last of the Maccabees
- The Makers of Israel: A Note on Psalm 149
- The President’s Bible Study Group
- Third Adult Bible Contest 2013
- Thirteenth World Youth Bible Contest
- Twelfth World Youth Bible Contest
- Was the Hasmonean State Secular in Orientation?: Part 1
- Was the Hasmonean State Secular in Orientation?: Part 2
- Zalman Shazar – A Good Neighbor
Israel Independence Day
Israel Society for Biblical Research
Israeli Culture
Israelite Judiciary
Israelite religion
Israelite Warfare
J
Jacob
- Book Review: Jacob's Family Dynamics: Climbing the Rungs of the Ladder by Gad Dishi
- In Defense of Esau
- Interpreting B-R-KH in Genesis 47
- Isaac’s Blessing – Who Has Deceived?
- Jacob and the Spotted Sheep
- Jacob the Wrestler
- Jacob, Man of Destiny: His Youth
- Jacob, Man of Destiny: Part 3: The Turning Point
- Jacob’s Deception of his Father
- Jacob’s Limp
- Jacob’s Return to Canaan
- Joseph and the Eglah Arufah
- Justice for Esau
- Observations on the Character of Joseph in Egypt
- Shalem: City or Safely?
- The Deceiver Deceived: Rereading Genesis 27
- The Family Corner: Bible in the Family — Book of Genesis
- The Function of the Root Y-R-KH in Genesis
- The Jacob-Esau Reunion
- The Living Testament of Jacob-Israel
- The Selling of the Birthright
- The Testament of Jacob: An Analysis of Gen. 49:18
- Twins in Transition: Genesis 32:25-31 Re-examined
- Two Views on Jacob
- Was Father Isaac a Co-conspirator?
- Which Anokhi Did Jacob Not Know?
- Who Wrestled with Jacob?
Jacob and Esau
Jacob Narrative
Jacob's Sons
Jephthah
Jeremiah
Jerusalem
- A Note on “Watergate” in the Tanach
- A World Jewish Bible Center in Jerusalem
- And a Fountain Shall Come Forth From the House of the Lord
- Beit HaTenakh in Jerusalem: Address by Ben-Gurion at Groundbreaking
- Book Review: Jerusalem
- City of David
- Excavating the Cardo and the Ophel
- From the City of David to Jerusalem
- How David Captured Jerusalem
- Jerusalem in Jewish Law: Part 4
- Jerusalem in Rabbinic Literature: Part 2
- Jerusalem in Rabbinic Literature: Part 3
- Jerusalem in the Bible and Talmud: Part 1
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 2
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 3
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 4
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 4
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 5
- The 2010 Adult Bible Contest: The First in 30 Years
- The Suk in Ancient Jerusalem
- Understanding Psalm 46
Jewish Bible Association
- A World Jewish Bible Center in Jerusalem
- Addresses by Dr. Israel Goldstein
- Autobiographical Notes
- Baruch Dayan Emeth
- Beit HaTenakh in Jerusalem: Address by Ben-Gurion at Groundbreaking
- Bible News Around the World
- Book Review: Haim M. I. Gevaryahu Memorial Volume
- Editorial: Honoring Sol Liptzin
- First International Bible Society Conference in Jerusalem
- Greetings to Ben-Gurion on his 86th Birthday
- In Memoriam – Jacob G. Gold
- In Memoriam – Rabbi
- In Memoriam Dr. Israel Goldstein
- In Memoriam: Chaim I. Abramowitz
- In Memoriam: Dr. Chaim I. Abramowitz
- In Memoriam: Haim Gevaryahu
- In Memoriam: Moshe Gutentag, Professor Solomon Zeitlin
- Joseph Halpern: A Memorial Tribute
- Message to the Bible Readers’ Union
- The 32nd International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 33rd International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 34th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 35th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 36th International Bible Contest for Youth
- The 37th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 38th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- To the Bible Readers’ Union, England
- Tribute to Ben Zion Luria
- Tribute to Chaim Abramowitz
- Tribute to Dr. Katzoff
- Tribute to Joseph Halpern
- Tribute to Professor Gevaryahu
- Tribute to Professor Liptzin
- Tributes
Jewish Bible Quarterly
Jewish Bible Quarterly History
Jewish Calendar
- Book Review: Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Darshanut: Counting the Omer: Two Perspectives
- Letters to the Editor
- Reflections of Readers: Year or Season?
- Shavuot – Z’man Matan Torateinu
- The Biblical Beginning of the Jewish Calendar
- The Computation of the New Moon
- The History of the Tishrei Conundrum
- The Jewish Calendar
- The Two Seasons in Israel
- Why Is Pesach So Late?
Jewish Education
- "And These Are the Judgments That You Shall Set Before Them" (Ex. 21:1): "As a Set Table"
- Book Review: Sol Scharfstein, The Book of Genesis
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Shimon Bakon on His 90th Birthday
- In Memoriam: Rabbi Josiah Derby
- Polemical Considerations Among the Four Children: From the Bible to the Haggadah
- The 39th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 40th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 41st Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 42nd Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 43rd Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 44th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 45th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 47th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 48th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 49th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 52nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5775
- The 56th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5779
- The 61st International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The Fifth Annual Bible Contest for Adults
- The Fifty-First International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5774
- Third Adult Bible Contest 2013
- This Issue Is Dedicated to Dr. Herbert Rand on His 95th Birthday
Jewish Exegesis
Jewish Festivals
- A Problem Verse in Dayenu
- Darshanut: Counting the Omer: Two Perspectives
- Darshanut: Jonah and Yom Kippur
- Fasting and Atonement
- Gilgal, the Site of the First Passover
- Hezekiah’s Second Passover
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- In the Spirit of Purim
- King Hezekiah's Pesach in Jerusalem
- Maftir Jonah
- Magical Transformations: Sukkoth and the Four Species
- Purim and Adloyada
- Purim and Hallel
- Reflections on Shavuoth
- Shavuot – Z’man Matan Torateinu
- The Author of the Haggadah as an Educator
- The Biblical Beginning of the Jewish Calendar
- The Funniest Word in the Bible: Purim Torah
- The Jewish Calendar
- What is Teruah
- Why Does the Seder Begin With Karpas?
- Why Is Pesach So Late?
- Yom Kippur: Cover Up or Plea for Probation?
- Zipporah and the Passover
Jewish History
Jewish Identity
Jewish Liturgy
Jewish mysticism
Jewish Mysticism
Jewish Peoplehood
Jewish philosophy
Jewish Philosophy
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone
- Abraham’s Trials: Tests of Strength or Learning Experiences?
- Adam I and Adam II
- Biblical Cosmogony: A Symbolic Interpretation of Genesis 1-4
- Biblical Historiosophy
- Biblical Man and His Questions of Faith
- Biblical Monotheism: Some of its Implications
- Book Review: A Theology of Holiness
- Book Review: Qohelet – Searching for a Life Worth Living
- Book Review: The Challenge of God to Man: A Theology of Responsible Freedom
- Book Review: The Exile of the Word: From the Silence of the Bible to the Silence of Auschwitz by André Neher
- Book Review: Thinking About the Prophets
- Book Review: Unbinding Isaac
- Creation and the Limitations of the Creator
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Dynamics of the Divine-Human Interaction
- Ecclesiastes 1:4: A Proof Text for Reincarnation
- End of Exile?
- Evolution’s Fateful Implication
- Forget Not Your Forebears!
- God and Man in Biblical Action
- Greek Logic in the Book of Job (Chapter 12)
- In the Image of God
- Koheleth
- Koheleth and the Modern Temper
- Koheleth: A Re-Interpretation
- Maimonides’ Approach to the Bible
- Minhag in Judaism
- Moses: Intermediary or Teacher?
- Omphalos Revisited
- On Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- Philo Judaeus: Linking Biblical Judaism and Hellenistic Beliefs
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 1
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 2
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 3: Emergence of Literary Prophecy
- Psalm 19 Revisited
- Rahab the Harlot and Other Philosophers of Religion
- Rational Torah
- Reading the Pentateuch Politically
- Redemption: Time and Space
- Reflections on Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith
- Reward and Punishment in Jewish Thought: A Symposium
- Saving the Akedah from the Philosophers
- Speech and Silence in Prophecy
- The Akedah: Machloket L’Shem Shamayim
- The Akedah: Machloket L'Shem Shamayim Sofa L'Hitkayeim
- The Bible and Life After Death
- The Biblical Mind
- The Dialectic of Faith and Doubt in the Philosophy of Socrates and the Piety of Job
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Legacy of Two Adams
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Mystery of Being
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Subtle Grammar of the Biblical Dietary Laws
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- Two Concepts of the Covenant
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- Was Adam's Action "Disobedience"?
- Wherefore Mitzvot, the Divine Commandments?
- Why Was God Optimistic After the Flood?
Jewish Thought
Jewish Youth
Jewish Youth Programs
Jewish-Christian dialogue
Jewish-Christian Polemic
Jewish-Christian Polemics
Jewish-Christian Relations
Job
- A Note on Job 6:8-10: Suicide and Death Wishes
- Book Review: The Book of Job: A Commentary
- Book Review: The God of Job
- Bulrush and Bramble
- Elihu: The Provenance and Content of His Speeches
- God and Man on Trial
- Greek Logic in the Book of Job (Chapter 12)
- Is Behemoth Also Jewish?
- Is Job After All Jewish?
- Job: A Universal Drama – Part 1
- Job: A Universal Drama – Part 2
- Job: The Third Cycle
- Job: The Third Cycle: Dissipating a Mirage: Part 2
- Malbim on Job Chapter 42: The Happy Ending
- Satan: Psychologist
- Science in the Book of Job
- The Liberation of Job
- The Paradigm of Job
- The Problem of Job: The Question Still Remains
- The Volcano in Job 28
- Three Singular Plurals: Job 18:2,3
- Were Job’s Friends Gentiles?
Jonah
Jonah Narrative
Joseph
- A Calculated Risk: A Speculative Excursion Into the Mind of Pharaoh’s Butler
- A Significant Insignificance: The Meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh
- Divination in the Bible
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part I
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part II
- His Brothers’ Keeper
- Joseph and Daniel: Court Jews and Dreamers
- Joseph and Revolutionary Egypt
- Joseph and the Eglah Arufah
- Joseph Under Suspicion
- Joseph: A Biblical Approach to Dream Interpretation
- Joseph's Emotional Development
- Lady Asenath
- Observations on the Character of Joseph in Egypt
- Seize the Moment
- Spirit Is Thicker Than Blood
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The Family Corner: Bible in the Family — Book of Genesis
- The Lion, Judah
- The Preference of Ephraim
- The Significance of Joseph’s Agrarian Policy
- The Transition to the Second Trip to Egypt
- Why Did Joseph Let His Father Mourn For Him?
- Why No Message from Joseph to His Father?
Joseph Narrative
- A Matter of Words and Assumptions in the Household of Jacob
- Ason, a Fate Worse than Death
- Book Review: Assimilation Versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 6: The Story of Joseph and Assenath
- Joseph
- Joseph and his Brothers
- Joseph and his Brothers: The Midrashic Approach Versus Josephus’ Approach
- Joseph and His Brothers: Vengeance or Reconciliation
- Joseph and the Biblical Echo
- Joseph and the Enslavement of the Egyptians
- Joseph: Sold into Slavery or Sent as a Savior?
- Joseph's Self-Imposed Estrangement
- Miketz Esrim Shana: Revisiting Mishpat Shlomo, Twenty Years On
- Old Ammunition for Today: Joseph’s Legacy as a Source of Spiritual Resilience
- Pharaoh's Dreams
- Reflections of Readers: Judah and Joseph: A Study in Contrasts
- Simeon the Scapegoat
- The “Bloody Bridegroom” in Light of the Joseph Narrative
- The Anatomy of the Joseph Cycle
- The Enigma of the Joseph Narrative
- The Exegesis of Demetrius the Chronographer
- The Role of Destiny in the Joseph Story
- The Story of Judah, the Hero: An Analysis of Genesis 38
- The Westcar Papyrus and Genesis 42–44: An Overlooked Reference?
- Why Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
Joseph Narrative Parallels
Joseph Story
Joshua
- "There Is No Chronological Order in the Torah"
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- One Book, Two Books: The Joshua-Judges Continuum
- Signaling in Biblical Warfare and Moses' Role as Military Commander
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
Journal History
JPS
Judah
Judah and Tamar
Judges
- A Note on Judges 13:20-21: Sorting Out the Syntax
- Book Review: Jephthah and His Vow by David Marcus
- Chronology in the Book of Judges
- Concealment and Irony in the Samson Story
- Deborah, the Wife of Lapidot
- Hot Pursuit into Canaan
- I’ll Sit Here Until You Come Back: Gideon and the Patience of God
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Manoah's Wife in Late Second Temple Literature
- One Book, Two Books: The Joshua-Judges Continuum
- Samson in Timnah: Judges 14-15: Form and Function
- Sight, Sin and Blindness in the Samson Narrative and in Milton’s Samson Agonistes
- Sisera and Harosheth-Goiim
- The Concubine of Gibeah (Jud. 19-21)
- The Connection Between the Idol of Micah and the Concubine at Gibeah: A Rabbinic View
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes: Part 2
- The Prowess of the Benjaminites
- Themes in the Deborah Narrative (Judges 4-5)
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Who Was Shamgar Ben Anath
K
Kabbalah
- Bible Trivia: The 72 Letter Name of God
- Considering the Genre and Audience of Deuteronomy 9:7
- Creation and the Limitations of the Creator
- Ecclesiastes 1:4: A Proof Text for Reincarnation
- The Menorah Psalm
- The Mixed Multitude According to the Zohar
- The Names of God
- The Use of Symbolism and Hidden Messages in the Book of Ruth
- Why Shamayim as Sky
Karaite Thought
Karaite-Rabbinic Polemics
Karaites
Kashrut
King David
King Solomon
Kingdom of God
Kingdom of Israel
Kings of Israel and Judah
Kings of Judah
Kingship
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- A Fresh Look at Nebuchadnezzar
- Abishag the Shunammite
- Absalom’s Revolt
- Absalom’s Story: Drama and Tragedy
- Ahab: A “Poor” Character
- Book Review: Studies in the Period of David and Solomon and Other Essays
- Centralization of Worship
- Checkmate: The King is Dead
- David and Ahab: A Study of Crime and Punishment
- David and Bathsheba Part 2
- David and Batsheba: Part 1
- David and Batsheba: Part 3
- David Dances – Michal Scoffs
- David’s Census: Additional Reflection
- David’s Conquest of Jerusalem
- David’s Last Sin: Was It the Census?
- David’s Marriage to Michal
- Divided They Stand: The United Monarchy Split in Twain
- Elijah the Zealot: A Foil to Moses
- Elisha the Prophet
- Ezion-Geber: Solomon’s Seaport
- For the Statutes of Omri are Kept (Micah 6:16)
- Free to Set a King Over Thee
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- Gods, Tents, and Authority: A Study of Exodus 32 and I Kings 12
- Hezekiah and Josiah: A Comparison
- Hezekiah’s Second Passover
- Hopping Between Two Opinions: Understanding the Biblical Portrait of Ahab
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing? Music in the Saul Narrative in I Samuel
- How Nebuchadnezzar Became a Dwarf
- Irony in I Samuel (Chapters 8-15)
- Isaiah and Hezekiah: Prophet and King
- Jeroboam Ben Nebat
- Joab, Captain of the Host
- Jonathan
- Josiah
- Justice in Solomon’s Court
- King and Commoner in Proverbs and Near Eastern Sources
- King David’s Aging: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- King Hezekiah's Pesach in Jerusalem
- King Saul in World Literature
- King Solomon’s Golden Wealth
- King Solomon’s Wives as Envisioned by David Pinski
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor: A Further Note on the Torn Robe
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part I
- Monarchy and the Bible
- Moses and Josiah
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part II
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Nimrod
- Noble Jonathan
- Oded, a Prophet of God
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 1
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 2
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 3
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 4
- Pronunciation: A Key to Meaning — I Kings 3:16-28
- Prophet, King and Priest
- Prophetic Views of the Davidic Monarchy
- Reading Mordecai in the Shadow of Saul: Intertextuality and Shared Motifs Between the Books of Samuel and Esther
- Royal Building Projects and the Ethics of Royalty
- Ruth and Naomi: Foremothers of David
- Samuel and Saul: A Negative Symbiosis
- Samuel and Saul: The Prophetic Dimension
- Samuel and Saul: The Psychological Dimension
- Saul and Genocide
- Saul and Jonathan
- Saul and the Witch of Endor
- Saul’s Kingship: The Tragedy of a Leader
- Solomon and Sheba: Aggadic Roots of the Koran Story
- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Solomon’s Humiliation
- Strife in the Household of King David
- The Biblical Concept of Government
- The Biblical Tradition of Popular Democracy
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Blood of Naboth
- The Book of Chronicles
- The Book of Ruth
- The Book of Samuel: A Literary Masterpiece
- The City of David
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Fall of Samaria
- The Ghost of Samuel: Real or Imaginary?
- The Hidden Storyline Within the Biblical Texts Regarding David and Saul
- The Judgement of Solomon
- The Last of the Maccabees
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Nature of Kinat David: Public or Private?
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Positive and Negative Traits of Gideon as Reflected in His Sons Jotham and Abimelech
- The Prophet and the King
- The Prophet and the King
- The Prophet Samuel and King Saul
- The Prophet Samuel and King Saul
- The Prophet Versus the King
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- The Rabshakeh’s Speech (II Kings 18-25): A Study of Rhetorical Intimidation
- The Rebellion of Jehu
- The Rise of the House of Omri
- The Saga of the Ark
- The Solomon and Sheba Story in Ethiopia
- The Torn Robe: A Study of I Samuel 15:26-28
- The Tragic King
- The Wrath of Moab
- Their Ruler Shall Rise Above Agag (Numbers 24:7): Does This Biblical Verse Reference the Future King Saul?
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Two Righteous Men: Isaiah and Hezekiah
- Two Sinners
- Was Jonathan Guilty: A Study of I Samuel Chapter 14
- Was the Hasmonean State Secular in Orientation?: Part 1
- Was the Hasmonean State Secular in Orientation?: Part 2
- What Ailed the Son of Kish?
- What Happened to Uzziah’s Bones?
- When God's Will Can and Cannot Be Altered: The Relationship Between the Balaam Narrative and I Kings 13
- Why Did Samuel Initially Reject Monarchy?
- Zerubbabel: A Riddle
Kingship and Power
Koheleth
Korban Todah
L
Land of Israel
- A Garden of Vegetables
- A Latch and Clasp Connecting Deuteronomy 33:27-29 with Genesis 3:22-24: A Proposed Interpretation
- A Visit to Armageddon
- Abraham Plants a Flag
- Archaeological Adventures in Israel
- Archaeological Research
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Archaeology and the Bible
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- David’s Conquest of Jerusalem
- Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho
- Do Not Destroy the Fruit Trees
- Editorial
- Excavations at Tel Dan
- For the Love of the Land
- From Horeb to Kadesh in Eleven Days
- From the Euphrates to the Nile
- From Yerushalem to Yerushalayim
- Gilgal, the Site of the First Passover
- Heart of Israel – City of Man
- Holy Cities in the Land of Ephraim Revisited
- Inheritance – Heritage
- Isaac's Wells and Israel's Return
- Israel and Edom
- Jacob’s Return to Canaan
- Jerusalem in the Bible
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 2
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 3
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 4
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 4
- Jerusalem in the Bible: Part 5
- Jerusalem in the Days of Jeremiah
- Letter to the Editor
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Midrash on Maps
- Military and Archaeological Aspects of the Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua
- Milk and Honey
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- My Beloved is Gone Down to his Garden to the Beds of Spices
- Names of Settlements in Israel: Biblical Terms Turned Into Names
- New Findings in Archeology
- On and Off the Beaten Track in Tel Azeka
- Psalms of Zion
- Purchase of the Machpelah
- Seeing the Good of Israel
- Settlement of the Tribe of Dan
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Shemittah and the Geography of Israel
- Subsistence Struggles of Early Israel
- The Bible: Israel’s Spiritual and National Roots
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 1
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 2 – By Way of Reply
- The City of David
- The Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua: Military and Archeological Aspects
- The Daughters of Zelophehad
- The Daughters of Zelophehad Revisited
- The Dew of Heaven
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Hamsin and the Rain
- The Jerusalem Streets Abraham Walked On
- The Listing of the Tribes of Israel
- The Location of Ai
- The Metaphors of the Vine and Olive Tree
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Negev
- The Original Palestinians
- The Qumran Settlement: Scriptorium, Villa or Fortress
- The Route of the Exodus
- The Secret of the Returning Exiles
- The Tel Dan Excavation
- The Two Seasons in Israel
- The Utopian Map in Ezekiel (48:1-35)
- The Western Wall
- The Western Wall Part 2
- The Western Wall: Part 5
- The Western Wall: Part 6
- The Western Wall: Part 7
- The Western Wall: Part 7
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- Water in Biblical Times
- When Did We Become a Nation?
- Who Authorized Israelite Settlement East of the Jordan?
Large Letters
Laughter
Law and Legal Interpretation
leadership
Leadership
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- Between the Judges and the Spies: The Courtroom as a Microcosm for the Battlefield and Beyond
- Biblical Notes: Four Who Hesitated
- Book Review: Religion and Contemporary Management: Moses as a Model for Effective Leadership
- Deborah: Judge, Prophetess and Poet
- Eldad and Medad
- Eldad and Medad: The Men Who Were Not There
- Esau and Jacob: Brothers Clash, Reconcile and Separate
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Fathers and Sons
- Free to Set a King Over Thee
- Gideon and the Ephraimites
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- Hopping Between Two Opinions: Understanding the Biblical Portrait of Ahab
- Jacob's Farewell Interdependence Address
- Jephthah
- Joab, Captain of the Host
- Jonathan
- Korah and His Aspirations
- Korah and His Fall: Observations on Holiness
- Leadership in the Book of Numbers
- Letters to the Editor
- Military Intelligence in the Bible: Part 4
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses and the Spies
- Moses at the Waters of Meribah: A Case of Transference
- Moses the Inarticulate
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part I
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- Moses: Man of Indecision
- Moses: The Tragedy of his Personal Life
- Nimrod
- Noblesse Oblige
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 1
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 2
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 3
- Organs of Statecraft in the Israelite Monarchy: Part 4
- Polarization in the Mosaic Period
- Reading the Pentateuch Politically
- Resetting the Exodus Mission
- Samson and Samuel: Two Styles of Leadership
- Samson, Absalom, and the Pitfalls of Nezirut
- Samson: A Tragedy in Three Acts
- Samuel and Saul: A Negative Symbiosis
- Saul’s Kingship: The Tragedy of a Leader
- Spies, Princes and Korach’s Rebellion
- Strife in the Household of King David
- The Biblical Concept of Government
- The Biblical Tradition of Popular Democracy
- The Leadership Qualities of Pharaoh
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Positive and Negative Traits of Gideon as Reflected in His Sons Jotham and Abimelech
- The Prophet Samuel and King Saul
- The Prophet Samuel and King Saul
- The Rebellion of Jehu
- The Rebellion of the Bechorim
- The Rise and Fall of Israel in the Desert
- The Rise of the House of Omri
- The Story of Judah, the Hero: An Analysis of Genesis 38
- The Striking of the Rock
- Three Charismatic Judges and Their Strategies
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Who Authorized Israelite Settlement East of the Jordan?
- Why Did Samuel Initially Reject Monarchy?
- Why Moses?
- Why the Walls of Jericho Came Tumbling Down
Leadership Succession
Legal Definitions
Legal Idiom
Letter to the Editor
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Leviathan
Levirate Marriage
Levites
Leviticus
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Leviticus
- Ketovet Ka'aka (Leviticus 19:28): Tattooing or Branding?
- Laws of Tzara'at in Leviticus 13-14 and Medical Leprosy Compared
- Leviticus 12:2
- Sacrificial Categories and Personality Types
- The Acceptance of the Convert Based on Leviticus 19
- The Meaning of Melika
Linguistics
listening
Literary Allusion
Literary Analysis
- A Stylistic-Exegetical Analysis of Jeremiah 46:1-12
- Ahasuerus the Villain
- An Elegy of David: To Teach the Sons of Judah the Bow
- Book of Esther – A Novelle
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Exodus: Explorations in Text and Meaning
- Concealment and Irony in the Samson Story
- Double Meanings in the Song of Songs
- Eastward and Westward: The Movement of Prophecy and History in the Book of Yonah
- Esther 3:3: The Question With No Response
- Four Repetitions in the Song of Songs
- Genesis 14 – Meaning and Structure
- Irony in the Book of Job
- Isaac and Laughter
- Job: A Universal Drama – Part 1
- Job: A Universal Drama – Part 2
- Joseph and the Biblical Echo
- Literary Art and Psychological Insight in the Korah Episode
- Literary Patterns in the Song of Songs
- Numerological Structure in Biblical Literature
- Patriarch Without a Narrative
- Psalm 23: A Pattern Poem
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part I
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part II
- Redeeming Cain: A Comparative Literary Reading of Genesis
- Samson in Timnah: Judges 14-15: Form and Function
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Sight, Sin and Blindness in the Samson Narrative and in Milton’s Samson Agonistes
- Song of Songs
- Sound and Silence
- Spectacle Culture: Vision as a Narrative Plot Device in the Samson Cycle
- Suicide in the Bible
- The Anatomy of the Joseph Cycle
- The Art of Biblical Narrative: Part 1
- The Art of Biblical Narrative: Part 2
- The Art of Narration in the Scroll of Esther
- The Multiple Functions of “How” in the Tanakh
- The Number 40 in the Bible
- The Oedipus Complex and its Biblical Parallels
- The Power of Threes
- The Punishment of Achan: The Poetic Justice of Success and Failure
- The Song of Solomon – A Dream Ballet
- The Song of Songs: The Bible’s Celebration of Love
- The Theme of the Song of Songs
- Two Biblical Parables: Irony and Self Entrapment
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Who is the Villain?
literary criticism
Literary Form Criticism
Literary Parallelism
Literary Prophets
Literary Structure
literary themes
Literary Theory
Literature and the Bible
- A Biblical Reverie
- About Books: A Time for Loving by Herbert Tarr
- Abraham Cowley and the David Story
- Abraham's Moment of Decision: According to Levinas and Rembrandt
- Adam’s Missing Years: Evolution of a Legend
- Ahitophel of Gilo: Two Literary Portraits
- Balaam, Shakespeare, Shylock
- Biblical Influence on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
- Biblical Motifs in the Poetical Works of Chaim Nachman Bialik
- Book Review: Identity and Ethos: A Festschrift for Sol Liptzin
- Book Review: Lilith’s Daughters: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction by B. H. Rigney, and In Light of Genesis by P. W. Hadas
- Book Review: Midrash of a Kind: Biblical Themes in World Literature by Sol Liptzin
- Book Review: The Mark of Cain by Ruth Mellinkoff
- Editorial: Honoring Sol Liptzin
- Fathers and Sons
- Job and Faust
- King Solomon’s Wives as Envisioned by David Pinski
- Letters to the Editor
- Micah’s Ideals: Stevenson’s Guide
- Moses as Poet: Ha'azinu as Poem
- Reflections: Beer-Hofmann’s Image of Ruth
- Religion by the River
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Ruth and Medea
- Samson: A Tragedy in Three Acts
- Shakespeare's Forgivable Portrayal of Shylock
- Sight, Sin and Blindness in the Samson Narrative and in Milton’s Samson Agonistes
- The Forgotten Figure at the Akedah
- The Hebraic Motifs in Judges 13-16 Relevant to John Milton’s Samson Agonistes: Part 2
- The Judgement of Solomon
- The Legacy of Two Adams
- The Nature of Kinat David: Public or Private?
- The Solomon and Sheba Story in Ethiopia
- The Tower of Babel
- Thou Worm Jacob
- Tragedy in the Bible
- William Blake and Biblical Imagery
- Yakov Azriel, Threads from a Coat of Many Colors: Poems on Genesis
- איכה כלב משירי שזר
- לידער פון זלמן שזר
Liturgy
- “... Upon the Doorposts ...”
- A Name and Rememberance to the Soldiers Who Fell in the Yom Kippur War
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- A Problem Verse in Dayenu
- A Psalm for Sabbath? A Literary View of Psalm 92
- A Suggested Translation of Psalm 91:1-2
- Addenda to Psalm 145
- Amen and Hallelujah: Their Development as Liturgical Responses
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Arami Oved Avi
- Bible Trivia: The Number of Letters in the Shma
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 1
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 2
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 3
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 4
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 5
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 6
- Book Review: Links to Our Legacy
- Book Review: Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah
- Book Review: Time to Time: Journeys in the Jewish Calendar
- Books 3-5 of the Book of Psalms: From Harshness to Hallelujah
- Considering the Genre and Audience of Deuteronomy 9:7
- Do the Liturgical Uses of Psalm 29 Suggest Different Interpretations of the Psalm?
- Kaddish and the Lord’s Prayer
- Let Everything Praise the Lord
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Maftir Jonah
- Magdil and Migdol – Liturgical Responses to Textual Variants
- Midrashic Interpretation of Psalms 6 and 20
- Minhag in Judaism
- Music and Prophecy
- Music in the Bible
- Observations on Ta-amay Hamikra
- On “Dukhan”
- On Musical Instruments
- Particularism and Universalism in Psalms
- Polemical Considerations Among the Four Children: From the Bible to the Haggadah
- Praise Waiteth For Thee (Ps. 65:2)
- Psalm 113
- Psalm 116
- Psalm 118
- Psalm 119
- Psalm 145: Its Two Faces
- Psalm 147
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Psalm 91 as Responsory
- Psalm 92, Shabbat, and the Temple
- Psalm XV : A Liturgical or Ethical Psalm
- Psalm XXIV
- Psalms 37:25 and 34:11: After-Meal Theology
- Purim and Hallel
- Reflections on Shavuoth
- Rosh Hodesh as a Woman's Holiday
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Service of the Lips
- Sing to Me
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Sources on the History of Torah and Haftarah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading: Part 4
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading: Part 5
- Tehilim: The Book of Psalms
- Tehillim – The Psalms
- Tehillim: The Book of Psalms
- The Author of the Haggadah as an Educator
- The Development of Biblical Prayer
- The Development of the Mezuzah
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Jewish Origins of the Lord’s Prayer
- The Liturgical Function of Exodus 33:16-34:26
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Names of Biblical Verses
- The Names of God
- The Origin of the Synagogue
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Psalms of the Day
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Synagogue: Its Origin and Development
- The Tassel and the Blue Cord
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 1
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 2
- The Three Tenses in the Kingdom of God
- The Torah Reading for Rosh Ha-Shanah
- The Trope
- The Weekday Amidah and Biblical Psalms
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- What is Teruah
- Why Does the Seder Begin With Karpas?
- Why Is Psalm 94 the Song of the Day for Wednesday?
- Yah: A Name of God
Liturgy and Performance
Lord Byron
Lot
Love of God
Loyalty and Betrayal
M
Maccabees
Maimonides
Maimonides and Raavad
Manuscript Studies
Maritime History
marriage
Marriage and Celibacy
Marriage Customs
Marriage Law
Masoretic Text
- A Variant Text from the Isaiah Scroll
- Accentuation: A Tool for Interpreting the Text of the Hebrew Bible
- Bible Trivia: Soferim – Scribes – Counters
- Bible Trivia: The Number of Letters in the Shma
- Biblical Formatting: Visual and Virtual
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Biblical Puns
- Biblical Trivia: Vavei Ha’amudim
- Book Review: Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Revised and Expanded 4th Ed.
- Book Review: Textual History of the Bible — The Hebrew Bible, Volumes 1B and 1C
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Citing Chapter and Verse
- Critical Notes on Psalm 22:30
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Eliasaph Ben-Deuel/Reuel: A Rabbinic Interpretation
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- From Yerushalem to Yerushalayim
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Inverted Ayin and Bent Peh
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Jot, Tittle and Waw
- Letter to the Editor
- Magdil and Migdol – Liturgical Responses to Textual Variants
- Numerological Structure in Biblical Literature
- Observations on Ta-amay Hamikra
- Reflections of Readers: A 'Yod' in Teiasseh (Exodus 25:31)
- Reflections on Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith
- Responsive Voices in the Song of the Sea
- Retroversion in Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis: A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
- Scribal Peculiarities in the Sefer Torah על פאי”ן לפופין
- Septuagint Readings as Additional Exegetical Layers
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Kiss of Esau
- The Names of Biblical Verses
- The Physical Characteristics of a Torah Scroll
- The Trope
- Two Notes on the Exceptional Shalshelet
- Understanding the Beginning of Genesis: Just How Many Beginnings Were There?
- Who Was Jonathan Son of Gershom in Judges 18:30?
Material Culture
Matriarchs
Measure for Measure
Medicine and Healing
Medicine and the Bible
Medicine in the Bible
Medieval Commentary
Medieval Commentators
Medieval Exegesis
- 'I Am a Hebrew!' Jonah's Conflict with God's Mercy Toward Even the Most Worthy of Pagans
- "... And Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- A Dream of a Dream in Daniel 2
- A Reconstruction of Matzor: Habakkuk 2:1
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- Balaam and His Talking Donkey
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Biblical Cosmogony: A Symbolic Interpretation of Genesis 1-4
- Book Review: Rashi by Chaim Pearl
- Book Review: Torah Dialogues, by Hayyim Halpern
- Derekh Hokhma: Two Aspects of the Exodus Narrative, Part I
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Displacement in the Matriarchal Home: A Psychological Study of the Abraham-Sarah Marriage
- Do That Which Is Right and Good in the Sight of the Lord
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Friends, Strangers, Enemies
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- Ibn Ezra on the Torah: Observations
- Ibn Ezra the Bible Exegesist
- Jacob's Blessing for Dan
- Jethro/Hobab's Detainment
- Judah HaHasid: Three Controversial Commentaries
- Kedushah, Holiness, and Ethics
- Kimchi and Tanhum Ben Joseph Hayerushalmi on Chronicles
- Letters to the Editor
- Maimonides’ Approach to the Bible
- Moses as Poet: Ha'azinu as Poem
- P’shat – An Innovative Method in Torah Commentary
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Rashi's View of Genesis
- Retroversion in Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis: A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
- She Shall Mourn
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- The Akedah Test: What Passes and What Fails
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron
- The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature: The Case of Innate Heat
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Positive and Negative Traits of Gideon as Reflected in His Sons Jotham and Abimelech
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Subtle Grammar of the Biblical Dietary Laws
- The Word "Ger" in the Bible and Its Implications
- Thou Worm Jacob
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- Understanding the Beginning of Genesis: Just How Many Beginnings Were There?
- When Does the Day Begin?
- You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother's Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19
Medieval Jewish Commentary
Medieval Jewish Exegesis
Memorial Tribute
Memory and Retrospection
Men of the Great Assembly
menorah
Mentorship and Succession
Mercenaries
Meribah
Mesopotamian Parallels
Messiah
messianism
Messianism
- A New World and a New Man: Utopias in the Era of the Babylonian Exile and the Return to Zion
- Book Review: Eschatology in the Old Testament
- Cyrus as Messiah
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- Ezekiel: From Destruction to Redemption
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Jacob's Death-Bed Farewell to His Sons: According to the Rabbis
- King Cyrus, Anointed (Messiah) of the Lord
- National and Eschatological Messianism: Biblical Writers of the Second Commonwealth
- Parallelisms Between the Tanakh and the Gospels
- Prophetic Views of the Davidic Monarchy
- Redemption in the Bible
- Redemption: Time and Space
- The Book of Daniel: Its Significance and Meaning
- The Day of the Lord
- The Direction and Purpose of Time: Isaiah's Vision of the “End of Days”
- The Eschatological Meaning of the Book of Ruth
- The Meaning of Tzemah HaShem in Isaiah 4:2
- The Messianic Idea: The Real and the Hidden Son of David
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Tensions Between Jews and Christians as Reflected in Hayyun's Commentary on Jeremiah
- Understanding Redemption Through the Metaphor of the Family
- Zerubabbel: The Messianic Hope of the Returnees
- Zerubbabel: A Riddle
Metallurgy
metaphysics
Methodology
Micaiah
Midrash
- "And These Are the Judgments That You Shall Set Before Them" (Ex. 21:1): "As a Set Table"
- “Heeling” in the Torah
- A Midrashic View of Ruth Amidst a Sea of Ambiguity
- A Torah With 70 Different Faces
- Abraham and Balaam: A Biblical Contrast
- Abraham's Ten Trials and a Biblical Numerical Convention
- Adam’s Missing Years: Evolution of a Legend
- Adam’s Rib
- Aggadah in Bible Study
- And Dinah the Daughter of Leah Went Out: The Meaning of Yatz'anit in Rashi's Commentary
- And He Called by the Name of the Lord
- And When He Saw the ‘Agalot Joseph Had Sent to Carry Him Back, the Spirit of Their Father Jacob Revived (Gen. 45:27) – Why?
- Balaam Is Laban
- Bereshit and the Courage of New Beginnings
- Bible and Aggada
- Biblical Metaphor and the Dynamics of Jewish Demography: A Modern Midrash
- Biblical Puns
- Birds in the Bible and Midrash
- Book Review: Cain v. Abel: A Jewish Courtroom Drama
- Book Review: Learning to Read Midrash
- Book Review: Midrash of a Kind: Biblical Themes in World Literature by Sol Liptzin
- Book Review: Sefer Ha-Aggadah
- Books 3-5 of the Book of Psalms: From Harshness to Hallelujah
- Canines in Bible and Midrash
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- Did the Earth Rebel Against God on the Third Day of Creation?
- Discerning Nahshon's Character from Textual and Intertextual Nuance
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part II
- Eliasaph Ben-Deuel/Reuel: A Rabbinic Interpretation
- Esau and Jacob Revisited: Demon versus Tzadik?
- Eve – The First Feminist: John Milton's Midrash on Genesis 3:6
- Fish in the Bible and Midrash
- For He Took a Cushite Woman
- For in His Days the Earth Was Divided: Classic Jewish Sources for a Physical Division of the Earth
- From Enemy to Friend
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- Had Noah Lived in Abraham’s Generation
- How Nebuchadnezzar Became a Dwarf
- Intertextuality and Idealism in the Rabbinic Reading of Eshet Hayil
- Isaac: A Psychological Perspective
- Ishmael, Son of Abraham
- Jacob's Blessing for Dan
- Jacob's Death-Bed Farewell to His Sons: According to the Rabbis
- Jacob's Paradoxical Encounters
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Joseph and his Brothers: The Midrashic Approach Versus Josephus’ Approach
- Joseph and the Eglah Arufah
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Leviticus 12:2
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics: Part II The Fall of Jerusalem
- Meeting an Angel
- Midrash and Pesher: Two Classical Forms of Biblical Interpretation
- Midrash on Maps
- Midrashic Implications of the Term Holid
- Midrashic Interpretation of Psalms 6 and 20
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- Moses in Cush
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- Moses: Intermediary or Teacher?
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Nimrod
- On Angels
- Outsmarting God: Egyptian Slavery and the Tower of Babel
- Phinehas, Elijah and Circumcision
- Polemical Considerations Among the Four Children: From the Bible to the Haggadah
- Princess Hagar
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Purim and Adloyada
- Rachel, A Mother of Israel
- Reflections of Readers: A Note on a Latin Term in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
- Rehabilitation of Lilith
- Rescue From Fiery Death
- Reworking the Midrash in Light of History
- Sarah Died of "Broken-Heart Syndrome"
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- Shepherding as a Metaphor
- Solomon and Sheba: Aggadic Roots of the Koran Story
- Solomon’s Humiliation
- Subtleties in the Story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
- Testing God: A Midrash on the Akeda
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The Ant in the Bible and Midrash
- The Ass in the Bible
- The Bee in the Bible and Midrash
- The Bird’s Nest Mitzvah: A Personal Aggadic Interpretation
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash on the Early Chapters of Genesis
- The City of Babel and Its Tower
- The Cock and the Hen in Bible and Midrash
- The Death of Moses
- The Dove, Turtle-Dove and Pigeon in Bible and Midrash
- The Duality of Man
- The Eagle in Bible and Midrash
- The Expanding Perspectives of the Sabbath
- The Forgotten Figure at the Akedah
- The Garden of Eden as God’s First Sanctuary
- The Goat in Bible and Midrash
- The Hart and Hind in Bible and Midrash
- The Kiss of Esau
- The Leadership Qualities of Pharaoh
- The Patriarchal Family in the Light of the Midrash: Part I: Abraham and Sarah
- The Seven Mitzvot of B'nai Noah: Varieties of Theft
- The Sin of Amalek in Bible and Midrash
- The Speech Defect of Moses
- The Torah as Divine Fire
- The Trials of Abraham
- The Wives of Esau
- The Women Around Moses
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Translation, Midrash, and Commentary Through the Eyes of Onkelos
- Was Bishop Ussher's Chronology Influenced by a Midrash?
Midrash and Aggadah
Midrash and Peshat
Military History
Minor Biblical Figures
Minor Prophets
Miracle and Rationalism
Miscarriage and Abortion
Mixed Multitude
Moab
Modern Israel
Modern Jewish Thought
- A Name and Rememberance to the Soldiers Who Fell in the Yom Kippur War
- A Nation Without a State: Part 2
- A Secular-Humanist View
- A Traditionalist View
- Adam I and Adam II
- Autobiographical Notes
- Being Jewish: A Parallel Line to Other Faiths
- Bereshit and the Courage of New Beginnings
- Bible: The Concomitant of Human Growth – Based on Genesis 3
- Biblical Metaphor and the Dynamics of Jewish Demography: A Modern Midrash
- Biblical Motifs in the Poetical Works of Chaim Nachman Bialik
- Book Review: The Exile of the Word: From the Silence of the Bible to the Silence of Auschwitz by André Neher
- Book Review: The Torah: A Modern Commentary by W. Gunther Plaut
- Darkness and Light
- Editorial
- Editorial: A Lawsuit over the Spoils of Egypt
- Editorial: On Martyrdom
- Forget Not Your Forebears!
- Genesis I
- Heart of Israel – City of Man
- I Believe
- In Memoriam: Rabbi Josiah Derby
- In the Presence
- In the Shadow of Amalek
- Jabotinsky’s Samson
- Koheleth and the Modern Temper
- Learning from Isaiah
- My Youth in the Company of Shazar
- Of Parents and Children
- Pharaoh Now Has Only One Option
- President Katzir’s Address at the Ben Gurion Yizkor Gathering
- Race Relations
- Reaction to Terror – A Biblical Perspective
- Reminiscences About Ben-Gurion
- Richard Beer-Hofmann and the Bible
- Shazar: The Man of Many Crowns
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research: Part 2
- Some Features of Modern Jewish Bible Research: Part 3
- The Bible of My Youthful Days
- The Bible: Israel’s Spiritual and National Roots
- The Blood of Life: The Hatat Offering and September 11, 2001
- The Da'at Mikra Commentary Series: Between Tradition and Criticism
- The Day Ben-Gurion Died
- The Forgotten Figure at the Akedah
- The Importance of Place
- The Jewish and Christian Covenants and the Holocaust
- The Jewish Way of Loving
- The Legacy of Two Adams
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Patriarchs
- The Problem of the “Chosen People”
- Thou Worm Jacob
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- Torah Study and Peace of Mind
- Translating the Torah: Some Reflections on the New ArtScroll Humash
- Tribute to Yehezkel Kaufman
- TV: Breast, Robbery or the Devil?
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Yehezkel Kaufman: An Evaluation
- Zalman Shazar – A Good Neighbor
Monarchy
Monotheism
Monotheism and Polytheism
Moral Ambiguity
Moral Responsibility
Mosaic Authorship
Moses
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- A Latch and Clasp Connecting Deuteronomy 33:27-29 with Genesis 3:22-24: A Proposed Interpretation
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- After All, the Lord Does Not Ask for Much!
- An Inner Light
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- And the Writing Was the Writing of God
- Book Review: Religion and Contemporary Management: Moses as a Model for Effective Leadership
- Could Moses’ Hands Make War?
- Darshanut: Jethro – Who Was He?
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Derekh Hokhma: Two Aspects of the Exodus Narrative, Part I
- Eldad and Medad
- Eldad and Medad: The Men Who Were Not There
- Elijah the Zealot: A Foil to Moses
- Face to Face (Exodus 32-34)
- For He Took a Cushite Woman
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- From Mount Sinai to Mount Moriah
- God, Abraham, Moses: A Comparison of Key Questions
- Hatan Damim – The Bridegroom of Blood
- In Defense of Korah
- Jethro the Convert
- Jethro/Hobab's Detainment
- Leadership in the Book of Numbers
- Letter to the Editor
- Moses and Josiah
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- Moses and the Spies
- Moses as Poet: Ha'azinu as Poem
- Moses at the Inn: New Light on an Obscure Text
- Moses at the Waters of Meribah: A Case of Transference
- Moses in Cush
- Moses Is Cured of Leprosy
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- Moses the Inarticulate
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part I
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part II
- Moses: Intermediary or Teacher?
- Moses: Man of Indecision
- Moses: Not a Man of Words
- Moses: The Tragedy of his Personal Life
- Moses’ Three Signs: Symbol and Augury
- Polarization in the Mosaic Period
- Schiller on Moses
- Seeing the Good of Israel
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- She Named Him Moses
- Signaling in Biblical Warfare and Moses' Role as Military Commander
- Significant Anonymity in Exodus 2
- Spies, Princes and Korach’s Rebellion
- The “Bloody Bridegroom” in Light of the Joseph Narrative
- The Bridegroom of Blood
- The Call of Moses
- The Circumcision Performed by Zipporah
- The Death of Moses
- The Destruction of the Golden Calf: A Reply
- The Evolving Symbolism of the Burning Bush
- The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron
- The Golden Calf and Ra
- The Horns of Moses
- The Incident at the Lodging House
- The Layout of the Decalogue on the Tablets and Archaeology
- The Liturgical Function of Exodus 33:16-34:26
- The Miracle at the Red Sea
- The Nature of the Decalogue
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Speech Defect of Moses
- The Striking of the Rock
- The Two Tablets of the Covenant
- The Wilderness Experience
- The Women Around Moses
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Was Simeon Not Included in Moses' Blessing
- When Did We Become a Nation?
- Where Was the Mountain of God?
- Who Authorized Israelite Settlement East of the Jordan?
- Who Wrote the Story of Moses’ Death
- Why Did God Want to Kill Moses?
- Why Moses Smashed the Tablets
- Why Moses?
- Why Was Aaron Punished?
- Why Was Moses Barred from Leading the People into the Promised Land? A Psychotheological Answer
- Zipporah and the Passover
Mount Carmel
Music and Liturgy
Music in the Bible
Musical Instruments
Mysticism
N
Names
Names in the Bible
Names of God
Naming and Identity
Naming Conventions
Naming in the Bible
Narrative
Narrative Analysis
Narrative Criticism
Narrative Motifs
Narrative Parallelism
Narrative Structure
Narrative Technique
Narrative Theology
Natural History
Natural Phenomena
Nature in the Bible
- A Garden of Vegetables
- Bdellium
- Birds in the Bible and Midrash
- Bulrush and Bramble
- Canines in Bible and Midrash
- Do Not Destroy the Fruit Trees
- Fish in the Bible and Midrash
- Flattering Earth
- Is Behemoth Also Jewish?
- Pomegranates as Temple Requisites
- Prevention of Cruelty
- Said the Thistle to the Cedar
- The Ant in the Bible and Midrash
- The Ass in the Bible
- The Bee in the Bible and Midrash
- The Camel in the Bible and Talmud
- The Cock and the Hen in Bible and Midrash
- The Dove, Turtle-Dove and Pigeon in Bible and Midrash
- The Eagle in Bible and Midrash
- The Fox in Bible and Talmud
- The Goat in Bible and Midrash
- The Hamsin and the Rain
- The Hart and Hind in Bible and Midrash
- The Negev
- The Two Seasons in Israel
- The Volcano in Job 28
Neanderthals
Nefesh and Blood
Nephilim
New Testament
Ninth Plague
Noah
- Be-Dorotav: Noah's "Generations" in Light of Antediluvian Longevity
- Flood, Salt, and Sacrifice
- Noah's Ark as Metaphor
- Noah’s Vintner Tale: Divine Literature in Human Language
- Ten Generations from Adam to Noah Versus Ten Generations from Noah to Abraham
- The Family Corner: Bible in the Family — Book of Genesis
Noah Narrative
Northern Kingdom
Numbers
Numerology
O
Onomastics
Orthodox Bible Scholarship
P
Parables
Passover
Passover Haggadah
patriarchal narratives
Patriarchal Narratives
- "... And Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- A Patriarch Reviews the Past to Impact the Future
- A Significant Insignificance: The Meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh
- Abraham and Atlantis
- Abraham and Balaam: A Biblical Contrast
- Abraham and Isaac: Human Frailty and Trauma in Genesis
- Abraham and Jacob, and God, at Beth El
- Abraham Plants a Flag
- Abraham's Great Sin – A Reevaluation
- Abraham's Hospitality
- Abraham's Moment of Decision: According to Levinas and Rembrandt
- Abraham's Ten Trials and a Biblical Numerical Convention
- Abraham’s Trials: Tests of Strength or Learning Experiences?
- Age Is Not a Factor: Age Differentials in Genesis
- Akedah: The Binding of Isaac
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- Arami Oved Avi
- Archetypes in the Patriarchal Family
- Balaam Is Laban
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Book Review: Rachel
- Book Review: The Epic of the Patriarch
- Camels in the Bible
- Chaos or Chiasm? The Structure of Abraham's Life
- Comment on "The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob"
- Consequences of the Akedah
- Darshanut: Judah: ‘This Time I Will Praise the Lord’ (Genesis 29:35)
- Darshanut: Mothers and Sons: In Defense of Lot’s Wife
- Death in the Bible
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- Did the Patriarchs Know God's Name?
- Displacement in the Matriarchal Home: A Psychological Study of the Abraham-Sarah Marriage
- Distinguishing Jacob and Israel
- El Shaddai
- Esau and Jacob Revisited: Demon versus Tzadik?
- Esau and Jacob: Brothers Clash, Reconcile and Separate
- Esau’s Wives
- Fathers and Sons
- Five Questions of Abraham
- Forget Not Your Forebears!
- From Mount Sinai to Mount Moriah
- From the Nuzi Tablets
- Genesis 14 – Meaning and Structure
- Genesis and Genetics
- Gid Hanasheh as Forgetfulness
- Gideon and the Ephraimites
- God, Abraham, Moses: A Comparison of Key Questions
- Had Noah Lived in Abraham’s Generation
- His Brothers’ Keeper
- Hospitality in Sodom – A Biblical Contrast
- In Defense of Esau
- Isaac and Laughter
- Isaac Tells the Akeda Story
- Isaac: A Psychological Perspective
- Isaac’s Blessing – Who Has Deceived?
- Isaac's Counter Legacy
- Isaac's Personality and the Meaning of La-Su'ah Ba-Sadeh
- Isaac's Wells and Israel's Return
- Ishmael, Son of Abraham
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Jacob and Esau: Their Struggle in the Second Century
- Jacob and the Wife-Sister Stories
- Jacob the Wrestler
- Jacob, Man of Destiny: His Youth
- Jacob, Man of Destiny: Part 3: The Turning Point
- Jacob: Father of a Nation
- Jacob's Blessing for Dan
- Jacob's Choice in Genesis 25:19 – 28:9
- Jacob's Death-Bed Farewell to His Sons: According to the Rabbis
- Jacob’s Deception of his Father
- Jacob’s Growing Understanding of His Experience at Beth-El
- Jacob’s Limp
- Jacob’s Love for Rachel
- Jacob's Paradoxical Encounters
- Jacob’s Return to Canaan
- Jacob’s Two Dreams
- Joseph
- Joseph and his Brothers
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Joseph Under Suspicion
- Joseph's Emotional Development
- Judah and Tamar
- Judah and Tamar: A Scriptural Enigma
- Justice for Esau
- Laban and Jacob
- Leah’s Eyes
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Look Unto Abraham Your Father (Isaiah 51:2)
- Matriarchal Influence in the Bible: A Medical-Psychological Study
- Meeting an Angel
- Mesopotamia and Israel
- Nahmanides' Understanding of Abraham's Mesopotamian Origins
- Nineveh and Sodom Juxtaposed: Contrasts and Parallels
- Obstetrical and Lexicographical Complications: The Birth of Benjamin and Death of Rachel
- Obstetrical Complication of Benjamin’s Birth: The Cause of Rachel’s Death
- Our Mother Rachel: Prima Inter Pares
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Patriarch Without a Narrative
- Patriarchal History: Action and Reaction
- Princess Hagar
- Purchase of the Machpelah
- Rachel: A Woman Who Would Be a Mother
- Rebecca’s Encounter with Abraham’s Servant
- Rebekah’s Beguilement of Isaac
- Rebekah’s Deceit or Isaac’s Great Test
- Reflections of Readers: Judah and Joseph: A Study in Contrasts
- Sacrificing Isaac: A New Interpretation
- Sarah Died of "Broken-Heart Syndrome"
- Saving the Akedah from the Philosophers
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Shepherding as a Metaphor
- Sibling Relationships in the Bible: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- Simeon the Scapegoat
- Sodom: Manner, Morals, Misdeeds
- Some Psychological Insights into the Life of Abraham
- Struggling with Angels and Men
- Switching Brides: Conspiracy and Cover-Up
- Tamar Times Three
- Testing God: A Midrash on the Akeda
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Akedah – A Test of God
- The Akedah Drama
- The Akedah Test: What Passes and What Fails
- The Akedah: Machloket L’Shem Shamayim
- The Akedah: Machloket L'Shem Shamayim Sofa L'Hitkayeim
- The Aqedath Jishaq Theme in Yiddish Literature
- The Divine Name E-L Shad-dai: He Who Created Families
- The Education of Abraham: The Encounter Between Abraham and God Over the Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Enigma of the Joseph Narrative
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Forgotten Figure at the Akedah
- The Funeral of Jacob: A Joint Hebrew-Egyptian Affair
- The God of Abraham, Rebekah and Jacob
- The Jacob-Esau Reunion
- The Jerusalem Streets Abraham Walked On
- The Journey of Terah: To Ur-Kasdim or Urkesh?
- The Kiss of Esau
- The Living Testament of Jacob-Israel
- The Meaning of Abraham’s Test: A Reexamination of the Akedah
- The Mission of Abraham: Genesis 18:17-22:19
- The Mystery of Genesis 36
- The Nation of Isaac
- The Nuzi Tablets: Reflections on the Patriarchal Narratives
- The Patriarchal Family in the Light of the Midrash: Part I: Abraham and Sarah
- The Patriarchs
- The Preference of Ephraim
- The Problem of Deception in Genesis 27
- The Rape of Dinah
- The Rape of Dinah and the Conquest of Shechem
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The Role of Destiny in the Joseph Story
- The Role of Terah in the Foundational Stories of the Patriarchal Family
- The Selling of the Birthright
- The Testament of Jacob: An Analysis of Gen. 49:18
- The Testing of Abraham
- The Trauma of Isaac
- The Trials of Abraham
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- These are the Generations of Isaac
- Twins in Transition: Genesis 32:25-31 Re-examined
- Two Views on Jacob
- Was Abraham Heartless?
- Was Abram Born in Ur of the Chaldees?
- Was Father Isaac a Co-conspirator?
- What's in a Name?
- Who Was Melchizedek
- Why Did Joseph Let His Father Mourn For Him?
- Why No Message from Joseph to His Father?
- Yakov Azriel, Threads from a Coat of Many Colors: Poems on Genesis
Patriarchs
Peleg
Pentateuch
Pentateuchal Criticism
Persian Empire
Persian Influence
Persian Period
Persian Period Chronology
Personality Theory
Peshat and Derash
Pharaoh
Philistines
Philology
- “Awesome” Artistry: Ayummah Kannidgalot in Song of Songs 6:4, 10
- A Note on “Watergate” in the Tanach
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- About Some Scriptural Divine Designations
- Ason, a Fate Worse than Death
- Bdellium
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Bible Mistranslations: A Supplementary Note
- Bible Translations and Mistranslations
- Bible Translations: How Reliable?
- Bible Trivia: Soferim – Scribes – Counters
- Book Review: The Hebrew Word Shem and its Original Meaning by I. Rapaport
- Double Meanings in the Song of Songs
- Ha'achashtranim Bnei Ha'ramachim
- Jot, Tittle and Waw
- Linguistic Elements in the Book of Ruth
- Modern Biblical Translations
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- Note on the Term Pakad
- Notes on Biblical Hebrew
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Meaning of Mikhtam in Psalms
- Observations on Ta-amay Hamikra
- Scribal Peculiarities in the Sefer Torah על פאי”ן לפופין
- Semitic Influences and the Bible Text
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 1 and 2
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 3 and 4
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 5 and 6
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Parts 7 and 8
- The Hebrew Element in Everyday English: Some Afterthoughts
- The Hebrew Word Shem: A New Interpretation of Several Biblical Passages
- The Humpty Dumpty Principle in Biblical Translation
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Multiple Functions of “How” in the Tanakh
- The Names of Biblical Verses
- The Old and the New JPS Translations
- The Root G-R-A in the Bible: The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad and Beyond
- The Strange History of ‘Kasher’
- The Translators’ Dilemma: What is Itti?
- The Verb נער in the Bible
- Three Nuances of Sexual Intercourse
- Tiles and Bricks in Biblical Poetry
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- What is a גב?
philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
Phoenicia
Plague and Disease
Plagues
Plagues of Egypt
Plate Tectonics
Political Assassination
Political History
Political Interpretation
Political Intrigue
Political Theology
Polytheism vs. Monotheism
Post-Exilic Literature
Post-Exilic Theology
Prayer
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 1
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 2
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 3
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 4
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 5
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 6
- Book Review: The Invention of Monotheist Ethics
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- In the Presence
- Kaddish and the Lord’s Prayer
- Psalm CXXX: A Cry of the Heart
- Service of the Lips
- The Development of Biblical Prayer
- The Jewish Origins of the Lord’s Prayer
- Who Was Jabez?
Prayer and Worship
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- A Soothing Savor
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- I Am the Woman: The Story and Prayer of Hannah, a Biblical Feminist Text
- Joseph
- Psalms Chapter 63: David in the Wilderness
Prayer History
priesthood
Priesthood
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- Acharei Mot and the Strange Fire
- Alcohol and the Fate of Nadab and Abihu
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Engraved with the Names
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Kedusha – Holiness
- Korah and His Aspirations
- Letters to the Editor
- Metzora(at) Kasheleg: Leprosy
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Mystery of the Red Heifer
- On “Dukhan”
- Phinehas: Hero or Vigilante?
- Prophet, King and Priest
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- Sense and Incense
- The Dilemma of the Sanctuary
- The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Rebellion of the Bechorim
- The Red Heifer Mystery
- The Red Heifer Ritual: A Rational Explanation
- The Ritual of the Red Heifer
- The Saga of the First Born
- The True Sin of Nadab and Abihu
- Was Ezra a High Priest?
- Was Samuel a Priest?
- Who Was Melchizedek
- Why Is 20 the Minimum Age in the Bible for a Kohen to Minister in the Temple, for a Person to Be Counted in the Census, and for a Man to Join the Army?
- Why Was Aaron Punished?
Priestly Breastplate
Priestly Garments
Priestly Vestments
Printing History
Prohibited Practices
prophecy
Prophecy
- 'I Am a Hebrew!' Jonah's Conflict with God's Mercy Toward Even the Most Worthy of Pagans
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- "Moses Wrote His Book and the Portion of Balaam"
- A Dream of a Dream in Daniel 2
- A Drop of a Bucket (Isaiah 40:15)
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 1
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 2
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 3
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 6
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 7
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter IX
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter VIII
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter X
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapters 4 and 5
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapters XI-XII
- A Reconstruction of Matzor: Habakkuk 2:1
- A Stylistic-Exegetical Analysis of Jeremiah 46:1-12
- Ahab: A “Poor” Character
- Amos
- Amos 5:24: Prophetic, Chastising, Surprising, Poetic
- Amos and Hosea: Two Directions in Israel’s Prophecy
- Amos the Prophet
- Amos: Prophet and Worldly Man
- And a Fountain Shall Come Forth From the House of the Lord
- And Ekron as a Jebusite (Zechariah 9:7)
- Aspaklaria of Prophetic Vision
- Atbash in Jeremiah
- Atbash in Jeremiah – Part II
- Atbash in Jeremiah, Its Literary Significance – Part III
- Balaam and His Talking Donkey
- Balaam the Magician
- Balaam: An Unauthentic Prophet
- Balaam: Did God Change His Mind?
- Balaam: Some Aspects of His Character
- Balaam’s Mission – Failure or Success?
- Baruch Ben-Neriah: The Man Who Was Not a Prophet
- Biblical Teaching of Peace
- Book Review: I Kings – Torn in Two
- Book Review: JPS Bible Commentary — Jonah
- Book Review: Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah
- Book Review: Talks on Scripture, vol. 2: The Latter Prophets
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Cyrus in the Perspective of the Bible and History
- Daniel
- Darshanut: Jonah: A Transitional Prophet
- Darshanut: The Inner Voice
- David and Ahab: A Study of Crime and Punishment
- Deborah, the Wife of Lapidot
- Deborah: Judge, Prophetess and Poet
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Eastward and Westward: The Movement of Prophecy and History in the Book of Yonah
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Eldad and Medad
- Eldad and Medad: The Men Who Were Not There
- Elijah
- Elijah in Yiddish Literature
- Elijah the Zealot: A Foil to Moses
- Elijah: The Unique Prophet
- Elijah’s Recovery from Depression
- Elisha the Prophet
- Exile and Return
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Ezekiel, the Neglected Prophet
- Ezekiel: From Destruction to Redemption
- For I am God and Not Man
- For the Sake of My Name
- For the Statutes of Omri are Kept (Micah 6:16)
- Gynomorphic Imagery in Exilic Isaiah (40-66)
- Habakkuk 3:13 – A Problematic Verse
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- Hopping Between Two Opinions: Understanding the Biblical Portrait of Ahab
- Hosea – His Message
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- Hosea and the Fertility Cult
- Hosea’s True Marriage
- How Chapter Six Put the Exodus Back on Track
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Isaiah and Cyrus
- Isaiah and Hezekiah: Prophet and King
- Isaiah and his Audience
- Isaiah: How the Book Entered Holy Writ
- Jeremiah and Hananiah: A Study of True and False Prophecy
- Jeremiah, a Tragedy: Thou Hast Enticed Me and I Was Enticed
- Jeremiah, the Suffering Prophet, and Ezekiel, the Visionary
- Jeremiah's Trial as a False Prophet (Chapter 26)
- Jerusalem in the Days of Jeremiah
- Joel and His Message
- Jonah and Nineveh: The Tragedy of Jonah
- Jonah Chapter 2 as a Prophetic Vision
- Jonah, the Reluctant Prophet: Prophecy and Allegory
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- Jonah: Toward the Re-Education of the Prophets
- Jonah: Transition From Seer to Prophet
- Jonah’s Confession
- Jonah’s Race to Nineveh
- Joseph: A Biblical Approach to Dream Interpretation
- King Balak: Happy Endings
- King Cyrus, Anointed (Messiah) of the Lord
- King of Princes: An Exegesis of Hosea 8:10
- Learning from Isaiah
- Letters to the Editor
- Look Unto Abraham Your Father (Isaiah 51:2)
- Malachi: A Prophet for His Time
- Micah’s Ideals: Stevenson’s Guide
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part I
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part II
- Moses: Not a Man of Words
- Music and Prophecy
- Nahum – The Prophet and His Message
- Nahum 1: Acrostic and Authorship
- Nahum: The Little-Known Prophet
- Nahum's Theological Perspectives
- New Light on Unknown Prophets: The Lachish Letters
- Nineveh and Sodom Juxtaposed: Contrasts and Parallels
- Obadiah: The Smallest Book in the Bible
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part I
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part II
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part III
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part IV
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part V
- Oded, a Prophet of God
- Parents Have Eaten Sour Grapes
- Phinehas and Micah
- Problems and Solutions of Habakkuk 3:8
- Prophecy and Halacha
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 1
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 2
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 3: Emergence of Literary Prophecy
- Prophet, King and Priest
- Prophetic Views of the Davidic Monarchy
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Questions and Response in Micah 6:6-8
- Ruth and Elisha
- Samson and Samuel: Two Styles of Leadership
- Samuel and Saul: A Negative Symbiosis
- Samuel and Saul: The Prophetic Dimension
- Samuel and Saul: The Psychological Dimension
- Seeking Vindication, Especially in Jonah
- Sound and Silence
- Speech and Silence in Prophecy
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The Atbash-Acrostic
- The Babylonian Captivity
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Blood of Naboth
- The Book of Daniel: Its Significance and Meaning
- The Book of Job: A Prelude to Prophecy
- The Book of Jonah
- The Book of Jonah as Allegory
- The Book of Jonah: A Lesson for all Generations
- The Book of Jonah: An Ethical Confrontation Between God and Prophet
- The Book of Zephaniah: Allusions to the Tower of Babel
- The Call of Moses
- The Covenant Between the Parts
- The Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah 40-50
- The Day of the Lord
- The Direction and Purpose of Time: Isaiah's Vision of the “End of Days”
- The Epilogue to Jonah
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Fall of Samaria
- The Ghost of Samuel: Real or Imaginary?
- The Lesson of Ezekiel’s Temple
- The Literary Impact of Jonah
- The Meaning of Tzemah HaShem in Isaiah 4:2
- The Prophecy of Joel: The Prophet's Message, Beliefs, and Prophetic Style
- The Prophet and the King
- The Prophet and the King
- The Prophet as Watcher
- The Prophet Hosea – A Symposium
- The Prophet Micaiah in Kings and Chronicles
- The Prophet Samuel and King Saul
- The Prophet Samuel and King Saul
- The Prophet Versus the King
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Prophets: Nationalist or Universalist
- The Psychology of Balaam
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- The Satanic Verses – Part I
- The School of Isaiah: Biography and Transmission of the Book of Isaiah
- The Symbolic Acts of Ezekiel (Chapters 3-5)
- The Torn Robe: A Study of I Samuel 15:26-28
- The Tragic King
- The Trial of Jeremiah
- The Trial of Jeremiah and the Killing of Uriah the Prophet
- The Triple Tragedy of the Gedaliah Assassination
- The Universalism of the Book of Jonah: According to the Teaching of Yehezkel Kaufmann
- The Utopian Map in Ezekiel (48:1-35)
- The Vision of the Dry Bones
- The Warhorse of the Lord
- The Women Around Moses
- The Youth Corner: Bible Quiz on Hoshea, Joel and Amos
- Their Ruler Shall Rise Above Agag (Numbers 24:7): Does This Biblical Verse Reference the Future King Saul?
- Thoughts on an Allegorical Reading of Jonah
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- True and False Prophets
- Two Biblical Parables: Irony and Self Entrapment
- Two Righteous Men: Isaiah and Hezekiah
- Understanding Balaam's Donkey
- Was Habakkuk Presumptuous?
- Was Samuel a Priest?
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
- When God's Will Can and Cannot Be Altered: The Relationship Between the Balaam Narrative and I Kings 13
- Who is Afraid of Edom: Reflections on a Theme in Lamentations
- Why Did Samuel Initially Reject Monarchy?
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
- Zedekiah: Last King of Judah
- Zerubabbel: The Messianic Hope of the Returnees
Prophetic Chronology
Prophetic Literature
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 1
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 2
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 3
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 6
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter 7
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter IX
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter VIII
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapter X
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapters 4 and 5
- A Guide to Isaiah: Chapters XI-XII
- Amos: Prophet and Worldly Man
- Ezekiel, the Neglected Prophet
- Hosea – His Message
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- Isaiah and his Audience
- Jeremiah, a Tragedy: Thou Hast Enticed Me and I Was Enticed
- Judean Mindset Throughout the Babylonian Exile
- Let My Outcasts, Moab, Find Asylum in You: Compassion for Fugitives From Disaster in Isaiah 15–16
- Prophecy: A Phenomenological Approach: Part 3: Emergence of Literary Prophecy
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- Spectacle Culture: Vision as a Narrative Plot Device in the Samson Cycle
- The Genre of the Call Narrative
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Prophet Hosea – A Symposium
- The Use of Two Synonymous Prepositions Lema'an and Le- in Ezekiel 21
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
Prophetic Narrative
Prophets
Proverbs
Proverbs 31
Providence
Psalm 67
Psalm Superscriptions
Psalms
- A Dead Sea Psalm
- A First Century C.E. Date for the Closing of the Book of Psalms?
- A Psalm for Sabbath? A Literary View of Psalm 92
- A Suggested Translation of Psalm 91:1-2
- Addenda to Psalm 145
- Amen and Hallelujah: Their Development as Liturgical Responses
- At the Rivers of Babylon
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Book Review: A Rabbi Reads the Psalms
- Book Review: Al Hasetumot Bamizmor (Commentary on the Psalms)
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120–150. The Traditional Hebrew Text with the JPS Translation
- Books 3-5 of the Book of Psalms: From Harshness to Hallelujah
- Creation and the Torah in Psalm 19
- Critical Notes on Psalm 22:30
- Do the Liturgical Uses of Psalm 29 Suggest Different Interpretations of the Psalm?
- Editor's Corner: Psalm 24:3-4: Nafshi or Nafsho: His Soul or My Name?
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- Hinds in Psalm 29
- I Am the Woman: The Story and Prayer of Hannah, a Biblical Feminist Text
- Let Everything Praise the Lord
- Letters to the Editor
- Magdil and Migdol – Liturgical Responses to Textual Variants
- Midrashic Interpretation of Psalms 6 and 20
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Contrite Heart
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Meaning of Mikhtam in Psalms
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- On the Inadequacy of Translation: As Exemplified by a Literary Analysis of Four Translations of Psalm 102 – Part I
- On the Inadequacy of Translation: As Exemplified by a Literary Analysis of Four Translations of Psalm 102 – Part II
- Particularism and Universalism in Psalms
- Praise Waiteth For Thee (Ps. 65:2)
- Psalm 113
- Psalm 116
- Psalm 118
- Psalm 119
- Psalm 145: Its Two Faces
- Psalm 147
- Psalm 19 Revisited
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Psalm 23: A Pattern Poem
- Psalm 34 – Does the Heading Fit?
- Psalm 47: Numerical and Geometrical Devices Used to Emphasize the Author’s Message
- Psalm 68: Echoes of the Song of Deborah?
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Psalm 91 as Responsory
- Psalm 92, Shabbat, and the Temple
- Psalm CXXX: A Cry of the Heart
- Psalm XV : A Liturgical or Ethical Psalm
- Psalm XXIV
- Psalms 37:25 and 34:11: After-Meal Theology
- Psalms Chapter 63: David in the Wilderness
- Psalms of Zion
- Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Restructuring Psalm 47
- Restructuring Psalm 85
- Some Surprises in Psalm 78
- Sparks From the Psalms
- Tehilim: The Book of Psalms
- Tehillim – The Psalms
- Tehillim: The Book of Psalms
- The "Name" of God in Psalms
- The Differences Between the Wise and the Foolish in Psalms: Theodicy, Understanding Providence, and Religious Responses
- The Earth Is Full of Your Creations (Psalms 104:24)
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Historical Background of Psalm 24
- The Makers of Israel: A Note on Psalm 149
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Psalms of the Day
- The Riddle of Psalm 49
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 1
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 2
- The Weekday Amidah and Biblical Psalms
- The Youth Corner: Our Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Understanding Psalm 46
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- We Heard in Ephrathah That We Found It in the Forested Field (Psalm 132:6)
- What Is Keseh in Psalm 81:4?
- When Peace Fails: Psalm 120
- Who Was the First Jewish Commentator to Connect Psalm 50 with Christianity?
- Who Were the "Fearers of the Lord" (Yir'ei Hashem) in Psalms?
- Who Wrote the Psalms? Controversy and Confusion Regarding Authorship
- Why Is Psalm 94 the Song of the Day for Wednesday?
- לידער פון זלמן שזר
Psalms Exegesis
Pseudepigrapha
Pshat Interpretation
Psychological Insight
Psychological Interpretation
Psychology
Psychology and Bible
Psychology and the Bible
Punishment
Q
Queen Mother
Queen of Sheba
R
Rabbinic Commentary
Rabbinic Exegesis
- 'I Am a Hebrew!' Jonah's Conflict with God's Mercy Toward Even the Most Worthy of Pagans
- "And These Are the Judgments That You Shall Set Before Them" (Ex. 21:1): "As a Set Table"
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- A Matter of Words and Assumptions in the Household of Jacob
- A Midrashic View of Ruth Amidst a Sea of Ambiguity
- Abraham and Balaam: A Biblical Contrast
- Acharei Mot and the Strange Fire
- Age Is Not a Factor: Age Differentials in Genesis
- Alcohol and the Fate of Nadab and Abihu
- And Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
- And When He Saw the ‘Agalot Joseph Had Sent to Carry Him Back, the Spirit of Their Father Jacob Revived (Gen. 45:27) – Why?
- At the Mouth of Two Witnesses
- Balaam and His Talking Donkey
- Balaam Is Laban
- Balaam, Shakespeare, Shylock
- Be-Dorotav: Noah's "Generations" in Light of Antediluvian Longevity
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Biblical Formatting: Visual and Virtual
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Biblical Puns
- Book Review: Torah Dialogues, by Hayyim Halpern
- Dagon: The Fish God?
- Daniel as the Embodiment of Exile and Redemption
- Darkness and Light
- Darshanut: Genesis 33:6 vs. Genesis 33:7
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Distinguishing Jacob and Israel
- Do the Liturgical Uses of Psalm 29 Suggest Different Interpretations of the Psalm?
- Esau and Jacob Revisited: Demon versus Tzadik?
- Esau and Jacob: Brothers Clash, Reconcile and Separate
- Eye For Eye
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- For He Took a Cushite Woman
- From Noah to Abraham
- Genesis 31: Jacob's Peculiar Dream
- Gid Hanasheh as Forgetfulness
- Hatan Damim – The Bridegroom of Blood
- Hopping Between Two Opinions: Understanding the Biblical Portrait of Ahab
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- In the Second Year of the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:1)
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Jacob's Death-Bed Farewell to His Sons: According to the Rabbis
- Jeremiah's Trial as a False Prophet (Chapter 26)
- Jethro/Hobab's Detainment
- Jonah Chapter 2 as a Prophetic Vision
- Jonah, the Reluctant Prophet: Prophecy and Allegory
- Judge Ibzan of Bethlehem
- Kedushah, Holiness, and Ethics
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Love of Neighbor and Its Antecedent Verses
- Master of Life
- Midrashic Implications of the Term Holid
- Moses Is Cured of Leprosy
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- New Torah Dialogues
- Nimrod
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- P’shat – An Innovative Method in Torah Commentary
- Patriarchal History: Action and Reaction
- Phinehas: Hero or Vigilante?
- Polemical Considerations Among the Four Children: From the Bible to the Haggadah
- Proof Texts
- Prooftext that Elkanah Rather than Hannah Consecrated Samuel as a Nazirite
- Psalm 113
- Psalms 37:25 and 34:11: After-Meal Theology
- Queen Athaliah: The Daughter of Ahab or Omri?
- Rashi's View of Genesis
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- Reclaiming Esther: From Sex Object to Sage
- Sarah's Treatment of Hagar (Genesis 16)
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Septuagint Readings as Additional Exegetical Layers
- She Named Him Moses
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Sinai Upside-Down
- Struggling with Angels and Men
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- The Circumcision Performed by Zipporah
- The Connection Between the Idol of Micah and the Concubine at Gibeah: A Rabbinic View
- The Image of God and the Literary Interdependence of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3
- The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature: The Case of Innate Heat
- The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab
- The Lex Talionis in the Torah
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Narration of Joseph and Rabbinic Interpretation
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Psychology of Balaam
- The Rebellious Son: Can His Execution Be Justified?
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Three Day Syndrome
- The Use of Symbolism and Hidden Messages in the Book of Ruth
- The Wives of Esau
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues (Fourth Series)
- Torah Dialogues (Third Series)
- Torah Dialogues (Third Series)
- Torah Dialogues (Third Series)
- Torah Dialogues: Bemidbar
- Torah Dialogues: Bemidbar
- Torah Dialogues: Deuteronomy
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Part 2
- Translating the Torah: Some Reflections on the New ArtScroll Humash
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Was Habakkuk Presumptuous?
- What Never Was and Never Will Be: Rebellious Son – Subverted City – Infected House
- What's in a Name?
- Where is Your Wife Sarah? (Gen. 18:9)
- Who Authorized Israelite Settlement East of the Jordan?
- Who Was Jonathan Son of Gershom in Judges 18:30?
- Why Did Joseph Not Send a Messenger to His Father? – A Tragedy of Errors
- Why Doesn't Noah Have More Children After the Flood?
- Why Isaac Wasn't Permitted to Resist at the Akedah
Rabbinic Hermeneutics
Rabbinic Interpretation
- An Examination of Aaron's Role in the Sin of the Golden Calf
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Divine and Human Anger and Grace
- Eldad and Medad
- Shiphrah and Puah: Two Strong Women in Exodus
- Tamar Triumphant: Targumim
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Psalms of the Day
- Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law
- Who Was Jabez?
Rabbinic Legend
Rabbinic Literature
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- “We Will Do and We Will Hearken”
- A Dream of a Dream in Daniel 2
- About Books: Sabbath Chapters of Talmud by Rabbi B. Elizur-Epstein
- Aggadah in Bible Study
- And the Writing Was the Writing of God
- Are Most Jews B'nai-Judah?
- Aspaklaria of Prophetic Vision
- Bible and Aggada
- Bible Trivia: The 72 Letter Name of God
- Biblical and Talmudic Attitudes Toward Intermarriage: Part 1
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 1
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 2
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 3
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 4
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 5
- Biblical Sources Relating to Prayer: Part 6
- Bochen Klayot Va’Lev: Who Searches the Kidneys and the Heart: Cellular Memory in Organs and Sensory Neurites in the Heart?
- Book Review: Gevuroth Haromah
- Book Review: Lev Avot by Simon P. Toperoff
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Sefer Ha-Aggadah
- Book Review: The Words of Gad the Seer
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Can One Criticize the Biblical Heroes?
- Changing Laws
- Compulsory Education
- Darshanut: The Defiant Son
- Divine and Human Curses
- Ecclesiastes: Part 1: Authorship
- Editorial: On Martyrdom
- End of Exile?
- Eye for an Eye: An Old Canard
- Friends, Strangers, Enemies
- From Enemy to Friend
- Go and Learn
- Jacob and Esau: Their Struggle in the Second Century
- Jeroboam Ben Nebat
- Jerusalem in Jewish Law: Part 4
- Jerusalem in Rabbinic Literature: Part 2
- Jerusalem in Rabbinic Literature: Part 3
- Jerusalem in the Bible and Talmud: Part 1
- Laws of Mourning: Biblical Sources – Part 4
- Laws of Shabbat – Biblical Sources: Part 5
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: The Word Ger
- Letters to the Editor
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- Minhag in Judaism
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- More on the Seven Nations
- Mystery of the Red Heifer
- Naming Nehemiah
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Noahide Laws From Genesis to Genizah
- Not to Inflict Hurt on Animals
- On Concealing Tekhelet and Revealing the Shekhinah
- Prophecy and Halacha
- Purim and Adloyada
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh
- Rabbinic Attitudes Toward Intermarriage: Part 2
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Rosh Hodesh as a Woman's Holiday
- Scribal Peculiarities in the Sefer Torah על פאי”ן לפופין
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part I
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part II
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Shakespeare's Forgivable Portrayal of Shylock
- Shavuot – Z’man Matan Torateinu
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Sources on the History of Torah and Haftarah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading: Part 4
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading: Part 5
- The Book of Job as a Book of Morality
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash
- The Camel in the Bible and Talmud
- The Fox in Bible and Talmud
- The God of Abraham, Rebekah and Jacob
- The Golden Calf and Ra
- The Greek Translation of the Bible
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Illegitimate Child (Mamzer) in Jewish Law
- The Importance of Place
- The Jewish Calendar
- The Laws of Marriage: Biblical Sources
- The Laws of Marriage: Biblical Sources: Part 2
- The Laws of Mourning – Biblical Sources Part 2
- The Laws of Mourning – Biblical Sources: Part 3
- The Laws of Mourning: Biblical Sources: Part 1
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources Part 2
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources Part 3
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources: Part 1
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources: Part 4
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Physical Characteristics of a Torah Scroll
- The Problem of the Levirate Marriage
- The Red Heifer Mystery
- The Red Heifer Ritual: A Rational Explanation
- The Ritual of the Red Heifer
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Seven Mitzvot of B'nai Noah: Varieties of Theft
- The Synagogue: Its Origin and Development
- The Temple Plan Revealed: A Mishnaic Formula for Building the Temple
- The Ten and the Torah
- The Torah as Divine Fire
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- Torah Study and Peace of Mind
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- What Never Was and Never Will Be: Rebellious Son – Subverted City – Infected House
- Wherefore Mitzvot, the Divine Commandments?
- Who Was the First Jewish Commentator to Connect Psalm 50 with Christianity?
- Who Wrote the Psalms? Controversy and Confusion Regarding Authorship
- Who Wrote the Story of Moses’ Death
- Why Does the Seder Begin With Karpas?
- You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother's Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19
Rabbinic Midrash
Rabbinic Tradition
Ramban
Rashi
- A New Approach to the Interpretation of the Hitpael Conjugation
- And Dinah the Daughter of Leah Went Out: The Meaning of Yatz'anit in Rashi's Commentary
- Book Review: Rashi by Chaim Pearl
- Creation: Something from Something, Something from Nothing, or Something from Hardly Anything?
- Joseph and the Eglah Arufah
- Masters of the Word, Vol. II
- Rashi's Midrashic Comments Are Supported by a Broad Range of Biblical Texts
- The Meaning of Bikkoret in Leviticus 19:20
Rashi and Medieval Exegesis
Rationalist Exegesis
reader correspondence
Reader Reflections
Rebecca
rebellion
Rebellion Narratives
Reception History
Reconciliation
redemption
Redemption
Reformation-Era Translations
Refugees and Compassion
Rejection
Religious Leadership
Religious Pluralism
Religious Witnessing
Renaissance Jewish Thought
Repentance
- 'I Am a Hebrew!' Jonah's Conflict with God's Mercy Toward Even the Most Worthy of Pagans
- Darshanut: Jonah and Yom Kippur
- Fasting and Atonement
- Joel and His Message
- Jonah and Nineveh: The Tragedy of Jonah
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- Jonah: Toward the Re-Education of the Prophets
- Jonah’s Confession
- Jonah’s Race to Nineveh
- Judah and Tamar
- Nineveh and Sodom Juxtaposed: Contrasts and Parallels
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Contrite Heart
- Psalm CXXX: A Cry of the Heart
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The Book of Jonah
- The Book of Jonah as Allegory
- The Book of Jonah: A Lesson for all Generations
- The Book of Jonah: An Ethical Confrontation Between God and Prophet
- The Epilogue to Jonah
- The Liturgical Function of Exodus 33:16-34:26
- The Prophecy of Joel: The Prophet's Message, Beliefs, and Prophetic Style
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- Two Sinners
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Yom Kippur: Cover Up or Plea for Probation?
Repentance and Atonement
Rephaim
Responsibility
Resurrection
Resurrection of the Dead
Return to Zion
Reuben
Revelation at Sinai
Rewritten Bible
Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Leadership
Rhetoric and Persuasion
Rhetoric of Deception
Righteous Gentiles
Ritual and Sacrifice
Ritual Law
Ritual Objects
Ritual Practice
Ritual Purity
Ritual Symbolism
Royal Titles
Ruth
- A Problem in the Book of Ruth
- Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary — Ruth
- Reflections on Shavuoth
- Reflections: Beer-Hofmann’s Image of Ruth
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Mantle of the Matriarchs: Ruth 4:11-15
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
S
Saadia Gaon
Sabbath
- About Books: Sabbath Chapters of Talmud by Rabbi B. Elizur-Epstein
- Creation, Tabernacle and Sabbath
- From “Seventh Day” to “Shabbat”: Dualities in Genesis 2:1-3
- God Rested on the Seventh Day
- Laws of Shabbat – Biblical Sources: Part 5
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- Sinai and the "Shabbat-Cycle" Laws
- The Expanding Perspectives of the Sabbath
- The Fourth Commandment
- The Importance of Place
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources Part 2
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources Part 3
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources: Part 1
- The Laws of Sabbath – Biblical Sources: Part 4
- The Sabbath Commandment: Its Two Versions
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Seven Day Week in the Bible: The Circaseptan (7-Day) Rhythm — Fractality, Wholeness, Unity and Completeness
- When Does the Day Begin?
Sacred Space
Sacrifice
- A Missing Hexateuchal Narrative Concerning Child Sacrifice
- A Soothing Savor
- Altars and Tables in the Bible
- Book Review: Jephthah and His Vow by David Marcus
- Consequences of the Akedah
- Incised Stone Fragment “Korban”
- Jephthah
- Jephthah’s Daughter
- Jephthah’s Literary Vogue
- Letter to the Editor
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- Sacrificial Cult among the Exiles in Egypt but not Babylon – Why?
- Saving the Akedah from the Philosophers
- Sense and Incense
- Service of the Lips
- Shepherding as a Metaphor
- The Akedah Test: What Passes and What Fails
- The Akedah: Machloket L’Shem Shamayim
- The Akedah: Machloket L'Shem Shamayim Sofa L'Hitkayeim
- The Aqedath Jishaq Theme in Yiddish Literature
- The Blood of Life: The Hatat Offering and September 11, 2001
- The Blood of the Covenant in the Bible
- The Cain and Abel Narrative: Its Problems and Lessons
- The Dove, Turtle-Dove and Pigeon in Bible and Midrash
- The Goat in Bible and Midrash
- The Mission of Abraham: Genesis 18:17-22:19
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Tragedy of Jephthah
- Was Abraham Heartless?
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
Sacrificial Law
Samson Narrative
Samuel
Sanctity of Human Life
Saul
Scholarly Method
Science and the Bible
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- An Obstetric Problem
- Bible and Science – A Symposium
- Evolution in the Bible
- Evolution’s Fateful Implication
- Genesis and Genetics
- Genesis I
- Isaac: A Psychological Perspective
- Isaiah and the Computer
- Letter to the Editor
- Man the Pinnacle of Creation
- Mathematical Codes in the Torah
- Obstetrical Complication of Benjamin’s Birth: The Cause of Rachel’s Death
- Omphalos Revisited
- On Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- Review: Bible Scholar Computer Program
- Review: Mac Bible Version 2.0
- Science in the Book of Job
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- The ‘Molten Sea’ and the Value of Pi
- The Computation of the New Moon
- The Exodus Syndemic: The Epidemiology of the Tenth Plague
- The How, What and Why of Creation
- The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature: The Case of Innate Heat
- Why Is 20 the Minimum Age in the Bible for a Kohen to Minister in the Temple, for a Person to Be Counted in the Census, and for a Man to Join the Army?
- Why Was God Optimistic After the Flood?
science and Torah
Science and Torah
scribal practice
Scribal Tradition
Sea Imagery
Sea of Reeds
Sea Peoples
Second Temple
Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple Literature
- An Update on the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Book Review: Discovering Second Temple Literature: The Scriptures and Stories That Shaped Early Judaism
- Book Review: Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures
- Book Review: Outside the Bible: Ancient Writings Related to Scripture
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 6: The Story of Joseph and Assenath
- Joseph and his Brothers: The Midrashic Approach Versus Josephus’ Approach
- Jubilees
- Manoah's Wife in Late Second Temple Literature
- Midrash and Pesher: Two Classical Forms of Biblical Interpretation
- Tamar Triumphant: Rewritten Bibles
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash
- The Book of Jubilees and the Midrash on the Early Chapters of Genesis
- The Dead Sea Scrolls – 40 Years Later
- The Enoch Tradition
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
Second Temple Period
- "Irrevocability" of Persian Law in the Scroll of Esther
- A Dead Sea Psalm
- A New World and a New Man: Utopias in the Era of the Babylonian Exile and the Return to Zion
- A Variant Text from the Isaiah Scroll
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 3: The Age of Return
- Book Review: Ezra and the Law in History and Tradition
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures – Volume 2
- Chronicles: The Neglected Book of the Bible (Part II)
- Chronology of Ancient Jewish History
- Cyrus in the Perspective of the Bible and History
- Daniel
- Dating the Book of Daniel: The Legitimacy of the Traditional View
- Did Pythagoras Follow Nazirite Rules?
- Ecclesiastes: Part II: Themes
- Exile and Return
- Ezra Rejects Patrilineal Descent
- Ezra the Scribe
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- From Biblical Religion to Judaism
- Isaiah and Cyrus
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 4: Under Ezra and Nehemia
- Israelites and Aliens: The Period of Proselytizing
- Jacob the Heretic and Zecharia Meshulam
- Malachi: A Prophet for His Time
- Philo Judaeus: Linking Biblical Judaism and Hellenistic Beliefs
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Reconstructing Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem
- Restoration of a Holy Nation (445 BCE)
- Sacrificial Cult among the Exiles in Egypt but not Babylon – Why?
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part I
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part II
- Some Reflections on the Nature and Provenance of the Book of Esther
- Tanakh Sources of Judas Iscariot
- The Book of Daniel: A Guide for Judaism in Exile
- The Book of Daniel: Its Significance and Meaning
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The First Confrontation with the Samaritans (Ezra 4)
- The Genesis of the Etrog (Citron) as Part of the Four Species
- The Last of the Maccabees
- The Maccabees and the Transmission of the Text of the Torah
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Narration of Joseph and Rabbinic Interpretation
- The Origin of the Synagogue
- The Qumran Settlement: Scriptorium, Villa or Fortress
- The Secret of the Returning Exiles
- The Synagogue: Its Origin and Development
- Was Ezra a High Priest?
- Was the Hasmonean State Secular in Orientation?: Part 1
- Was the Hasmonean State Secular in Orientation?: Part 2
- Was There a Fourth Temple
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
- Zerubabbel: The Messianic Hope of the Returnees
- Zerubbabel
- Zerubbabel: A Riddle
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Seers and Prophets
Seleucid Period
Self-Esteem
Self-Mutilation Prohibition
Semitic Languages
Septuagint
Septuagint and Vulgate
Sexual Symbolism
Sexual Violence
Sexuality and Power
Sexuality in the Bible
Shabbat Discussion
Shechem
Shemittah and Yovel
Sheol
Shepherding
Shofar
Sibling Rivalry
Sin
Sinai Revelation
Sixth Commandment
Slavery and Autonomy
Slavery and Servitude
Slavery in the Bible
Social Ethics
Social Justice
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sojourn in Egypt
Solomon
Solomon's Temple
Song of Songs
Soul and Body
Source Criticism
Speech Ethics
Status of Women
Stranger
Structural Analysis
Suffering
- A Note on Job 6:8-10: Suicide and Death Wishes
- Elijah’s Recovery from Depression
- God’s Reply to Job
- Implications of the Wager in the Book of Job
- In the Days of Job
- Jeremiah, a Tragedy: Thou Hast Enticed Me and I Was Enticed
- Job and Faust
- Problem of Theodicy
- Silence in the Bible
- Speculations on Job
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- The Book of Job as a Book of Morality
- The Book of Job: A Prelude to Prophecy
- The Book of Job: Its True Significance
- The Burden of Job’s Loneliness
- The Dialectic of Faith and Doubt in the Philosophy of Socrates and the Piety of Job
- The Doctrine of Reward
- The Enigma of Elihu
- The Fall and Rise of Job the Dissenter
- The Liberation of Job
- The Motif of Job in Modern Literature
- The Paradigm of Job
- The Problem of Job: The Question Still Remains
- The Punishment of Job’s Friends
- The Trauma of Isaac
- Theodicy in the Bible
- They Are No Longer, For God Has Taken Them
- Tragedy in the Bible
- What Ailed the Son of Kish?
Suffering Servant
Suicide
Sukkot
Superscriptions
symbolic action
Symbolic Numbers
Symbolism
- ‘Garments of Skin’ (Gen. 3:21)
- “Heeling” in the Torah
- Aspaklaria of Prophetic Vision
- Biblical Trivia: The Number Seven
- Birds in the Bible and Midrash
- Book Review: Song of Riddles — Deciphering the Song of Songs
- Canines in Bible and Midrash
- Engraved with the Names
- Fish in the Bible and Midrash
- Gynomorphic Imagery in Exilic Isaiah (40-66)
- Hosea’s True Marriage
- Isaac's Wells and Israel's Return
- Jacob the Wrestler
- Jacob’s Limp
- Milk and Honey
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- Moses’ Three Signs: Symbol and Augury
- Noah and the Dove
- Numerological Structure in Biblical Literature
- On Angels
- Pomegranates as Temple Requisites
- Sacrificial Categories and Personality Types
- Sign – אות
- Song of Songs
- The Ass in the Bible
- The Bee in the Bible and Midrash
- The Cock and the Hen in Bible and Midrash
- The Eagle in Bible and Midrash
- The Evolving Symbolism of the Burning Bush
- The Form and Function of the Luchot
- The Fox in Bible and Talmud
- The Garden of Eden as God’s First Sanctuary
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Hart and Hind in Bible and Midrash
- The Number 40 in the Bible
- The Pillars of the Temple
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Song of Songs: The Bible’s Celebration of Love
- The Story of Creation: Part 3: Garden of Eden
- The Symbolic Acts of Ezekiel (Chapters 3-5)
- The Tabernacle: A Psycho-Theological Enterprise
- The Tassel and the Blue Cord
- The Theme of the Song of Songs
- The Three Day Syndrome
- Understanding Redemption Through the Metaphor of the Family
- Understanding the Mystery of the Red Heifer Ritual
- What About the Tree of Life?
- What Did the Dove Bring to Noah?
- What was the Actual Effect of the Tree of Knowledge?
- William Blake and Biblical Imagery
T
Tabernacle
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Creation, Tabernacle and Sabbath
- David Dances – Michal Scoffs
- Engraved with the Names
- God's Voice: From Creation to the Sanctuary
- Gods, Tents, and Authority: A Study of Exodus 32 and I Kings 12
- Numerical Symbolism in the Dedication of the Altar
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Reflections of Readers: A 'Yod' in Teiasseh (Exodus 25:31)
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- The Corner Boards of the Tabernacle
- The Garden of Eden as God’s First Sanctuary
- The Gems in the High Priest's Breastplate
- The Gold of the Ark
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Status of Women and Exodus 25:2
- The Tabernacle: A Psycho-Theological Enterprise
- The Weight of the Ark of the Covenant
Tabernacle and Temple
Tabernacle Ritual
Tablets of the Law
Talmud
Talmudic Commentary
Talmudic Exegesis
Talmudic Interpretation
Talmudic Law
Talmudic Medicine
Talmudic Philology
Talmudic Polemics
Talmudic Tradition
Tanakh Study
Targum
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Kotnot Or (Genesis 3:21): Skin, Leather, Light, or Blind?
- Reflections of Readers: A Note on a Latin Term in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
- Retroversion in Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis: A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
- Tamar Triumphant: Targumim
- Tattenai and Haman
- Wordplay in Genesis 2:25–3:1
Taxation and Economics
Tekhelet
Temple
- A Bar Mitzvah Ceremony at the Kotel
- Altars and Tables in the Bible
- And a Fountain Shall Come Forth From the House of the Lord
- Book Review: Song of Riddles — Deciphering the Song of Songs
- Centralization of Worship
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Chronicles' Levitical Covenant
- Editorial
- From Mount Sinai to Mount Moriah
- Hezekiah and Josiah: A Comparison
- Hezekiah’s Second Passover
- Incised Stone Fragment “Korban”
- Jeremiah, the Suffering Prophet, and Ezekiel, the Visionary
- Jerusalem in Rabbinic Literature: Part 2
- Jerusalem in Rabbinic Literature: Part 3
- Jerusalem in the Bible
- Jerusalem in the Bible and Talmud: Part 1
- Josiah
- King Hezekiah's Pesach in Jerusalem
- Malachi: A Prophet for His Time
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Music in the Bible
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part IV
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- On Musical Instruments
- Pomegranates as Temple Requisites
- Reconstructing Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem
- Royal Building Projects and the Ethics of Royalty
- Sense and Incense
- Solomon: The Too Wise King
- The ‘Molten Sea’ and the Value of Pi
- The Blood of Life: The Hatat Offering and September 11, 2001
- The Book of Daniel: A Guide for Judaism in Exile
- The Dilemma of the Sanctuary
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Historical Background of Psalm 24
- The Lesson of Ezekiel’s Temple
- The Prophet Versus the King
- The Saga of the Ark
- The Temple Plan Revealed: A Mishnaic Formula for Building the Temple
- The Utopian Map in Ezekiel (48:1-35)
- The Western Wall
- The Western Wall Part 2
- The Western Wall: Part 5
- The Western Wall: Part 6
- The Western Wall: Part 7
- The Western Wall: Part 7
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Was There a Fourth Temple
- Zerubbabel
Temple and Priesthood
Temple Destruction
Temple History
Temple Ritual
Temple Sacrifice
Temple Service
Temple Worship
Ten Commandments
Tetragrammaton
Textual Analysis
textual criticism
Textual Criticism
- “Hidden Treasure” in Scripture
- A Biblical Freudian Slip: II Samuel 12:6
- A Dead Sea Psalm
- A Pair of Contradictory Texts
- A Problem Verse in Dayenu
- A Reconstruction of Matzor: Habakkuk 2:1
- A Slip of the Reader and Not the Reed – Part I
- A Slip of the Reader and Not the Reed – Part II
- A Variant Text from the Isaiah Scroll
- Accentuation: A Tool for Interpreting the Text of the Hebrew Bible
- An Anomalous Antonym
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- An Update on the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Another Look at Job 18:2,3
- Atbash in Jeremiah
- Atbash in Jeremiah – Part II
- Atbash in Jeremiah, Its Literary Significance – Part III
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part II
- Biblical Formatting: Visual and Virtual
- Book Review: Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Revised and Expanded 4th Ed.
- Book Review: Textual History of the Bible — The Hebrew Bible, Volumes 1B and 1C
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Critical Notes on Psalm 22:30
- Decalogue or Dodecalogue?
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Editor's Corner: Psalm 24:3-4: Nafshi or Nafsho: His Soul or My Name?
- Eliasaph Ben-Deuel/Reuel: A Rabbinic Interpretation
- Elihu: The Provenance and Content of His Speeches
- Expletives in the Bible
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- Habakkuk 3:13 – A Problematic Verse
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Isaiah and the Computer
- Jacob the Heretic and Zecharia Meshulam
- Job: The Third Cycle
- Job: The Third Cycle: Dissipating a Mirage: Part 2
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Jot, Tittle and Waw
- King of Princes: An Exegesis of Hosea 8:10
- Large Numbers in the Hebrew Bible
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Magdil and Migdol – Liturgical Responses to Textual Variants
- Mathematical Codes in the Torah
- Moses at the Inn: New Light on an Obscure Text
- Nahum 1: Acrostic and Authorship
- Observations on Biblical Hebrew
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part I
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part II
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part III
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part IV
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part V
- Problems and Solutions of Habakkuk 3:8
- Psalm 47: Numerical and Geometrical Devices Used to Emphasize the Author’s Message
- Reflections of Readers: A 'Yod' in Teiasseh (Exodus 25:31)
- Reflections on Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith
- Restructuring Psalm 47
- Restructuring Psalm 85
- Retroversion in Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis: A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
- Semitic Influences and the Bible Text
- Septuagint Readings as Additional Exegetical Layers
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Atbash-Acrostic
- The Bible: Transmission and Interpretation
- The Book of Zephaniah: Allusions to the Tower of Babel
- The Bridegroom of Blood
- The Dead Sea Scrolls – 40 Years Later
- The Difficult Verse in Genesis 4:26
- The Incident at the Lodging House
- The Large Numbers in the Bible
- The Lesson at Marah
- The LXX and the Bible: Matter for Thought
- The Maccabees and the Transmission of the Text of the Torah
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Sabbath Commandment: Its Two Versions
- The Satanic Verses – Part I
- The Satanic Verses – Part II
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Verb נער in the Bible
- Three Singular Plurals: Job 18:2,3
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- What is a גב?
- Who Killed Goliath – A Response to Steven Moss
- Who Killed Goliath?
- Why Did God Want to Kill Moses?
- כי יד על כס י-ה
Textual History
Textual Redaction
Textual Silence
Textual Variants
Theocracy
Theodicy
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Book Review: Have You Considered My Servant Job? Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
- Book Review: The God of Job
- Book Review: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
- God and Man on Trial
- Irony in the Book of Job
- Is Job After All Jewish?
- Job and Faust
- Job: A Universal Drama – Part 1
- Job: A Universal Drama – Part 2
- Meanwhile, Back at Job’s Ranch: Dual Storylines in the Book of Job
- Parents Have Eaten Sour Grapes
- Problem of Theodicy
- Psalms 37:25 and 34:11: After-Meal Theology
- Reward and Punishment in Jewish Thought: A Symposium
- Satan: Psychologist
- Speculations on Job
- The Book of Job as a Way of Relating to Jewish National Suffering
- The Burden of Job’s Loneliness
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Destruction of the Wicked
- The Dialectic of Faith and Doubt in the Philosophy of Socrates and the Piety of Job
- The Differences Between the Wise and the Foolish in Psalms: Theodicy, Understanding Providence, and Religious Responses
- The Enigma of Elihu
- The Jewish and Christian Covenants and the Holocaust
- The Liberation of Job
- The Paradigm of Job
- The Problem of Job: The Question Still Remains
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- Theodicy in the Bible
- Two Hymns to Wisdom
- Who Was Lamenting and Why? Lamentations and the Sumerian City Laments
theology
Theology
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Glorification of God at the Sea
- Height Theology
- Jeremiah and Hananiah: A Study of True and False Prophecy
- Job's Perspectives on Death
- Pharaoh's Three Offers, Moses' Rejection, and the Issues They Foreshadowed
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Sinai Upside-Down
- The Three Tenses in the Kingdom of God
- Was the Egyptian Experience Necessary?
Tikun Olam
Torah
Torah and the Ancient Near East
Torah Authorship
Torah Commentary
- And He Called by the Name of the Lord
- Book Review: Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary
- Book Review: Recalling the Covenant
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Leviticus
- Book Review: The Torah: A Modern Commentary by W. Gunther Plaut
- Book Review: The Torah: A Modern Commentary Revised Edition
- Eikev: The Consequences of God’s Judgement
- How Did Moses Die?
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Contrite Heart
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading: Part 4
- Sources on the History of Torah Reading: Part 5
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The Family Corner
- The Family Corner – Deuteronomy
- The Family Corner: Book of Shemot
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Exodus
- The Family Corner: Genesis
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: The Book of Exodus
- The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab
- The Physical Characteristics of a Torah Scroll
- Wordplay in Genesis 2:25–3:1
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
- Words of Torah: Samson Raphael Hirsch’s Commentary on the Torah
Torah Law
Torah Observance
Torah Reading
Torah Scribal Tradition
Torah Scrolls
Tower of Babel
Trade and Economy
Translation
Translation History
Trauma and Psychology
Trauma and Recovery
Tree Symbolism
Trees in the Bible
Triads
Tribal Blessings
Tribal Leadership
Tribal Territories
Tribe of Dan
Tribe of Judah
Tribe of Levi
Tribe of Zebulun
Tribes of Israel
Triennial Tanakh Study
Typology
U
Ugaritic Parallels
V
Verb Conjugation
Verse of the Week
Vocation
Volcanic Eruption
W
War and Divine Retribution
War and Peace
War and Violence
War in the Bible
Wilderness
Wilderness Imagery
Wilderness Narratives
Wilderness Rebellions
Wilderness Wandering
Wisdom
Wisdom and Judgment
wisdom literature
Wisdom Literature
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A Perfect Wife
- Abigail and Abel's Wise Woman
- Another Look at Job 18:2,3
- Book Review: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Traditions
- Book Review: Qohelet – Searching for a Life Worth Living
- Book Review: The Book of Job: A Commentary
- Darshanut: Bread on Water
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Ecclesiastes 1:4: A Proof Text for Reincarnation
- Ecclesiastes: Part 1: Authorship
- Ecclesiastes: Part II: Themes
- Elihu: The Provenance and Content of His Speeches
- God’s Reply to Job
- Greek Logic in the Book of Job (Chapter 12)
- How Should We Understand Ecclesiastes 2:26?
- Implications of the Wager in the Book of Job
- In the Days of Job
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Introduction to a New Kohelet Commentary
- Irony in the Book of Job
- Is Behemoth Also Jewish?
- Is Job After All Jewish?
- Job: The Third Cycle
- Job: The Third Cycle: Dissipating a Mirage: Part 2
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Job's Perspectives on Death
- Justice in Solomon’s Court
- King and Commoner in Proverbs and Near Eastern Sources
- Koheleth
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Koheleth and the Modern Temper
- Koheleth: A Re-Interpretation
- Moby Dick and the Wisdom of Solomon
- Prolegomena to the Book of Proverbs
- Proverbs 31:10-31: The Woman of Valor as Allegory
- Science in the Book of Job
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part I
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part II
- Sparks Flying? Job 5:7
- Speculations on Job
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- The Ant in the Bible and Midrash
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Book of Job as a Book of Morality
- The Book of Job: A Prelude to Prophecy
- The Book of Job: Its True Significance
- The Book of Proverbs: Everyman's Guide to the Higher Life
- The Burden of Job’s Loneliness
- The Differences Between the Wise and the Foolish in Psalms: Theodicy, Understanding Providence, and Religious Responses
- The Enigma of Elihu
- The Fall and Rise of Job the Dissenter
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Judgement of Solomon
- The Motif of Job in Modern Literature
- The Punishment of Job’s Friends
- The Siberian Exile and His Book – Review of a Study in Wisdom Literature
- The Volcano in Job 28
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Two Hymns to Wisdom
- Were Job’s Friends Gentiles?
- Who Was a Teacher in Biblical Days?
Women in Rabbinic Literature
women in the Bible
Women in the Bible
- “Chattel or…?”: Laws Relating to Female Slaves in Ancient Israel
- “How Much Is She Worth?” A Comparison of Six Ancient Near East Laws Relating to Bride-Price, Dowry, Inheritance, and Divorce
- A Biblical Protest Against the Violation of Women
- A Midrashic View of Ruth Amidst a Sea of Ambiguity
- A Perfect Wife
- A Problem in the Book of Ruth
- Abigail and Abel's Wise Woman
- Abishag the Shunammite
- Adam’s Rib
- An Obstetric Problem
- And Dinah the Daughter of Leah Went Out: The Meaning of Yatz'anit in Rashi's Commentary
- Beauty in the Bible
- Book Review: Lilith’s Daughters: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction by B. H. Rigney, and In Light of Genesis by P. W. Hadas
- Book Review: Rachel
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary — Ruth
- Book Review: Women's Bible Commentary
- Comment on "The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob"
- Darshanut: Mothers and Sons: In Defense of Lot’s Wife
- David and Bathsheba Part 2
- David and Batsheba: Part 1
- David and Batsheba: Part 3
- David Dances – Michal Scoffs
- David’s Marriage to Michal
- Deborah, the Wife of Lapidot
- Deborah: Judge, Prophetess and Poet
- Displacement in the Matriarchal Home: A Psychological Study of the Abraham-Sarah Marriage
- Esau’s Wives
- Esther’s Plan to Save the Jews
- Ezra Rejects Patrilineal Descent
- Final Judgement: The Ambiguous Moral Question That Culminates Genesis 34
- Gynomorphic Imagery in Exilic Isaiah (40-66)
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- Hosea’s True Marriage
- I Am the Woman: The Story and Prayer of Hannah, a Biblical Feminist Text
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Isaac: A Psychological Perspective
- Ishmael, Son of Abraham
- Jacob’s Love for Rachel
- Jephthah’s Daughter
- Judah and Tamar
- Judah and Tamar: A Scriptural Enigma
- King Solomon’s Wives as Envisioned by David Pinski
- Lady Asenath
- Leah’s Eyes
- Letter to the Editor
- Linguistic Elements in the Book of Ruth
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- Manoah's Wife in Late Second Temple Literature
- Matriarchal Influence in the Bible: A Medical-Psychological Study
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Nabal and Abigail
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Notes on Megillat Ruth, Chapter 4
- Obstetrical and Lexicographical Complications: The Birth of Benjamin and Death of Rachel
- Obstetrical Complication of Benjamin’s Birth: The Cause of Rachel’s Death
- Our Mother Rachel: Prima Inter Pares
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Power of Persuasion: Judah, Abigail, and Hushai
- Princess Hagar
- Proverbs 31:10-31: The Woman of Valor as Allegory
- Rachel: A Woman Who Would Be a Mother
- Rahab of Jericho
- Rahab the Harlot and Other Philosophers of Religion
- Rebecca’s Encounter with Abraham’s Servant
- Rebekah’s Beguilement of Isaac
- Rebekah’s Deceit or Isaac’s Great Test
- Rebekah's Hoax
- Reclaiming Esther: From Sex Object to Sage
- Reflections: Beer-Hofmann’s Image of Ruth
- Rehabilitation of Lilith
- Rosh Hodesh as a Woman's Holiday
- Ruth and Elisha
- Ruth and Medea
- Ruth and Naomi: Foremothers of David
- Samson and Samuel: Two Styles of Leadership
- Samuel and Saul: A Negative Symbiosis
- Sarah's Treatment of Hagar (Genesis 16)
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Sex and Violence in the Bible
- She Shall Mourn
- Shiphrah and Puah: Two Strong Women in Exodus
- Sulamith Unallegorized
- Switching Brides: Conspiracy and Cover-Up
- Tamar Times Three
- Tamar Triumphant: Rewritten Bibles
- Tamar Triumphant: Targumim
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Concubine of Gibeah (Jud. 19-21)
- The Daughters of Zelophehad
- The Daughters of Zelophehad Revisited
- The English Poets' “Rizpah”
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The God of Abraham, Rebekah and Jacob
- The Great Ladies
- The Laws of Marriage: Biblical Sources
- The Laws of Marriage: Biblical Sources: Part 2
- The Love of David and Michal
- The Marriage and the Dowry
- The Patriarchal Family in the Light of the Midrash: Part I: Abraham and Sarah
- The Price of Assimilation
- The Problem of the Levirate Marriage
- The Rape of Dinah
- The Rape of Dinah and the Conquest of Shechem
- The Rape of Tamar
- The Root G-R-A in the Bible: The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad and Beyond
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Tragedy of Jephthah
- The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality – Part I
- The Treatment of Women in Deuteronomy: Moral Absolutism and Practicality – Part II
- The Use of Symbolism and Hidden Messages in the Book of Ruth
- The Women Around Moses
- Three Women
- Vashti: An Unsung Heroine
- Zipporah and the Passover
Women's History
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- The 47th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 48th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 49th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The 52nd International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5775
- The 56th International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5779
- The Fifty-First International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth 5774