Index
Index
Every article, cross-referenced by book of the Bible.
Genesis
- ‘Garments of Skin’ (Gen. 3:21)
- "... And Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “Chattel or…?”: Laws Relating to Female Slaves in Ancient Israel
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- “Heeling” in the Torah
- “How Much Is She Worth?” A Comparison of Six Ancient Near East Laws Relating to Bride-Price, Dowry, Inheritance, and Divorce
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- "There Is No Chronological Order in the Torah"
- "You Shall Not Eat with the Blood"
- A Calculated Risk: A Speculative Excursion Into the Mind of Pharaoh’s Butler
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A Latch and Clasp Connecting Deuteronomy 33:27-29 with Genesis 3:22-24: A Proposed Interpretation
- A Matter of Words and Assumptions in the Household of Jacob
- A New Approach to the Interpretation of the Hitpael Conjugation
- A New Interpretation of Akarah . . . Ein Lah Valad (Gen. 11:30) Based on the Talmud
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- A Patriarch Reviews the Past to Impact the Future
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- A Provincial Who Married a Princess
- A Semantic Differentiated Approach to Relational Words
- A Significant Insignificance: The Meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh
- A Soothing Savor
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- A Torah With 70 Different Faces
- 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?
- 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
- Age Is Not a Factor: Age Differentials in Genesis
- Akedah: The Binding of Isaac
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- Allusions to the Jacob-Esau Story in the Book of Esther
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- An Obstetric Problem
- And a Wind from God: Genesis 1:2
- 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?
- Another Look at the Tree of Good and Evil
- Arami Oved Avi (Deut. 26:5)
- Archetypes in the Patriarchal Family
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Ason, a Fate Worse than Death
- Babel or Babylon?
- Balaam Is Laban
- Bdellium
- Be-Dorotav: Noah's "Generations" in Light of Antediluvian Longevity
- Beauty in the Bible
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Bereshit and the Courage of New Beginnings
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part II
- Biblical Cosmogony: A Symbolic Interpretation of Genesis 1-4
- Biblical Formatting: Visual and Virtual
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Biblical Literature and Contemporary Parallels: Alike but Different
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Book Review: A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: Assimilation Versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
- Book Review: Cain v. Abel: A Jewish Courtroom Drama
- Book Review: Creation in the Old Testament
- Book Review: From Gods to God
- Book Review: How to Read the Bible
- Book Review: Jacob's Family Dynamics: Climbing the Rungs of the Ladder by Gad Dishi
- Book Review: Kohelet: A Map to Eden — An Intertextual Journey
- Book Review: New Testament People – A Rabbi's Notes
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Rachel
- Book Review: Recalling the Covenant
- Book Review: Sol Scharfstein, The Book of Genesis
- 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 Biblical Hero
- 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 Epic of the Patriarch
- Book Review: The Ethics of Genesis
- 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 Seven Days of the Beginning by Elie Munk
- Book Review: Unbinding Isaac
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Cain and Abel
- 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?
- Camels in the Bible
- Can One Criticize the Biblical Heroes?
- Chaos or Chiasm? The Structure of Abraham's Life
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Comment on "The God of Abraham, Rebekah, and Jacob"
- Consequences of the Akedah
- Considering the Genre and Audience of Deuteronomy 9:7
- Could Pre-Hebrew Be the Safa Ahat of Genesis 11:1?
- Creation and Commandment
- Creation and the Limitations of the Creator
- Creation, Tabernacle and Sabbath
- Creation: Something from Something, Something from Nothing, or Something from Hardly Anything?
- Current Trends in Academic Biblical Studies
- Dan Vogel (1927–2015): In Memoriam
- Daniel as the Embodiment of Exile and Redemption
- Darkness and Light
- Darshanut: Enoch’s Shoes
- Darshanut: Genesis 33:6 vs. Genesis 33:7
- 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
- Death in the Bible
- Death Sentences: The Torah's Treatment of Its Major Characters' Deaths
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Did the Earth Rebel Against God on the Third Day of Creation?
- Did the Patriarchs Know God's Name?
- Discerning Nahshon's Character from Textual and Intertextual Nuance
- Displacement in the Matriarchal Home: A Psychological Study of the Abraham-Sarah Marriage
- Distinguishing Jacob and Israel
- Divination in the Bible
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part I
- Early Traditions on the Kidnapping and Sale of Joseph: Part II
- Ecclesiastes, Fleeting and Timeless Part I
- Editorial
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- El Shaddai
- Eldad and Medad
- Elon the Zebulunite of Aijalon
- End of Exile?
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- Esau and Jacob Revisited: Demon versus Tzadik?
- Esau and Jacob: Brothers Clash, Reconcile and Separate
- Esau’s Wives
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Eve – The First Feminist: John Milton's Midrash on Genesis 3:6
- Evolution in the Bible
- Evolution’s Fateful Implication
- Fathers and Sons
- Final Judgement: The Ambiguous Moral Question That Culminates Genesis 34
- Five Questions of Abraham
- Flood, Salt, and Sacrifice
- For in His Days the Earth Was Divided: Classic Jewish Sources for a Physical Division of the Earth
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- Forget Not Your Forebears!
- Four Acts of Vowing in the Bible
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- From “Seventh Day” to “Shabbat”: Dualities in Genesis 2:1-3
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Mount Sinai to Mount Moriah
- From Noah to Abraham
- From the Euphrates to the Nile
- From the Nuzi Tablets
- Gematria in the Hebrew Bible
- Genesis 14 – Meaning and Structure
- Genesis 31: Jacob's Peculiar Dream
- Genesis and Genetics
- Genesis I
- Gid Hanasheh as Forgetfulness
- Gideon and the Ephraimites
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- Giving Birth on Someone's Knees
- Glimpses of the Past in Genesis-Exodus
- God Called: Abraham! Abraham! Jacob! Jacob! Moses! Moses! Samuel! Samuel!
- God Rested on the Seventh Day
- God, Abraham, Moses: A Comparison of Key Questions
- God, Man and Trees of Eden
- God's Voice: From Creation to the Sanctuary
- Grave Matters
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- Had Noah Lived in Abraham’s Generation
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- He is Like a Tree Planted Beside Streams of Water
- Height Theology
- Heinous Sin: Harbinger of Catastrophe or Redemption?
- His Brothers’ Keeper
- Hoham: King of Hebron
- Hospitality in Sodom – A Biblical Contrast
- How Did Moses Die?
- How God Introduced Himself to the Patriarchs
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26)
- I’ll Sit Here Until You Come Back: Gideon and the Patience of God
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- In Defense of Esau
- In Search of the Biblical Hammurabi
- In the Image of God
- In the Second Year of the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:1)
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Interpreting B-R-KH in Genesis 47
- Inverted Ayin and Bent Peh
- Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses?
- Isaac and Laughter
- Isaac Betrayed and Triumphant
- Isaac Tells the Akeda Story
- Isaac: A Life of Bitter Laughter
- 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
- Israel and Edom
- Israel’s Defining Experience: From Family to Nations
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 6: The Story of Joseph and Assenath
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Jacob and Esau: Their Struggle in the Second Century
- Jacob and the Spotted Sheep
- 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 Farewell Interdependence Address
- Jacob’s Growing Understanding of His Experience at Beth-El
- Jacob's Journey to Succoth
- Jacob’s Limp
- Jacob’s Love for Rachel
- Jacob's Paradoxical Encounters
- Jacob’s Return to Canaan
- Jacob’s Two Dreams
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Job's Perspectives on Death
- Jonah Chapter 2 as a Prophetic Vision
- Jonah the Rebellious Prophet: A Look at the Man Behind the Prophecy Based on Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
- Joseph
- Joseph and Daniel: Court Jews and Dreamers
- Joseph and his Brothers
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Joseph and his Brothers: The Midrashic Approach Versus Josephus’ Approach
- Joseph and His Brothers: Vengeance or Reconciliation
- Joseph and Revolutionary Egypt
- Joseph and the Biblical Echo
- Joseph and the Eglah Arufah
- Joseph and the Enslavement of the Egyptians
- Joseph Under Suspicion
- Joseph: A Biblical Approach to Dream Interpretation
- Joseph: Sold into Slavery or Sent as a Savior?
- Joseph's Emotional Development
- Joseph's Self-Imposed Estrangement
- Jubilees
- Judah and Tamar
- Judah and Tamar
- Judah and Tamar: A Scriptural Enigma
- Judge Ibzan of Bethlehem
- Justice for Esau
- Ketovet Ka'aka (Leviticus 19:28): Tattooing or Branding?
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Kotnot Or (Genesis 3:21): Skin, Leather, Light, or Blind?
- Laban and Jacob
- Lady Asenath
- Leah’s Eyes
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- Let My Outcasts, Moab, Find Asylum in You: Compassion for Fugitives From Disaster in Isaiah 15–16
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: Kotnot Or
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Listening to Her Voice
- Literary Art and Psychological Insight in the Korah Episode
- Literary Parallels Between Homer's Epics and the Biblical Philistines
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- Lot's Failed Trial
- Man the Pinnacle of Creation
- Manoah's Wife in Late Second Temple Literature
- Master of Life
- Masters of the Word, Vol. II
- Matriarchal Influence in the Bible: A Medical-Psychological Study
- Meanwhile, Back at Job’s Ranch: Dual Storylines in the Book of Job
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Meeting an Angel
- Midrashic Implications of the Term Holid
- Miketz Esrim Shana: Revisiting Mishpat Shlomo, Twenty Years On
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- More Bible Curiosities and Mistranslations
- More on the Seven Nations
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses and the Books of the Pentateuch
- Moses Is Cured of Leprosy
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- My Brother's Keeper
- Nahmanides' Understanding of Abraham's Mesopotamian Origins
- Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan
- Nimrod
- Nimrod Found?
- Nineveh and Sodom Juxtaposed: Contrasts and Parallels
- Noah and the Ark Reexamined
- Noah and the Dove
- Noah's Ark as Metaphor
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- Noah’s Vintner Tale: Divine Literature in Human Language
- Noahide Laws From Genesis to Genizah
- Note on the Term Pakad
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Observations on the Character of Joseph in Egypt
- Obstetrical and Lexicographical Complications: The Birth of Benjamin and Death of Rachel
- Obstetrical Complication of Benjamin’s Birth: The Cause of Rachel’s Death
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- Old Ammunition for Today: Joseph’s Legacy as a Source of Spiritual Resilience
- Omphalos Revisited
- On Darwin's Theory of Evolution
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Our Mother Rachel: Prima Inter Pares
- Outsmarting God: Egyptian Slavery and the Tower of Babel
- Parallel Lists of Prediluvian Patriarchs: A Psychological Interpretation
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Patriarch Without a Narrative
- Patriarchal History: Action and Reaction
- Peril and Deliverance
- Pharaoh's Dreams
- Phinehas, Elijah and Circumcision
- Power of Persuasion: Judah, Abigail, and Hushai
- Princess Hagar
- Psalm 113
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Psalm 34 – Does the Heading Fit?
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Psalm 92, Shabbat, and the Temple
- Purchase of the Machpelah
- Queen Athaliah: The Daughter of Ahab or Omri?
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part I
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part II
- Rachel, A Mother of Israel
- Rachel: A Woman Who Would Be a Mother
- Rape and Vengeance: The Story of Dinah
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Rashi's Midrashic Comments Are Supported by a Broad Range of Biblical Texts
- Rashi's View of Genesis
- Rav Kook on Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
- Rebecca’s Encounter with Abraham’s Servant
- Rebekah’s Beguilement of Isaac
- Rebekah’s Deceit or Isaac’s Great Test
- Rebekah's Hoax
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- Recent Trends in Biblical Source Criticism
- Redeeming Cain: A Comparative Literary Reading of Genesis
- Reflections of Readers
- Reflections of Readers: A Note on a Latin Term in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
- Reflections of Readers: Judah and Joseph: A Study in Contrasts
- Rehabilitation of Lilith
- Rescue From Fiery Death
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Revisiting the Garden of Eden
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- Sacrificing Isaac: A New Interpretation
- Sarah Died of "Broken-Heart Syndrome"
- Sarah's Treatment of Hagar (Genesis 16)
- Saving the Akedah from the Philosophers
- Saving Zoar: How Did Lot Succeed?
- Seeking Vindication, Especially in Jonah
- Seize the Moment
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Septuagint Readings as Additional Exegetical Layers
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- Shalem: City or Safely?
- She Named Him Moses
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Shepherd's Instruments
- Shepherding as a Metaphor
- Sibling Relationships in the Bible: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- Significant Anonymity in Exodus 2
- Simeon the Scapegoat
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sodom: Manner, Morals, Misdeeds
- Some Psychological Insights into the Life of Abraham
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Sons of God, Daughters of Men?
- Spirit Is Thicker Than Blood
- Struggling with Angels and Men
- Subtleties in the Story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- Switching Brides: Conspiracy and Cover-Up
- Tamar Times Three
- Tamar Triumphant and the Deception of Judah: Contemporary Scholarship/Feminist Views
- Tamar Triumphant: Rewritten Bibles
- Tamar Triumphant: Targumim
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- Ten Generations from Adam to Noah Versus Ten Generations from Noah to Abraham
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- Testing God: A Midrash on the Akeda
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The “Bloody Bridegroom” in Light of the Joseph Narrative
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The 120 Satraps in the Reign of Darius the Mede
- The Abel Syndrome
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Ages of the Personalities in Genesis
- The Akeda as Measure for Measure
- 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 Anatomy of the First Lies
- The Anatomy of the Joseph Cycle
- The Anti-Hybridization Laws and Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Aqedath Jishaq Theme in Yiddish Literature
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Biblical Number 12 and the Formation of the Ancient Nation of Israel
- The Big-Bang Theory of Creation: Bara as Sudden Expansion
- The Book of Job as a Way of Relating to Jewish National Suffering
- 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 Book of Ruth
- The Book of Zephaniah: Allusions to the Tower of Babel
- The Cain and Abel Narrative: Its Problems and Lessons
- The City of Babel and Its Tower
- The Confirmation of Noah’s Blessing: An Interpretation of Genesis 8:21-9:11
- The Covenant Between the Parts
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Cries of Our Rivals
- The Deceiver Deceived: Rereading Genesis 27
- The Dew of Heaven
- The Difficult Verse in Genesis 4:26
- The Divine Name E-L Shad-dai: He Who Created Families
- The Duality of Man
- The Education of Abraham: The Encounter Between Abraham and God Over the Fate of Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Enigma of the Joseph Narrative
- The Enoch Tradition
- The Enuma Elish Hoax
- The Eschatological Meaning of the Book of Ruth
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Exegesis of Demetrius the Chronographer
- The Family Corner: Bereshit
- The Family Corner: Bible in the Family — Book of Genesis
- The Family Corner: Genesis
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The First Biblical Family: When Did They Live?
- The Flood Story in the Bible and Cuneiform Literature: Tablet XI of the Gilgamesh Epic Wrongly Interpreted
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Forgotten Figure at the Akedah
- The Function of the Root Y-R-KH in Genesis
- The Funeral of Jacob: A Joint Hebrew-Egyptian Affair
- The Garden of Eden as God’s First Sanctuary
- The Garden of God
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Gems in the High Priest's Breastplate
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron
- The God of Abraham, Rebekah and Jacob
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Hidden Mission of Biblical Angels
- The How, What and Why of Creation
- The Image of God and the Literary Interdependence of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3
- The Importance of Place
- The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature: The Case of Innate Heat
- The Jacob-Esau Reunion
- The Jerusalem Streets Abraham Walked On
- The Jewish Calendar
- The Journey of Terah: To Ur-Kasdim or Urkesh?
- The Kiss of Esau
- The Legacy of Two Adams
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Lion, Judah
- The Listing of the Tribes of Israel
- The Living Testament of Jacob-Israel
- The Mantle of the Matriarchs: Ruth 4:11-15
- The Meaning of Abraham’s Test: A Reexamination of the Akedah
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Meaning of Dammesek Eliezer
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Messages of Chapter 4 of Genesis
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Mission of Abraham: Genesis 18:17-22:19
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Mystery of Genesis 36
- The Narration of Joseph and Rabbinic Interpretation
- 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 Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Philistines
- The Plague of Darkness
- The Power of Threes
- The Preference of Ephraim
- The Problem of Deception in Genesis 27
- The Punishment of Cain
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- The Rape of Dinah
- The Rape of Dinah and the Conquest of Shechem
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Reign of King Solomon
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The Religion of the Israelites in Egypt
- The Repeated Use of “Vayo’mer” Within One Character’s Speech
- The Role of Destiny in the Joseph Story
- The Role of Terah in the Foundational Stories of the Patriarchal Family
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Saga of the First Born
- The Sair L’Azazel: A Guide for the Perplexing Ramban
- The Selling of the Birthright
- The Seven Day Week in the Bible: The Circaseptan (7-Day) Rhythm — Fractality, Wholeness, Unity and Completeness
- The Seven Mitzvot of B'nai Noah: Varieties of Theft
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Significance of Joseph’s Agrarian Policy
- The Sojourn in Egypt
- 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 Story of Judah, the Hero: An Analysis of Genesis 38
- The Testament of Jacob: An Analysis of Gen. 49:18
- The Testing of Abraham
- The Torah Reading for Rosh Ha-Shanah
- The Tower of Babel
- The Tower of Babel in Eliezer Ashkenazi's Sefer Ma'aseh Hashem
- The Tower of Babel Revisited
- The Tower of Babel: God’s Towering Pride
- The Transition to the Second Trip to Egypt
- The Trauma of Isaac
- The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
- The Trials of Abraham
- The Use of the Term "Pharaoh" in the Bible
- The Westcar Papyrus and Genesis 42–44: An Overlooked Reference?
- The Wives of Esau
- The Word "Ger" in the Bible and Its Implications
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- These are the Generations of Isaac
- Thoughts on Creation
- Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Torah and Rabbinic Compromises with Human Nature
- Twins in Transition: Genesis 32:25-31 Re-examined
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Two Notes on the Exceptional Shalshelet
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Two Views on Jacob
- Understanding the Beginning of Genesis: Just How Many Beginnings Were There?
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- Va-Yafog Libbo (Gen. 45:26)
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- Was Abraham Heartless?
- Was Abram Born in Ur of the Chaldees?
- Was Adam's Action "Disobedience"?
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Was Father Isaac a Co-conspirator?
- Was Simeon Not Included in Moses' Blessing
- Was the Egyptian Experience Necessary?
- We Heard in Ephrathah That We Found It in the Forested Field (Psalm 132:6)
- What About the Tree of Life?
- What Did the Dove Bring to Noah?
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- What Sarah Saw
- What was the Actual Effect of the Tree of Knowledge?
- What's in a Name?
- What's in a Name? Reflections upon Divine Names and the Attraction of God to Israel
- When Does the Day Begin?
- When Love and Politics Mix: David and His Relationships with Saul, Jonathan, and Michal
- Where is Your Wife Sarah? (Gen. 18:9)
- Which Anokhi Did Jacob Not Know?
- Who Counted Righteousness to Whom?
- Who Knows Seven?
- Who Was Jabez?
- Who Was Melchizedek
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Who Wrestled with Jacob?
- Why Did Joseph Let His Father Mourn For Him?
- 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
- Why No Message from Joseph to His Father?
- Why Shamayim as Sky
- Why Start Jacob and Joseph with a "J"?
- Why Was God Optimistic After the Flood?
- Why Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
- Why Was Mount Gerizim Chosen for the Blessing Ceremony?
- Wordplay in Genesis 2:25–3:1
- Yakov Azriel, Threads from a Coat of Many Colors: Poems on Genesis
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
- כי יצר לב האדם רע מנעוריו
Exodus
- “... Upon the Doorposts ...”
- “And Against All the Gods of Egypt I Will Execute Judgements ...”
- "And These Are the Judgments That You Shall Set Before Them" (Ex. 21:1): "As a Set Table"
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “Chattel or…?”: Laws Relating to Female Slaves in Ancient Israel
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- “How Much Is She Worth?” A Comparison of Six Ancient Near East Laws Relating to Bride-Price, Dowry, Inheritance, and Divorce
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- “Ones Who Have Fallen Out” (Nefel): Spontaneous, Accidental, and Intentional: Miscarriage Laws in Ancient Israel
- “We Will Do and We Will Hearken”
- "What Is It?" Interpreting Exodus 16:15
- A Comment on You Shall Not Boil a Kid in its Mother’s Milk
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A New Approach to the Interpretation of the Hitpael Conjugation
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- A Semantic Differentiated Approach to Relational Words
- A Soothing Savor
- Abraham's Ten Trials and a Biblical Numerical Convention
- Alcohol and the Fate of Nadab and Abihu
- Ambiguities of the Eagle
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- Amos the Prophet
- An Electric Ark
- An Examination of Aaron's Role in the Sin of the Golden Calf
- An Inner Light
- And He Called by the Name of the Lord
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- And the Writing Was the Writing of God
- Avoiding Amalek: Three Approaches
- Between the Judges and the Spies: The Courtroom as a Microcosm for the Battlefield and Beyond
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Biblical Literature and Contemporary Parallels: Alike but Different
- Biblical Puns
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Blood Feud
- Book Review: A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: From Gods to God
- Book Review: New Testament People – A Rabbi's Notes
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Exodus: Explorations in Text and Meaning
- Book Review: The Biblical Hero
- Book Review: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: The Ethics of Numbers
- Book Review: The JPS Tanakh: The Gender-Sensitive Edition
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Camels in the Bible
- Considering the Genre and Audience of Deuteronomy 9:7
- Could Moses’ Hands Make War?
- Could Pre-Hebrew Be the Safa Ahat of Genesis 11:1?
- Creation, Tabernacle and Sabbath
- Current Trends in Academic Biblical Studies
- Darkness and Light
- Darshanut: Jethro – Who Was He?
- Dating the Exodus: A New Perspective
- Death Sentences: The Torah's Treatment of Its Major Characters' Deaths
- Decalogue or Dodecalogue?
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Derekh Hokhma: Two Aspects of the Exodus Narrative, Part I
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Did the Patriarchs Know God's Name?
- Discerning Nahshon's Character from Textual and Intertextual Nuance
- Divine and Human Anger and Grace
- Editor's Corner: Psalm 24:3-4: Nafshi or Nafsho: His Soul or My Name?
- Editorial: A Lawsuit over the Spoils of Egypt
- Egypt and Israel
- Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- Eldad and Medad
- Elijah and Elisha, Part I
- End of Exile?
- Engraved with the Names
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Exodus: How Big Was the Population?
- Extra-Biblical Evidence of the Exodus
- Eye for an Eye: An Old Canard
- Eye For Eye
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- Face to Face (Exodus 32-34)
- For He Took a Cushite Woman
- Forget Not Your Forebears!
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Enemy to Friend
- From Mount Sinai to Mount Moriah
- Gematria in the Hebrew Bible
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- Glimpses of the Past in Genesis-Exodus
- Glorification of God at the Sea
- God Called: Abraham! Abraham! Jacob! Jacob! Moses! Moses! Samuel! Samuel!
- God Rested on the Seventh Day
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- God, Abraham, Moses: A Comparison of Key Questions
- God's Voice: From Creation to the Sanctuary
- Gods, Tents, and Authority: A Study of Exodus 32 and I Kings 12
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- Hammurabi and Biblical Laws
- Hatan Damim – The Bridegroom of Blood
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- How Chapter Six Put the Exodus Back on Track
- How Did Moses Die?
- How God Introduced Himself to the Patriarchs
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- How Many Hebrews Left Egypt?
- I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26)
- I’ll Sit Here Until You Come Back: Gideon and the Patience of God
- In Search of Bithiah Bat Pharaoh and the Meaning of I Chronicles 4:18
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Intertextuality and Idealism in the Rabbinic Reading of Eshet Hayil
- Inverted Ayin and Bent Peh
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses?
- Israel’s Defining Experience: From Family to Nations
- Jeroboam Ben Nebat
- Jethro the Convert
- Jethro/Hobab's Detainment
- Joseph
- Joseph and His Brothers
- Joseph and the Enslavement of the Egyptians
- Joseph's Self-Imposed Estrangement
- Ketovet Ka'aka (Leviticus 19:28): Tattooing or Branding?
- Large Numbers in the Hebrew Bible
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Master of Life
- Meanwhile, Back at Job’s Ranch: Dual Storylines in the Book of Job
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Metallurgy in the Bible: Ironworking and the Disposal of the Golden Calf
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Modern Searches for Aviv Barley in the Context of the Hebrew Calendar
- Month-Naming and Ideology in Esther
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- More on the Seven Nations
- Moses and the Books of the Pentateuch
- Moses and the Burning Bush
- 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 the Inarticulate
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- Moses: Intermediary or Teacher?
- Moses: Man of Indecision
- Moses: Not a Man of Words
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- Moses’ Three Signs: Symbol and Augury
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- My Brother's Keeper
- Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- Not to Inflict Hurt on Animals
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part II
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- Old Ammunition for Today: Joseph’s Legacy as a Source of Spiritual Resilience
- On Concealing Tekhelet and Revealing the Shekhinah
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Orphans and Affirmative Action
- Outsmarting God: Egyptian Slavery and the Tower of Babel
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Peril and Deliverance
- Pharaoh Now Has Only One Option
- Pharaoh's Three Offers, Moses' Rejection, and the Issues They Foreshadowed
- Phinehas: Hero or Vigilante?
- Pi-Hahirot: The Mouth of Freedom
- Polemical Considerations Among the Four Children: From the Bible to the Haggadah
- Pomegranates as Temple Requisites
- Psalm 19 Revisited
- Psalm 34 – Does the Heading Fit?
- Psalm 68: Echoes of the Song of Deborah?
- Psalm 92, Shabbat, and the Temple
- Ramah: Upswept, Uplifted, Upraised
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Rashi's Midrashic Comments Are Supported by a Broad Range of Biblical Texts
- Rav Kook on Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
- Recent Trends in Biblical Source Criticism
- Reconciling the Sacrifices of Ezekiel with the Torah
- Reflections of Readers
- Reflections of Readers: A 'Yod' in Teiasseh (Exodus 25:31)
- Remembering Amalek Twice
- Resetting the Exodus Mission
- Responsive Voices in the Song of the Sea
- Rosh Hodesh as a Woman's Holiday
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- Sarah's Treatment of Hagar (Genesis 16)
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part I
- Seeking Vindication, Especially in Jonah
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Sense and Incense
- Septuagint Readings as Additional Exegetical Layers
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- Shakespeare's Forgivable Portrayal of Shylock
- Shavuot – Z’man Matan Torateinu
- She Named Him Moses
- She Shall Mourn
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Shepherding as a Metaphor
- Shifra, Shfoferet and an Ancient Therapeutic Technique
- Shiphrah and Puah: Two Strong Women in Exodus
- Shofetim – The Book of Judges
- Signaling in Biblical Warfare and Moses' Role as Military Commander
- Significant Anonymity in Exodus 2
- Sinai and the "Shabbat-Cycle" Laws
- Sinai Upside-Down
- Slavery in the Bible
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The “Bloody Bridegroom” in Light of the Joseph Narrative
- The "Name" of God in Psalms
- The Acceptance of the Convert Based on Leviticus 19
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Annihilation of Sennacherib's Army
- The Biblical Beginning of the Jewish Calendar
- The Bridegroom of Blood
- The Call of Moses
- The Cathexis of Israel to Egypt
- The Circumcision Performed by Zipporah
- The City of Babel and Its Tower
- The Code of Hammurabi and the Laws of the Torah
- The Corner Boards of the Tabernacle
- The Covenant Between the Parts
- The Cries of Our Rivals
- The Destroying Angel
- The Destruction of the Golden Calf: A Reply
- The Dilemma of the Sanctuary
- The Evolving Symbolism of the Burning Bush
- The Exegesis of Demetrius the Chronographer
- The Exodus Census: Evading the Evil Eye or Military Stratagem?
- The Exodus Syndemic: The Epidemiology of the Tenth Plague
- The Expanding Perspectives of the Sabbath
- The Fall of Jericho as an Earthquake Myth
- The Family Corner: Book of Shemot
- The Family Corner: Exodus
- The Family Corner: The Book of Exodus
- The Fertility of the Early Israelites
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Form and Function of the Luchot
- The Fourth Commandment
- The Garden of God
- The Gems in the High Priest's Breastplate
- The Genealogy of Moses and Aaron
- The Gold of the Ark
- The Golden Calf and Ra
- The Golden Calf in Exodus 32: A Foundry Engineer’s Interpretation
- The Golden Calves: What Happened?
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Hidden Mission of Biblical Angels
- The Horns of Moses
- The Importance of Place
- The Incident at the Lodging House
- The Jewish Calendar
- The Layout of the Decalogue on the Tablets and Archaeology
- The Leadership Qualities of Pharaoh
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Length of the Rule of Joshua and the Periods of Subjugation in the Book of Judges
- The Lesson at Marah
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Lex Talionis in the Torah
- The Liturgical Function of Exodus 33:16-34:26
- The Magical Sound of Priestly Bells
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Menorah Psalm
- The Miracle at the Red Sea
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Mixed Multitude According to the Zohar
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Names of God
- The Nation of Isaac
- The Nature of the Decalogue
- The Ninth Plague
- The Ninth Plague
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Plague of Darkness
- The Power of Threes
- The Price of Assimilation
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Religion of the Israelites in Egypt
- The Repeated Use of “Vayo’mer” Within One Character’s Speech
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Route of the Exodus
- The Sabbath Commandment: Its Two Versions
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Saga of the First Born
- The Seven Day Week in the Bible: The Circaseptan (7-Day) Rhythm — Fractality, Wholeness, Unity and Completeness
- The Seven Weeks That Turned Newly-Freed Slaves into a Nascent People of God
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Sin of Amalek in Bible and Midrash
- The Sojourn in Egypt
- The Sound of Music
- The Speech Defect of Moses
- The Status of Women and Exodus 25:2
- The Tabernacle: A Psycho-Theological Enterprise
- The Ten and the Torah
- The Ten Commandments as Positive Affirmations
- The Ten Plagues
- The Third Commandment
- The Three Tenses in the Kingdom of God
- The Three-Day Plan
- The Torah as Divine Fire
- The Translation of the Biblical Word Shofar
- The Two Tablets of the Covenant
- The Use of the Term "Pharaoh" in the Bible
- The Weight of the Ark of the Covenant
- The Westcar Papyrus and Genesis 42–44: An Overlooked Reference?
- The Wilderness Experience
- The Women Around Moses
- The Word "Ger" in the Bible and Its Implications
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- Themes in the Deborah Narrative (Judges 4-5)
- Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Thus They Stripped the Egyptians
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Tzefarde'a: Frogs or Crocodiles?
- Understanding Balaam's Donkey
- Understanding the Mystery of the Red Heifer Ritual
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- Was the Egyptian Experience Necessary?
- What Sarah Saw
- What's in a Name? Reflections upon Divine Names and the Attraction of God to Israel
- When Did We Become a Nation?
- When Does the Day Begin?
- Where Was the Mountain of God?
- Wherefore Mitzvot, the Divine Commandments?
- Which Anokhi Did Jacob Not Know?
- Who Counted Righteousness to Whom?
- Who Was Jonathan Son of Gershom in Judges 18:30?
- Why Did God Want to Kill Moses?
- Why Did the Torah Allow Servitude?
- Why Does the Seder Begin With Karpas?
- 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 Is Pesach So Late?
- Why Is Psalm 94 the Song of the Day for Wednesday?
- Why Moses Smashed the Tablets
- Why Moses?
- Why Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
- Yah: A Name of God
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother's Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19
- Zipporah and the Passover
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
- כי יד על כס י-ה
Leviticus
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “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
- “Ones Who Have Fallen Out” (Nefel): Spontaneous, Accidental, and Intentional: Miscarriage Laws in Ancient Israel
- "You Shall Not Eat with the Blood"
- A Matter of Words and Assumptions in the Household of Jacob
- A New Approach to the Interpretation of the Hitpael Conjugation
- A Semantic Differentiated Approach to Relational Words
- A Soothing Savor
- Acharei Mot and the Strange Fire
- Alcohol and the Fate of Nadab and Abihu
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 1
- An Electric Ark
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- And Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
- Azazel: The Scapegoat in the Bible and Ancient Near East
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Redeeming Relevance in the Book of Leviticus
- Book Review: Torah Dialogues, by Hayyim Halpern
- Camels in the Bible
- 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)?
- Could Pre-Hebrew Be the Safa Ahat of Genesis 11:1?
- Darshanut: Counting the Omer: Two Perspectives
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Discerning Nahshon's Character from Textual and Intertextual Nuance
- Divination in the Bible
- Do That Which Is Right and Good in the Sight of the Lord
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- Eye for an Eye: An Old Canard
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- Fasting and Atonement
- For He Took a Cushite Woman
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- Glorification of God at the Sea
- God, Man and Trees of Eden
- He is Like a Tree Planted Beside Streams of Water
- He Said: ‘It’s an Event Not Pure, for It’s Not Pure!’ (I Sam. 20:26b)
- Heinous Sin: Harbinger of Catastrophe or Redemption?
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26)
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Inverted Ayin and Bent Peh
- Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses?
- Ishmael ben Nethaniah's Massacre of the Self-Gashing Pilgrims in Jeremiah 41
- Jacob the Heretic and Zecharia Meshulam
- Joseph and the Enslavement of the Egyptians
- Kedusha – Holiness
- Kedushah, Holiness, and Ethics
- Ketovet Ka'aka (Leviticus 19:28): Tattooing or Branding?
- Korah and His Fall: Observations on Holiness
- Laws of Tzara'at in Leviticus 13-14 and Medical Leprosy Compared
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Leviticus 12:2
- Love of Neighbor and Its Antecedent Verses
- Magical Transformations: Sukkoth and the Four Species
- Master of Life
- Metzora(at) Kasheleg: Leprosy
- Moses and the Books of the Pentateuch
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Reconciling the Sacrifices of Ezekiel with the Torah
- Reflections of Readers
- Sabbatical and Jubilee Regulations as a Means of Economic Recovery
- Sacrificial Categories and Personality Types
- 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
- Shavuot – Z’man Matan Torateinu
- Shemittah and the Geography of Israel
- Sinai and the "Shabbat-Cycle" Laws
- The Acceptance of the Convert Based on Leviticus 19
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Anti-Hybridization Laws and Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Blood of Life: The Hatat Offering and September 11, 2001
- The Code of Hammurabi and the Laws of the Torah
- The Cult of Moloch
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Exodus Census: Evading the Evil Eye or Military Stratagem?
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Family Corner: Leviticus
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Genesis of the Etrog (Citron) as Part of the Four Species
- The History of the Tishrei Conundrum
- The Incorporation of Pre-Modern Scientific Theories into Biblical Literature: The Case of Innate Heat
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Meaning of Bikkoret in Leviticus 19:20
- The Meaning of Melika
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The Sair L’Azazel: A Guide for the Perplexing Ramban
- The Seven Day Week in the Bible: The Circaseptan (7-Day) Rhythm — Fractality, Wholeness, Unity and Completeness
- The Seven Weeks That Turned Newly-Freed Slaves into a Nascent People of God
- The Subtle Grammar of the Biblical Dietary Laws
- The Ten Commandments as Positive Affirmations
- The Torah Reading for Rosh Ha-Shanah
- The Translation of the Biblical Word Shofar
- The True Sin of Nadab and Abihu
- The Word "Ger" in the Bible and Its Implications
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law
- Two Notes on the Exceptional Shalshelet
- Tyndale or Tanakh? Tracing the Metamorphosis of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13
- What Animal Was the Tinshemet? (Leviticus Chapter 11)
- What Is Keseh in Psalm 81:4?
- What Never Was and Never Will Be: Rebellious Son – Subverted City – Infected House
- When Does the Day Begin?
- 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 Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
- Yom Kippur: Cover Up or Plea for Probation?
- You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother's Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19
Numbers
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- “Awesome” Artistry: Ayummah Kannidgalot in Song of Songs 6:4, 10
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- “How Much Is She Worth?” A Comparison of Six Ancient Near East Laws Relating to Bride-Price, Dowry, Inheritance, and Divorce
- "Moses Wrote His Book and the Portion of Balaam"
- “Ones Who Have Fallen Out” (Nefel): Spontaneous, Accidental, and Intentional: Miscarriage Laws in Ancient Israel
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- A Reconstruction of Matzor: Habakkuk 2:1
- A Semantic Differentiated Approach to Relational Words
- A Significant Insignificance: The Meeting of Jacob and Pharaoh
- A Soothing Savor
- Abraham and Balaam: A Biblical Contrast
- After All, the Lord Does Not Ask for Much!
- Alcohol and the Fate of Nadab and Abihu
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- An Electric Ark
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- An Examination of Aaron's Role in the Sin of the Golden Calf
- And When He Saw the ‘Agalot Joseph Had Sent to Carry Him Back, the Spirit of Their Father Jacob Revived (Gen. 45:27) – Why?
- Are Most Jews B'nai-Judah?
- Balaam and His Talking Donkey
- Balaam Is Laban
- Balaam the Magician
- Balaam, Shakespeare, Shylock
- Balaam: An Unauthentic Prophet
- Balaam: Did God Change His Mind?
- Balaam: Some Aspects of His Character
- Balaam’s Mission – Failure or Success?
- Bdellium
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Between the Judges and the Spies: The Courtroom as a Microcosm for the Battlefield and Beyond
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Biblical Formatting: Visual and Virtual
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Biblical Puns
- Biblical Reiteration: Expansion and Chronology
- Blood Feud
- Book Review: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Religion and Contemporary Management: Moses as a Model for Effective Leadership
- Book Review: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: The Ethics of Numbers
- Camels in the Bible
- Can One Criticize the Biblical Heroes?
- Chaos or Chiasm? The Structure of Abraham's Life
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Death Sentences: The Torah's Treatment of Its Major Characters' Deaths
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Did Pythagoras Follow Nazirite Rules?
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Discerning Nahshon's Character from Textual and Intertextual Nuance
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- Eldad and Medad
- Eldad and Medad: The Men Who Were Not There
- Eliasaph Ben-Deuel/Reuel: A Rabbinic Interpretation
- Elijah and Elisha, Part I
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Exodus: How Big Was the Population?
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- For He Took a Cushite Woman
- Four Acts of Vowing in the Bible
- Four Homicides: How These Were Judged by the Bible and a Speculation as to the Basis for Judgement
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Judges to Monarchy
- Glimpses of the Past in Genesis-Exodus
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- Hoham: King of Hebron
- Hot Pursuit into Canaan
- How Did Moses Die?
- How Long Was the Sojourn in Egypt: 210 or 430 Years?
- In Defense of Korah
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Inverted Ayin and Bent Peh
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses?
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Jacob and the Spotted Sheep
- Jethro/Hobab's Detainment
- Jonah Chapter 2 as a Prophetic Vision
- Jonah, the Reluctant Prophet: Prophecy and Allegory
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- King Balak: Happy Endings
- Korah and His Aspirations
- Korah and His Fall: Observations on Holiness
- Large Numbers in the Hebrew Bible
- Leadership in the Book of Numbers
- Let My Outcasts, Moab, Find Asylum in You: Compassion for Fugitives From Disaster in Isaiah 15–16
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Literary Art and Psychological Insight in the Korah Episode
- Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics
- Master of Life
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Metzora(at) Kasheleg: Leprosy
- Military Intelligence in the Bible
- Military Intelligence in the Bible Part 2
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Month-Naming and Ideology in Esther
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses and the Books of the Pentateuch
- Moses and the Spies
- Moses as Poet: Ha'azinu as Poem
- Moses at the Waters of Meribah: A Case of Transference
- Moses in Cush
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- 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, King Arthur and Lot
- Moses: Not a Man of Words
- Moses: The Tragedy of his Personal Life
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- Mystery of the Red Heifer
- Notes on Biblical Hebrew
- Numbers: The Lawbook on Speech Morality
- Numerical Symbolism in the Dedication of the Altar
- Old Ammunition for Today: Joseph’s Legacy as a Source of Spiritual Resilience
- One Book, Two Books: The Joshua-Judges Continuum
- Phinehas and Micah
- Phinehas, Elijah and Circumcision
- Phinehas: Hero or Vigilante?
- Polarization in the Mosaic Period
- Prooftext that Elkanah Rather than Hannah Consecrated Samuel as a Nazirite
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part I
- Questions by the Serpent and the Ass: Part II
- Rashi's Midrashic Comments Are Supported by a Broad Range of Biblical Texts
- Recent Trends in Biblical Source Criticism
- Reconciling the Sacrifices of Ezekiel with the Torah
- Reflections of Readers
- Reflections on Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith
- Remembering Amalek Twice
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- Rosh Hodesh as a Woman's Holiday
- Ruth and Elisha
- Sacred Space and Holy Time
- Sacrifices for the Dead
- Sacrificial Categories and Personality Types
- Samson Agonistes
- Samson, Absalom, and the Pitfalls of Nezirut
- Seeing the Good of Israel
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Shiphrah and Puah: Two Strong Women in Exodus
- Shofetim – The Book of Judges
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Sons of God, Daughters of Men?
- Spies, Princes and Korach’s Rebellion
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Annihilation of Sennacherib's Army
- The Biblical Number 12 and the Formation of the Ancient Nation of Israel
- The Big-Bang Theory of Creation: Bara as Sudden Expansion
- The Corner Boards of the Tabernacle
- The Covenant Between the Parts
- The Cries of Our Rivals
- The Daughters of Zelophehad
- The Daughters of Zelophehad Revisited
- The Daughters of Zelophehad: Biblical Women’s Rights Activists (?)
- The Exodus Census: Evading the Evil Eye or Military Stratagem?
- The Fall of Jericho: How the People’s Shout Silenced the Scouts’ Doubt
- The Family Corner: Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Golden Calves: What Happened?
- The History of the Tishrei Conundrum
- The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab
- The Large Numbers in the Bible
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Length of the Rule of Joshua and the Periods of Subjugation in the Book of Judges
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Listing of the Tribes of Israel
- The Magical Sound of Priestly Bells
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Meaning of Melika
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Mystery, Meaning and Disappearance of the Tekhelet
- The Ninth Plague
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Political Side of the Zimri-Cozbi Affair
- The Power of Threes
- The Psychology of Balaam
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Rebellion of the Bechorim
- The Red Heifer Mystery
- The Red Heifer Ritual: A Rational Explanation
- The Rise and Fall of Israel in the Desert
- The Ritual of the Red Heifer
- The Root G-R-A in the Bible: The Case of the Daughters of Zelophehad and Beyond
- The Seven Weeks That Turned Newly-Freed Slaves into a Nascent People of God
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Striking of the Rock
- The Tassel and the Blue Cord
- The Weight of the Ark of the Covenant
- The Wilderness Experience
- The Women Around Moses
- The Word "Torah" in the Torah
- The Wrath of Moab
- Their Ruler Shall Rise Above Agag (Numbers 24:7): Does This Biblical Verse Reference the Future King Saul?
- Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Torah and Rabbinic Compromises with Human Nature
- Torah Dialogues
- Torah Dialogues: Bemidbar
- Torah Dialogues: Bemidbar
- Understanding Balaam's Donkey
- Understanding the Mystery of the Red Heifer Ritual
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- Was Samuel a Priest?
- What Is Keseh in Psalm 81:4?
- What is Teruah
- When God's Will Can and Cannot Be Altered: The Relationship Between the Balaam Narrative and I Kings 13
- Who Authorized Israelite Settlement East of the Jordan?
- Who Knows Seven?
- Who Wrestled with Jacob?
- 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?
- Why Was Moses Barred from Leading the People into the Promised Land? A Psychotheological Answer
Deuteronomy
- “... 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"
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “Chattel or…?”: Laws Relating to Female Slaves in Ancient Israel
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- “How Much Is She Worth?” A Comparison of Six Ancient Near East Laws Relating to Bride-Price, Dowry, Inheritance, and Divorce
- "Moses Wrote His Book and the Portion of Balaam"
- "There Is No Chronological Order in the Torah"
- A Closer Examination of Deuteronomy 20:19-20
- A Latch and Clasp Connecting Deuteronomy 33:27-29 with Genesis 3:22-24: A Proposed Interpretation
- A New Approach to the Interpretation of the Hitpael Conjugation
- A New Understanding of the Divorce and Remarriage Legislation in Deuteronomy 24:1-4
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- A People That Shall Dwell Alone
- A Puzzle in the Pentateuch?
- A Semantic Differentiated Approach to Relational Words
- A Soothing Savor
- A Torah With 70 Different Faces
- Abraham and Balaam: A Biblical Contrast
- After All, the Lord Does Not Ask for Much!
- Age Is Not a Factor: Age Differentials in Genesis
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 1
- Ambiguities of the Eagle
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- An Examination of Aaron's Role in the Sin of the Golden Calf
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- And When He Saw the ‘Agalot Joseph Had Sent to Carry Him Back, the Spirit of Their Father Jacob Revived (Gen. 45:27) – Why?
- Arami Oved Avi
- Arami Oved Avi (Deut. 26:5)
- At the Mouth of Two Witnesses
- Avoiding Amalek: Three Approaches
- Azazel: The Scapegoat in the Bible and Ancient Near East
- Balaam Is Laban
- Beauty in the Bible
- Between the Judges and the Spies: The Courtroom as a Microcosm for the Battlefield and Beyond
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Bible Trivia: The Number of Letters in the Shma
- Biblical Names in Israel
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Blood Feud
- 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: Kohelet: A Map to Eden — An Intertextual Journey
- Book Review: Onkelos on the Torah — Understanding the Bible Text
- Book Review: Recalling the Covenant
- Book Review: The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis
- Book Review: The Ethics of Genesis
- Book Review: The JPS Tanakh: The Gender-Sensitive Edition
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Camels in the Bible
- Centralization of Worship
- Chaos or Chiasm? The Structure of Abraham's Life
- 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)?
- Could Pre-Hebrew Be the Safa Ahat of Genesis 11:1?
- Darshanut: The Defiant Son
- Death in the Bible
- Death Sentences: The Torah's Treatment of Its Major Characters' Deaths
- Decalogue or Dodecalogue?
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Did the Patriarchs Know God's Name?
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Divination in the Bible
- Divine and Human Anger and Grace
- Do Not Destroy the Fruit Trees
- Do That Which Is Right and Good in the Sight of the Lord
- Do the Liturgical Uses of Psalm 29 Suggest Different Interpretations of the Psalm?
- Eikev: The Consequences of God’s Judgement
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- Eldad and Medad
- Elijah and Elisha, Part I
- Elon the Zebulunite of Aijalon
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- Free to Set a King Over Thee
- Friends, Strangers, Enemies
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Horeb to Kadesh in Eleven Days
- From Noah to Abraham
- Gid Hanasheh as Forgetfulness
- God, Man and Trees of Eden
- Grave Matters
- He is Like a Tree Planted Beside Streams of Water
- Hoham: King of Hebron
- Holidays: Some Peculiarities
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- Hot Pursuit into Canaan
- How Did Moses Die?
- In the Presence
- In the Shadow of Amalek
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Inverted Ayin and Bent Peh
- Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?
- Is Incest with a Daughter Permissible?
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses?
- Ishmael ben Nethaniah's Massacre of the Self-Gashing Pilgrims in Jeremiah 41
- Jacob's Journey to Succoth
- Jeremiah and Hananiah: A Study of True and False Prophecy
- Jonah, the Reluctant Prophet: Prophecy and Allegory
- Joseph and the Eglah Arufah
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Letter to the Editor: Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Letter to the Editor: The Word Ger
- Letters to the Editor
- Literary Art and Psychological Insight in the Korah Episode
- Metallurgy in the Bible: Ironworking and the Disposal of the Golden Calf
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- Modern Searches for Aviv Barley in the Context of the Hebrew Calendar
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- More on the Seven Nations
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses and the Books of the Pentateuch
- Moses as Poet: Ha'azinu as Poem
- Moses in Cush
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- Moses: Intermediary or Teacher?
- Moses: The Tragedy of his Personal Life
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- Neshekh and Tarbit: Usury from Bible to Modern Finance
- Nimrod
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- Not to Inflict Hurt on Animals
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Obituary: Dr. Shimon Bakon z"l
- Obligatory and Voluntary War
- One Book, Two Books: The Joshua-Judges Continuum
- Orphans and Affirmative Action
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Polemical Considerations Among the Four Children: From the Bible to the Haggadah
- Psalm 116
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Rashi's Midrashic Comments Are Supported by a Broad Range of Biblical Texts
- Rav Kook on Ancient Near Eastern Parallels
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- Recent Trends in Biblical Source Criticism
- Reflections on Maimonides' Eighth Principle of Faith
- Remembering Amalek Twice
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Ruth and Naomi: Foremothers of David
- Sabbatical and Jubilee Regulations as a Means of Economic Recovery
- Sacrifices for the Dead
- Samson Agonistes
- Sarah's Treatment of Hagar (Genesis 16)
- Saul and Genocide
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part I
- Seeing the Good of Israel
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Shabbat: Three Stages in Israel's Experience
- Shakespeare's Forgivable Portrayal of Shylock
- She Shall Mourn
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Shofetim – The Book of Judges
- Sinai and the "Shabbat-Cycle" Laws
- Sinai Upside-Down
- Slavery in the Bible
- Solomon: The Too Wise King
- Sons of God, Daughters of Men?
- Tamar Times Three
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- Ten Terms in the Torah for Teachings, Commandments and Laws
- Text and Historical Motivations Behind the Commentary of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno on the Torah
- The 120 Satraps in the Reign of Darius the Mede
- The Anti-Hybridization Laws and Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Bed of Og
- The Bird’s Nest Mitzvah: A Personal Aggadic Interpretation
- The Book of Jonah
- The Cain and Abel Narrative: Its Problems and Lessons
- The Cries of Our Rivals
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Death of Moses
- The Development of the Mezuzah
- The Dew of Heaven
- The Eschatological Meaning of the Book of Ruth
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Exodus Syndemic: The Epidemiology of the Tenth Plague
- The Expanding Perspectives of the Sabbath
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Family Corner – Deuteronomy
- The Family Corner: Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Corner: Books of Bemidbar and Devarim
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Form and Function of the Luchot
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Golden Calves: What Happened?
- The Halakhah of the Humash
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Illegitimate Child (Mamzer) in Jewish Law
- The Image of God and the Literary Interdependence of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3
- The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Lesson at Marah
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Liturgical Function of Exodus 33:16-34:26
- The Meaning of Bikkoret in Leviticus 19:20
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Mishkan and the Aesthetic
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Ninth Plague
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Plague of Darkness
- The Problem of the Levirate Marriage
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Prophet Versus the King
- The Psychology of Balaam
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Rebellious Son: Can His Execution Be Justified?
- The Reign of King Solomon
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
- The Sabbath Commandment: Its Two Versions
- The Sabbath: To Remember, To Observe, To Make
- The Seven Weeks That Turned Newly-Freed Slaves into a Nascent People of God
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Sin of Amalek in Bible and Midrash
- The Subtle Grammar of the Biblical Dietary Laws
- The Ten and the Torah
- The Ten Commandments as Positive Affirmations
- The Three Tenses in the Kingdom of God
- The Torah as Divine Fire
- 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 Two Synonymous Prepositions Lema'an and Le- in Ezekiel 21
- The Women Around Moses
- 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
- Thoughts on the Death Penalty: From the Written Law to the Oral Law
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Torah and Rabbinic Compromises with Human Nature
- Torah Dialogues: Deuteronomy
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- Torah Dialogues: Devarim
- True and False Prophets
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Was Simeon Not Included in Moses' Blessing
- What Animal Was the Tinshemet? (Leviticus Chapter 11)
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- 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 Authorized Israelite Settlement East of the Jordan?
- Who Knows Seven?
- Who Was the First Jewish Commentator to Connect Psalm 50 with Christianity?
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Who Wrote the Story of Moses’ Death
- Why Did the Torah Allow Servitude?
- Why Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
- Why Was Mount Gerizim Chosen for the Blessing Ceremony?
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- You Shall Not Boil a Kid in Its Mother's Milk: Beyond Exodus 23:19
Joshua
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- "Moses Wrote His Book and the Portion of Balaam"
- "There Is No Chronological Order in the Torah"
- A Patriarch Reviews the Past to Impact the Future
- Abraham and Jacob, and God, at Beth El
- Balaam and His Talking Donkey
- Balaam, Shakespeare, Shylock
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Book Review: The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
- Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Elijah and Elisha, Part I
- Elon the Zebulunite of Aijalon
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- Gilgal, the Site of the First Passover
- Hoham: King of Hebron
- Holy Cities in the Land of Ephraim Revisited
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Jonah the Rebellious Prophet: A Look at the Man Behind the Prophecy Based on Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
- Lech Lecha: Rearranging the Chronology and Rehabilitating Terach
- Letter to the Editor: The Word Ger
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- 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
- Moonlit Leadership: A Midrashic Reading of Joshua's Success
- More on the Seven Nations
- Nahmanides' Understanding of Abraham's Mesopotamian Origins
- Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Old Ammunition for Today: Joseph’s Legacy as a Source of Spiritual Resilience
- On and Off the Beaten Track in Tel Azeka
- One Book, Two Books: The Joshua-Judges Continuum
- Our Bible Quiz for Youth: Joshua, Judges and Samuel
- Peril and Deliverance
- Rahab of Jericho
- Rahab the Harlot and Other Philosophers of Religion
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Settlement of the Tribe of Dan
- Shechem: A Foreshadowing of the Future and a Metaphor
- Signaling in Biblical Warfare and Moses' Role as Military Commander
- Sinai Upside-Down
- The Bible Reader's Union and the World Jewish Bible Society
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 1
- The Book of Joshua: Chapters 23-24: Part 2 – By Way of Reply
- The Circumcision Performed by Zipporah
- The Conquest of Canaan in the Book of Joshua: Military and Archeological Aspects
- The Daughters of Zelophehad: Biblical Women’s Rights Activists (?)
- The English Poets' “Rizpah”
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Fall of Jericho as an Earthquake Myth
- The Fall of Jericho: How the People’s Shout Silenced the Scouts’ Doubt
- The Length of the Rule of Joshua and the Periods of Subjugation in the Book of Judges
- The Lesson at Marah
- The Location of Ai
- The Punishment of Achan: The Poetic Justice of Success and Failure
- The Role of Terah in the Foundational Stories of the Patriarchal Family
- The Utopian Map in Ezekiel (48:1-35)
- The Weight of the Ark of the Covenant
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- We Heard in Ephrathah That We Found It in the Forested Field (Psalm 132:6)
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Why the Walls of Jericho Came Tumbling Down
Judges
- A Biblical Protest Against the Violation of Women
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A Note on Judges 13:20-21: Sorting Out the Syntax
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Between the Rivers Arnon and Jabbok
- Book Review: Jephthah and His Vow by David Marcus
- Book Review: The Biblical Hero
- Book Review: The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
- Camels in the Bible
- Chronology in the Book of Judges
- Concealment and Irony in the Samson Story
- David Took Goliath's Sword
- Deborah, the Wife of Lapidot
- Deborah: Judge, Prophetess and Poet
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- Editorial: On Martyrdom
- Elon the Zebulunite of Aijalon
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Fathers and Sons
- Four Acts of Vowing in the Bible
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Judges to Monarchy
- Gideon and the Ephraimites
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- Hot Pursuit into Canaan
- I’ll Sit Here Until You Come Back: Gideon and the Patience of God
- In Search of Bithiah Bat Pharaoh and the Meaning of I Chronicles 4:18
- Intertextuality and Idealism in the Rabbinic Reading of Eshet Hayil
- Is Deuteronomy 22:10 a Double-Entendre?
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Jabotinsky’s Samson
- Jacob's Blessing for Dan
- Jephthah
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Jephthah’s Daughter
- Jephthah’s Literary Vogue
- Jethro/Hobab's Detainment
- Judge Ibzan of Bethlehem
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Letters to the Editor
- Literary Parallels Between Homer's Epics and the Biblical Philistines
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics Part I: Saul and Others
- Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics
- Manoah's Wife in Late Second Temple Literature
- Military Intelligence in the Bible: Part 3
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- Minhag in Judaism
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- One Book, Two Books: The Joshua-Judges Continuum
- Our Bible Quiz for Youth: Joshua, Judges and Samuel
- Political Assassination in Biblical Israel
- Prooftext that Elkanah Rather than Hannah Consecrated Samuel as a Nazirite
- Psalm 68: Echoes of the Song of Deborah?
- Rashi's Conjectures
- Remembering Adam Zertal
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Review Essay: Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
- Samson Agonistes
- Samson and Samuel: Two Styles of Leadership
- Samson in Timnah: Judges 14-15: Form and Function
- Samson, Absalom, and the Pitfalls of Nezirut
- Samson: A Tragedy in Three Acts
- Settlement of the Tribe of Dan
- She Named Him Moses
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Shofetim – The Book of Judges
- Sight, Sin and Blindness in the Samson Narrative and in Milton’s Samson Agonistes
- Sisera and Harosheth-Goiim
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Spectacle Culture: Vision as a Narrative Plot Device in the Samson Cycle
- Spirit Is Thicker Than Blood
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- Suicide in the Bible
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Big-Bang Theory of Creation: Bara as Sudden Expansion
- The Book of Ruth
- The Concubine of Gibeah (Jud. 19-21)
- The Connection Between the Idol of Micah and the Concubine at Gibeah: A Rabbinic View
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Daughters of Zelophehad: Biblical Women’s Rights Activists (?)
- The English Poets' “Rizpah”
- The First Biblical Family: When Did They Live?
- The Genre of the Call Narrative
- 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 Length of the Rule of Joshua and the Periods of Subjugation in the Book of Judges
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Metaphors of the Vine and Olive Tree
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Philistines
- The Positive and Negative Traits of Gideon as Reflected in His Sons Jotham and Abimelech
- The Prowess of the Benjaminites
- The Tragedy of Jephthah
- The Wrath of Moab
- Themes in the Deborah Narrative (Judges 4-5)
- Three Charismatic Judges and Their Strategies
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Violence and Holiness in Biblical Dan
- When Love and Politics Mix: David and His Relationships with Saul, Jonathan, and Michal
- Who Was Jabez?
- Who Was Jonathan Son of Gershom in Judges 18:30?
- Who Was Shamgar Ben Anath
- Wordplay in Genesis 2:25–3:1
Samuel
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- “Chattel or…?”: Laws Relating to Female Slaves in Ancient Israel
- "You Shall Not Eat with the Blood"
- A Biblical Freudian Slip: II Samuel 12:6
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- A Semantic Differentiated Approach to Relational Words
- Abigail and Abel's Wise Woman
- Absalom’s Revolt
- Absalom’s Story: Drama and Tragedy
- Ahitophel of Gilo: Two Literary Portraits
- An Electric Ark
- An Elegy of David: To Teach the Sons of Judah the Bow
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- Avoiding Amalek: Three Approaches
- Beauty in the Bible
- Beged or Simlah – Is There a Difference?
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Book Review: The Biblical Hero
- Book Review: The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
- Book Review: The Invention of Monotheist Ethics
- Book Review: The Words of Gad the Seer
- Can One Criticize the Biblical Heroes?
- Chronicles: The Neglected Book of the Bible (Part II)
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Dagon: The Fish God?
- 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 Took Goliath's Sword
- David’s Census: Additional Reflection
- David’s Conquest of Jerusalem
- David’s Last Sin: Was It the Census?
- David’s Marriage to Michal
- David's Sin
- Divination in the Bible
- Elisha the Prophet
- Etiologies in the Bible
- Four Acts of Vowing in the Bible
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Judges to Monarchy
- Gideon or Jerubaal
- Glorification of God at the Sea
- God Called: Abraham! Abraham! Jacob! Jacob! Moses! Moses! Samuel! Samuel!
- Hannah's Parallel Thoughts and Allusions
- He Said: ‘It’s an Event Not Pure, for It’s Not Pure!’ (I Sam. 20:26b)
- Height Theology
- How David Captured Jerusalem
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing? Music in the Saul Narrative in I Samuel
- I Am the Woman: The Story and Prayer of Hannah, a Biblical Feminist Text
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Interpretation of Variant Spellings in the Bible
- Irony in I Samuel (Chapters 8-15)
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Jeremiah's Trial as a False Prophet (Chapter 26)
- Joab, Captain of the Host
- Jonadab, "Friend" of Amnon
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- Jonathan
- King David's Spear, the Weapons of the Carians, and the Overthrow of Athaliah in II Kings 11
- King Saul in World Literature
- Letter to the Editor
- Letter to the Editor: Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor: A Further Note on the Torn Robe
- Listening to the Chalil: Biblical Instrument of Feasts and Funerals
- Literary Parallels Between Homer's Epics and the Biblical Philistines
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics Part I: Saul and Others
- Magdil and Migdol – Liturgical Responses to Textual Variants
- Meanwhile, Back at Job’s Ranch: Dual Storylines in the Book of Job
- Mena'anim: Musical Instruments of the People
- Metallurgy in the Bible: Ironworking and the Disposal of the Golden Calf
- Miketz Esrim Shana: Revisiting Mishpat Shlomo, Twenty Years On
- Mishloach Manot on Purim and Rosh Hashanah
- Monarchy and the Bible
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part II
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- Multiple Functions of Wells in the Tanakh
- Nabal and Abigail
- Nabal, the Villain
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Nimrod
- Noble Jonathan
- Not a Blacksmith Could be Found
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- On and Off the Beaten Track in Tel Azeka
- Our Bible Quiz for Youth: Joshua, Judges and Samuel
- Parental Love or Child Abuse?
- Political Assassination in Biblical Israel
- Power of Persuasion: Judah, Abigail, and Hushai
- Prooftext that Elkanah Rather than Hannah Consecrated Samuel as a Nazirite
- Psalm 113
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Psalm 34 – Does the Heading Fit?
- Psalm 60: A Psalm of David
- Rachel, A Mother of Israel
- Raised from the Dead
- Reading Mordecai in the Shadow of Saul: Intertextuality and Shared Motifs Between the Books of Samuel and Esther
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Samson and Samuel: Two Styles of Leadership
- Samson, Absalom, and the Pitfalls of Nezirut
- 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 En-Dor'
- Saul and the Witch of Endor
- Saul’s Kingship: The Tragedy of a Leader
- Serah Bat Asher in Rabbinic Literature
- Shalem: City or Safely?
- She Named Him Moses
- Shemot's Missing Names
- Shepherd's Instruments
- Shepherding as a Metaphor
- Shofetim – The Book of Judges
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Spirit Is Thicker Than Blood
- Strife in the Household of King David
- Suicide in the Bible
- Tamar Times Three
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Bed of Og
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Book of Ruth
- The Book of Samuel: A Literary Masterpiece
- The City of David
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Destroying Angel
- The Earthquake That Turned the Course of the War
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The English Poets' “Rizpah”
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Exodus Census: Evading the Evil Eye or Military Stratagem?
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Family Relationship of Simeon and Dinah
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Genre of the Call Narrative
- The Ghost of Samuel: Real or Imaginary?
- The Hidden Storyline Within the Biblical Texts Regarding David and Saul
- The Lesson at Marah
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Love of David and Michal
- The Mantle of the Matriarchs: Ruth 4:11-15
- The Meanings of Akh
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Nature of Kinat David: Public or Private?
- The Philistines
- The Plague in I Samuel 5 and 6
- 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 Rape of Tamar
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
- The Saga of the Ark
- The Torn Robe: A Study of I Samuel 15:26-28
- Their Ruler Shall Rise Above Agag (Numbers 24:7): Does This Biblical Verse Reference the Future King Saul?
- Three Unlikely Leaders
- Two Biblical Parables: Irony and Self Entrapment
- Two Polyphonic Narrations
- Two Sinners
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Was Jonathan Guilty: A Study of I Samuel Chapter 14
- Was Samuel a Priest?
- We Heard in Ephrathah That We Found It in the Forested Field (Psalm 132:6)
- What Ailed the Son of Kish?
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- 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?
- Who Knows Seven?
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Who Wrote the Psalms? Controversy and Confusion Regarding Authorship
- Why Did Samuel Initially Reject Monarchy?
- Witchcraft in the Bible
Kings
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- "Foremost in Rank and Foremost in Power": Conflict over the First-Born in Israel
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- A Lost Battle of King Ahab Rediscovered
- A Note on Judges 13:20-21: Sorting Out the Syntax
- A Note on the Prohibition of Uttering the Name of God
- Abigail and Abel's Wise Woman
- Abishag the Shunammite
- Abraham and Jacob, and God, at Beth El
- Ahab: A “Poor” Character
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Amenhotep III and the Exodus
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- An Examination of Aaron's Role in the Sin of the Golden Calf
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Babel or Babylon?
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Biblical Puns
- Book Review: I Kings – Torn in Two
- Book Review: The Early Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
- Centralization of Worship
- Checkmate: The King is Dead
- Chronicles: The Neglected Book of the Bible (Part II)
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Cut the Baby in Half: Understanding Solomon's Divinely-Inspired Wisdom
- David and Ahab: A Study of Crime and Punishment
- David's Sin
- Death in the Bible
- Divided They Stand: The United Monarchy Split in Twain
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Eldad and Medad
- Elijah
- Elijah and Elisha, Part I
- Elijah and Elisha: Part II
- Elijah in Yiddish Literature
- Elijah the Zealot: A Foil to Moses
- Elijah: The Unique Prophet
- Elijah's Battle for the Soul of Israel
- Elijah’s Recovery from Depression
- Elisha the Prophet
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- Exile and Return
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- Ezion-Geber: Solomon’s Seaport
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- From Judges to Monarchy
- Gods, Tents, and Authority: A Study of Exodus 32 and I Kings 12
- Ha'achashtranim Bnei Ha'ramachim
- Hezekiah and Josiah: A Comparison
- 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
- I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26)
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- In Search of Bithiah Bat Pharaoh and the Meaning of I Chronicles 4:18
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Isaiah and Hezekiah: Prophet and King
- Ishmael ben Nethaniah's Massacre of the Self-Gashing Pilgrims in Jeremiah 41
- Jehu ben Nimshi in Light of Ishmael ben Nethaniah
- Jeremiah and Hananiah: A Study of True and False Prophecy
- Jeremiah's Trial as a False Prophet (Chapter 26)
- Jeroboam Ben Nebat
- Jonah the Rebellious Prophet: A Look at the Man Behind the Prophecy Based on Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- Josiah
- Judean Mindset Throughout the Babylonian Exile
- Justice in Solomon’s Court
- King David’s Aging: A Psychodynamic Dimension
- King David's Spear, the Weapons of the Carians, and the Overthrow of Athaliah in II Kings 11
- King Solomon’s Golden Wealth
- King Solomon’s Wives as Envisioned by David Pinski
- Learning from Isaiah
- Letter to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Listening to the Chalil: Biblical Instrument of Feasts and Funerals
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- Male Virility and Biblical Power Dynamics
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Miketz Esrim Shana: Revisiting Mishpat Shlomo, Twenty Years On
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part I
- Moses and Josiah
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part I
- Moses, Elisha and Transferred Spirit: The Height of Biblical Prophecy? Part II
- Nations and Super-Nations of Canaan
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- Nivhaz or Nivhan?
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part V
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- Phinehas, Elijah and Circumcision
- Political Assassination in Biblical Israel
- Pronunciation: A Key to Meaning — I Kings 3:16-28
- Psalm 60: A Psalm of David
- Queen Athaliah: The Daughter of Ahab or Omri?
- Quiz on the Book of Kings
- Raised from the Dead
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Royal Building Projects and the Ethics of Royalty
- Ruth and Elisha
- Said the Thistle to the Cedar
- Saul and Genocide
- 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
- Shalem: City or Safely?
- Shofetim – The Book of Judges
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Solomon and Sheba: Aggadic Roots of the Koran Story
- Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Solomon: The Too Wise King
- Solomon’s Humiliation
- Suicide in the Bible
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The ‘Molten Sea’ and the Value of Pi
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Altar of Ahaz and Monarchical Polytheism
- The Annihilation of Sennacherib's Army
- The Assassination of King Amon of Judah
- The Blood of Naboth
- The Book of Jonah
- The Corner Boards of the Tabernacle
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Fall of Samaria
- The Fifth Annual Bible Contest for Adults
- The Genre of the Call Narrative
- The Judgement of Solomon
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Parable of Jotham: The Question of Authority in Judaism
- The Pharaohs Who Knew Moses
- The Philistines
- The Pillars of the Temple
- The Plague of Darkness
- The Political Side of the Zimri-Cozbi Affair
- The Prophet Micaiah in Kings and Chronicles
- 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 Reign of King Solomon
- The Rise of the House of Omri
- The Siege of Jerusalem, Part II
- The Siege of Jerusalem: Part I
- The Solomon and Sheba Story in Ethiopia
- The Ten Lost Tribes
- The Tragic King
- The Trial of Jeremiah and the Killing of Uriah the Prophet
- The Use of the Term "Pharaoh" in the Bible
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- The Wrath of Moab
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- True and False Prophets
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- Two Righteous Men: Isaiah and Hezekiah
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- 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
- When Love and Politics Mix: David and His Relationships with Saul, Jonathan, and Michal
- Who Were the "Fearers of the Lord" (Yir'ei Hashem) in Psalms?
- Why Doesn't Noah Have More Children After the Flood?
- Why Was Mount Gerizim Chosen for the Blessing Ceremony?
- Zedekiah: Last King of Judah
Isaiah
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- 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 New World and a New Man: Utopias in the Era of the Babylonian Exile and the Return to Zion
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- A Variant Text from the Isaiah Scroll
- Allegorical Interpretation of Daniel 12:2
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- Amos the Prophet
- And the Bush Was Not Consumed
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Biblical Puns
- Book Review: New Testament People – A Rabbi's Notes
- Book Review: Song of Riddles — Deciphering the Song of Songs
- Book Review: The JPS Tanakh: The Gender-Sensitive Edition
- Book Review: Thinking About the Prophets
- Book Review: Unto Us a Child is Born
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Creation and the Limitations of the Creator
- Cyrus as Messiah
- Cyrus in the Perspective of the Bible and History
- David Took Goliath's Sword
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Ein Mikra Yotzeh Miydei Peshuto
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- Fasting and Atonement
- For in His Days the Earth Was Divided: Classic Jewish Sources for a Physical Division of the Earth
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- From Noah to Abraham
- Gematria in the Hebrew Bible
- Giving Birth on Someone's Knees
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- Grave Matters
- Gynomorphic Imagery in Exilic Isaiah (40-66)
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- Historical Allusions in the Book of Habakkuk
- How Chapter Six Put the Exodus Back on Track
- I Am the Lord Who Heals You (Exodus 15:26)
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Isaiah 7:14b in New Major Christian Bible Translations
- Isaiah and Cyrus
- Isaiah and Hezekiah: Prophet and King
- Isaiah and his Audience
- Isaiah and the Computer
- Isaiah: How the Book Entered Holy Writ
- Isaiah's Suffering Servant: A New View
- Ishmael ben Nethaniah's Massacre of the Self-Gashing Pilgrims in Jeremiah 41
- Jeremiah and Hananiah: A Study of True and False Prophecy
- Jeremiah's Trial as a False Prophet (Chapter 26)
- King Cyrus, Anointed (Messiah) of the Lord
- Learning from Isaiah
- Let My Outcasts, Moab, Find Asylum in You: Compassion for Fugitives From Disaster in Isaiah 15–16
- Listening to the Chalil: Biblical Instrument of Feasts and Funerals
- Look Unto Abraham Your Father (Isaiah 51:2)
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics: Part II The Fall of Jerusalem
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Metallurgy in the Bible: Ironworking and the Disposal of the Golden Calf
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- Notes on Biblical Hebrew
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- 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
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Our Bible Quiz on Isaiah
- Problems and Solutions of Habakkuk 3:8
- Prophecy as Potential: The Consolations of Isaiah 1-12 in Context
- Psalm 113
- Psalm 19 Revisited
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Quiz on the Book of Isaiah
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- Review Essay: Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
- Sacrifices for the Dead
- Septuagint Readings as Additional Exegetical Layers
- She Named Him Moses
- Silence in the Bible
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Altar of Ahaz and Monarchical Polytheism
- The Anti-Hybridization Laws and Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah 40-50
- The Day of the Lord
- The Destroying Angel
- The Direction and Purpose of Time: Isaiah's Vision of the “End of Days”
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The English Poets' “Rizpah”
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Meaning of Melika
- The Meaning of Tzemah HaShem in Isaiah 4:2
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Philistines
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Rabshakeh’s Speech (II Kings 18-25): A Study of Rhetorical Intimidation
- The Real 'Suffering Servant': Decoding a Controversial Passage in the Bible
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- The School of Isaiah: Biography and Transmission of the Book of Isaiah
- The Siege of Jerusalem, Part II
- The Siege of Jerusalem: Part I
- Thou Worm Jacob
- Two Righteous Men: Isaiah and Hezekiah
- Understanding Psalm 46
- Understanding the Mystery of the Red Heifer Ritual
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
- Who Knows Seven?
- Who Was Lamenting and Why? Lamentations and the Sumerian City Laments
- Who Were the "Fearers of the Lord" (Yir'ei Hashem) in Psalms?
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Who Wrestled with Jacob?
- Why Doesn't Noah Have More Children After the Flood?
- Yah: A Name of God
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
Jeremiah
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before the Lord"
- “Heeling” in the Torah
- “Ones Who Have Fallen Out” (Nefel): Spontaneous, Accidental, and Intentional: Miscarriage Laws in Ancient Israel
- A Fresh Look at Nebuchadnezzar
- A Stylistic-Exegetical Analysis of Jeremiah 46:1-12
- Amos the Prophet
- Atbash in Jeremiah
- Atbash in Jeremiah – Part II
- Atbash in Jeremiah, Its Literary Significance – Part III
- Baruch Ben-Neriah: The Man Who Was Not a Prophet
- Bible Quiz on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Bochen Klayot Va’Lev: Who Searches the Kidneys and the Heart: Cellular Memory in Organs and Sensory Neurites in the Heart?
- Book Review: Thinking About the Prophets
- Book Review: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Chronicles: The Neglected Book of the Bible (Part II)
- Cyrus as Messiah
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Divine and Human Anger and Grace
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- From Judges to Monarchy
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- How Nebuchadnezzar Became a Dwarf
- In the Second Year of the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:1)
- Is the "Queen of Heaven" in Jeremiah the Goddess Anat?
- Isaiah's Suffering Servant: A New View
- Ishmael ben Nethaniah's Massacre of the Self-Gashing Pilgrims in Jeremiah 41
- Jacob and the Wife-Sister Stories
- Jehu ben Nimshi in Light of Ishmael ben Nethaniah
- 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
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- Judean Mindset Throughout the Babylonian Exile
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Let My Outcasts, Moab, Find Asylum in You: Compassion for Fugitives From Disaster in Isaiah 15–16
- Listening to the Chalil: Biblical Instrument of Feasts and Funerals
- Literary Parallels Between Homer's Epics and the Biblical Philistines
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Moses, King Arthur and Lot
- New Light on Unknown Prophets: The Lachish Letters
- On and Off the Beaten Track in Tel Azeka
- Parents Have Eaten Sour Grapes
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Retroversion in Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis: A Study in the Book of Jeremiah
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- Sacrificial Cult among the Exiles in Egypt but not Babylon – Why?
- Samuel and Saul: A Negative Symbiosis
- Seder Olam and the Sabbaticals Associated with the Two Destructions of Jerusalem, Part II
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- Tanakh Sources of Judas Iscariot
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Anti-Hybridization Laws and Sodom and Gomorrah
- The Atbash-Acrostic
- The Babylonian Captivity
- The Book of Job as a Way of Relating to Jewish National Suffering
- The Book of Jonah
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant
- The English Poets' “Rizpah”
- The Eschatological Meaning of the Book of Ruth
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Genesis of the Etrog (Citron) as Part of the Four Species
- The Mantle of the Matriarchs: Ruth 4:11-15
- The Meaning of And He Went Shefi (Num. 23:3)
- The Meaning of Melika
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Pillars of the Temple
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Prophet Micaiah in Kings and Chronicles
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Real 'Suffering Servant': Decoding a Controversial Passage in the Bible
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- The Tensions Between Jews and Christians as Reflected in Hayyun's Commentary on Jeremiah
- The Tragic King
- The Transition to and From Aramaic in the Book of Daniel
- The Trial of Jeremiah
- The Trial of Jeremiah and the Killing of Uriah the Prophet
- The Triple Tragedy of the Gedaliah Assassination
- The Use of the Term "Pharaoh" in the Bible
- The Weekday Amidah and Biblical Psalms
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- True and False Prophets
- Understanding Psalm 46
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
- Who Was Lamenting and Why? Lamentations and the Sumerian City Laments
- Why Did the Torah Allow Servitude?
- Why Was Mount Gerizim Chosen for the Blessing Ceremony?
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
- Zedekiah: Last King of Judah
Ezekiel
- "You Shall Not Eat with the Blood"
- Allegorical Interpretation of Daniel 12:2
- Bible Quiz on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
- Book Review: Thinking About the Prophets
- Book Review: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Derekh Hokhma Part II: Theological Implications of the Exodus Narrative
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Divination in the Bible
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Exile and Return
- Ezekiel the Sentinel
- Ezekiel, the Neglected Prophet
- Ezekiel: From Destruction to Redemption
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- For the Sake of My Name
- Grave Matters
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- Jeremiah, the Suffering Prophet, and Ezekiel, the Visionary
- Judean Mindset Throughout the Babylonian Exile
- Letters to the Editor
- Listening to the Chalil: Biblical Instrument of Feasts and Funerals
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Parents Have Eaten Sour Grapes
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- Reconciling the Sacrifices of Ezekiel with the Torah
- Reuben: The Predicament of the Firstborn
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The "Other" Demonstrative Pronouns: Pejorative Colloquialisms in Biblical Hebrew
- The Babylonian Captivity
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Book of Daniel: A Guide for Judaism in Exile
- The Corner Boards of the Tabernacle
- The Curse of Death in War
- The Day of the Lord
- The Garden of God
- The Gardens of Eden and Sodom
- The Gems in the High Priest's Breastplate
- The Lesson of Ezekiel’s Temple
- The Mystery, Meaning and Disappearance of the Tekhelet
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Prophet as Watcher
- The Prophetic Visions of God's Abode
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Symbolic Acts of Ezekiel (Chapters 3-5)
- The Temple Plan Revealed: A Mishnaic Formula for Building the Temple
- The Ten Plagues
- The Use of Two Synonymous Prepositions Lema'an and Le- in Ezekiel 21
- The Utopian Map in Ezekiel (48:1-35)
- The Vision of the Dry Bones
- The Words Minhag and Masoret
- Understanding Psalm 46
- Understanding the Mystery of the Red Heifer Ritual
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
- What Did the Dove Bring to Noah?
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
- Zedekiah: Last King of Judah
Hosea
- “Heeling” in the Torah
- Abraham and Jacob, and God, at Beth El
- Amos and Hosea: Two Directions in Israel’s Prophecy
- Arami Oved Avi (Deut. 26:5)
- Azazel: The Scapegoat in the Bible and Ancient Near East
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- For I am God and Not Man
- Hosea – His Message
- Hosea and Gomer Revisited
- Hosea and the Fertility Cult
- Hosea’s True Marriage
- Jehu ben Nimshi in Light of Ishmael ben Nethaniah
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- King of Princes: An Exegesis of Hosea 8:10
- Rebuke Your Mother: But Who Is She?
- The Day of the Lord
- The Prophet Hosea – A Symposium
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Youth Corner: Bible Quiz on Hoshea, Joel and Amos
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
- Who Wrestled with Jacob?
Joel
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- And a Fountain Shall Come Forth From the House of the Lord
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Joel and His Message
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Day of the Lord
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Prophecy of Joel: The Prophet's Message, Beliefs, and Prophetic Style
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Youth Corner: Bible Quiz on Hoshea, Joel and Amos
Amos
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- 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
- Book Review: Thinking About the Prophets
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Grave Matters
- I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh (Joel 3:1)
- Jacob's Death-Bed Farewell to His Sons: According to the Rabbis
- Jeroboam Ben Nebat
- Jonah: The Conscientious Objector
- Joseph
- Letters to the Editor
- Literary Parallels Between Homer's Epics and the Biblical Philistines
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- 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
- The Bed of Og
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Book of Jonah
- The Day of the Lord
- The Fall of Jericho as an Earthquake Myth
- The Mosaic of Time
- The Philistines
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Youth Corner: Bible Quiz on Hoshea, Joel and Amos
- Three Rationalist Explanations of Prophecy
- Universalism and/or Particularism
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
- Why Was Hametz So Strictly Forbidden on Passover?
Obadiah
Jonah
- 'I Am a Hebrew!' Jonah's Conflict with God's Mercy Toward Even the Most Worthy of Pagans
- Book Review: JPS Bible Commentary — Jonah
- Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption
- Darshanut: Jonah and Yom Kippur
- Darshanut: Jonah: A Transitional Prophet
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Eastward and Westward: The Movement of Prophecy and History in the Book of Yonah
- Jonah and Nineveh: The Tragedy of Jonah
- Jonah Chapter 2 as a Prophetic Vision
- Jonah the Rebellious Prophet: A Look at the Man Behind the Prophecy Based on Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
- 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
- Letters to the Editor
- Maftir Jonah
- Nineveh and Sodom Juxtaposed: Contrasts and Parallels
- Noah and the Dove
- Seeking Vindication, Especially in Jonah
- Sleep from the Eyes, Slumber from the Eyelids
- Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, Esther Ruth Jonah Deciphered
- 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 Literary Impact of Jonah
- The Universalism of the Book of Jonah: According to the Teaching of Yehezkel Kaufmann
- Thoughts on an Allegorical Reading of Jonah
Micah
- "Moses Wrote His Book and the Portion of Balaam"
- Did Abram Wage a Just War?
- For the Statutes of Omri are Kept (Micah 6:16)
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Ishmael ben Nethaniah's Massacre of the Self-Gashing Pilgrims in Jeremiah 41
- Micah’s Ideals: Stevenson’s Guide
- Miriam Rediscovered
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Phinehas and Micah
- Psalm 72 and Micah 5:1
- Questions and Response in Micah 6:6-8
- Shakespeare's Forgivable Portrayal of Shylock
- The 49th Annual International Bible Contest for Jewish Youth
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- The Trial of Jeremiah and the Killing of Uriah the Prophet
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
Nahum
Habakkuk
- “Awesome” Artistry: Ayummah Kannidgalot in Song of Songs 6:4, 10
- A Reconstruction of Matzor: Habakkuk 2:1
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Habakkuk 3:13 – A Problematic Verse
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- Historical Allusions in the Book of Habakkuk
- Problems and Solutions of Habakkuk 3:8
- The Garden of God
- The Power of Threes
- The Relationship Between Biblical Narrative and Biblical Law
- Was Habakkuk Presumptuous?
Zephaniah
Haggai
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- Zerubabbel: The Messianic Hope of the Returnees
- Zerubbabel
- Zerubbabel: A Riddle
Zechariah
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- And Ekron as a Jebusite (Zechariah 9:7)
- Calendar Notations in the Prophets
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- Jacob the Heretic and Zecharia Meshulam
- Letters to the Editor
- Month-Naming and Ideology in Esther
- Rescue From Fiery Death
- Tanakh Sources of Judas Iscariot
- Tattenai and Haman
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Biblical View of Tyre
- The Day of the Lord
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Three Tenses in the Kingdom of God
- Zechariah: A Prophet During a Pivotal Time
- Zerubabbel: The Messianic Hope of the Returnees
- Zerubbabel
- Zerubbabel: A Riddle
Malachi
- Allusions to the Jacob-Esau Story in the Book of Esther
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Elijah and Elisha: Part II
- Elijah the Zealot: A Foil to Moses
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- Jacob and Esau: The Relationship Reconsidered
- Malachi: A Prophet for His Time
- Phinehas, Elijah and Circumcision
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Prophets of Israel: Both Universalist and Particularist
- Were the Prophets Opposed to Sacrifice?
Psalms
- “Barukh Ha-Shem”
- "Dovér" and "M'daber"
- “Invoking the God X” in the Hebrew Bible: “Qara’ Besheim X” and “Hizkir Besheim X”
- A Dead Sea Psalm
- A First Century C.E. Date for the Closing of the Book of Psalms?
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- A Provincial Who Married a Princess
- A Psalm for Sabbath? A Literary View of Psalm 92
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- A Suggested Translation of Psalm 91:1-2
- A Torah With 70 Different Faces
- Addenda to Psalm 145
- Amen and Hallelujah: Their Development as Liturgical Responses
- Amen as Response and Introduction
- At the Rivers of Babylon
- Babel or Babylon?
- Beyond “Invoking”: Additional Meanings of the Phrases “Qara’/Hizkir Sheim X” in the Hebrew Bible
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Bochen Klayot Va’Lev: Who Searches the Kidneys and the Heart: Cellular Memory in Organs and Sensory Neurites in the Heart?
- Book Review: A Rabbi Reads the Psalms
- Book Review: Al Hasetumot Bamizmor (Commentary on the Psalms)
- Book Review: Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology
- Book Review: Song of Riddles — Deciphering the Song of Songs
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary: Psalms 120–150. The Traditional Hebrew Text with the JPS Translation
- Book Review: The Textual History of the Bible From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Biblical Manuscripts of the Vienna Papyrus Collection
- Book Review: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
- Books 3-5 of the Book of Psalms: From Harshness to Hallelujah
- Both Are the Words of the Living God
- Creation and the Torah in Psalm 19
- Critical Notes on Psalm 22:30
- Daniel as the Embodiment of Exile and Redemption
- Darkness and Light
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Did the Wall of Jericho Collapse or Did the City Surrender?
- Do the Liturgical Uses of Psalm 29 Suggest Different Interpretations of the Psalm?
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Ecclesiastes: Part II: Themes
- Editor's Corner: Psalm 24:3-4: Nafshi or Nafsho: His Soul or My Name?
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- Exile and Return
- Foretold, Fulfilled, Copied
- From Judges to Monarchy
- From Noah to Abraham
- Gematria in the Hebrew Bible
- Giving Birth on Someone's Knees
- Glorification of God at the Sea
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- Grave Matters
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- He Said: ‘It’s an Event Not Pure, for It’s Not Pure!’ (I Sam. 20:26b)
- He That Formed the Eye, Shall He Not See?
- Hinds in Psalm 29
- How Nebuchadnezzar Became a Dwarf
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Inquiring of the Dead
- Is Pesah Passover?
- Isaac's Personality and the Meaning of La-Su'ah Ba-Sadeh
- Jacob's Death-Bed Farewell to His Sons: According to the Rabbis
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Job's Perspectives on Death
- Joseph and the Enslavement of the Egyptians
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Let Everything Praise the Lord
- Letter to the Editor: Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Letters to the Editor
- Literary Art and Psychological Insight in the Korah Episode
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics Part I: Saul and Others
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics: Part II The Fall of Jerusalem
- Magdil and Migdol – Liturgical Responses to Textual Variants
- Mena'anim: Musical Instruments of the People
- Midrashic Interpretation of Psalms 6 and 20
- Minimalism: The Debate Continues, Part II
- More Bible Curiosities and Mistranslations
- Moses and Samuel: Israel's Era of Charismatic Leadership
- Music in the Bible
- Nahum 1: Acrostic and Authorship
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Contrite Heart
- Notes on the Verse of the Week: The Meaning of Mikhtam in Psalms
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part V
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- On Musical Instruments
- 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
- Phinehas, Elijah and Circumcision
- 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 60: A Psalm of David
- 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
- Reconstructing the Destruction of the Tabernacle of Shiloh
- Responsive Voices in the Song of the Sea
- Restructuring Psalm 47
- Restructuring Psalm 85
- Review Essay: Divine Doppelgängers: YHWH’s Ancient Look-Alikes
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- Sacrifices for the Dead
- Samuel and Saul: A Negative Symbiosis
- Self-Effacement in the Bible
- Shepherd's Instruments
- Silence in the Bible
- Sleep Disorders in the Bible
- Some Surprises in Psalm 78
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Sparks From the Psalms
- Tanakh Sources of Judas Iscariot
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- Tehilim: The Book of Psalms
- Tehillim – The Psalms
- Tehillim: The Book of Psalms
- The "Name" of God in Psalms
- The Ages of the Patriarchs/Matriarchs
- The Bed of Og
- The Book of Samuel: A Literary Masterpiece
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Differences Between the Wise and the Foolish in Psalms: Theodicy, Understanding Providence, and Religious Responses
- The Duality of Man
- The Earth Is Full of Your Creations (Psalms 104:24)
- The Elusive Mount Zion
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Garden of God
- The Golden Calf and Ra
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Historical Background of Psalm 24
- The History of the Tishrei Conundrum
- The Makers of Israel: A Note on Psalm 149
- The Menorah Psalm
- The Message of the Four Species
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Names of God
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Parah Adumah Paradox
- The Pentateuch Quoted Intact
- The Power of Threes
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Psalms of the Day
- The Religious Significance of Bavel in the Book of Jeremiah
- The Riddle of Psalm 49
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
- The Sh'ma as Dynamic of Redemption
- The Sound of Music
- The Tensions Between Jews and Christians as Reflected in Hayyun's Commentary on Jeremiah
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 1
- The Theology of Psalm 145: Part 2
- The Three Tenses in the Kingdom of God
- The Torah as Divine Fire
- The Translation of the Biblical Word Shofar
- The Weekday Amidah and Biblical Psalms
- The Youth Corner: Our Quiz on the Book of Psalms
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Tzefarde'a: Frogs or Crocodiles?
- Understanding Psalm 46
- Was Adam's Action "Disobedience"?
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Was Samuel a Priest?
- We Heard in Ephrathah That We Found It in the Forested Field (Psalm 132:6)
- What Is Keseh in Psalm 81:4?
- What's in a Name?
- When Peace Fails: Psalm 120
- Who Counted Righteousness to Whom?
- 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 Were the Rephaim?
- Who Wrote the Psalms? Controversy and Confusion Regarding Authorship
- Why Is Psalm 94 the Song of the Day for Wednesday?
- Yah: A Name of God
- Yom Adonai and the Ninth Plague
- לידער פון זלמן שזר
Proverbs
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A New Approach to the Interpretation of the Hitpael Conjugation
- A Perfect Wife
- Abigail and Abel's Wise Woman
- An Inner Light
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Book Review: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Traditions
- Deuteronomy's Definition of Jewish Learning
- Did an Aramean (Try to) Kill Our Father?
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Friends, Strangers, Enemies
- Grave Matters
- In Your Lying Down and In Your Rising Up: A Biblical Sleep Ethic
- Intertextuality and Idealism in the Rabbinic Reading of Eshet Hayil
- Isaiah 7:14b in New Major Christian Bible Translations
- King and Commoner in Proverbs and Near Eastern Sources
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Letter to the Editor
- Moby Dick and the Wisdom of Solomon
- Nimrod
- Noah's Survival and Enduring Legacy
- Prolegomena to the Book of Proverbs
- Proverbs 31:10-31: The Woman of Valor as Allegory
- Saul and Jonathan
- Seeing the Good of Israel
- Solomon: The Too Wise King
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Ant in the Bible and Midrash
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Book of Proverbs: Everyman's Guide to the Higher Life
- The Folly of Impetuous Speech: Four Biblical Incidents
- The Happy Man of Psalm 1
- The Menorah Psalm
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Power of Threes
- The Sound of Music
- The Two Wise Women of Proverbs Chapter 31
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Two Hymns to Wisdom
- What Is Keseh in Psalm 81:4?
- Who Were the Rephaim?
Job
- A Midrashic View of Ruth Amidst a Sea of Ambiguity
- A Note on Job 6:8-10: Suicide and Death Wishes
- A Study on the Dual Form of Mayim, Water
- Amos the Prophet
- Another Look at Job 18:2,3
- Book Review: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Traditions
- Book Review: Have You Considered My Servant Job? Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience
- Book Review: The Book of Job: A Commentary
- Book Review: The God of Job
- Bulrush and Bramble
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Elihu: The Provenance and Content of His Speeches
- Enoch and Elijah: Ascent to Heaven?
- For in His Days the Earth Was Divided: Classic Jewish Sources for a Physical Division of the Earth
- Giving Birth on Someone's Knees
- God and Man on Trial
- God vs. the Sea: Lessons of Psalms and the Midrash
- God’s Reply to Job
- Grave Matters
- Greek Logic in the Book of Job (Chapter 12)
- Habakkuk: From Perplexity to Faith
- 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
- Irony in the Book of Job
- Is Behemoth Also Jewish?
- Is Job After All Jewish?
- Job and Faust
- 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
- Job's Displaced Kidneys: Job 19:27
- Job's Perspectives on Death
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Learning from Isaiah
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics Part I: Saul and Others
- Malbim on Job Chapter 42: The Happy Ending
- Master of Life
- Meanwhile, Back at Job’s Ranch: Dual Storylines in the Book of Job
- Metalworking in the Bible: Turning Spears into Pruning Hooks
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part III
- On the Presence of Dragons in the Hebrew Bible
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Satan: Psychologist
- Science in the Book of Job
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part I
- Semantic Parallelisms in Job – Part II
- Shepherd's Instruments
- Silence in the Bible
- Sparks Flying? Job 5:7
- Speculations on Job
- Suffering: Three Biblical Views
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Book of Job as a Book of Morality
- The Book of Job as a Way of Relating to Jewish National Suffering
- The Book of Job: A Prelude to Prophecy
- The Book of Job: Its True Significance
- The Burden of Job’s Loneliness
- The Creation Theme in Genesis 1, Psalm 104, and Job 38-42
- The Daughters of Zelophehad: Biblical Women’s Rights Activists (?)
- The Dialectic of Faith and Doubt in the Philosophy of Socrates and the Piety of Job
- The Enigma of Elihu
- The Fall and Rise of Job the Dissenter
- The Garden of God
- The Gems in the High Priest's Breastplate
- The God of Abraham, Rebekah and Jacob
- The Liberation of Job
- The Motif of Job in Modern Literature
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Paradigm of Job
- The Problem of Job: The Question Still Remains
- The Problem of Theodicy in Psalms
- The Punishment of Job’s Friends
- The Satanic Verses – Part II
- The Volcano in Job 28
- Three Singular Plurals: Job 18:2,3
- Two Fundamental Word-Pairs: Sow/Reap and Plow/Reap
- Two Hymns to Wisdom
- Were Job’s Friends Gentiles?
- When Peace Fails: Psalm 120
- Who Were the Rephaim?
Song of Songs
- “Awesome” Artistry: Ayummah Kannidgalot in Song of Songs 6:4, 10
- About Books: The Song of Songs by Eliezer Levinger
- Albinism and Genetics in the Bible
- Book Review: Song of Riddles — Deciphering the Song of Songs
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs
- Double Meanings in the Song of Songs
- Four Repetitions in the Song of Songs
- Literary Patterns in the Song of Songs
- Milk: A Potent Nectar
- My Beloved is Gone Down to his Garden to the Beds of Spices
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Song of Songs
- Sulamith Unallegorized
- Tattenai and Haman
- The Reason for Matzah on Passover Is Clear
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
- The Song of Solomon – A Dream Ballet
- The Song of Songs: The Bible’s Celebration of Love
- The Theme of the Song of Songs
- Themes in the Deborah Narrative (Judges 4-5)
- Yah: A Name of God
Ruth
- A Midrashic View of Ruth Amidst a Sea of Ambiguity
- A Note on the Aramaic Cognate of 'Almah in the Targumim
- A Problem in the Book of Ruth
- Abraham's Ten Trials and a Biblical Numerical Convention
- Book Review: The Dawn of Redemption
- Book Review: The JPS Bible Commentary — Ruth
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- Giving Birth on Someone's Knees
- I Am the Woman: The Story and Prayer of Hannah, a Biblical Feminist Text
- Intertextuality and Idealism in the Rabbinic Reading of Eshet Hayil
- Judge Ibzan of Bethlehem
- Let My Outcasts, Moab, Find Asylum in You: Compassion for Fugitives From Disaster in Isaiah 15–16
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Linguistic Elements in the Book of Ruth
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- Moses's Non-Genealogy
- Naomi's Mission: A Commentary on the Book of Ruth
- Notes on Megillat Ruth, Chapter 4
- Notes on the Verse of the Week
- Reflections on Shavuoth
- Reflections: Beer-Hofmann’s Image of Ruth
- Ruth and Elisha
- Ruth and Medea
- Ruth and Naomi: Foremothers of David
- Ruth: The Legal Code for the Laws of Kindness
- Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, Esther Ruth Jonah Deciphered
- Tamar Triumphant and the Deception of Judah: Contemporary Scholarship/Feminist Views
- Tamar Triumphant: Targumim
- The Book of Ruth
- The Book of Samuel: A Literary Masterpiece
- The Daughters of Zelophehad: Biblical Women’s Rights Activists (?)
- The Eschatological Meaning of the Book of Ruth
- The Evolution of a Law
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Mantle of the Matriarchs: Ruth 4:11-15
- The Problem of the Levirate Marriage
- The Role of the Shoe in the Bible
- The Romance of Ruth, the Ruse of Boaz, and the Go'el's Real Fear
- The Use of Symbolism and Hidden Messages in the Book of Ruth
- What Does “I Will Be Built From/Through Her” in Genesis 16:2 and Genesis 30:3 Mean?
Lamentations
- Book Review: Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible
- Down to the Sea in Ships
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics: Part II The Fall of Jerusalem
- Nahum 1: Acrostic and Authorship
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Reworking the Midrash in Light of History
- Silence in the Bible
- The Book of Job as a Way of Relating to Jewish National Suffering
- The Meaning of Melika
- Who Was Lamenting and Why? Lamentations and the Sumerian City Laments
- איכה כלב משירי שזר
Ecclesiastes
- A Husband of Valor: Who Can Find?
- A Poetical Approach to “Evening” and “Morning” in Exodus 16:6-12
- A Provincial Who Married a Princess
- A Torah With 70 Different Faces
- Bible Translators as Arbiters of Ambiguity: Part I
- Bochen Klayot Va’Lev: Who Searches the Kidneys and the Heart: Cellular Memory in Organs and Sensory Neurites in the Heart?
- Book Review: An Introduction to Israel's Wisdom Traditions
- Book Review: Kohelet: A Map to Eden — An Intertextual Journey
- Book Review: Qohelet – Searching for a Life Worth Living
- Darshanut: Bread on Water
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Ecclesiastes 1:4: A Proof Text for Reincarnation
- Ecclesiastes, Fleeting and Timeless Part I
- Ecclesiastes, Fleeting and Timeless Part II
- Ecclesiastes: Part 1: Authorship
- Ecclesiastes: Part II: Themes
- Four Large Letters in the Bible
- How Should We Understand Ecclesiastes 2:26?
- Introduction to a New Kohelet Commentary
- Koheleth
- Koheleth and Goethe's Faust
- Koheleth and the Modern Temper
- Koheleth: A Re-Interpretation
- Letters to the Editor
- Letters to the Editor
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics Part I: Saul and Others
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Silence in the Bible
- Solomon: The Too Wise King
- The Advantage of a Country in Ecclesiastes 5:8
- The Names of God
Esther
- "Irrevocability" of Persian Law in the Scroll of Esther
- Ahasuerus the Villain
- Allusions to the Jacob-Esau Story in the Book of Esther
- Beauty in the Bible
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Book of Esther – A Novelle
- Book Review: The Biblical Hero
- 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
- Joseph and Daniel: Court Jews and Dreamers
- Mishloach Manot on Purim and Rosh Hashanah
- Month-Naming and Ideology in Esther
- Moses Our Nursemaid? Toward a Proper Understanding of Omen in Numbers 11:12
- No Happy Ending for Esther
- Psalm 22: The Esther Connection
- Purim and Adloyada
- Purim and Hallel
- Reading Mordecai in the Shadow of Saul: Intertextuality and Shared Motifs Between the Books of Samuel and Esther
- Reclaiming Esther: From Sex Object to Sage
- Reply to “Ahasuerus the Villain”
- Reworking the Midrash in Light of History
- Robert Alter, Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture
- Sinai Upside-Down
- Some Reflections on the Nature and Provenance of the Book of Esther
- Some Unattested Occurrences of Zeh as a Derogatory Demonstrative
- Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg, Esther Ruth Jonah Deciphered
- Subtleties in the Story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
- Tattenai and Haman
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The 120 Satraps in the Reign of Darius the Mede
- The Art of Narration in the Scroll of Esther
- The Biblical Concept of Beauty
- The Book of Esther and its Motifs
- The Book of Esther: Some Questions and Responses
- The Hidden Hand of God
- The Hidden Message of the Book of Esther
- The Lo Yada-Dissociation Syndrome of the Book of Esther
- The Meaning and Interpretation of Saf
- The Missing Thread of Blue
- The Paradox in the Book of Esther
- Themes in the Book of Esther
- Vashti: An Unsung Heroine
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Daniel
- A Dream of a Dream in Daniel 2
- A Fresh Look at Nebuchadnezzar
- Allegorical Interpretation of Daniel 12:2
- Belshazzar’s Folly
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Biblical Prayers and Rabbinic Responses: Balancing Truthfulness and Respect Before God
- Book Review: Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology
- Daniel
- Daniel as the Embodiment of Exile and Redemption
- Dating the Book of Daniel: The Legitimacy of the Traditional View
- Determinism and Anti-Determinism in the Book of Koheleth
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Editorial: On Martyrdom
- Ezekiel: Priest-Prophet
- Historical Allusions in the Book of Habakkuk
- How Nebuchadnezzar Became a Dwarf
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- In the Second Year of the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:1)
- Jonah Chapter 2 as a Prophetic Vision
- Joseph and Daniel: Court Jews and Dreamers
- Looking Through the Window: For Better or for Worse
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics Part I: Saul and Others
- Meat/Bread as a Parallel Word-Pair in Biblical Poetry
- Moses' Misplaced Speech Inviting His Father-in-Law to Join the Israelites
- Raised from the Dead
- Rescue From Fiery Death
- Tamar Triumphant: Targumim
- Tattenai and Haman
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The "Wise Courtier" in Rabbinic Literature
- The 120 Satraps in the Reign of Darius the Mede
- The Book of Daniel: A Guide for Judaism in Exile
- The Book of Daniel: Its Significance and Meaning
- The Book of Daniel: Part I
- The Book of Daniel: Part II
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Resurrection Motif in the Hebrew Bible: Allusions or Illusions?
- The Transition to and From Aramaic in the Book of Daniel
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- What Did the Dove Bring to Noah?
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Ezra
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 3: The Age of Return
- Book Review: Ezra and the Law in History and Tradition
- Cyrus in the Perspective of the Bible and History
- Daniel as the Embodiment of Exile and Redemption
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Exile and Return
- Ezra Rejects Patrilineal Descent
- Ezra the Scribe
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- Ezra's Radical Solution to Judean Assimilation
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 4: Under Ezra and Nehemia
- King Cyrus, Anointed (Messiah) of the Lord
- Naming Nehemiah
- Restoration of a Holy Nation (445 BCE)
- Reworking the Midrash in Light of History
- Tattenai and Haman
- 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 Literary Significance of the Name Lists in Ezra-Nehemiah
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Secret of the Returning Exiles
- The Transition to and From Aramaic in the Book of Daniel
- Was Ezra a High Priest?
- Zerubbabel: A Riddle
- Zoroastrianism and Biblical Religion
Nehemiah
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- A Note on “Watergate” in the Tanach
- Aliens and Israelites: Part 3: The Age of Return
- Biblical Interpretations Based on Physical Characteristics of Hebrew Letters
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Exile and Return
- Ezra Rejects Patrilineal Descent
- Ezra, the First Rabbi
- Ezra's Radical Solution to Judean Assimilation
- Israelites and Aliens: Part 4: Under Ezra and Nehemia
- Jacob the Heretic and Zecharia Meshulam
- Letter to the Editor: Matrilineality in Summary
- Mishloach Manot on Purim and Rosh Hashanah
- Nahmanides' Understanding of Abraham's Mesopotamian Origins
- Naming Nehemiah
- Restoration of a Holy Nation (445 BCE)
- Reworking the Midrash in Light of History
- The 120 Satraps in the Reign of Darius the Mede
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Genesis of the Etrog (Citron) as Part of the Four Species
- The Iniquities of Ammon and Moab
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Literary Significance of the Name Lists in Ezra-Nehemiah
- The Meaning of Tzantrot (Zechariah 4:12)
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Mystery of the Urim Ve-Tummim
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Transition to and From Aramaic in the Book of Daniel
- The Trial of Jeremiah and the Killing of Uriah the Prophet
- Was Ezra a High Priest?
- When Does the Day Begin?
Chronicles
- "According to the Laws of Moses"
- A Note on Judges 13:20-21: Sorting Out the Syntax
- An Elucidation of the Enigmatic Levad Mimkarav Al Ha-Avot (Deut. 18:8)
- Are Most Jews B'nai-Judah?
- Armageddon: Raging Battle for Bible History
- Babel or Babylon?
- Biblical Onomastics: What's in a Name?
- Book Review: The Words of Gad the Seer
- Camels in the Bible
- Chronicles: The Neglected Book of the Bible (Part II)
- Chronicles: The Neglected Books of the Bible
- Chronicles' Levitical Covenant
- David Took Goliath's Sword
- David’s Census: Additional Reflection
- David’s Conquest of Jerusalem
- David’s Last Sin: Was It the Census?
- David's Sin
- Dodanim/Rodanim: Three Approaches
- Downplaying the Davidic Dynasty
- Egypt: The Nemesis of Israel and Judah
- Elon the Zebulunite of Aijalon
- For in His Days the Earth Was Divided: Classic Jewish Sources for a Physical Division of the Earth
- Fraternal Strife in the Bible
- From Adam to Abraham: Solving the Chronology Conundrum
- Hezekiah and Josiah: A Comparison
- Hezekiah’s Second Passover
- Historical Allusions in the Book of Habakkuk
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing? Music in the Saul Narrative in I Samuel
- Identifying the Daniel Character in Ezekiel
- In Search of Bithiah Bat Pharaoh and the Meaning of I Chronicles 4:18
- Jeroboam Ben Nebat
- Judean Mindset Throughout the Babylonian Exile
- Kimchi and Tanhum Ben Joseph Hayerushalmi on Chronicles
- King David's Spear, the Weapons of the Carians, and the Overthrow of Athaliah in II Kings 11
- King Hezekiah's Pesach in Jerusalem
- Lord Byron's Midrashic Lyrics: Part II The Fall of Jerusalem
- Manoah's Wife in Late Second Temple Literature
- Mena'anim: Musical Instruments of the People
- Nehoshet: Copper, Bronze or Brass?
- Observations on Some Cruxes in Amos – Part I
- Oded, a Prophet of God
- Of David, a Psalm on Carrying the Ark into the City of David
- Political Assassination in Biblical Israel
- Psalm 92, Shabbat, and the Temple
- Queen Athaliah: The Daughter of Ahab or Omri?
- Rewarding a Mitzvah
- Sabbatical and Jubilee Regulations as a Means of Economic Recovery
- Technical, Artistic and Symbolic Uses of Silver in the Bible
- The Altar of Ahaz and Monarchical Polytheism
- The Annihilation of Sennacherib's Army
- The Assassination of King Amon of Judah
- The Book of Chronicles
- The Destroying Angel
- The Disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant
- The Eternal Davidic Covenant in II Samuel Chapter 7 and Its Later Manifestations in the Bible
- The Exodus Census: Evading the Evil Eye or Military Stratagem?
- The Expression (Ha)Tov Ve(Ha)Yashar in the Hebrew Bible, and a Possible Connection with Ancient Greece
- The Final Verse of Nehemiah
- The Genealogical List in the Book of Ruth
- The Hidden Storyline Within the Biblical Texts Regarding David and Saul
- The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam
- The Levites: A Tribe for All Seasons
- The Medium of Endor and Saul
- The Mosaic Covenant: A Doable Covenant of Grace
- The Order of the Books in Tanach
- The Pillars of the Temple
- The Power of Threes
- The Prophet Micaiah in Kings and Chronicles
- The Prophet Versus the King
- The Queen of Sheba: A Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia?
- The Rebellion of Jehu
- The Seventy Israelites Who Went to Egypt
- The Siege of Jerusalem, Part II
- The Siege of Jerusalem: Part I
- The Use of Symbolism and Hidden Messages in the Book of Ruth
- Theophoric Names in the Bible
- Tola the Judge: A New Midrashic Analysis
- Turning to Jerusalem in Prayer
- Was Cain the Father of Civilization?
- Was Ezra a High Priest?
- Was Psalm 50 Misplaced?
- Was Samuel a Priest?
- We Heard in Ephrathah That We Found It in the Forested Field (Psalm 132:6)
- What Happened to Uzziah’s Bones?
- Who Was Jabez?
- Who Were the Rephaim?
- Who Wrote the Psalms? Controversy and Confusion Regarding Authorship
- Worship and Four Kings in Chronicles
- Zedekiah: Last King of Judah