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Alan Brill writes about the latest stage in the discussion over James Kugel’s How to Read the Bible.

Posted on March 12th, 2010 under Academia, Bible Studies. Comments: 1

The Israeli author Yochi Brandes has published a new book, Sheva Imahot, Seven Matriarchs. The book is described as a modern midrashic interpretation of some of the female biblical figures. Brandes has a foot in a number of Israel’s different religious and cultural communities. The following description is from here.
She was born [...]

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 under Bible Studies, New Books. Comments: 2

Professor Meira Pollack of Tel-Aviv University will speak at JTS on Monday, March 8, 3:40 p.m. Her topic will be,
“Karaites Against Rabbinites? The Developing Methods of Biblical Interpretation”

Posted on March 1st, 2010 under Bible Studies, Middle Ages, Public Events. Comments: None

Rabbi Benjamin J. Segal has started to blog about the book of Psalms at A New Psalm.

Posted on February 25th, 2010 under Bible Studies. Comments: None

The Tali Educational Fund has published a well made web site of visual representations of biblical stories, events, and characters. The web site has plans to expand the selection of images that it already offers.

Posted on January 20th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Midrash. Comments: None

I just came across Joel M. Hoffman’s blog God Didn’t Say That: Bible Translations and Mistranslations. Recommended for those interested in the Bible, Hebrew, and translation.

Posted on January 15th, 2010 under Bible Studies, Hebrew. Comments: None

Biblia Hebraica continues to gather more reactions to the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription. See here for his latest summary. He also links to this post by Christopher A. Rollston. Rollston categorically states that “[the] script of this ostracon is definitively NOT Old Hebrew” and offers the following sober reaction, emphasis added.
Because of its [...]

Posted on January 13th, 2010 under Bible Studies, archeology. Comments: None

As a follow-up to this post on a recently discovered Hebrew epigraphical text and the problems of its interpretation, one of the more famous examples of interpreting epigraphical texts through potentially Biblically-biased eyes comes to mind. For some years people felt that an Ugaritic text describing the cooking of a kid in its mother’s [...]

Posted on January 8th, 2010 under Ancient History, Bible Studies, archeology. Comments: None

(photo courtesy of the University of Haifa)
Never a dull moment for the history of the Hebrew language.
A breakthrough in the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed new light on the period in which the Bible was written. Prof. Gershon Galil of the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an [...]

Posted on January 7th, 2010 under Ancient History, Bible Studies, Hebrew, archeology. Comments: 3