This year’s Ḥidon ha-Tanakh (International Bible Contest) ended in a dramatic showdown and in the end two contestants were left standing. If you don’t want to see the entire program, skip to 2h 14m in order to see the dramatic ending.
The blog of the Revel Graduate School at YU has a very interesting summary of a talk given by Prof. Meir Bar Asher on the relationship between Saadia Gaon, his commentary on the Torah, the Quran, and Quranic interpretation. It makes for a great read on how knowledge of other religious and exegetical traditions can [...]
The Academy of the Hebrew Language has been increasing its web presence recently. They have an updated web site, along with a Twitter account, and a Facebook page. Today they posted a link to a post (Heb.) from their website that explains the history behind the modern Hebrew phrase, כחוט השני. The phrase occurs twice [...]
Ben Sommer has edited a new book, Jewish Concepts of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction. There is a nice selection of chapters by different scholars. Here is the table of contents.
Devorah Schoenfeld has published Isaac On Jewish and Christian Altars: Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria. Devorah Schoenfeld’s new work offers an in-depth examination of two of the most influential Christian and Jewish Bible commentaries of the High Middle Ages. The Glossa Ordinaria and Rashi’s commentary were standard texts for Bible study [...]
The book On Sacred Ground: Jewish and Christian Clergy Reflect on Transformative Passages from the Five Books of Moses has recently been published. I wrote a chapter for it on the Daughters of Zelofḥad, “Bending the Will of God.” The editor, Jeff Bernhardt, did a very nice job of gathering diverse Jewish and Christian voices [...]
The New York Times recently published an article on the Aleppo Codex, an article that they have now rightfully acknowledged was mostly taken from Matti Friedman’s book The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible. The NY Time’s blog the 6th Floor has an interview with Friedman [...]
Amos Ḥacham, an important scholar of Bible and the first winner of the International Bible Quiz (1958), passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Ḥacham authored the commentary on Psalms for the
I just started read the extensive article in the New Yorker on Bruce Springsteen, and the following caught my eye. At each show, the most striking musical difference between the old E Street Band and the new was the increasing prominence given to Jake Clemons. His playing grew stronger, his willingness to take center stage [...]
New from David Frankel, The Land of Canaan and the Destiny of Israel: Theologies of Territory in the Hebrew Bible. What place does the land of Canaan play in the biblical conception of “Israel”? To what extent does the religion promoted by the Hebrew Bible require that Israel live its communal life in the national [...]
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