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God, you’re an idiot Josephus…Everyone has heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls. For years, most scholarship on the scrolls has ...

It’s weird and somewhat scary to realize that you can put a cap on the number of Yiddish books ever ...

For every situation, there is a way to bring in Jewish values. And if you live in NYC, there is ...

Things have been pretty busy at MJL this week, so I haven’t been able to blog about some of the ...

The central paradigm of Jewish religion is redemption. According to the Bible, the human being is created in the image ...

While Googling for Torah texts, the last thing you expect to pop up is the kinetic face of your new ...

One interesting note about the publicity surrounding The Good Book, Slate editor David Plotz’s chronicle of reading the Bible: it’s ...

While scholars still can’t agree on “Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?,” it appears the case of “Who Was Impersonating ...

Raba said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna the son of Rav Joshua: When a legal decision of mine ...

Hi! I’m Deah. Yes, my name does happen to be the same as the Hebrew word for “knowledge” — thank ...