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In this week’s installment of “From the Academy,â€? Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture ...

Everyone has different ways of learning about the weekly Torah portions: reading the actual text, studying d’vrei torah, acting out ...

There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...

Since 2006, Slate editor Daivd Plotz has been “blogging the Bible.” Unsettled by reading the story of the rape of ...

MJL is proud to introduce a new subsection on Ancient Texts. In it, you’ll find articles our articles apocrypha, pseudepigrapha, ...

Two ideas about leadership jumped out at me recently when I was reading the first chapter of the Book of ...

I’ve been planning to write about the very excellent blog “And the Enlightened Ones Shall Shine,” known as XGH, for ...

-The scriptures of Jews, Christians and Moslems each proclaim their own to be the Chosen Ones. In an age when ...

In a piece from Slate last month, renowned bible translator Robert Alter describes the process of translating Psalms, for his ...

From the Forward: Moses and God are coming to the big screen later this month. “The Ten Commandments,� an animated ...