This article argues that narratives about the loss and (potential) recovery of biblical texts can reveal a previously neglected genre of “biblical theology” in premodern Jewish sources—a religious ...

The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...

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Arguing that the Shoah remains a part of our current distress, I explained why I have chosen to re-examine Scripture through the witness of David Weiss Halivni, a Torah scholar who studied Torah ...

Ahead of an event in Houston, Karen Armstrong discusses her book, “The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts.” Much good and bad has been done in this world in the name of religion. And ...

To learn how to read Scripture again, modern Jews must re-learn how to read themselves. To redefine their lives through Scripture they must re-read their own history as part of the story of Scripture.