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If so, you may also find this article from Jewish Ideas Daily fascinating. I think it's a great brief intro into what rabbinics schola...

About a year and a half ago, I reviewed Bernard Levinson's book Legal Revision and Religious Renewal in Ancient Israel . I'm plea...

Continuing my occasional journey through rabbinic literature, I want to introduce readers to my all-time favorite collection of midrash – Me...

Why was the world created with a B? So asks R. Jonah in Genesis Rabbah I.X. Why was the world created with a word starting with B (Hebrew be...

I’ve been catching up on episodes of the NT Pod over the past week or so. I have to say that I’ve really enjoyed Mark ’s series on the Syno...

One of the benefits of studying at a top university like Wisconsin-Madison is the opportunity to hear guest lectures by world-class scholars...

This upcoming conference sounds really interesting, but unfortunately, I'm unable to travel to Bar Ilan University on such short notice ...

Genesis Rabbah I.IV begins with a list of 6 things that might have been created or at least existed as a glimmer in the Father's eye lon...

LEVINSON, BERNARD M. "The Right Chorale": Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation 2008. XXIII, 432 pages. plus 34 figures....

I'm continuing to work through Genesis Rabbah I.IV . As I translated the next few lines, picking up where I left off in the previous pos...

My friend Michael Lyons recently had his dissertation published with Continuum/T&T Clark. Someday I hope to be able to read it and perh...

Nearly a week ago now, I had the opportunity to attend an SBL session devoted to the discussion of Bernard Levinson's book Legal Revisio...

Sometimes I think I picked the wrong corpus of texts to study. Don't get me wrong - I like Hebrew Bible a lot - but reading later interp...

Here is the text, my translation, and a discussion of the second half of Genesis Rabbah I.I (first half here ). Finally, we’ll find out what...

In an attempt to explore what rabbinic literature has to say about Creation, I've begun reading Genesis Rabbah, a midrashic commentary o...

I love intertextuality. It's fundamental to how we interpret life. It shows up when we weave dialogue from TV and movies or song lyrics ...

I've been tagged in Ken Brown's 5 book meme thanks to Art Boulet and James McGrath . The rules: 1. Name the five books (or scholar...

I'm currently reading The Bible Unearthed by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. While I don't agree with all of their con...

Does a research focus on Hebrew Bible in general actually make me a specialist? James Crossley has rightly pointed out the difficulty in de...

Michael Bird and Craig Keener have an excellent article on the SBL forum about why we need "generalist" scholars in biblical stu...