Author Description

Annotated anthology--"wisdom and knowledge will be given to you" / Yoshi Fargeon -- A personal perspective on biblical history, the authorship of the Torah, and belief in its divine origin / Shawn Zelig Aster -- The sages as Bible critics / Yehuda Brandes -- The Tanakh as history / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Kabbalah as a shield against the "scourge" of biblical criticism: a comparative analysis of the Torah commentaries of Elia Benamozegh and Mordecai Breuer / Adiel Cohen -- Orthodoxy and the challenge of biblical criticism: some reflections on the importance of asking the right question / Tamar Ross -- Ask the Rabbi: "biblical criticism is destroying my religious faith!" / Yuval Cherlow -- "I shall fear God alone and not show favor in Torah": a conceptual foundation for wrestling with biblical scholarship / David Bigman -- Revelation and religious authority in the Sinai traditions / Benjamin Sommer -- The Torah speaks to people / Chezi Cohen -- The revelation narratives: analyses and theological reflections on Exodus, Deuteronomy and classical Midrash / Avraham Shammah -- The binding of Isaac and historical contextuality / Chayuta Deutsch -- Manasseh, king of Judah, in early Rabbinic literature: an erudite, unfettered, and creative biblical critic / Hananel Mack -- Justification, denial, and "terraforming": three theological-exegetical models / Amit Kula -- The names of God and the dating of the biblical corpus / Yoel Elitzur -- Discrepancies between laws in the Torah / Joshua Berman -- Between the prophet and his prophecy: Ezekiel's visionary temple in its historical context / Tova Ganzel -- The Torah of Moses and the laws of the nations: a study in the teachings of Rabbi Tzadok ha-Kohen of Lublin / Avia Hacohen -- Illuminating inscriptions / Yaakov Medan -- Archaeology and the Bible / Haggai Misgav -- The book of Daniel and the twenty-first-century religious Bible student / Rivka Raviv.