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Computer Confirmation of “P” – A Biblicist’s Perspective

Computer Confirmation of “P” – A Biblicist’s Perspective

Joshua Berman is a lecturer in Tanach at Bar-Ilan University and an associate fellow at the Shalem Center. His most recent book, Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford, 2008) was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship in 2008. Prof. Moshe Koppel—a revered friend and senior colleague—has produced what is for me as a biblicist is a fascinating and exciting study. His demonstrated capacity to tease apart books like Jeremiah and Ezekiel when their…

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Joshua Berman: What Orthodoxy Can Gain From Academic Biblical Studies

Joshua Berman: What Orthodoxy Can Gain From Academic Biblical Studies

Joshua Berman is a lecturer in Tanakh at Bar-Ilan University and an Associate Fellow at the Shalem Center. He is the author of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 2008) which was the National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship for 2008. In ways that were astonishingly new and counter-intuitive, in ways that served the purposes of no known interest group, the political philosophy of the Torah may be seen to rise like…

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