Happy July 4th
From a Hebrew Bible printed by the Vaad Hatzalah, Munich, 1947, for the use of Displaced Persons (DPs), the”Sherith Hepleita,” with a dedication to President Harry S. Truman
Joshua Berman: What Orthodoxy Can Gain From Academic Biblical Studies
What Orthodoxy Can Gain From Academic Biblical Studies: The Torah as Political Theory[1] by: Joshua BermanJoshua 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…
Second Rabbinic Bible/Chapter Divisions
University of California at Berkeley has purchased a copy of what is known as the Second Rabbinic Bible (seen on PaleoJudaica here). This Bible was published by Daniel Bomberg and edited by Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonyahu. Without denigrating the importance of owning the original, I think the article describing the value added to Berkeley is a bit misplaced or at the very least overblown. First, this book is now available online via the Hebrew Univesity’s program of digitilizing parts…
