Benjamin D. Sommer

Benjamin D. Sommer is professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. His books include Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (Yale, 2015), The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel (Cambridge, 2009), and A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40–66 (Stanford, 1998).

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Response · July 31, 2017
Biblical Scholars Are Open to Self-Correction, and They Listen to Conservatives, Too
By Benjamin D. Sommer
In “ The Corruption of Biblical Studies ,” Joshua Berman presents a laudable thesis: if an argument is to be rejected by scholars, “it should be rejected because it is weak” and not because of the rel...