The Defection of a Likud Stalwart Signifies That Political Change Is Afoot in Israel
Meet Ze’ev Elkin, the Knesset’s master tactician.
December 30, 2020
How Bible Critics Misread the Bible—Even by Their Own Standards
Can we believe the Torah? And can we find therein political wisdom?
In conversation with Yoram Hazony, Joshua Berman discusses his own path to becoming a biblical scholar, why he thinks that Bible criticism—the prevalent academic theory that the Hebrew Bible was spliced together from numerous contradictory texts—rests on shaky empirical foundations, and why we should look to the Tanakh as a source of political wisdom. Some of the arguments Berman mentions in this discussion can be found in his own writing in Mosaic, both here and here. (Video, 51 minutes.)
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Let the year end with its curses.
How Bible Critics Misread the Bible—Even by Their Own Standards
Can we believe the Torah? And can we find therein political wisdom?
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