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Rabbi, Dayan, Ph.D.

Torah

Torah

The Exodus Story

Exodus

How God's Revelation of the Name YHWH Continues to Enlighten

The Resumptive Repetition

How Does God Answer the Question: What is Your Name?

Exodus Through Deception

The Missing Speeches in the Slave Narrative and the Samaritan Pentateuch

Sacrificing a Lamb in Egypt

Shepherds and Eating with Hebrews: An Abomination to the Egyptians?

What Really Happened at the Sea?

The Torah's Exodus

Laws

The Prohibiton of Meat and Milk

Bring the Man to the Carcass or the Carcass to the Man?

ACADEMIC: Israelite Festivals - From Cyclical to Linear Time

The Law of the Hebrew Slave

The Tabernacle and the Golden Calf

Living as Neighbors

Punishing Children for the Sins of their Parents

Does YHWH Remit Punishment?

The Other Ohel Moed

The Prohibition of Shaving

Leviticus

The Purification of a Niddah: The Torah Requirement

Bald Spots on Clothing: A(n Un)Missable, Ancient Scribal Error

The Parturient's "Days of Purity": From Torah to Halacha

"This is the Torah" for the Priests Performing the Offerings

Postpartum Impurity: Why is the Duration Double for a Girl?

Hope and Curses

Black or Yellow Hair: A Scribe Miscopied the Laws of Tzaraat

At 33, You Will Discover Azazel’s Secret

Scouts & Spies

Numbers

Unscrambling the Scout Story with the Documentary Hypothesis

Caleb the Kennizite's Connection to Hebron

Kiryat Arba: Father of Giants, City of Four

Kiryat Arba is Hebron: Is It?

Why Was Joshua Singled Out by Moses?

Narratives & Genealogies

Pre-Biblical Aaron, Moses, Miriam

Moses' Father-in-Law: Kenite or Midianite?

Korah, Datan and Abiram: A Case Study of Academic Methods

What Do Genealogies Teach Us About Torah?

Laws

Elazar Speaks Once: Why Does he Interrupt Moses?

Joshua Appointed Three Times: But is he in Charge?

The Midianite War: Where is Joshua?

Ma'aser for the Times: Temple Tax to Charity and Back

How Many Trumpet Blasts to Travel?

Redemption of the Firstborn: a One-Time Event

Sotah: A Purification Ritual for an Adulteress Revised into an Ordeal

Deuteronomy

The Opening of Devarim: Redaction Criticism and Modern Midrash

The Opening of Devarim: A Recounting or Different Version of the Wilderness Experience?

The Mitzvah of Covering the Blood of Wild Animals

Haazinu: The Song's Enigmatic Climax

Unspoken Hemorrhoids: Making the Torah Reading Polite

Does the Torah Really Want Us to Appoint a King?

Marrying Your Daughter to Her Rapist: A Test Case in Dealing with Morally Problematic Texts

Marrying a Captive Woman

Law of the King

Can the Torah Contradict Halachah? The Ibn Ezra vs. Rambam

General

ACADEMIC: Pseudo-Philo and the Pharisees: A Look at the Prehistory of Rabbinic Judaism

ACADEMIC: Assumptio Mosis and the Eschatology of Despair

ACADEMIC: Religion in Eighth Century Judah

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