Tanakh

AJ Berkovitz explores the "life" of Jewish books, from authors to owners to outside the margins.

Jeffrey Burghauser's three poems draw on the biblical and rabbinic imagination.

Building on ideas from Jacques Lacan and Rabbeinu Bahya ibn Pakuda, Zach Truboff offers an innovative psychological reading of the Cain and Abel story.

David Fried argues that the question of Moses seeing the face of God reveals the tragic choice Moses made in choosing between his own spirituality and that of his people.

This year, instead of thinking about the reasons for Jonah’s flight from Nineveh in particular, we can gain a new appreciation for his need to break free altogether. Ahead of Yom Kippur, Erica Brown considers the unique resonance of the book of Jonah in an era marked by isolation and quarantine.

How do Moses Mendelssohn and Revelation jibe? Judah Kerbel offers some perspective.

Susan Jablow on reading Tanakh through the eyes of a ba'alat teshuva

In honor of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s 70th birthday, Ari Lamm explores his legacy as a biblical commentator.

Shlomo Zuckier wonders why the earth opened its mouth for both Korah and Kayin.

AJ Berkovitz offers a charitable perspective on American politicians' apparent errors in citing the Bible.