What can Judaism — and more precisely, the Bible and its commentaries — say to us at this moment of existential dread? I turn ...
The challenge becomes much more intense when one reads highly artistic texts from a different time and place, such as the Bible. The earliest examples of interpretation we have appear in the Bible ...
And hordes of hapless employees had to sit through Neo-Marxist struggle sessions at their places of work as they ...
This perspective has a clear consequence in the interpretation of the Bible: As Scripture addresses the fundamental dramas of the human soul and of creation, it also manifests the actions of ...
Very often in the 2nd and 3rd century, you find a kind of scriptural interpretation which we call "typological", and what that means is that events and details that are found in the Hebrew Bible ...
The dominant forms of academic biblical interpretation over the last two centuries have been the various methodologies that trade under the term 'historical criticism'. At its most successful, this ...
Five years after the Satanic Temple of the United States made headlines — and unleashed a wave of panic — when it was ...
But Shakespeare's audiences were not simply well versed in the Bible's content - they were also steeped in the practices and methods of biblical interpretation. Reformation and counter-reformation ...