Methodology

Malka Simkovich explores how Chazal approached our sacred texts in their midrashic allegories and how this issue continues to effect our approach to the torah today.

Commentary by @Jerome Marcus: why biblical criticism directs our attention to the wrong way to read any good book, never mind The Good Book.

Elinatan Kupferberg argues that the boundaries between Torah and Madda have blurred and evolved throughout Jewish intellectual history. This erudite analysis upends our assumptions about Torah u-Madda and breathtakingly reimagines its past, present, and future.

Batya Hefter uses the case of Isaac to illuminate how hasidic masters read the Bible.

Batya Hefter explores Moses' development as a leader

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

Joshua Berman, a leading Tanakh scholar, has written a compelling book that addresses head-on many of the challenges posed by biblical criticism. Michael Harris explains.

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

Yaakov Jaffe provides an ideological argument against including ideology in our Chumashim.

Yisroel Ben-Porat offers historical, hashkafic, and personal reflections on what’s often called the “Judeo-Christian” tradition and whether a Torah u-Madda outlook can embrace the study of Christianity.