How to read the Bible

Reading as a Jew and as a scholar

What is the Bible, anyway?

The art of reading the Bible

A brief history of Israel

With scissors and paste : the sources of Genesis

Creation vs. creationism : Genesis 1-3 as myth

The ancestors as heroes

Biblical law : codes and collections

Incense is offensive to me : the cult in ancient Israel

"In the fortieth year

Moses addressed the Israelites : Deuteronomy

"The walls came tumbling down" : reading Joshua

"May my lord King David live forever" : royal ideology in Samuel and Judges

"For Israel tore away from the house of David" : reading Kings

Revisionist history : reading Chronicles

Introduction to prophecy

"Let justice well up like water" : reading Amos

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares" : reading (first) Isaiah

"I will make this house like Shiloh" : reading Jeremiah

"I will be for them a mini-temple" : reading Ezekiel

"Comfort, oh comfort my people" : the exile and beyond

"Those that sleep in the dust

will awake" : Zechariah, apocalyptic literature, and Daniel

Prayer of many hearts : reading Psalms

"Acquire wisdom" : reading Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

"Being but dust and ashes" : reading Job

"Drink deep of love!" : reading Song of Songs

"Why are you so kind

when I am a foreigner?" : reading Ruth vs. Esther

The creation of the Bible.