Presentation Title
Response to Averbeck
Presenter Status
Professor of Hebrew Bible, The Zalman Shamir Bible Department
Location
Seminary Chapel
Start Date
25-3-2018 6:00 PM
End Date
25-3-2018 6:10 PM
Session
The Readability of the Pentateuch
Biographical Sketch
Joshua Berman is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and a fellow at the Herzl Institute, Jerusalem. He holds a BA in Religion from Princeton, a PhD in Hebrew Bible from Bar-Ilan University, and Orthodox ordination from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He is the author of Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-battle Narratives (Brill, 2004), and of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford, 2008), a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship. He is currently finishing work on a volume to be titled: Composing Inconsistency: The Pentateuch and Ancient Convention.
Response to Averbeck
Seminary Chapel