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Dr. Rabbi Eliezer Finkelman | TheTorah.com

Rabbi Eliezer (Louis) Finkelman. received semikhah at R.I.E.T.S. of Yeshiva University and earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature…

Eve’s Voice Is the Inclusio to the Cain and Abel Story – Maybe It’s Her Story Too - TheTorah.com

Eve’s Voice Is the Inclusio to the Cain and Abel Story – Maybe It’s Her Story Too.…

Psalm 137:9 - Capturing Pain in Poetry

Our psalm is attempting to capture the moment of humiliation and despair that came on the wake of Judah’s destruction and exile…

Why Did Cain Kill Abel? - TheTorah.com

It is possible that the Cain and Abel story is also making use of this trope.…

The Evolution of Civilization: The Biblical Story - TheTorah.com

Categories: Cain and Abel. , (colorized) Phillip Medhurst.…

Torah from Heaven: A Question of Evidence or Loyalty? - TheTorah.com

Some speculation on Torah from heaven and the theory that the Torah is an evolving and redacted document gets the response “that…

Cain, Son of the Fallen Angel Samael - TheTorah.com

Noting the abruptness of the note here, Genesis Rabbah suggests that Cain and Abel were twins (Bereishit 22, Theodor-Albeck ed…

Datan and Abiram: A Rebellion of the Shepherds in the Land of Israel - TheTorah.com

Parallels to the Cain and Abel Story: The Primordial Cowboy vs. Farmer Account.…

Having Our Bible and Criticizing It Too - TheTorah.com

In Potiphar’s House, The Bible As It Was, and.…

Noah, Hero of the Great Primeval Famine - TheTorah.com

As for Zillah, she bore Tubal-cain, who forged all implements of copper and iron…. [1].…

Torah from Heaven: Re-defining the Question - TheTorah.com

Choosing Between Faith and Academic Bible.…

Cain’s (Im)Penitent Response to his Punishment - TheTorah.com

After Cain kills Abel, God tells him his punishment (vv. 4:11-12): [1].…

Sheger, Ashtoret and Ashtor – The Patron Gods of Transjordanian Shepherds - TheTorah.com

Categories: Cain and Abel. , Mateo Orozco, 1652. Wikimedia.…

It’s Biblical! The Meaning Is Less Relevant

After Cain murders his brother Abel in a fit of jealousy, God asks Cain where Abel is, perhaps hoping that Cain will express contrition…

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams — An Israelite Type-922 Folktale - TheTorah.com

Next morning, his spirit was agitated. , and he sent and. called for. all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men. ; and…

The Practice of Divination in the Ancient Near East - TheTorah.com

Thousands of cuneiform tablets from Babylonia and Assyria, dating to the second and first millennia B.C.E. and written in the…

Two Versions of the Decalogue: Ibn Ezra’s Non-Explanation - TheTorah.com

One example is from the story of Cain and Abel: והנה אתן לך דמיונות.…

Is the Recent Antipathy to Joseph Justified? - TheTorah.com

Ivan Caine.…

Can We Pass Moral Judgment on Torah? - TheTorah.com

No, you must proscribe them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—as…

Noah’s Original Identity: The First Winemaker - TheTorah.com

Any careful reader of the stories of Adam and Eve (chs. 2-3), Cain’s murder of Abel, and the account of Cain’s descendants (ch…

The Original Primeval History of the Hebrews - TheTorah.com

And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.…

A Parasha Pregnant with the Past, Present, and Future of Israel’s Protagonists - TheTorah.com

Israel and Judah.…

The Sacrifice of Isaac in Context: Recovering a Lost Ending of the Akedah - TheTorah.com

original account. [15] One famous and grisly example is in the Cain and Abel account in Genesis 4:8: “Cain said to his brother…

“The” Message of the Akedah? - TheTorah.com

Yet according to the Torah, animal sacrifice goes all the way back to Cain and Abel.…

A Murderous Bridegroom - TheTorah.com

And Zipporah took a flint and cut the foreskin of her son, and touched his legs, and said, “For an in-law/bridegroom of blood…