Study the Torah with Academic Scholarship
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The Torah's program to democratize knowledge and create an educated laity.
Prof. Rabbi
Jeffrey Tigay
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A Post-Destruction model of Jewish Identity: Reading and studying Torah as if our life depended on it.
Prof.
Jacob L. Wright
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An analysis of why the approach taken by TheTorah.com has found such a large audience among the Orthodox at this time.
Prof.
Chaim I. Waxman
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How do they differ? What are their respective goals? And why the two should not be confused.
Dr. Rabbi
Zev Farber
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Moses and R. Judah HaNasi implore: “I would be most grateful if you would maintain the Torah after me.”
Prof.
Steven Fraade
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How Jews responded to the celebration of Jesus' birth by creating a cynical version of Christmas Eve lampooning him.
Shai Alleson-Gerberg
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Lernen versus learning, davenen versus prayer: an ethnographic analysis of how Orthodox Jews define themselves.
Prof.
Samuel Heilman
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To uphold the covenant, Deuteronomy requires two forms of torah study: Learning the commandments and learning the reasons for keeping them. But what happens if even that fails?
Dr.
Baruch Alster
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Deuteronomy envisions a king constantly reading torah and limiting his wealth and resources. Is this how kings are described in the rest of the Bible? What was kingship like in the ancient Near East?
Dr.
Cynthia Edenburg
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