I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

Parashat Naso, where we are this week outside of Israel, contains one of the most tender passages in the Torah: the priestly ...

The period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is known as the Ten Days of Turning, or Returning (Aséret Y'mey T'shuvah in Hebrew). In just over a week, Jews pass from celebration of the New Year to ...

a hell on earth, as was Gehenna where the priestly text was found. Peace is the priestly holy blessing’s bottom line, and its date is well past due, all seekers of its spell compelled to wait, by ...