Torah Musings Thinking About Jewish Texts and Tradition

Archaeology and the Exodus

Professor Joshua Berman with some history-based divrei Torah for your seder.

Joshua Berman is a professor of Tanakh at Bar-Ilan University. He learned at Yeshivat Har-Etzion and has semikhah from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. Among his books are The Temple: Its Symbolism and Meaning Then and Now (repr. Wipf & Stock, 2010) and Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford, 2008), a National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship.

yair_daar
Apr 4, 14 at 3:18 am
Very enlightening, thanks! Are we going to get to hear more?
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LI Reader
Apr 6, 14 at 5:00 am
Very interesting, but I hope the music won’t be so loud in future videos. The music overpowered his words in several places, and made it hard to hear and concentrate on what he was saying.
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