10:12 PM
Gil Student
I just received my first issue of The Jewish Bible Quarterly. The articles are of varying quality but I found a good deal of interesting insights in this journal. Here's the table of contents with some comments:
- "There is No Chronological Order in the Torah": An Axiom for Understanding th Book of Joshua by R. Hayyim Angel - explaining when Joshua 24 happened and why it was placed at the end
- "But Abraham Stood Yet Before The Lord" by R. Shubert Spero - offering further insight into the Rambam's view that the events of Gen. 18 were in a prophetic vision
- Amos the Prophet: A Meditation on the Richness of "Justice" by Fred Guyette - all about the theme of "justice" in the short book of Amos
- The Political Side of the Zimri-Cozbi Affair by Max Sicherman - a suggestion that there was a political treaty between the tribe of Simeon and the Midianites implied in the union of Zimri and Cozbi
- Torah and Rabbinic Compromises with Human Nature by R. Joshua Adler - examples of biblical and rabbinic leniencies given due to the limitations of human nature
- Who Counted Righteousness to Whom? Two Clashing Views by Shadal on Genesis 15:6 by Daniel Klein - a retraction by Shadal on an interpretation that was based on his notion that Judaism does not require beliefs. Did he retreat on that claim also?
- Ha'achashtranim Bnei Ha'ramachim: Translating Esther 8:10 by Zvi Ron - a survey of the various attempts at translation of this difficult phrase
- Is There a Pattern to the Five Books of Moses? by Robert Appleson - I haven't read this. It looks complicated but interesting.
- Glimpses of the Past in Genesis-Exodus by Joel Forman - an attempt to connect Genesis and Exodus to historical events in Egypt and Canaan
- What Sarah Saw: Envisioning Genesis 21:9-10 by R. David Zucker - possible interpretations to what it means that Sarah saw Yishmael "metzechek"
