Joshua Berman

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This article is about the Bible scholar. For the scriptwriter, see Josh Berman.

Joshua Berman is a Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University. He is known for his views on the history of Jewish belief, and on biblical source criticism, arguing that "knowledge of the cultural context of the ancient Near East" is required in understanding the scriptures.[1]

Berman earned his A.B. at Princeton University in 1987 and his PhD at Bar-Ilan University in 2002.[2] He is an Orthodox rabbi, and studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion for eight years. Before completing his PhD Berman taught Bible at the Nishmat Midrasha for several years.

Berman is a frequent contributor to Mosaic Magazine, a magazine for Jewish ideas, religion, politics, and culture, and has written there on a variety of topics including most commonly the Israelite exodus out of Egypt and the current state of biblical studies, where he has drawn both agreement and disagreement from other scholars.[3]

Publications[]

  • Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, Oxford University Press [4][5][6][7]
  • Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and their Equivalent Non-battle Narratives, Brill
  • Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism (2017) Oxford University Press
  • Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith, 2020, ISBN 978-1592645381
  • Umberto Cassuto (2006). Joshua Berman (ed.). The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch. Translated by Israel Abrahams. Shalem Press. ISBN 978-965-7052-35-8.

References[]

  1. ^ Orthodoxy can withstand an unflinching, academic look at the Bible, says scholar, Times of Israel, May 2020.
  2. ^ "Joshua Berman". Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  3. ^ Joshua Berman Mosaic Profile
  4. ^ Morrow, William S., and Joshua A Berman. The Journal of Religion 90, no. 1 (2010): 63-65. doi:10.1086/649970.
  5. ^ Weisband, Howard M. "Creatively Presented." Jewish Political Studies Review 21, no. 3/4 (2009): 236-40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25834868.
  6. ^ Levinson, Bernard M. "The Bible's Break with Ancient Political thought to Promote Equality - It Ain't Necessarily So". The Journal of Theological Studies, NEW SERIES, 61, no. 2 (2010): 685-94. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43665339.
  7. ^ Benjamin, Don C. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72, no. 2 (2010): 333-34. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43727646.
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