Did the Obama Administration Withhold Documents That Could Have Undermined the Iran Deal?
The American public wouldn’t want al-Qaeda’s major supporter to have nuclear weapons.
November 3, 2017
Attention to the Names of God Can Explain the Binding of Isaac
A literary-midrashic approach.
Few biblical passages have provoked as much theological handwringing as the one, read in synagogues tomorrow, in which the Almighty commands Abraham to sacrifice his own son. Of particular concern to many commentators is God’s countermanding at the end of the passage the order he gave at the beginning. By noting the text’s use of both Elohim (God) and the tetragrammaton (rendered here as “Lord”), Jerome Marcus proposes a fresh approach:
November 3, 2017
Celebrate the Balfour Declaration—But Don’t Overdo It
We don’t need no stinking declarations.
In Honoring Saddam Hussein, the Palestinian Authority Shows Its Contempt for America
A twenty-foot statue.
Attention to the Names of God Can Explain the Binding of Isaac
A literary-midrashic approach.
Martin Luther: Anti-Semite and Hebraist
How Christian study of Hebrew shaped the reformation.