Egypt Is Trapped by the Gaza Dilemma It Helped to Create
Explaining the military buildup in the Sinai.
February 14, 2025
Unlocking the Sublime Poetry of Job
“Had there been bicycles in ancient Israel, I suspect we would find a bicycle simile somewhere in this book.”
Modern readers tend to think of Job as a philosophical work, a biblical version of a platonic dialogue where characters debate life’s most profound questions. But anyone who attempts to read it in Hebrew knows immediately that it is also a work of poetry—as evidenced, in part, by its rarefied vocabulary and often-confounding syntax. Robert Alter deems its author not only “the greatest of all biblical poets,” but “one of the most remarkable poets who flourished in any language in the ancient Mediterranean world.” He writes:
February 14, 2025
How China Is Helping the Houthis
Buying Iranian oil and sending the jihadists equipment.
How Ukraine Can Help the U.S. and Israel
Unlocking the Sublime Poetry of Job
“Had there been bicycles in ancient Israel, I suspect we would find a bicycle simile somewhere in this book.”
The Matzah Queen of New York
The remarkable life of Regina Horowitz-Margareten.