Professors on the Parashah: Studies on the Weekly Torah Reading

by Leib Moscovitz (Editor)

Forty members of the faculty of Bar-Ilan University contribute studies on the weekly Torah reading in this book. These studies reflect the scholarship of Bar-Ilan University at its best—a unique combination of Torah scholarship and knowledge of traditional Jewish sources with excellence in the sciences and humanities. The studies in this volume present novel insights into the weekly Torah readings in light of diverse academic disciplines, synthesizing the sacred with the secular and the spiritual with the scientific.

Genres: Religion

Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Israel Drazin · Rating 5 out of 5]

All-to-many books on the weekly Bible readings in synagogues and sermons are filled with imaginative fanciful notions based on biblical verses with ideas that are not explicit in the Bible text and not even hinted there. In fact, many of these sermonic ideas contain views that are not biblical at all. Thus it is refreshing and instructive to come across a series of just over 50 essays on each Bible portion by professors with high academic degrees. The essays contain eye-opening ideas. Among the many are essays on forbidden foods, the law of the captive woman, and the law of the scapegoat.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

The writing are interesting - a combination of historical, spiritual and scientific perspectives. The writers narrow in on one topic from the Parsha and dive deep. I liked the one on Bereshis.