The name of the final part of the Bible, Kethevim (sometimes transcribed as Ketevim), means "Writings."

In each of these retellings, Abraham's role is rewritten so that he is a victim of circumstances.

The fate of Israel (in the north) and Judah (in the south) would change with the rise of the Mesopotamian powers. Mesopotamia often had two competing empires: Babylon to the south, and Assyria to the north. Neither was particularly powerful from the thirteenth through the early ninth centuries. This changed with the rise of…

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The way in which the words are patterned-their structure-is often as important…

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Everything depends on what rules the reader uses when reading the biblical text.

Thus L 1-2:4a is an ancient Israelite story about the creation of the world, while 2:4b-3:24 is a different story, by a different Israelite author with different ideas,…

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Genesis 1:27 uses the word ha-adam (0-1N). Generally this is a gender-neutral term, used to convey the meaning "humankind" as well as "a person" of either gender.

When applied to the Torah as a whole, it suggests that the Torah is comprised of four main sources-four originally separate, (more or less) complete…

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On merisms, see Luis Alonso Schokel, A Manual of Hebrew Poetics (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1988),