Interview

On Pottery, Religious Faith, and the Challenges for Women in Archaeology

An Orthodox Jewish Bible professor teaching in a Catholic college, asks students to follow her lead in delving deeply into faith and scripture.

Interviewed by co-founder and director of Project TABS, David Steinberg

On source criticism, Kadesh, Israel and his religious journey

by Howard Blas (April 2009)

Raised in the Soviet Union, with little or no Jewish identity, Serge Frolov came across the Bible as a young man, beginning his journey towards becoming a committed Jew and a Bible professor. In true Russian style, Dr. Frolov shares his views on how and when the Torah was written, Torah min ha-Shamayim, and his Soviet-colored experiences of Israel and Judaism.

Ben Zion Katz, M.D., author of A Journey Through Torah: A Critique of the Documentary Hypothesis, describes his interest in academic biblical scholarship and why, even so, he is skeptical of many of the guild’s conclusions.

On the religious challenge of academic biblical scholarship. Highlighting the new Hebrew book People of Faith and Biblical Criticism

On His Personal Experience with Bible Criticism

TABS Director, Rabbi David Steinberg, Interviews Donald Kraus, Executive Bible Editor at Oxford University Press

A Jewish educator shares his thoughts about the struggles religious students are having with academic Bible and the need for a more sophisticated understanding of Torah.