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What Is Jewish Peoplehood, and Why Should We Care?
What is Jewish peoplehood? In a world that is increasingly international in its scope, our appreciation for the national or the tribal is…
Reflections Four Months After Launch
18Forty was designed as a forum where significant issues and struggles are engaged directly with depth in order to share a meaningful…
The Dance of Torah: Closing Thoughts on Biblical Criticism
The relationship between question and answer is more complicated than we think. We often think of the question as the pretext for…
Biblical Criticism Conclusion
As we confront the questions that Biblical criticism has presented, we must ask ourselves how we can keep that transcendent, atemporal view…
Gil Student: Where are the Lines?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we sit down with Gil Student, an infamous blogger who writes for Torah Musings, to…
Where Are the Lines?
In 1976, a fair amount of controversy was created surrounding the publication of Rabbi Yehudah HaChassid’s commentary on the Torah. Certain passages…
How to Live with Messiness: Joshua Berman on Biblical Criticism
How can an Orthodox rabbi be a scholar of Biblical criticism? Can Biblical scholars determine the ‘true Bible’? Enter Professor Joshua Berman.…
Joshua Berman: What Should We Believe?
In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, David sits down with Professor Joshua Berman, a Professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, to…
What Should We Believe About Torah?
However you navigate this issue, Professor Joshua Berman’s approach is crucial to consider. He is an accomplished academic in the field, whose new…
Why Discuss Risky Topics? Thinking About Biblical Criticism
After millennia of study, in many ways the Bible still remains a question mark to us, a mark of the unknown. As…
Biblical Criticism Intro
David explains how, despite his initial apprehensiveness towards the topic, he has come to appreciate the different approaches to Biblical criticism offered…
What Biblical Criticism Means to Me
18Forty started with a question about Biblical criticism. Mitch Eichen, who really got this project off the ground, called me on the…