Then and Now
Biblical Archaeology Review just published this new, tiny find from the excavations at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem: a clay seal (or bulla) that seems to contain the name Isaiah with (a little more doubtfully) the word "prophet" written underneath. … [Continue reading] about The “Isaiah Seal”
I recently published a short piece on Exodus 22:24, normally taken as the prohibition on charging interest. It appears at thetorah.com, and is "reprinted" below. My own interest in this topic (pun intended) grows out of my work on the collection … [Continue reading] about What is Wrong with Charging Interest?
Those who know me are aware that I don't have much of a sense of fashion. Before I met my wife, in fact, the very idea that there were clothes with colors that "match," or that certain colors look better on me than others, was unfathomable. I would … [Continue reading] about What to Wear?
Corporations are legal fictions, and recent ones at that. Growing out of royal and governmental "charters" in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, governments gave to individuals the right to create a legal body - a legal "person" - distinct … [Continue reading] about Corporations and Covenents
I recently had the opportunity to speak at Connecticut College on the topic of poverty and its relief in Jewish thought. It was great fun, in part because the discussion helped me to better articulate something that has been bothering me for some … [Continue reading] about Poverty and its Relief