If the TaNaKh, Israel’s Foundational Literature, had nothing to say to the moment we are living, it certainly would not merit much of our attention.

The fundamental rule of patriarchal society, as found in the Hebrew Scriptures, is that sons alone have the right to inheritance. Yet five women—Mahlah, Noah,

Portion of the Deir Alla inscription that mentions Balaam Amman Museum In 1967, during excavations of a building at Deir Alla in the Jordan Valley,

Prophets, court scribes, wise men and women, poets, and priests each understood the divine will somewhat differently. Their different understandings are what one finds in