volume 4, number 3

Summer 2009

The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Intellectual Discourse: Part One
Suzanne Last Stone
Introduction
Reading the Hebrew Bible: Challenges and Approaches
Leora Batnitzky
In Defense of Biblical Criticism
David Gelernter
Psychological Criticism of Biblical Narrative
Perry Dane
“Take These Words”: The Abiding Lure of the Hebrew Bible in Itself
Tsvi Blanchard
Law and Redemptive Narrative: Genesis as a Cultural Resource in the Twenty-First Century
Early Modern Readings of the Bible for Politics, Right and Wrong
Samuel Moyn
Appealing to Heaven: Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War
Shmuel Trigano
The Return of the Theological-Political in Democracy and the Rediscovery of Biblical Politics