A study of five classic problems in Jewish Education based on the analysis of literary sources - from Bible and Talmud through works of the Middle Ages and the modern times to the pedagogical writings of our period.

A literary reading of seven stories about prophets from Samuel to Elisha combining three disciplines: close reading, form criticism and structural analysis. An appendix deals with the role of minor characters in the biblical narrative. Co-published wi

Collected writings of Prof. Yehuda Elitzur (1911-1997) including approximately 60 revised studies which demonstrate his unique approach to Bible research, combining strict research methods with a deep faith. His studies, dealing mainly with the narrative

Discussion of the basic questions in Jewish education today such as defining the ideal, religious education and moral education and the relationship between the two, teaching tolerance, combining the holy and the profane, etc. Combines academic study

Examining issues concerning Bible teaching today, the author discusses the respective contributions of traditional exegesis and of modern scholarly research to a meaningful study of the Bible.

Shirat Miqra argues on the basis of solid biblical and literary scholarship that biblical poetics is marked by an unusual tension between the aesthetic and non-aesthetic modes of discourse: it is "Poetry with a Purpose''. The author applies this thesis to

The book describes the Bible in its making and explains the process of its canonization.

The author discusses the concept of "return to Zion'' (Shivath Zion), in its historic context. Biblical and post-biblical Jewish sources are confronted with external material and some conventional assumptions