Professors on the Parashah: Studies on the Weekly Torah Reading

Forty members of the faculty of Bar-Ilan University contribute studies on the weekly Torah reading in this book. These studies reflect the scholarship of Bar-Ilan University at its best—a unique combination of Torah scholarship and knowledge of traditional Jewish sources with excellence in the sciences and humanities. The studies in this volume present novel insights into the weekly Torah readings in light of diverse academic disciplines, synthesizing the sacred with the secular and the spiritual with the scientific.