Rabbi Joshua Berman

Rabbi Joshua Berman studied at Yeshivat Har-Etzion, received a B.A. in religion at Princeton University, and holds a doctorate in Bible from Bar-Ilan University.  He is a lecturer in Tanach at Bar-Ilan University and, and is the author of The Temple: Its Symbolism and Meaning Then and Now  (Jason Aronson, 1995), currently in its second printing. His articles on contemporary issues have appeared in the pages of Tradition, L'Eylah, Midstream, Judaism and the Jerusalem Post. His most recent book, Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible  was published by Brill Academic Publishers in the spring of 2004. He is currently a fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem where he is working on a book about the revolution in social and political thought witnessed in the Tanakh relative to the surrounding cultures of the ancient Near East.