Interpreting the Bible - Panel
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Meet the speakers
Prof. Eric Lawee
Eric Lawee is a full professor in the Department of Bible at Bar-Ilan University, where he teaches the history of Jewish biblical scholarship. His *Rashi’s Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic* (2019), published by OUP, won the 2019 Jewish Book Award in the category of Scholarship of the Jewish Book Council and was finalist for a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies in 2021. He holds the Rabbi…
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag
Rabbi Menachem Leibtag, an internationally acclaimed bible scholar and pioneer of Jewish Education on the internet, is well known in the Jewish community for his essays on the weekly Bible portion. His vibrant thematic-analytical approach blends the methods of modern academic scholarship with traditional Jewish approaches to the Biblical text. He is best known for his ability to teach students how to study rather than simply read Biblical passages. As his essays focus on meta-themes in the Bible, his readership…
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot
Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot is rabbi of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Teaneck, NJ and serves on both the Tanakh and Toprah She Baal peh departments at SAR High School in NYC. He is also a senior scholar at its affiliated Machon Siach think tank for educational projects. He is coordinator of the annual community Yemei Iyun on Bible and Jewish Thought sponsored by SAR High School and Aleph Beta and has taught in various adult education settings throughout North America, the…