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Meet the speaker
Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman
Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman is a professor of Tanakh at Bar-Ilan University. He learned in Yeshivat Har-Etzion and has semikhah from the Israeli Chief Rabbinate. He is the author, among others, of The Temple: Its Symbolism and Meaning Then and Now and of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, a National Jewish Book Award finalist in scholarship. His articles on Tanakh and contemporary issues have appeared in the pages of the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Mosaic Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.