Ruth, Esther, Songs of Songs and Judith is a lively commentary that encompasses four major books focusing on women in the Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha. Each section in the volume addresses the biblical ...

Thanks for all the excellent e-mails about the Song of Songs. Several of you argued that the maiden’s “navel” is not her navel, if you get my (southward) drift. My brief research didn’t settle the ...

Alter (The Art of Biblical Narrative) continues his project of Bible translation and commentary, turning his attention to a few later books of the Bible books (composed between the fifth and second ...