The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is a quarterly periodical that promotes critical and academic biblical scholarship. Bringing the highest level of technical expertise to bear on the canon, ...

The psalmist announces that he will introduce his words of wisdom by way of a parable and a riddle: "I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my riddle to the accompaniment of a harp." (Psalms ...

It happens every year on Rosh Hashanah morning. We’ve finished the Torah reading and the haftarah, and we’re ready to proceed with the central mitzvah of the day, the blowing of the shofar. But before ...

My family did some major remodeling of our house over the last three or four years. I think we are finally done. A friend asked me if it was a wise investment: would we ever see the market value of ...

3 August, Proper 13: Ecclesiastes 1.2,12-14; 2.18-23; Psalm 49.1-12 (or 49.1-9); Colossians 3.1-11; Luke 12.13-21 THIS Gospel passage is known as the “parable of the rich fool”. That label is not a ...