Male violence against women in Genesis belongs within the broader narrative portrait of humanity’s violence and rebellion against God.

How will the people remain faithful to the covenant without Moses? For Deuteronomy, the answer is memory.

Achilles’ heel and Jacob’s heel are both points of weakness, but while Achilles’ weakness gets him killed, Jacob’s weakness saves him.

Despite a common assumption, Israelite women were not dominated by men throughout ancient Israelite society.

The Biblical Mind is a magazine meant to investigate and re-orient readers to the thinking of the biblical authors apparent in their texts.

The Song of Deborah in the book of Judges demonstrates that Hebrew poetry is an appeal to reason just as much as it is an appeal to emotion.

Though most of the “virtues” in the Bible would have found little welcome in Aristotle’s world of Athens, some of the Bible—its Hebraic tradition especially—contains moral concepts that, in form, can be considered Aristotelian.

God sustains his creation, but environmental stewardship is the responsibility of humans, who rule over creation in His stead, according to his standards.

Repentance in the Torah involved restitution for the wronged, responsibility from and grace for the wrongdoer, and justice within the whole community.

The poetic imagination is that faculty which allows an image to become laden with meaning. We use this faculty to understand biblical prophecy.