Dr. Lenore C. Kipper, Judaic Studies Director Emerita After Torah: Time for Tanach, The Books of the Bible What happened to the Southern Kingdom of Judah? In contrast to turbulent Israel, the smaller kingdom of…
Dr. Lenore C. Kipper, Judaic Studies Director Emerita After Torah: Time for Tanach, The Books of the Bible Under King David and King Solomon, the Israelite kingdom was a major force in the region. This…
Dr. Lenore C. Kipper, Judaic Studies Director Emerita The First Book of Kings The book of Kings was divided into two parts. Together, they tell the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah,…
Dr. Lenore C. Kipper, Judaic Studies Director Emerita The Books of Samuel The books of Samuel were divided during the time of the Greek translation because they are very long. Who was Samuel? Why was…
Dr. Lenore C. Kipper, Judaic Studies Director Emerita After Torah: Time for Tanach, the Books of the Bible The second section of the Tanach, the Prophets, begins with Joshua leading the Israelites into the land…
Dr. Lenore C. Kipper, Judaic Studies Director Emerita After Torah: Time for Tanach, The Books of the Bible. Tanach is the Hebrew acronym term for the three sections of the Jewish Bible. It represents Torah,…
Development and Changes in Religious Institutions In an earlier commentator I presented a brief outline of the growth of the Reform Movement in the United States. With the three million immigrants that arrived between 1880…