Judaism

Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies Jon Levenson talks about Deuteronomy 6 and 10, including: the content, translation, and importance of the Shema in Deuteronomy 6; the relationship between obedience, ritual, and love; the elaboration on and...

Professor Jon Levenson writes a review essay on a new book called The Origins of Judaism, which argues that people began to practice Judaism much later than is traditionally assumed.

HDS Professor of African American Religious Studies Terrence L. Johnson and Georgetown University Professor Jacques Berlinerblau have spent years studying, teaching and writing together about the fascinating, weirdly framed, and widely misunderstood...

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Professor Aaron J. Hahn Tapper grew up in multiple communities, something that helped him understand his own intersecting identities from a young age. Living in both South Philly and suburban Lower Merion, his diverse...

Francesca Rubinson, MDiv '24, and a Tufts alumna, was recently announced as the graduate student intern at the Tufts University Chaplaincy for 2022. Rubinson studies Judaism through feminist and queer lenses and plans to serve as a resource for Tufts...

In a lecture at Harvard Divinity School, Holocaust historian Gerald J. Steinacher, James A. Rawley Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and author of Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice, shared the latest findings from...

The resurrection of the dead is widely understood to have been a part of Christianity from its beginnings nearly 2,000 years ago, many people are surprised to learn that the Jews believed in resurrection long before the emergence of Christianity. In this...

Harvard Divinity School Professor Jon Levenson helps uncover why the book of Ruth is so beloved, and makes sense of the intertextual references and literary allusions at work in it.

Professor Jon D. Levenson explores the question "What would be lost theologically by discarding troubling parts of the Bible?"

Professor Jon D. Levenson answers the question, "Is the practice of Christians reading the Hebrew Bible a case of reading someone else's mail?"