Rabbi Joshua Berman

Rabbi Joshua Berman studied at Yeshivat Har-Etzion, received a B.A. in religion at Princeton University, and holds a doctorate in Bible from Bar-Ilan University.  He is a lecturer in Tanach at Bar-Ilan University and an Associate Fellow at the Shalem Center.  He is the author, most recently, of Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 2008), which reveals the revolution in social and political thought witnessed in the Tanakh relative to the surrounding cultures of the ancient Near East.  He is also the author of  The Temple: Its Symbolism and Meaning Then and Now  (Jason Aronson, 1995), and Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible (Brill, 2004). His articles on contemporary issues have appeared in the pages of Tradition, L'Eylah, Midstream, Judaism and the Jerusalem Post.  His website is www.createdequalthebook.com .