Like beautifully layered rock formations lining the walls of a desert canyon, so is the Biblical text. Story is piled upon story until the foundations are invisible. Those foundations tell a different story-one that only a trained geologist can tease from the rock; one that only a Biblical philologist, trained in the dissection of literature, can find in the text. In this earliest version of the Genesis account that our literary geology will isolate, the world wasn't created in seven days, it was already there. God was not an aloof deity whose mere words could create worlds, but an insecure...

Herein is a modest contribution to the canon of Jewish liturgy. This book is intended for anyone who wishes that there were more prayers, blessings, and poems which reflect contemporary values but still employ the traditional Hebrew cadences. Here you'll find my original poetic compositions in Hebrew, introduced and translated (creatively) into English with notes for people who want to delve more deeply into their meaning. If some of these poems strike a chord, great If none of the poems speaks to you, I still hope and pray that upon reading them you become mobilized to compose prayers that...

What if the Bible was dominated by strong female voices instead of males? Would we relate to the Bible differently? In this new experiment, I switch the gender of every character in the Biblical text of Genesis and wait for readers' reactions.

What if the Bible was dominated by strong female voices instead of males? Would we relate to the Bible differently? In part two of this experiment, I switch the gender of every character in the Biblical text of Exodus and wait for readers' reactions.