Rab­bi Dr. Joshua Berman is a pro­fes­sor of Tanakh at Bar-Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty. A grad­u­ate of Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty and of Yeshi­v­at Har Etzion, Rab­bi Berman is the author of two aca­d­e­m­ic works on the five books of the Torah: Cre­at­ed Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Polit­i­cal Thought (Oxford, 2008), which was a Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Final­ist in Schol­ar­ship, and Incon­sis­ten­cy in the Torah: Ancient Lit­er­ary Con­ven­tion and the Lim­its of Source Crit­i­cism (Oxford, 2017). In his new book Ani Maamin: Bib­li­cal Crit­i­cism, His­tor­i­cal Truth, and the Thir­teen Prin­ci­ples of Faith pub­lished by Mag­gid Books an imprint of Koren Pub­lish­ers he turns a fresh and crit­i­cal eye to the bible.

His arti­cles on bib­li­cal the­ol­o­gy and con­tem­po­rary soci­ety have appeared in the pages of Mosa­ic mag­a­zine and the Wall Street Jour­nal. Rab­bi Dr. Berman served as a mem­ber of the Inter­na­tion­al Advi­so­ry Board for the Muse­um of the Bible in Wash­ing­ton, DC.