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• Friday Night Dvar Torah at Dinner: “It takes a 'Start-Up Nation' to Build the Bet HaMikdash"
• Shabbat Morning: “Is it ‘History’? The Historical Accuracy of the Tanakh”
• Shabbat Afternoon: The Archeology of the Exodus and the Meaning of Shirat Hayam 
• Shalosh Seudos: Anti-Semitism and what our response Shouid be

RABBI JOSHUA BERMAN IS A PROFESSOR OF TANAKH AT BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY. A GRADUATE OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, RABBI BERMAN RECEIVED HIS SEMIKHAH FROM THE RABBANUT HARASHIT LE-YISRAEL, AFTER LEARNING FOR EIGHT YEARS AT YESHIVAT HAR-ETZION. HE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE TEMPLE: ITS SYMBOLISM AND MEANING THEN AND NOW (JASON ARNONSON, 1995), CREATED EQUAL: HOW THE BIBLE BROKE WITH ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGHT (OXFORD, 2008), A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST IN SCHOLARSHIP, AND MOST RECENTLY, INCONSISTENCY IN THE TORAH: ANCIENT LITERARY CONVENTION AND THE LIMITS OF SOURCE CRITICISM (OXFORD, 2017). HIS ARTICLES AND ESSAYS HAVE APPEARED IN MOSAIC MAGAZINE AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. HE IS CURRENTLY AT WORK ON HIS NEXT BOOK, ORTHODOXY AND THE CHALLENGE OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM. HE, HIS WIFE AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN RESIDE IN BET SHEMESH.