Joshua Berman is an associate professor of Bible at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and a research fellow at the Herzl Institute and the Center for Hebraic Thought. His books include Inconsistency in the Torah: Ancient Literary Convention and the Limits of Source Criticism (Oxford University Press); Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought (Oxford University Press); The Temple: Its Symbolism and Meaning Then and Now (Wipf & Stock); and Narrative Analogy in the Hebrew Bible: Battle Stories and Their Equivalent Non-Battle Narratives (Brill).