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Stuart Halpern

Stuart Halpern is the senior adviser to the provost and senior program officer of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. He is currently editing a reception history of the book of Esther in America.

April 2, 2020

Was Exodus a Trick?

Stuart Halpern

“Let us deal shrewdly with them," the Bible quotes Pharaoh as saying. On the deceits of the Exodus story.

March 5, 2020

Haman, Builder of Towers, Brother of Abraham?

Stuart Halpern

A new book raises the possibility that interpretive motifs from within both Jewish and Islamic traditions might have led to the uniquely Islamic tradition that Abraham and Haman were brothers.