Book | Places in the Parasha: Biblical Geography and Its Meaning

This is a lonely task, as the classical commentators were not familiar with the land or with the extrabiblical sources, and many God-fearing students today who take interest in these matters believe that they should not pursue information or sources that were beyond the purview of the classical commentators. On the other hand, most scholars of biblical geography and history do not pay attention to what the Tanakh says about itself…We will read the Tanakh as it is written and attempt to understand what exactly it is saying, with the help of all the historical, geographical, archaeological, and linguistic tools available to us.

For the past two hundred years, adventurers, scholars, and other curious travelers have made their way to the Land of Israel to see and experience the places written about in the Bible.  This volume provides the serious religious student of Tanakh with information and methodology that impact on many aspects of his learning. It will foster a more profound love of the Land of Israel through intimate knowledge of the settings for the eternal prophetic narratives in Tanakh.  

This book is the English version of  Makom baParasha, published in 2014...  It started out in the form of chapters that were serialized on the Israel Koschitzky Virtual Beit Midrash website of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shevut, Israel, expertly translated by Daniel Landman, under the supervision of Rabbi Reuven Ziegler, who kindly recommended the next stage of publishing it at Maggid Books.

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