Subjects discussed include the woman's mosque movement in Cairo, the ordination of women in the Catholic Church, the possibility of queer ethics, religious ritual, and biblical constructions of sexuality.
Currently, Classical Hebrew is generally taught in public schools in Israel, and Biblical Hebrew forms are sometimes used in Modern Hebrew literature, much as archaic and biblical constructions are used in Modern English literature.
Historian of science, Martin Rudwick, has argued that Biblical exegesis, especially the construction of chronologies, was crucial in shaping the science that became geology, including the discovery of the earth's enormous age.
Here, on the shoulder of the Mount of Olives in the biblical Bethany, it is under construction.
Obama will have had a close view of the imposing wall which snakes for miles between the biblical cities. Palestinians say its construction has strangled Bethlehem's economy and obstructed access to family, jobs and places of worship in Jerusalem.
"Anyone who harms Israel, a little or a lot, will have his hand chopped off," he said, using a biblical phrase, as he toured the construction of a security fence being built between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, just to the north.
She is trying to develop antibiotics that confuse the bugs' conversations, making them as helpless as the construction workers in the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
"These are partial demolitions and replacing Palestinian families in order to allow for a construction of a settler-inspired pseudo-Biblical park.
The top award went to Naomi Grossman's "Psalm," a construction that weaves the words of a Biblical verse into a chicken-wire framework that forms an ephemeral torso, its head an empty shell.
In Biblical Hebrew, possession is normally expressed with status constructus, a construction in which the possessed noun occurs in a phonologically reduced, "construct" form and is followed by the possessor noun in its normal, "absolute" form.
