Reuven Travis has taught a wide range of classes, including Jewish law, Bible, and Jewish history, to students from grade two through high school. He received his BA from Dartmouth College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a master’s degree in teaching from Mercer University and a master’s in Judaic studies from Spertus College. In addition to this Curious Student’s Guide series, he has also published three scholarly works on the books of Job, Numbers, and Genesis, respectively.
11 Ebooks by Reuven Travis
Reuven Travis: Sefer BeMidbar as Sefer HaMiddot
While it is true the Bible does relate important episodes in the history of the Jewish people, it is thought of as being much more than a history book. This is why many question the Bible’s rationale …
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Michael J. Broyde & Reuven Travis: Sex in the Garden
In the #Me Too times in which we live, there are few hard and fast rules that govern personal encounters and sexual liaisons. Consent, so long as it is neither coerced nor forced, dictates all. Astut …
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Reuven Travis: A Curious Student’s Guide to the Book of Genesis
Genesis contains a rich, nuanced text, and yet, when taught to children, it is often done through a series of ‘factoids, ‘ such as the number of animals brought into the ark or Esau’s red lentil soup …
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Reuven Travis: From Job to the Shoah
In Job’s final concession to God, he uses a phrase generally translated from the Hebrew as, ‘Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes’ (afar va-eifer). A very small number of scholars s …
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Reuven Travis: A Curious Student’s Guide to the Book of Exodus
No matter how many times you have read stories from the Bible, there is always something new to learn from the lives of its characters and the challenges they face. This is especially true for the bo …
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Reuven Travis: A Curious Student’s Guide to the Book of Numbers
As with both its predecessors, this book of life lessons derived from the Bible is meant for elementary school students and their parents. One arguably simplistic approach to looking at Numbers is to …
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Reuven Travis: A Curious Student’s Guide to the Book of Deuteronomy
One of the most common phrases in the Torah is ‘And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying . . .’ So many of the Torah’s commandments are introduced in this way. These words represent God speaking to Moses …
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Michael J. Broyde & Reuven Travis: Finding America in Exodus
God’s charge to the Jewish people at Sinai was to be ‘a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ Nowhere is freedom found in this exhortation, even though the Jews had been freed from slavery only seve …
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Reuven Travis: A Curious Student’s Guide to the Book of Leviticus
Judaism has always found meaning in the sacrificial rites, called avodah or service in Hebrew. For more than twelve hundred years, beginning with the Mishkan (the Tabernacle) in the Sinai wilderness …
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Michael J. Broyde & Reuven Travis: Finding America in Leviticus
It would seem that we have taken on an impossible task in this book: trying to demonstrate to modern Americans, be they secular or religious, Jews or Christians, that the sacrificial rites found in L …
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Reuven Travis: Between the Laws of God and Man
How does one navigate living religiously in a secular world? Where life is governed not just by the laws of faith, but by the laws of the state as well, what does ‘doing the right thing’ actually mea …
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