Dr. Gabriel H. Cohn is an educator and biblical scholar at Bar Ilan University, specializing in literary exegesis of the Bible and the study of midrashic commentaries. He is a leading disciple of the Torah scholar Nechama Leibowitz. This essay was adapted from “Textual Tapestries: Explorations of the Five Megillot,” published by Maggid Books, a division of Koren Publishers.
