Join Lauren Monroe in a conversation about the Torah – your questions will be our guide! This session will begin with a Very Brief history of the Torah as a Jewish text, but most of our time will be spent gathering and discussing your questions. You can come with something in mind that you want to ask, you can be inspired by the conversation to come up with questions in the moment, or you can just come and listen as we think through and wrestle with questions about the Torah that are on the minds of members of the TvO community.
Lauren Monroe grew up in the Reform movement, at Temple Beth Elohim, in Brooklyn, NY. As a Jewish Studies major in college at SUNY Albany, she fell in love with reading and interpreting Jewish texts. Lauren received her PhD in Bible and Ancient Near East from the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. At Cornell, she teaches courses in Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Archaeology, and Ancient Israelite Religious and Social History.