Join Cong. Rinat Yisrael Adult Education committee on Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 8 p.m. in the social hall for a presentation by Prof. Jordan S. Penkower, of Bar Ilan University. Professor Penkower will review the history of depictions of the Tablets of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments inscribed thereon, from the Bible through the Middle Ages, in both Jewish and Christian Art. In two of Rembrandt’s paintings, the last five Commandments can be read clearly.

He will discuss the shape of the two tablets, the division of the Ten Commandments, the division of the sections (oarashot) and the Jewish sources upon which these representations are based.

Prof. Jordan S. Penkower is an expert on the transmission of the Hebrew Bible and masorah both in manuscripts and printed editions. His research extends to broad aspects of the Bible in rabbinic interpretation, as well as Jewish medieval biblical exegesis, especially that of Rashi. His publications focus on textual transmission of the Bible and the mesorah, the Bible in rabbinic exegesis and medieval Jewish biblical exegesis.