Dr. Zvi Shimon

Zvi Shimon is a very popular Bible lecturer at Bar Ilan University. He was awarded a president's scholarship during his doctoral studies and his dissertation was awarded the Churgin award for best dissertation in Bible by the Bar Ilan Bible department. He received his baccalaureate from Bar Ilan University, a Masters degree from Yeshiva University and his Ph.D. from Bar Ilan University. Zvi Shimon lectures regularly at national and international Bible conferences including the Herzog study days and conferences of the Society of Biblical Literature. His upcoming book "Human Choice: Biblical Narrative and the Drama of Choice" (Heb.) by Magnes Press presents a new approach to biblical theology focusing on the role of human choice in the biblical narrative. He is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion where he studied for seven years and authored a weekly article for the Virtual Beit Midrash of Yeshivat Har Etzion.