Are the Ten Commandments redundant? Nine of them actually appear, sometimes more than once, in other places in the first five books of the Bible. So why were these ten commandments grouped to become the Ten Commandments? In “What Makes the Ten Commandments Different?” Moshe Weinfeld shows that the Ten Commandments define the conditions that must be met for membership in the community of the faithful, and he highlights several interesting aspects of their structure. Born in Poland, Weinfeld received his undergraduate and graduate education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he has served as a professor since 1973. […]