Each chapter covers one weekly portion, featuring:

• Liberal amounts of Torah text in gender-sensitive translations prepared by the author for this commentary
  
• Interactive classroom and topical discussion questions accompanying each portion
  
• Graphs, charts, maps, and photographs of the realia of archaeological and biblical criticism
  
• A synopsis of the Haftarah for each portion and the traditional reason it was chosen to accompany the portion.
  
• Wide-ranging comments from Talmud, Midrash, Rashi, and other traditional commentators; set side-by-side with comments from modern Bible scholars from Cassuto and Leibowitz to Peli and Sarna; set side-by-side with evidence from archaeology, linguistics, Egyptology, Assyriology, and a dozen other sciences that have been applied to the study of Torah over the last two centuries.
  
• Mindful incorporation of the best educational techniques from design, values education, and modern modeling.