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Politicizing the Bible: The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700

I first read this book two years ago and I still can’t get it out of my head. Here are some highlights from this 2013 book by two Roman Catholics: * Our argument, to put it all too simply, is … Continue reading

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The politics of biblical interpretation

Aaron W. Hughes writes in 2018: * The Biblical narrative has long been used to articulate political positions about Jewish life. The history of Jewish philosophy, for example, is essentially the history of reading the Bible through a set of … Continue reading

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The Historical-Critical Method

Professor Edgar Krentz wrote in 1975: * The introduction of historical criticism constituted ‘the most serious test that the church has had to face through nineteen centuries” about the nature of authority.14 The method tends to freedom from authority and … Continue reading

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A Jewish Analysis Of Western Politics

Charles Lesch is a professor of political science at Vanderbilt. He has his PhD from Harvard. He recently published: Theopolitics Contra Political Theology: Martin Buber’s Biblical Critique of Carl Schmitt. He’s also published, Democratic Solidarity in a Secular Age? Habermas … Continue reading

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Genesis

Here are some excerpts from Dennis Prager’s commentary on Genesis: The first verse of Genesis is, in some ways, the most important verse in the Bible. While many Torah verses influenced history, Genesis 1:1 changed history in monumental ways. • First, … Continue reading

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Does The Bible Need Trigger Warnings? (11-23-18)

00:00 Jewish leaders call for new editions of the Bible and the Koran to carry trigger warnings highlighting anti-Semitic passages 09:00 Life, Liberty & the Deadly Pursuit of Big-Ass $99 TVs 17:00 Girls can’t navigate? 33:00 ‘Murphy Brown’ Threatens ICE … Continue reading

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Why Israel Belongs To The Jews

Steve Sailer writes: “Winners are successful at portraying themselves as deserving their property. The Bible, for example, goes to great lengths to honor Abraham. The reverence paid to him is seen as justifying his distant heirs’ possession of the Holy … Continue reading

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How The Old Testament Explains Life Today

Comments at Steve Sailer: * I don’t want to bring in the Old Testament but there’s an enormous and vulnerable pattern involving Semitic tribalist grievance reasoning, which connects almost every leftoid program. (This is highly developed and documented among a … Continue reading

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Jerome Yehuda Gellman: This Was From God: A Contemporary Theology of Torah and History

Opening graphs: Increasingly, well-informed traditional Jews may find themselves distrustful of the reliability of Torah as history because of the conclusions of scholarly research from natural science, history, linguistics, Bible criticism and archaeology. And, they may not be swayed by … Continue reading

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Shiksa: Biblical Roots of Racism by Professor John Hartung

According to his website: John Hartung is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and Professor of Anesthesiology at the State University of New York. His Ph.D. is in anthropology from Harvard. About half of Dr. Hartung’s publications … Continue reading

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