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Category Archives: Bible
My Favorite Bible Story
Bringing peace to the Middle East:
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You Can Be Modern Or You Can Be Orthodox Or You Can Lie To Yourself And Others
There is no way to reconcile Orthodox Judaism with modern disinterested scholarship. You can be Orthodoxprax (practice Orthodox Judaism while keeping your heretical views to yourself) but then you are not honest to the religion you practice. Orthodox academics making … Continue reading
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Tagged bible scholar, intellectual discourse, James kugel, orthodox judaism, stern college, Yeshiva University
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Creating God In Our Image
Through prose that is deeply poetic and critically compelling, in the latest issue of the Shofar journal, Professor Monica Osborne takes quite seriously the Talmudic assertion that “there is always another interpretation.” She writes about Alicia Striker’s new book, "For … Continue reading
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Tagged bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, collective desire, creating god, hiroshima and nagasaki, meaningful dialogue, twists and turns
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The Novel As Biblical Interpretation
Author Eva Etzioni-Halevy writes: Sometimes people ask me to what extent my biblical novels are based directly on the Scripture, and to what extent they are based on the Midrash (later stories that expand on the biblical text) and other … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical interpretation, biblical scholars, biblical sources, biblical women, etzioni, eva etzioni halevy
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