{"id":1558,"date":"2007-11-23T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T20:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T23:57:29","slug":"jew-or-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Jew Or Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/daily_shvitz\/blasphemous_bit_theatre\">Monica Osborne blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, one young woman, a great student, asked me earnestly if the confusing reference to both God and God&rsquo;s messenger in the story of Moses&rsquo;s encounter with the burning bush was a reference to &ldquo;the trinity.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In a way, I didn&rsquo;t mind, because it revealed that she was reading closely and interpreting the text from her own perspective and position. And it was a question&mdash;an attempt to understand&mdash;rather than an authoritative statement. She was searching for a way to make it mean something to her, and I think I can respect that. I wonder if we might even call it<em> <\/em>midrash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A midrashic impulse is what keeps Torah alive. I myself have a slightly unnatural obsession with midrash and anything that feels midrashic, and so I&rsquo;m happy when I see my students starting to think along these lines. I derive curious pleasure from listening to them during class discussions, as they &ldquo;turn it and turn it,&rdquo; much like the rabbinic admonition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Do they know they are being Talmudic?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica Osborne blogs: Last week, one young woman, a great student, asked me earnestly if the confusing reference to both God and God&rsquo;s messenger in the story of Moses&rsquo;s encounter with the burning bush was a reference to &ldquo;the trinity.&rdquo; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monica-osborne"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}