{"id":41750,"date":"2012-03-15T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41750"},"modified":"2012-03-15T17:59:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T01:59:57","slug":"jewish-ignorance-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41750","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Ignorance Of The Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised when I entered Jewish life how ignorant Jews were of the Bible (outside of the Torah). The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/People_of_the_Book\">people of the book<\/a> don&#8217;t know this book.<\/p>\n<p>In his first lecture for <A HREF=\"http:\/\/torahinmotion.org\">Torah in Motion<\/a> on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/onthemainline.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/on-rabbi-moses-kunitzs-interesting.html\">Rabbi Moses Kunitz<\/a>, professor <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_B._Shapiro\">Marc B. Shapiro<\/a> says: &#8220;It is hard today, certainly in the Ashkenazi world, to find a Torah scholar who&#8217;s studied the book of Daniel or Job or Malachi. Rashi says one needs to study these.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised when I entered Jewish life how ignorant Jews were of the Bible (outside of the Torah). The people of the book don&#8217;t know this book. In his first lecture for Torah in Motion on Rabbi Moses Kunitz, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41750\">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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750","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=41750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41752,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41750\/revisions\/41752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}