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The fiercest of all the conflicts between Pharisee and Sadducee concerned the doctrine of the resurrection, for in it the class conflict was most…
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Louis Finkelstein
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New York City, United States of America
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1938
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Any literary account of the Hebrew Bible must recognize [its] quality of extreme heterogeneity. […] From one point of view, it is not even a unified collection but rather a loose anthology that…
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Robert Alter
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Berkeley, United States of America
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1987
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My own efforts to wrestle with the Ishmael story came from my fierce fears and hopes for modern Israel, my urgency to discover how Israel could live in peace, my efforts to talk with angry, fearful…
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Arthur Waskow
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Washington, United States of America
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1978
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Most simply described, Bibliodrama is a form of role-playing in which the roles played are taken from biblical texts. The roles may be those of characters who appear in the Bible…
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Peter A. Pitzele
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Katonah, United States of America
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1997
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What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things…
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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New York City, United States of America
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1992
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The Book of Leviticus is not terribly popular among American Jews of my acquaintance. […] Leviticus seems so repetitive, so anachronistic. […] [The] book is in many…
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Arnold M. Eisen
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Stanford, United States of America
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1997
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Through narrative, poetry, law, and prayer, the Bible conditions its readers to feel reverence for nature, enjoins restraint in the exploitation of natural resources for human needs, elicits awe in…
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David M. Gordis
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Albany, United States of America
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2001
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The wilderness is not just a desert through which we wandered for forty years. It is a way of being. A place that demands being open to the flow of life around you. A place that demands being…
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Lawrence Kushner
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San Francisco, United States of America
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1977
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Today it is possible for us to observe the process of Hellenization in individual features only. But these features are sufficiently significant to enable…
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Elias Bickerman
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1935
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If one examines the biblical account of the origins of Israelite monotheism and the story of its battle with and eventual triumph over paganism, he will discover a…
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Yehezkel Kaufmann
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1937