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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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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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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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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
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Elhanan Wasserman
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1936
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More than twenty-five centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish poet wrote an elaborate and lengthy prayer that included this exclamation:O how I love your teaching!It is my study all day long (…
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Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler
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College Park, United States of America
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2004
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Why does a book on Jewish philosophy begin with a discussion of revelation? First, because it is revelation that creates Judaism as a religion. […] Without God’s…
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Neil Gillman
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1990