Sublime

The first step for reading the beginning of Genesis is complete. We know that the story that begins in 1:1 ends at 2:4a. This is a significant step, since it allows us, encourages us, or perhaps even forces us to…

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The covenant with Abraham and Israel is a calculated and far-reaching rejection of two other forms of civilization, tribalism and universalism.

later divisions found in medieval Hebrew manuscripts, which indicate verse endings by a musical note (called a silluh-a vertical line) under the final word, as well as what…

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la Gemara

when I read the New Testament looking for doctrines of divine transcendence, I do so not believing that I am simply “recovering” the intention of the original human authors.

Myths, like many other narrative genres, not only describe, but also prescribe. Few are neutral, and…

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However, there is already a fundamental difference from the past. In the past, a threatened Jewish community in Diaspora could hope only to sustain bearable losses and to live on by sufferance or flight. Israel has—and, through it, all Jews have—a major voice in its own fate. In the past, when Jews were destroyed, their wealth and achievement enric

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