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shifting the operative frame of the American Jewish experience from one of institutional preservation to one of communal empowerment.

sojourn of Israel in Egypt.19 The fact that the Bible shows relatively little influence from Egypt also suggests that the biblical account of an extended sojourn there by hundreds of thousands of Israelites is not factual.

Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.

The stories were composed much later than the events they depict, for they reflect the background of that later period.? For these reasons, I avoid the term "Patriarchal History"

Genesis 1-3 is…

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Par là, ils fournissent une sorte de ressource d’identité nouvelle sur un plan à la fois politique et social. Et il est significatif qu’ils le fassent précisément en revenant au judaïsme par le biais d’une réflexion sociopolitique, en le déclinant expressément en termes sociopolitiques, et non pas théologiques5.

My point is that the genre itself is the problem. As long as Christian scholars insist that they are simply “describing” the theology that is really “in” the text itself, and they arrive at their conclusions using historical criticism, as long as the “meaning” they claim to “find” in the text is supposed to be also what the ancient author “intended