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When Israel went forth from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange
speech,
Judah became His holy one,
Israel, His dominion.
The sea saw them and fled,
Jordan ran backward,
mountai…
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By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat,
sat and wept,
as we thought of Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung up our lyres,
for our captors asked us there for songs,
our tormentors, for amusement,
“Si…
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And Jacob called his sons and said, “Come together that I may tell you what is to befall you in days to come.
Assemble and hearken, O sons of Jacob;
Hearken to Israel your father:
Reuben, you…
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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
Prague, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Prague, Czech Republic)
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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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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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…
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Shulamit Kalugai
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1941
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the people, the fruit of common sense, and in particular, are distilled from general experience. They are to the moral…
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Leopold Dukes
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Leipzig, German Confederation (Leipzig, Germany)
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1844
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This story admittedly took place a long time ago and furthermore in a far-off land—in England, in fact. Yet in spite of everything, it is still important and worthy of being…
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Isaac Meyer Dik
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1889
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When God began to create heaven and earth—the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the…
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On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites assembled, fasting, in sackcloth, and with earth upon them. Those of the stock of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood…
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Persian Period, 5th–4th Century BCE