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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…
Contributor:
Robert Alter
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1987
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Stan Mack
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Woodstock, United States of America
Date:
1999
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Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
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Indianapolis, United States of America
Date:
1992
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We affirm the reality and oneness of God, even as we may differ in our understanding of the Divine presence.
We affirm that the Jewish people is bound to God by an eternal בְּרִית (b’rit), covenant…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1999
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What is the place of the idolatry that is reflected in the Bible?
This idolatry is not a representation perverted for the sake of polemic; nor is it an artificial…
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Yehezkel Kaufmann
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1951
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[…] I will be arguing that, better to understand the God-idea and more effectively overcome the obstacles to the acceptance of God in our lives, we must view theology with a new perception. Elohut…
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Harold M. Schulweis
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Encino, United States of America
Date:
1975
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And in that drowning instant
as the water heightened over me
it suddenly did come to pass
my preterite eternity
the image of myself intent
on several freedoms
fading to
myself in yellowed Basle…
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A. M. Klein
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1943
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Lord, I have seen too much for one who sat
In quiet at his window’s luminous eye
And puzzled over house and street and sky,
Safe only in the narrowest habitat;
Who studies peace as if the world were…
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Karl Shapiro
Places:
New Guinea (New Guinea, Indonesia)
Date:
1943
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You will come back.
You will, with God’s help, come back
With a far-off, alien look.
(I’m preparing myself,
I already know,
I’ve seen how they come back.)
You will sit in your regular chair, unsure
A…
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Malka Heifetz Tussman
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1944
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Jews, in the past celebrated for the ability to understand all things, are now in danger of being unable to understand anything at all culturally, for they do not have self-awareness. Without such…
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Aleksander Voronel
Date:
1972