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Tanakh (an acronym for Torah, or Pentateuch; Nevi’im, or Prophets; and Ketuvim, or Writings).
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
Jewish religious life has brought forth people who do not fear arraigning even God when there is injustice.
Irving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
The layout of a page of Talmud is a graphic representation of the process-oriented polyvocality that characterizes traditional Jewish study. In the center of the page is a short text from the Mishnah (one of the earliest rabbinic commentaries on the Torah), followed by the Gemara (the earliest layer of commentary on the Mishnah, written in late ant
... See moreAdina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
One method used by the sages to derive new commentary was to link two verses from different places in Jewish sacred text together through a word that appears in both, applying the meaning found in one verse to the other.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
we can embrace the openness of aggadic hope and multiplicity, knowing that truth flashes just under the surface of such narratives.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
being a diaspora community means being vulnerable.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
When applied to the Torah as a whole, it suggests that the Torah is comprised of four main sources-four originally separate, (more or less) complete…
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Marc Zvi Brettler PhD • How to Read the Bible
As Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335–c. 396) said, if one does not read scripture in a “philosophical” fashion one will see only myths and contradictions.