Sublime

The next stage, interpreting the story, or in this case, independently interpreting the two creation stories embedded in Genesis 1-3, is a more difficult and a more subjective task than…

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Modern Westerners often approach religion as I did the paneling: they assume that the only way to be religious is to accept the sickly green overlay of Greek philosophy.

applying the Exodus model in our time as he applied it in his. Following

†In time, learning became the equivalent to biblical ritual acts: “The

Judaism’s covenant marries unyielding revolutionary goals with ceaseless evolutionary methods.

There is simply no coordinated effort to educate the Jewish people in a way that empowers them.

Passover is the holiday of faith; Sukkot is the holiday of faithfulness.

Sources must be used with care: modern historians must be aware of the deep biases of the authors of these sources, and whenever possible, various sources that refer to the same event must be studied together, since they are often mutually enlightening. But these sources should not simply be discarded.

Any covenant that respects freedom must allow for process.