For the Love of God: The Bible As an Open BookRutgers University Press, 2009 M04 28 - 192 páginas |
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... scripture nor its usual function . Scripture is supposed to be boring , full of begats ; or a text used to regulate people's behavior and suppress their enjoyment of life ; or something to save them from living ; or something tyrannical ...
... scripture nor its usual function . Scripture is supposed to be boring , full of begats ; or a text used to regulate people's behavior and suppress their enjoyment of life ; or something to save them from living ; or something tyrannical ...
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... scripture incorporates radically diverse conceptions “of history, ethics, psychology . . . of priesthood and laity, Israel and the nations, even of God.”1 I like to couple this descrip- tion with one of the sayings about Torah in Pirke ...
... scripture incorporates radically diverse conceptions “of history, ethics, psychology . . . of priesthood and laity, Israel and the nations, even of God.”1 I like to couple this descrip- tion with one of the sayings about Torah in Pirke ...
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... scripture is a wildly composite set of documents, an arena of mysteries, gaps, and inconsistencies. We can find in it dogma and resistance to dogma, faith and submission but also doubt and challenge, law and subversion of law, promises ...
... scripture is a wildly composite set of documents, an arena of mysteries, gaps, and inconsistencies. We can find in it dogma and resistance to dogma, faith and submission but also doubt and challenge, law and subversion of law, promises ...
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... scripture ; God is never mentioned once in it ; yet the great rabbi Akiba declared the Song “ a holy of holies . ” By both Jews and Christians , the Song has been interpreted as a sacred text . What happens if we imagine that the ...
... scripture ; God is never mentioned once in it ; yet the great rabbi Akiba declared the Song “ a holy of holies . ” By both Jews and Christians , the Song has been interpreted as a sacred text . What happens if we imagine that the ...
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Contenido
A HOLY OF HOLIES | 9 |
THE BOOK OF RUTH AND THE LOVE | 34 |
A PERSONAL | 55 |
ECCLESIASTES AS WITNESS | 76 |
The Book of thE QUESTION | 99 |
THE OPEN BOOK | 120 |
AFTERWORD | 143 |
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