Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the BiblePenguin, 15 de mar. de 2007 - 320 páginas “A work of stunning originality . . . Nothing quite like it has appeared in years.”—Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography In this groundbreaking book, Jerome Segal offers a fresh and vigorous reexamination of the oldest part of the Bible. What if we knew nothing about Judaism or Christianity and one day picked up the first six books of the Bible? How could we possibly understand them? Who is God? Who are the Israelites? What is the relationship between God and humanity? Segal maintains that to approach the Bible from this perspective—one framed by the story of the Israelites’ fidelity to Joseph—is to find something unexpected: an account of the human condition that reads like an existential novel about the struggle of mankind against the unpredictable and often unwarranted wrath of God. A radically new way of understanding the Bible and a brilliant exploration of it, Joseph’s Bones is a rarity in Biblical interpretation: brilliant, rigorously argued, and thoroughly original. “Joseph’s Bones makes [an] audacious argument. . . . Reading the Bible as a novel about the struggle between God and humankind, Segal produces a work of interpretation that is itself novelistic in its humanistic vision and emotional force.”—Naomi Seidman, author of Faithful Renderings “Perceptive and intelligent.”—Booklist “Arrestingly original.”—Tikkun “Compelling . . . transforming.”—Forward |
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... call to Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. That too, in my reading, is in response to a repressed anger, one that arises when Abraham challenges God's freedom by proposing that God internalize moral constraints as an aspect of his ...
... call to Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. That too, in my reading, is in response to a repressed anger, one that arises when Abraham challenges God's freedom by proposing that God internalize moral constraints as an aspect of his ...
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... calls to mind the Joseph story, where God never speaks to Joseph, and Joseph entrusts his bones to the people. In Deuteronomy, at points, God speaks to Moses, but there is no backandforth. 9. In The Legends of the Jews, a reworking of.
... calls to mind the Joseph story, where God never speaks to Joseph, and Joseph entrusts his bones to the people. In Deuteronomy, at points, God speaks to Moses, but there is no backandforth. 9. In The Legends of the Jews, a reworking of.
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... Look intently, but you shall know nothing.” I thank my colleague Peter Levine for calling attention to the fact that I have made this reversal about who understands the Torah. 1. The name Jesus is itself a Latin translation of.
... Look intently, but you shall know nothing.” I thank my colleague Peter Levine for calling attention to the fact that I have made this reversal about who understands the Torah. 1. The name Jesus is itself a Latin translation of.
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... calling for a reading that suspends religious beliefs. Indeed, I believe that seeing with fresh eyes, we will find in the Bible a humanoriented story of astonishing spiritual power, one that can serve to refresh religious perspectives ...
... calling for a reading that suspends religious beliefs. Indeed, I believe that seeing with fresh eyes, we will find in the Bible a humanoriented story of astonishing spiritual power, one that can serve to refresh religious perspectives ...
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READING WITH FRESH EYES | 273 |
THE MORAL ORDER | 301 |
THE STRUGGLE IN THE DESERT | 372 |
LEVITICUS WITHIN THE NARRATIVE | 411 |
THE LIFE AND TRAGEDY OF MOSES | 433 |
IMPLICATIONS OF THIS READING FOR THE JESUS STORY | 500 |
Reflections on Who Wrote the Bible | 515 |
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Joseph's Bones: Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal Visualização parcial - 2007 |
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