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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Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 1. I have generally used the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Hebrew Bible. 1. René Descartes, The Philosophical Works of Descartes (New York:
Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 1. I have generally used the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Hebrew Bible. 1. René Descartes, The Philosophical Works of Descartes (New York:
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Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 1. Indeed, a new reading of the Joseph story not only challenges our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, it can affect how the Christian Bible is read as ...
Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 1. Indeed, a new reading of the Joseph story not only challenges our understanding of the Hebrew Bible, it can affect how the Christian Bible is read as ...
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Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 7. The Nephilim, introduced in Genesis ... understand the fears of the Israelites, and this role may explain why the strange passage in Genesis remained part ...
Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 7. The Nephilim, introduced in Genesis ... understand the fears of the Israelites, and this role may explain why the strange passage in Genesis remained part ...
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Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 1. Almost the entire Book of Leviticus has been seen as deriving from a distinct source referred to as the P text. See, in this regard, Richard Elliott ...
Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 1. Almost the entire Book of Leviticus has been seen as deriving from a distinct source referred to as the P text. See, in this regard, Richard Elliott ...
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Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 8. This absence in Deuteronomy of conversation between God and Moses, and of Moses' commitment to the people, calls to mind the Joseph story, where God ...
Understanding the Struggle Between God and Mankind in the Bible Jerome M. Segal. 8. This absence in Deuteronomy of conversation between God and Moses, and of Moses' commitment to the people, calls to mind the Joseph story, where God ...
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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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