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Authors: Benjamin Edidin Scolnic
ISBN-13: 9780761832430, ISBN-10: 0761832432
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Benjamin Edidin Scolnic

Book Synopsis

In a series of pointed and concise essays, Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, rabbi and scholar, interprets the Bible not as _The Word_ but as _God's Words._ The open-minded reader will find contradictions at every turn and be forced to wrestle with difficult passages fraught with moral and spiritual complexity.

Table of Contents

Interpreting the Bible today
The flexible word of God1
Modern methods of Bible interpretation9
Moses and the horns of power17
How could the Israelites have owned slaves?29
Did David kill Goliath?35
Were David and Jonathan homosexual?45
David's final testament : morality or expediency?49
Bil'am and the power of words59
The validity of feminist Biblical interpretation71
When is feminist interpretation anti-Semitic? : the red tent83
Interpretation and prayer
Na'aseh ve-Nakriv : prayer, sacrifice and the meaning of ritual89
A Piyyut of Ne'ilah99
Jonah and other lip-synchers111
Traditional interpretation today
Traditional methods of Bible study117
Did Abraham wear a yalmulke?125
Crisis in perpetuation : am I my grandfather's reincarnation?133
Interpretation and conservative Judaism
Deuteronomy as the intellectual foundation of conservative Judaism145
From bloody bridegroom to covenant rite159
Ishmael : Biblical criticism and conservative Jewish homiletics169
Footsteps on the ceiling and idols on the floor183
The synagogue as God : Beth El and the theology of institutions193
Between two worlds or why the peacock doesn't fly199

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