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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)
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.
Interpreting the Bible today | ||
The flexible word of God | 1 | |
Modern methods of Bible interpretation | 9 | |
Moses and the horns of power | 17 | |
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 words | 59 | |
The validity of feminist Biblical interpretation | 71 | |
When is feminist interpretation anti-Semitic? : the red tent | 83 | |
Interpretation and prayer | ||
Na'aseh ve-Nakriv : prayer, sacrifice and the meaning of ritual | 89 | |
A Piyyut of Ne'ilah | 99 | |
Jonah and other lip-synchers | 111 | |
Traditional interpretation today | ||
Traditional methods of Bible study | 117 | |
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 Judaism | 145 | |
From bloody bridegroom to covenant rite | 159 | |
Ishmael : Biblical criticism and conservative Jewish homiletics | 169 | |
Footsteps on the ceiling and idols on the floor | 183 | |
The synagogue as God : Beth El and the theology of institutions | 193 | |
Between two worlds or why the peacock doesn't fly | 199 |