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Negative Theology
The Concept of Biblical Theology: An Old Testament Perspectiveby james barrfortress, 715 pages, $40 Formerly the Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford and now the Distinguished Professor of Hebrew...
Between Liberalism and Orthodoxy
Beyond Reasonable Doubt.By Louis Jacobs.Littman Library od Jewish Civilizzations. 267 pp. $39.50. In 1957, Louis Jacobs, a British Orthodox rabbi in good standing, published a book entitled We Have...
The Problem with Salad Bowl Religion
I wonder what my rebbe ancestors would think of me,” writes a young Unitarian Universalist minister in The Burning Bush, the newsletter of the Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness....
The Bible: Unexamined Commitments of Criticism
Ten years ago I had an experience that made me vividly aware of the two worlds with which the practitioner of the critical study of the Bible inevitably deals....
The Death of the Goddess
In the Wake of the Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical Transformation of Pagan Myth by Tikva Frymer-Kensky Free Press, 292 pages, $24.95 It has been thousands of years...
The God of Abraham and the Enemies of “Eurocentrism”
Half a century ago, on March 9, 1940, with the world collapsing into a war that was to exceed the worst nightmare, the great German novelist Thomas Mann delivered...
