Jewish Concepts of Scripture

290 Yael S. Feldman of that group of budding writers of the 1960s, and their penchant for Freudianism is well known by now. Much ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 291 here. No less important, it is remarkable for graft ing the Bible’s female sac- rifi ...

292 Yael S. Feldman and European-Freudian psychological systems; essayist/author Shulamith Hareven, who in the 1970s coined the ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 293 guarantee his well-being. Not to worry: the infant does survive, but only aft er the ...

294 Yael S. Feldman her 1962 book Wo m a n’s Ve r s e, its bold critique confl ates Cain, Abraham, and a contemporary Sarah, thu ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 295 her back, that she has unknowingly marked her son as an off ering by nam- ing him Of ...

296 Yael S. Feldman Anthony D. Smith, Th e Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1986). Anthony D. Smith, Ha’umah b ...

Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature 297 S. Y. Agnon, Tmol shilshom (1946), translated by Barbara Harshav as Only Yesterday ...

298 Yael S. Feldman Syndrome,” American Imago 33 (1976): 329 – 49; see also Feldman, Glory and Agony, 264 – 69. Shulamith Harev ...

299 Chapter 17 Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture Ya i r Z a k o v i t c h “In the beginning was the word,” was the book — th ...

300 Yair Zakovitch Th e hand that severed the Jewish tree of knowledge left a void between the biblical period and our own and b ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 301 Christians and secular Zionists. In Israel, the Bible made its way from the realm of t ...

302 Yair Zakovitch a. During the time that the Bible’s primacy went unchallenged, the Ho- locaust was left , awkward and shamefa ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 303 rehabilitated, the tribes taking pride in their diverse origins outside of Israel and ...

304 Yair Zakovitch if not pleasant, to all who hear it: this Bible belongs to one faction, the fac- tion that has recently claim ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 305 To be sure, many of us feel more comfortable reading Judges than Joshua, since Joshua ...

306 Yair Zakovitch and views. Has the world frozen? Has it ceased changing in the past two thousand years? Have not whole realms ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 307 them, you must doom them to destruction: grant them no terms and give them no quarter. ...

308 Yair Zakovitch the Bible’s sanctity, who cannot see the human document, will miss the hu- mor that spills from the pages. Th ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 309 One who reads the Bible as a human document will discern the Bible’s lack of unity, al ...