Jewish Concepts of Scripture

310 Yair Zakovitch we are to our ancestors. Like those ancient writers, we, too, think, question, cling to ideas, and then aband ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 311 that many others are utterly foreign to us. Under no circumstances should we busy ours ...

312 Yair Zakovitch another, with the interpreted texts then refl ecting back, somewhat altered, from a multitude of mirrors. Poe ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 313 Diaspora, in each and every place that “Jewish” is read and taught, in every place “Je ...

314 Yair Zakovitch a course specifi cally dedicated to those sources. Today the situation is en- tirely changed. Now course list ...

Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 315 to the Hebrew Bible and Its Teaching in Israeli Educational Literature (Assen, Neth- e ...

316 Yair Zakovitch Migvan De’ot Ve-hashkafot Be-tarbut Yisra’el 1, ed. D. Keren (Jerusalem: Ministry of Education, 1991), 11 – 2 ...

317 Glossary aggadah: A rabbinic term referring to nonlegal teachings from the Bible or subsequent Jewish literature, especially ...

318 Glossary musical/syntactic symbols for each word of the Bible, which both show how a sentence is structured and provide the ...

Glossary 319 or thirteenth century CE, under the infl uence of the great French Jewish commentators Rashi and Rashbam, the terms ...

320 Glossary millennium to this day. Th ere are two Talmuds, one edited into its cur- rent form in the Land of Israel in the fi ...

321 About the Contributors Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Bran- deis University. He is c ...

322 About the Contributors University. Her fi elds of interest include cultural studies and psychoana- lytic criticism. She is t ...

About the Contributors 323 Meira Polliack is Professor of Bible at Tel Aviv University. She has published on medieval Jewish Bib ...

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325 Index 1 Kings: 18:45, 42; 19, 308 1 Samuel: 1:17, 107; 9:9, 115; 9:18, 115; 10:20 – 21, 308; 15: 22, 132; 25:9, 146 2 Samuel ...

326 Index biblical criticism and critics (continued ) Kaufmann and, 223, 226 – 27, 230 – 31; Reform movement and, 208 – 9 biblic ...

Index 327 310; 17:19, 40 – 41; 23:4, 309; 24:1, 53; 27:26, 165; 30:8, 90; 32:2, 41; 32:4, 133; 32:40, 155n11; 33:10, 45n3 devequ ...

328 Index God (continued ) Buber and Rosenzweig’s view, 183 – 89, 190; cleaving to, 146, 162, 167; conceptions of, 134, 157, 159 ...

Index 329 isomorphism, 165 – 67 Israel (people), 223 – 26, 234. See also national development and identity Israel Baal Shem Tov. ...