Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture 315to the Hebrew Bible and Its Teaching in Israeli Educational Literature (Assen, Neth-
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110 – 19 [in Hebrew]. - Moshe Sister, Mi-Be’ayot ha-sifrut ha-mikrait (Tel Aviv: Sifriat Poalim, 1956),
- Mosheh Dayan, Living with the Bible (New York: W. Morrow, 1978).
- Yigal Allon, Bet Avi (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1976), 30 – 31. Allon
refers to stories told in Judges 4 – 5; 1 Samuel 31; 1 Samuel 28. - See also Anita Shapira, Th e Bible and Israeli Identity (Jerusalem: Magnes,
2005), 19 [in Hebrew]. - See also Uriel Simon, “Th e Place of the Bible in Israeli Society: From Na-
tional Midrash to Existential Peshat,” in Yeriot: Essays and Papers in the Jewish
Studies Bearing on the Humanities and the Social Sciences, ed. E. Reiner, I. Ta-Shma,
and G. Ofrat (Jerusalem: Orna Hess, 1999), 7 [in Hebrew]. - See Tom Segev, Th e Seventh Million: Th e Israelis and the Holocaust (New
York: Holt, 2000), 11. See also Simon, “Place of the Bible,” 5. - Simon, “Place of the Bible,” 31; Shapira, Bible and Israeli Identity, 24 – 27.
- See Yaron Ezrachi, “Tanakh Be-kippah Srugah,” Ha-aretz, January 22, 1996,
B:2. - Moshe Greenberg calls this alienation “obsolescence”; M. Greenberg, On
the Bible and Judaism (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1984), 294 – 97 [in Hebrew]. - Ben-Zion Dinur, Mikra-ei Hag Li-se’udat Yom Ha-atzma’ut (Jerusalem:
Ministry of Education and Culture, 1955). - Ibid., 3.
- Yair Zakovitch, “And You Shall Tell Your Son . . .”: Th e Concept of the Exodus
in the Bible (Jerusalem: Magnes, 1991), 99 – 133. - Moshe Greenberg, “Herem,” in Encyclopaedia Judaic VIII (1972), col. 349.
- Shmuel Ahituv, Joshua, Mikra Le-Yisrael (Tel Aviv/Jerusalem: Am Oved/
Magnes, 1995), 9 [in Hebrew]. - See Yair Zakovitch, “Humor and Th eology or the Successful Failure of Is-
raelite Intelligence: A Literary Folkloric Approach,” in Text and Tradition: Th e He-
brew Bible and Folklore, ed. Susan Niditch (Atlanta: Scholars, 1990), 75 – 98. - Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch, Th e Story of Judah and Tamar (Jerusa-
lem: Institute of Jewish Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1992), 219 –
20 [in Hebrew]. - See Yair Zakovitch, Th e Pattern of the Numerical Sequence Th ree-Four in the
Bible (Jerusalem: Makor, 1977), 132 – 39 [in Hebrew]. - See Yair Zakovitch, “A Still Small Voice,” Ta r b i z 52 (1983): 329 – 46 [in He-
brew]. - See Yair Zakovitch, “Overt and Covert Confl icts in Biblical Literature,” in