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Preaching biblical texts : expositions by Jewish and Christian scholars / edited by Fredrick C. Holmgren and Herman E. Schaalman.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BS1225 .P73 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Pentateuch.
- Bible. Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
- Bible. Pentateuch--Homiletical use.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 166 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, [1995]
- Summary:
- This excellent collection of expositions of texts from the Torah/Pentateuch by eminent Jewish and Christian scholars clearly demonstrates the distinctive approaches taken to the text by representatives of the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors : Walter Brueggeman Elizabeth Achtemeier Gunther Plaut Kathleen Farmer Lou Silberman Herman Schaalman Lawrence Boadt A. Stanley Dreyfus Donald Gowan Samuel Karff Fredrick Holmgren Carroll Stuhlmueller Jerome R. Malino Blu Greenberg
- Contents:
- Foreword \ Elie Wiesel
- Foreword \ Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
- Editors' introduction \ Fredrick C. Holmgren and Herman E. Schaalman
- Introduction \ David Tracy
- The story of us all: a Christian exposition of Genesis 3 \ Eliza
- Achtemeier
- Cain and Abel: Bible, tradition, contemporary reflection \ Gunther Plaut
- What is "this" they begin to do? \ Kathleen A. Farmer
- Boldness in the service of justice \ Lou H. Silberman
- The binding of Isaac \ Herma
- Schaalman
- Divine wonders never cease: the birth of Moses in God's plan of Exodus \ Lawrence Boadt
- The burning bush through the eyes of Midrash: God's word then and now \ A. Stanley Dreyfus
- A night for crying\weeping \ Walte
- Changing God's mind \ Donald E. Gowan
- Silence and weeping before the song\ Samuel E. Karff
- The way of Torah: escape from Egypt \ Fredrick C. Holmgren
- "Would that all were prophets!" \ Carroll Stuhlmueller
- The ashes of
- heifer: religious ceremonies and obedience to Torah \ Jerome R. Malino
- Hear, o Israel: law and love in Deuteronomy \ Blu Greenberg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 080280814X
- OCLC:
- 32167487
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