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How does the Tanakh say “angry”?

Posted in Bible / Tanakh, Book Review, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 20 May, 2009 | 12 Comments »

Back to “HaTanakh Hayah BeEmet” (התנ”ך היה באמת, דר. ליאורה רביד 2009) which I have commented on several times (here, here and here) over the last couple of weeks. This time Liora Ravid makes the assertion that the term “ויחר אף” means particularly violent anger – which it may but also may not, as I [...]

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When were Yaakov’s children born?

Posted in Bible / Tanakh, Book Review, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 18 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I now know why I am still reading Liora Ravid’s book “HaTanakh Hayah BeEmet” (התנ”ך היה באמת). See my previous posts about her book here and here. She keeps making the most preposterous mistakes and outrageous claims but in order to check that I am in fact correct she is sending me back to the [...]

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More complaints about Liora Ravid’s book

Posted in Bible / Tanakh, Book Review, tagged , , on 15 May, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I am still persevering with the book “HaTanakh Hayah BeEmet” by Dr. Liora Ravid (התנ”ך היה באמת) that I wrote about a couple of days ago. But I’m not sure for how long.
Turns out that not only does she misquote Tanakh but she also has some strange ideas about theology. Admittedly as she is not a religious [...]

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Comments on “התנ”ך היה באמת”

Posted in Bible / Tanakh, Book Review, tagged , on 13 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »

להלן הערות על הספר התנ”ך היה באמת מאת ד”ר ליאורה רביד (בסידרה “יהדות כאן ועכשיו”, ידיעות ספרים וספרי חמד 2009). עוד לא קראתי את כל הספר, אבל הגעתי לקטע שמראה לדעתי חוסר הבנה וידיעה של המחברת ורציתי לרשום את הדברים כשהם עוד תריים בראש. המשך הדברים באנגלית ועמכם הסליחה.
For those of you who didn’t understand [...]

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Watchmaker argument?

Posted in Book Review, Jewish Thought on 20 April, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Joshua Berman just published a new essay on his site in which he more or less summarizes his book “Created Equal” and then proposes a “watchmaker argument” for the existence of God that firstly the intellectual quantum leap to come up with Jewish theology in the ancient world was just too big, secondly the theology [...]

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Book Review: Created Equal

Posted in Bible / Tanakh, Book Review, Jewish Thought on 23 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Created Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Political Thought, Joshua A. Berman, Oxford University Press 2008
A couple of years ago I heard a fascinating lecture by (Rabbi Dr.) Josh Berman given at the annual Tikun Leil Shavuot held in our community. In his lecture he compared the structure of the ten commandments to that [...]

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