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The following is the first half of a paper written for Dr. Yaffe’s Judaic Religion & Philosophy course at the University of North Texas. You can read about the assigned topic here.
The book of Genesis is a complete and interdependent narrative. From its account of the earth’s creation, to God’s covenant with Abraham, to the [...]

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Two things you have likely never seen juxtaposed, much less pondered. Yet, I’m up to my ears in it at the moment, writing a midterm paper for PHIL 3575: Judaic Religion & Philosophy. I’m answering two questions:
Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? Answer this question by analyzing the [...]

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David Plotz over at Slate recently began Blogging the Bible. It poses the question, “What happens when an ignoramus reads the Good Book?” He says in his introduction:
My goal is pretty simple. I want to find out what happens when an ignorant person actually reads the book on which his religion is based. I think [...]

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There’s an interesting post over at Asphaleia on the names of God in the Bible. It’s worth a read. Here is an interesting little tidbit from the post:
The Hebrew system of numerals was a simple one in which the first letter aleph indicated one, the second letter beth was two, and so on until the [...]

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