A Three-Millennium Perspective on Israel’s 75th Anniversary
The most stable regime in all of Jewish history.
April 24, 2023
Making Sense of the Book of Job
How not to read the text through a modern lens.
Perhaps no other biblical book is as linguistically difficult, weighted with as much theological meaning, and able to engender as much interpretive debate as Job. In dialogue with J.J. Kimche, Jon D. Levenson provides his insights into the book, from the rationale of Satan’s “bet” with God, to the possible significance of the characters’ unusual names, to the perils of reading the text through a modern lens, to the meaning of God’s mysterious “answer” to Job’s question. (Audio, 69 minutes.)
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Anti-Semitism and Propaganda in the South Caucasus
Iran is fomenting hatred in both Azerbaijan and Armenia.
Making Sense of the Book of Job
How not to read the text through a modern lens.
How Fans of Korean Music Mobilized Anti-Israel Sentiment
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Franz Kafka Was Ambivalent about Judaism—but Much Less So Than about Many Other Things
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