Errata slip inserted. "Proceedings of the tenth annual Symposium of the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, September 14 & 15, 1997"--Half t.p. "The Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Center for the Study of Religion and Society." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Does Judaism have a bible? / Frederick Greenspahn -- The influence of the Hebrew bible on the founders of the American republic / Andrew Skinner -- Old testament, new hatreds: the Hebrew bible and antsemitism [sic] in Nazi Germany / Doris L. Bergen -- Creation founded in love: breaking rhetorical expectations in Genesis 1:1-2:3 / J. Richard Middleton -- "Not yours, but ours": transformations of the Hebrew bible in new religious movements / Eugene V. Gallagher -- The missing missus / Lesleigh Cushing -- Abraham and the problems of modern heroism / Brian S. Hook and R.R. Reno -- The bible and art at the end of the millennium: words, ideas and images / Ori Z. Soltes -- Retrospecting rape in Christian commentaries of Genesis 34 and forensic medical textbooks from nineteenth-century Germany / Susanne Scholz -- Surviving Genesis: dangerous worlds both narrative and real / Mark McEntire -- Portrayals of power in the stories of Delilah and Bathsheba: seduction in song / Helen Leneman -- Shukr Kuhayl II reads the bible / Harris Lenowitz -- Miami and the Babylonian captivity / Miguel A. DeLa Torre -- Weaving a humanistic vision: reading the Hebrew bible in Asian religio-cultural context / Archie C.C. Lee.
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