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		<title>NEW BOOKS: BRIEFLY NOTED</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  The Book of Zechariah – The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, by Mark J. Boda. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016, 911 pp. This massive work is a very insightful and comprehensive translation and commentary of one of the more difficult biblical books. The author, a Christian of faith and Bible scholar,  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>THE SUBMISSION OF ABRAHAM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chaya Greenberger]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[by CHAYA GREENBERGER NOAH AND ABRAHAM Abraham, the first of the Patriarchs, lives a life characterized by engaging man and God. The richness of the relationships that Abraham forms is especially striking against the backdrop of Noah’s unengaged life. Noah does not attempt to contest the depravity of his contemporaries. Although earning the title of tzaddik  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>GEHAZI AND THE MIRACLE STAFF OF ELISHA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[   by REUVEN CHAIM (RUDOLPH) KLEIN The story of Elisha and the Shunammite woman reaches its dramatic climax when the woman’s son dies and her impassioned plea to Elisha is heard. Elisha responds by dispatching Gehazi, his faithful acolyte, to perform a miracle and resurrect the child. As the Bible relates: He [Elisha] said to Gehazi:  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>TOWARD A HUMANIST UNDERSTANDING OF &#8220;MUM&#8221;  IN THE HEBREW BIBLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by  SHIMSHON NEIKRUG RITUAL PERFECTION: MAKING THE PHYSICAL MEANINGFUL The Bible repeatedly emphasizes the injunction that the People of Israel should be holy (Lev. 19:2; Ex. 19:6). Furthermore, the People of Israel should differentiate the holy from the ordinary and the ritually clean from the unclean (Lev. 10:10). This sense of holiness and of exclusivity  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>VARIATIONS ON A THEME IN BIBLICAL PSALMODY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shubert Spero]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[by SHUBERT SPERO Repetition is vital to speech and to music for cognitive and aesthetic reasons respectively. In speech, one’s interlocutor may not have heard or grasped what was said and asks that you repeat your words. In music, repetition is the heart of rhythm as in the simple beat of a drum, and is  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>SHIRAT HAYAM: MIRIAM&#8217;S SONG?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Exodus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raymond Apple]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[by RAYMOND APPLE INTRODUCTION The Song of the Sea, Shirat HaYam (Exodus 15), has pride of place among Biblical poetry. According to the aggadists, the Bible contains many songs but only one Shirah, one Song “par excellence” (Mekhilta Shirata 1). This Shirah is not only read from the Torah on Shabbat Parashat Beshallah – known as  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>LAMENTATIONS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MESOPOTAMIA AND JUDEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by WERED FILARSKI INTRODUCTION Ever since the discovery and publication of several Sumerian Lamentations, there has been an ongoing discussion concerning the possible connection with the Biblical Book of Lamentations (Eicha), which has been known to us for over 2 millennia. This is not surprising, since there are several similarities between Sumerian Laments and the Book  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rachel&#8217;s Burial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[by JOEL B. WOLOWELSKY As Jacob’s life draws to a close, he blesses Joseph’s two sons, claiming them as his own. Then suddenly he says: ‘When I was returning from Padan, Rachel died ‘alai while I was journeying the land of Canaan on the road, when still some distance short of Ephrath, and I buried her  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW: The JPS Bible Commentary – Song of Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  The JPS Bible Commentary – Song of Songs, Michael Fishbane, (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2015), 338 pp. Reviewed by Simcha Rosenberg. The Song of Songs is a very challenging book to translate and interpret. It does not mention God, Israel, commandments or religious obligations. The plain sense of the text is that of  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>HE THAT FORMED THE EYE SHALL HE NOT SEE?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  by SHUBERT SPERO For the authors of Psalms, God is a living active Presence to be alternatively praised for His salvations in the past, beseeched for deliverance from present dangers and implored to destroy one’s enemies. As such, one does not expect to find in this biblical book rational arguments concerning the nature of  [...]]]></description>
		
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