Category: Hebrew Bible
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Analogy of A Beloved Community
by Carol Madsen (This guest post is not a Hebrew Bible post, but I think it so perfectly captures the tensions and agonies of the Bible. The text we’re reading this year is the story of a beloved community who consistently fracture, wound, and separate from each other. This is a very relevant story for…
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Introduction to the Hebrew Bible, Genesis
Contributed by Kristen One of the things I learned in divinity school that surprised me the most was that what we call the “Old Testament” (what I will call the Hebrew Bible out of respect for its ongoing authority in Judaism) is actually not a stand-alone, incomparable text. I had imagined that the Bible was…
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