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Putting Puzzle Pieces Together
Putting Puzzle Pieces Together Suppose you thought that you had a past life in which you perished, by one of the methods in the Nazi repertoire, during the run-up years that culminated in the Holocaust. I mean, suppose you entertained … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, Authentic listening, Case histories, Chabad, Chabad rabbi, documentary hypothesis, Emotional fatigue, experimental psychology, False memories, Holocaust non-survivors, Intellectual giants, Jewish mysticism, loving the soul, Memory series, midrash, naturalistic explanations, neshama, ousting a predator, Past and present life, past life memories, past lives, Pastoral care, physicalism, Reform movement, reform rabbi, reincarnation, righteous combat, Spiritual crisis, Spiritual fatigue, Sudden weakness, Suffering of the righteous, The Jewish soul, The missing piece, women’s dignity
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Is the Bible True?
Is the Bible True? Two questions: Why should any educated person care? Whaddya mean by “true”? Who could care? Of course, people whose identities (sense of who they are) are bound up with particular views about the Bible will care … Continue reading
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Tagged allegorical reading, Bible, Bible in Western Culture, biblical battle plans, biblical inconsistencies, biblical influence, Biblical literalism, biblical warrant, Book of Judges, Book of Numbers, British Army, Catholic identity, death bed consolation, Divine actor, Divine Author, Divine command, documentary hypothesis, empirical warrant, Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation, ethnic identity, Greco-Roman civilization, Hebrew Scripture, higher criticism, hillbilly gospel, Hindu temple, Israel Defense Force, J E P and D, Japanese flower arrangement, Japanese tea room, Jewish identity, Jewish miracle, Jewish scholar, Jewish theologians, Jon Levinson's Creation and The Persistence of Evil, Jonah and the whale, Julius Wellhausen, Manhattan, meditative state, Michael Walzer's In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible, miracle of the quail, moral truth, Moses as author, New Testament, Ninevites, Numbers 11, Old Testament, pagan civilization, Pentateuch, personal identity, philosophy, philosophy as pagan, prophecy, Protestant identity, psalms as consolation, Psalms of David, rabbinic view, religious identity, religious wars, Robert Alter, spiritual practice, supernatural v natural, symbolic reading, symbolic truth, tea ceremony, The Covenant, Torah, Toraya, world civilization, world of action
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