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Shabbaton with Guest Speaker Professor Gary Rendsburg

Sunday, January 26, 2020 29 Tevet 5780

10:30 AM - 12:30 PMAdult Lounge

 

Rutgers University Professor Gary Rendsburg will lecture on his new book: "How the Bible is Written"

Sponsored by the CAI Scholarly Adult Jewish Learning Committee

 

This three-part lecture series is based on the speaker’s most recent book, How the Bible is Written (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2019). The goal of the book is to bring interested readers – scholars and laypeople alike – closer to the original text of the Hebrew Bible, in order to provide them with a greater appreciation of its literary artistry and linguistic virtuosity. As such, the book and this lecture series focus not so much on what the Bible says (though that too) as how the Bible says it (per the title). Specific topics treated include wordplay, alliteration, repetition with variation, dialect representation, intentionally confused language, marking closure, and more.

 

“The Story of Rahab: Joshua 2”

Our third and final story focuses on one of the most unexpected heroes in the entire Bible: Rahab, harlot of Jericho, living on both the social margins and the physical margins of the city, but whose actions save the day and whose words give voice to Israel’s history and theology.

Lectures are free and open to everyone.

Contact: Phil Kruger at jmlpmk@aol.com

 

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