Synopses & Reviews
This excellent collection of expositions of texts from the Torah/Pentateuch by eminent Jewish and Christian scholars clearly demonstrates the distinctive approaches taken to the text by representatives of the Jewish and Christian traditions.
Synopsis
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This excellent collection of expositions of texts from the Torah/Pentateuch by eminent Jewish and Christian scholars clearly demonstrates the distinctive approaches taken to the text by representatives of the Jewish and Christian traditions.
Contributors: Walter Brueggeman
Elizabeth Achtemeier
Gunther Plaut
Kathleen Farmer
Lou Silberman
Herman Schaalman
Lawrence Boadt
A. Stanley Dreyfus
Donald Gowan
Samuel Karff
Fredrick Holmgren
Carroll Stuhlmueller
Jerome R. Malino
Blu Greenberg
Table of Contents
Foreword / Elie Wiesel -- Foreword / Joseph Cardinal Bernardin -- Editors' introduction / Fredrick C. Holmgren and Herman E. Schaalman -- Introduction / David Tracy -- The story of us all: a Christian exposition of Genesis 3 / Elizabeth Achtemeier -- Cain and Abel: Bible, tradition, contemporary reflection / Gunther Plaut -- What is "this" they begin to do? / Kathleen A. Farmer -- Boldness in the service of justice / Lou H. Silberman -- The