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There can be little doubt that many of the gospel stories are derived from the Jewish Scriptures: Jesus in the wilderness reworks the nation Israel’s and the prophet Elijah’s sojourn there; Jesus feeding the multitudes and raising the dead are surely inspired by comparable miracles by Elijah and Elisha and many more. What I find particularly interesting about this process is that the Jewish Scriptures themselves invite, or even entice, readers to undertake that very kind of rewriting we find in the gospels. Embedded in the narratives of the books from Genesis to 2 Kings are two types of r...

which we’re obliged to edit till we guess the meaning that subconsciousness won’t block.   reminding us that since we’re human we need to depend on doubt and inspired guessage, our divination not based on divinity.   Gershonhepner@gmail.com   The story of Joseph is replete with narrative contradictions. Source criticism has long dominated the quest for textual coherence. But how are we to make sense of the integrated text?….. I recalled this poem on 12/25/20 after reading an article in thetorah.com by Ed Greenstein (“Finding Meaning in Incoherence: The Joseph Story Beyond Source ...

With bulldozers behind them, the police swept through the neighborhoods and arrested whoever refused to leave their homes. Dodger Stadium was built in time for the 1962 season. The racism of urban planning displaced Mexican Americans, Chicanos, Mexicans, and Central and South American immigrants, relocating whole neighborhoods to areas east and south of downtown. This topology of race directed my Costa Rican mother and Colombian father to a community tucked between industrial parks, in the long shadow cast by urban renewal. Our home was a quick drive from the plant where my dad worked, first ...