In many ways, nations resemble people. Just like human beings, nations go through mood swings. Sometimes their populations are ecstatic, and at other times a psychological malaise hovers over the land ...
The unlikely pairing of Hosea and Gomer might be one of the most unusual in the Bible, even more so than the much-better-known David and Goliath or Jonah and the whale. Hosea was commanded by God to ...
This week the professor continues his series on the prophets of ancient Israel. Last week we considered the foundational prophet Amos. This week, his near contemporary in the eighth century B.C., the ...
“Blow the great shofar for our ultimate redemption, and raise a banner to gather our exiles, and gather us together from the four corners of the earth to our land. Blessed are You Hashem, who gathers ...
It is not every biblical book that opens with God commanding his prophet to go marry a prostitute. But this is exactly what the prophet Hosea is told to do at the outset of his biblical career. “The ...
This week ends the professor’s Bible study on the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures, the shaggy “conscience of Israel.” Thus far we have reflected on Amos, Hosea and Jeremiah. This week we consider ...
Reviewed Works: שני פירושי ר׳ אברהם אבן עזרא לתרי־עשר. Volume I: Hosea, Joel, Amos Uriel SimonThe Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra on Hosea Abe Lipshitz Established in 1889, the Jewish Quarterly ...
We hear it in the air: “Information is power.” Some even say enviously, “Well, some lucky people are super-informed. But we are still getting all our information from the news.” Everywhere you look, ...
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