Surpassing Wonder
Surpassing Wonder

Author: Donald H. Akenson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-09-29

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 9780226010731

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Elegant and inventive, Surpassing Wonder uncovers how the ancient Hebrew scriptures, the Christian New Testament, and the Talmuds of the Rabbis are related and how, collectively, they make up the core of Western consciousness. Donald Harman Akenson provides an incisive critique of how religious scholars have distorted the holy books and argues that it was actually the inventor of the Hebrew scriptures who shaped our concept of narrative history—thereby founding Western culture.

Educational Values in the Shulchan Aruch
Educational Values in the Shulchan Aruch

Author: Abraham A. Glicksberg

Publisher: Schreiber, Shengold Publishing

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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The standard code of Jewish law is discussed by the author as a source of educational values, both in a historical and a contemporary perspective. By doing so, the author enhances the value of the Shulchan Aruch not only as a source book for Jewish observance but also as an excellent educational tool both for the general reader and for the classroom.