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S1 Ep. 5: The Second Half of the Story

A Book Like No Other

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The Tree of Knowledge Comes Back in Joshua

Rabbi Forman's methodology is really about deep structural intertextuality. The many ways that the Torah comments on itself to deepen its meaning. Often, these structures are created through shared language, but it can also be through imagery and concepts. Rabbi Forman was trying to convince me that Joshua was the second half of the burning bush story.

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