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Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently

The Bible For Normal People

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Is the Bible Important in Judaism?

There is a notion of an uninterpreted bible. But on every word, every phrase, we are making interpretive judgments. And those are all interpretations that we need to make in order for the text to make sense. I once wrote something in which people got a little angry at me when i said, the bible is not important in Judaism. The bible interpreted, is important in judaism, and i think that's the case for christianity as well. A grosrylis, in some cases, can speak for itself. We've all had times wer we've come back and our spouses natbien so happy, and how we interpreted that particular grocery

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