
Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently
The Bible For Normal People
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The Difference Between Reading From the Book of Esther and Reading on Line
jews to this day are still in the synagogue reading from the hebrew, and indeed, from a scroll rather than from a book. We we punctuate differently, ecause ancient hebrew doesn't have vowels. We read with a different anthropology, because christians typically, traditionally, start with the idea of a fall in the garden of eden that had to be rectified. For jews, the book of estra is enormously important. It gets an entire holiday. And pretty much on sunday morning. The only time one hears the book ofEsther is on something like churchwoman united sunday where you hear, you have been chosen for such a time as this
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