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In his new book, master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and... read more

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First Sentence

If "reading" is the act of making sense of a text, then each of us reads differently.

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  1. Marc Zvi Brettler (Author)

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  1. jewish studies 
 

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