Word: hebraic
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...Scripture, the fascinating nuances of Biblical thought are enlivened and made relevant to the modern reader. Sometimes Kugel dips into our own popular culture to clarify an idea, such as his citation of The Wizard of Oz as an example of theological disillusionment for which there is no Hebraic equivalent. At other times, he writes with a contemporary lyricism that brings to life, however anachronistically, the thoughts and feelings of an ancient people: "what we are actually given to know about God from the Bible itself...is no consistent and harmonious portrait but rather a set of often...
...black-is-beautiful movement struck a chord among Jews, though few Jews went as far as some blacks who adopted African names. A son of the author Irving Wallace made a statement by reverting to David Wallechinsky in his own writing. But that statement was Slavic, not Hebraic...