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Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel moved beyond the confines of Sanders Theater to discuss the relationship between bioethics and Judaism with a crowd of about 60 at Harvard Hillel last night...
Perry said The Merchant of Venice is particularly resonant for her because of the tension between Christianity and Judaism that it articulates...
...narrative foreshadows Jason’s conversion from the world of athletics to Hasidic Judaism. But Horn’s point is that the imagery of Biblical texts governs even the most mundane events...
...Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, shaken by the Holocaust, reread Paul's letters. They noted that at one point Paul calls the Covenant between God and the Jews irrevocable and that in one passage he compares Christians to a wild olive branch grafted onto the tree of Judaism. "If the Covenant between God and the children of Abraham dies," says Fisher, "the branch withers with the roots. Christians would be orphans." The resulting Vatican II document rolled back centuries of anti-Judaism and began a rehabilitation of the notion of Abraham as a Jew. No one has pursued...
...three religions battled over Abraham, they continued (without admitting it) to swap Abraham stories. The borrowings and counterborrowings, as old as the conflicts, make far more pleasant reading. The most heartening may be an Islamic tale cited by Feiler whose roots, scholar Reuven Firestone hypothesized, reach into both Judaism and Christianity. It is set after Abraham's near sacrifice of his son, whichever son it was. The moment of truth is just past; the father's hand is stayed. As the boy lies stunned on the altar, God gazes down with pride and compassion and promises to grant...