Word: rosenberger
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...Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th and 4th centuries before the advent of Christianity (and inspired by God, traditionalists believe, centuries earlier). Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once told author David Rosenberg, "I am still learning the art of writing from the book of Genesis." The words could have been uttered by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky or Mario Puzo. Dozens died in Israel last month over boundaries Genesis set forth; yet the same tales appear, in somewhat altered form, in Islam's holy text...
...David Rosenberg has been engaging Genesis publically for some time, but declined to be on the Moyers show. In Genesis: As It Is Written (HarperSanFrancisco), his collection of essays by writers and poets, he contends that contemporary authors are better qualified than Bible experts to explicate what he sees primarily as a secular masterpiece. Indeed, both Phillip Lopate's disconcerting contribution about playing Abraham in an Abraham-Sarah-Pharaoh triangle and David Mamet's Freudian riff on the Flood make for enjoyable reading. But Rosenberg's thesis is sorely tested by The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (Image...
...students read Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man, and the recent anthology Secret Agents, which explores the Rosenberg trial...
This past Monday for example, students attentively listened to Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, discuss his parents' trial and execution...
Former Black Panther and former death row prisoner Lawrence Hayes and Robert Meeropol, the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 for conspiring "to steal the secret of the atomic bomb," also spoke at the panel...