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...Reform branches were involved, the Holy Scriptures is primarily the work of the Jewish Publication Society of America rather than any rabbinical group. The originator of the project was Harry Orlinsky of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Two parts of this Bible were previously published, the Torah (1962) and the Prophets (1978), directed...
...chest, and on his forehead a horn that rotated at great speed." Supernatural beings stalk the cities as well. In The Power of Darkness, a Warsaw district receives strange tidings: "The word soon spread . . . that a dybbuk had settled in Tzeitel's ear, and that it chanted the Torah, sermonized, and crowed like a rooster." The narrator of The Cafeteria meets a woman who claims to have seen Adolf Hitler on upper Broadway. Her confidant is ultimately inclined to believe her: "Esther didn't sound insane. She had seen a piece of reality that the heavenly censorship prohibits...
There are other eerie possibilities in the interplay between language and the inhuman. Suppose, one of Steiner's hunters reflects, that the saintly scholars who first copied down the holy words of the Torah made a mistake somewhere, and that in this mistake lies the explanation for all the world's discords. Or suppose, the hunter goes on, it was the unnamable name of God that was taken down wrongly, so that "each time we call upon Him we call in error and cough like toads in the green scum...
Judge Robert E. Keeton of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts and former Torah Professor of Law, and Judge Amalya Kearse of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, joined Blackmun in hearing the case...
...droll sight gags (Goliath's oversize undershorts hanging out to dry; Coco at work in the pharaoh's palace, trying to sweep up hundreds of frogs with a dustpan and broom), but nothing can redeem Wholly Moses! from its destiny of eternal mirthlessness. It is a tattered Torah indeed, a comedy made out of hole cloth...