The Bible's Top 50 Ideas: The Essential Concepts Everyone Should KnowWipf and Stock Publishers, 1 wrz 2013 - 364 All the important moral ideas of the modern world are based on the key biblical verses analyzed in this collection. What generally happens when someone picks up a copy of the Bible? Often it is put down within seconds because readers see endless verses which turn them off. Finally, here is an accessible book about the Bible that focuses on its great moral principles: --Human beings are created in the image of God. --"Love your neighbor as yourself." --"You shall not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor." --"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." --"Justice, justice shall you pursue." Dov Peretz Elkins believes that if a reader understands fifty verses of the five thousand in the Bible (only 1 percent), he or she will begin to grasp the essence of the Bible. This remarkable explanation of the Bible shows readers how it can serve as a light that illuminates a path through the confusion and problems in their personal and communal lives. The result is a life that is better and more serious--a life with meaning, purpose, and direction. The Bible's Top 50 Ideas: --Presents the Bible's essential ideas in readable, engaging fashion. --Focuses on the contemporary value of the Bible. --Uses commentaries and explanations from sources that are modern as well as ancient, Christian as well as Jewish, and popular as well as scholarly. Elkins not only simplifies the Bible but also demonstrates how its fundamental ideas and concepts have inspired four thousand years of civilization to follow its teachings. The result is a moral, legal, and literary foundation that remains the basis of all democratic and principled societies to this day. |
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... Torah can only be acquired through simanim — abbreviations.” This passage refers to lists of words which helped the rabbis memorize lists of laws and legends. If this was true then, it is even more true now in the age of soundbites ...
... Torah can only be acquired through simanim — abbreviations.” This passage refers to lists of words which helped the rabbis memorize lists of laws and legends. If this was true then, it is even more true now in the age of soundbites ...
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... Torah commentary both this substantive and this user-friendly. When word gets out, this book will be indispensable for all individuals and groups eager to get to the heart of the matter: what the Torah says, what it has meant, and what ...
... Torah commentary both this substantive and this user-friendly. When word gets out, this book will be indispensable for all individuals and groups eager to get to the heart of the matter: what the Torah says, what it has meant, and what ...
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... Torah, among them: reading the parsha in shul each Shabbat: the biblical verses lifted out and inserted into the daily morning prayers: watching the second grade chumash play of your grandchildren: the Rashi commentary: and the ethical ...
... Torah, among them: reading the parsha in shul each Shabbat: the biblical verses lifted out and inserted into the daily morning prayers: watching the second grade chumash play of your grandchildren: the Rashi commentary: and the ethical ...
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... Torah, because it contains the laws and stories that are the foundation of the entire Hebrew Bible. Yet even within the Torah one can find some five thousand verses—not impossible to tackle, but also not a small bite, even for an ...
... Torah, because it contains the laws and stories that are the foundation of the entire Hebrew Bible. Yet even within the Torah one can find some five thousand verses—not impossible to tackle, but also not a small bite, even for an ...
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... Torah, an ancient book whose language, thought and concepts are difficult to parse even for the most trained Hebrew authority, is inaccessible simply because of the distance of three or four millennia between the writer (or Writer?) and ...
... Torah, an ancient book whose language, thought and concepts are difficult to parse even for the most trained Hebrew authority, is inaccessible simply because of the distance of three or four millennia between the writer (or Writer?) and ...
Spis treści
17 | |
Chapters 916 | 56 |
Chapters 1724 | 108 |
Ideas from Numbers | 161 |
Chapters 3250 | 182 |
Ideas from Deuteronomy | 207 |
References | 324 |
About the Author | 343 |
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The Bible’s Top 50 Ideas: The Essential Concepts Everyone Should Know Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins,Abigail Treu Ograniczony podgląd - 2013 |
The Bible's Top 50 Ideas: The Essential Concepts Everyone Should Know Dov Peretz Elkins,Abigail Treu Ograniczony podgląd - 2005 |
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