The Journal of the American Oriental Society, January 1st, 1994
Winston Churchill is credited with the observation that England and the United States are two countries divided by the language that they hold in common. What "English" does for those two countries "the unity of the Hebrew Bible" does for D. N. Freedman and myself. For me the phrase means that the ideological, theological, and moral vectors in the Hebrew Scriptures (in narrative and precept, poetry and prose, history and fiction) may vary within an arc of a few degrees at most. If the variance in such normative thrusts is so large as to displace the North Star by so much as ten or more degre...
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