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Re-Reading theBible

for the OtherBH 445

NBTS, Spring 2008Prof. Charles Rix


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Who arethey?


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Are you a refugee?

Have you been translated?

Are you playing a role?

Who has constructed you?


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Reading Right to left

NRS Exodus 32:1 When the peoplesaw that Moses delayed to comedown from the mountain, thepeople gathered around Aaron,and said to him, "Come, makegods for us, who shall go before

us; as for this Moses, the manwho brought us up out of theland of Egypt, we do not know

what has become of him."


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NRS Exodus 32:1 When the peoplesaw that Moses delayed to comedown from the mountain, the

people gathered around Aaron,and said to him, "Come, makegods for us, who shall go before




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Who are the people?






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Who are the people?

NRS Exodus 32:1 When the people saw thatMoses delayed to come down from themountain, the people gathered aroundAaron, and said to him, "Come, make gods

for us, who shall go before us; as for thisMoses, the man who brought us up out ofthe land of Egypt, we do not know what hasbecome of him."


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NRS Exodus 32:1 When the peoplesaw that Moses delayed tocome down from themountain, the people gatheredaround Aaron, and said to him,"Come, make gods for us, who

shall go before us; as for thisMoses, the man who broughtus up out of the land of Egypt,we do not know what hasbecome of him."


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A Post-HolocaustReading Sensitivity


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Why re-Read after theHolocaust?


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Re-Reading the Jewish Bibleafter Auschwitz

Auschwitz begins wheneversomeone

looks at a slaughterhouse

and thinks:Theyre only animals.


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Re-Reading After AuschwitzThe history of a people that almost was

not

-Emile FackenheimHovering between:

we will do and we will hear

and

being vexed and defiant

The incident at Marah

(Exod 15:22-24)

The incident at Massah and Meribah(Exod 17:1-3)


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MemorialSamuel Bak (1986)

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