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Founding Father.("The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism")(Book Review)
The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism, by David Klinghoffer (Doubleday, 304 pp., $26)
Some 30 years ago I struggled through a Yale religious-studies course called "The Bible as Literature." Despite energetic leadership from a world-class scholar, the experience amounted to an uncomfortable ordeal leading to an inescapable conclusion: As literature, the Bible stinks. Beyond the pedestrian translations, the random repetitions and contradictions, the unanswered questions, the long stretches of gratuitous detail (such as genealogies of bizarre names), there's the text's chilly distance from its own protagonists. With the singular exception of ...
- How would God really vote?; a Jewish rebuttal to David Klinghoffer's...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2009 700+ words
...9781934730195 How would God really vote?; a Jewish rebuttal to David Klinghoffer's conservative polemic...in response How Would God Vote? Why the Bible Commands...Be a Conservative, by David Klinghoffer, frequent writer for...
- The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life August 1, 2003 700+ words
By DAVID KLINGHOFFER. Doubleday. 304 pp. $26. One...Abraham. But then, Abraham discovered God, or, more precisely, was the one to whom God revealed Himself. Klinghoffer discovers Abraham and God by a careful sifting through of the...
- SHARING GOD IS COMMON TO ALL RELIGIONS.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) April 11, 2003 700+ words
Byline: DAVID KLINGHOFFER Author In post-war Iraq...wayfarers to acknowledge God. The patriarch would give...his conception of the One God. Part of his legacy is missionary...then to tell them about your God. Muslims, Christians and...
- The alphabet of life
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post DAVID KLINGHOFFER July 8, 2009 700+ words
DAVID KLINGHOFFER Jerusalem Post 07-08...alphabet of life Byline: DAVID KLINGHOFFER Edition; Daily Section...maybe to the existence of God. An acronym for deoxyribonucleic...There is supposed to be a "God gene" for religious belief...
- Thou shalt not ...(Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our...
- Magazine article from: National Review Levin, Yuval September 10, 2007 700+ words
...Commandments at Our Peril, by David Klinghoffer (Doubleday, 256 pp...according to the Bible, God gave to Moses and the...Shattered Tablets, David Klinghoffer worries that we have...books on questions of God and man. His concern...
- The Jewish Question.(Review)
- Magazine article from: National Review DiIulio, John J., Jr. December 21, 1998 700+ words
...Jewish Orthodoxy, by David Klinghoffer (Free Press, 272 pp...true Orthodox Jew, David Klinghoffer, age 33, believes...that it came from God, that it is His presence...to seek knowledge of God and Torah is undoubtedly...
- 'Moral values' aren't just Christian.(OPINION)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor November 16, 2004 700+ words
...because it's "the Lord your God" who sanctions them. Most...Commandment Alliance - affirm God's role in establishing right...folk who, if unsure about God, still think that morality...primacy four years from now. * David Klinghoffer is a columnist for the Jewish...
- Toward Tradition's Parley Charts Rightward Course
- Newspaper article from: Forward David Klinghoffer October 14, 1994 700+ words
David Klinghoffer Forward 10-14-1994 Toward...neighbor as thyself. I am God." -- which casts the more...t matter if you believe in God. If you believe that you...heaven on earth, without God, if you believe that, then...
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