(Continuation of my post two weeks ago.) It's a challenge--to make Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's Bible, Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz's God, intelligible and even relevant to a secular world where God as an active force is hardly detectable. Where "nobody ever reads the Bible"--as a speaker in a … [Read more...]
Journal of an Eibeschuetz Translator – The Kabbalist and the Genocide (Part 1)
"And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people" (Numbers 31:1-2). I don't want to write this blog post. I think I'm probably going to hate it once it's written. But at a panel at a science-fiction … [Read more...]
“Mystery of the Great Dragon” – Zohar, Kabbalah, and Evil
"Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers ..." --Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel's Hebrew word for "dragon" is tannim. It's the same word that, in its more common spelling tannin, is used in Genesis 1:21, "And God created great whales." … [Read more...]
