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תנ"ך - תורה נביאים כתובים
Hebrew Language Book
798 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1912
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November 12, 2018Review of Genesis: as it was written by various authors, the level of writing as well as the quality of the stories themselves are all over the place. the story of the flood with its two interwoven version is far too long, while the stories of the tower of babel and the one of the nephilim could have used a little more detail. the best prose is probably in the stories of Joseph. the binding of Isaac, the story of adam and eve, and of Cain and Abel are also gems.
as i already read all of the above in school i was mostly interested about the stories 'in the cracks' so to speak, between the famous stories. well they are less well known for a reason but i had a nice time "researching" about the identities of the nations of the sons of Noah.
3/5
Review of Exodus: well the first half is a classic, by defeniotion, what can i say?
the second half start to drag when almost all of what remains is the creation of the Mishkan/Tabernacle+some laws and the golden calf story.
all in all it's fine.
2/5
Review of Leviticus: Giving a review to a code of law is an interesting thing to do, how do you evaluate such a thing? As I see, it was a fine law for a certain society at a certain time, but no one should seriously consider using it as a law today as is. And truly no one does, beside maybe the karaites.
The ideology of sacrifice is interesting. It is part of a pact with god, it is a social obligation toward the priests the children of Aharon, and sometimes it is a way to forgive sins. Obviously for the Christians this is a prelude to the ultimate sacrifice that will free humanity from sin for good.
There is also an ideology of Tehara and Tuma'ah. Purity and defilement. Tuma'ah is contagious and it the people need to fight it by bathing consistently and keeping themselves from defile things.
The calendar is set, and some economic-social laws.
O, what that is? Yes also some sexual laws, this book describes Canaanites as sexually depraved, sleeping with their family and with animals. And also with other men. This seem to be the main context that Leviticus is mentioned in, but truly the gay thing take much less place than things like purity and the sacrifices. And even this fact was already stated dozens of times. I don't think I have anything to add. Loving men is great and you should do that, if you tend to, obviously.
1/5
Review of Numbers: out of all books of the torah, even genesis, this one feels the most like an anthology. all the extremly short stories of israel at the desert ("the wildernes") are put here, they are ordered by a list in the end of the route that isreal took.
the 40 years go by extremly fast by the way, they start in the middle of this book (everything since the exodus until the spies took 2 years) most of the chapters afterward is still with the "wicked" generation. and by the end they are ready to go into the land and moses is ready to die. also they don't go back to sinai and go in circle but most of the time stay in place at the transjordan.
the beggining of the book is the Census of israel, it could be boring but there are some intresting point I reckon, you probably should skip it. the only story that is truely well developed literary is the balaam and balak story, which is nice. otherwise the stories are very basic and matter of fact.
2/5
Review of Deuteronomy: this law is clearer and less boring than the priestly one. Its ideology is very legalistic- rule of law, the law is known to all and is interpreted by judges and Levites. It is strictly monotheistic. It is interested in the Concentration of worship and the pilgrimage, but not in the sacrifices themselves. And it is interested in justice and charity (צדק ו צדקה), and in easing the burden of debt.
The recap at the start of the book is pretty redundant if you already read the last four books. But the final few chapters finishes the story of Moses and bridge it to the place where the book of Joshua starts, and (spoiler:) the death of Moses in the last chapter is an excellent piece of writing probably.
3/5
Review of Joshua: and you thought Leviticus was boring, just boring battles with geography lists and then land distribution with geography lists. some stories: Rahab and the spies, someone don't do what God say so they lose one battle, the TransJordanians build there own altar and it's kind of dangerous according to the priestly source. mmm that's it.
1/5
Book of judges:the intresting one is defenitly samson, which cycle is much diffrent in theme and style from the others. the ultimate stories about the statue of micah and the mistress on the hill are nice. the rest is ok I guess, warriors saving israel from the goyim.
3/5
I skipped the book of samuel becouase I feel I know it enough, sorry about completeness
Lang(hebrew, with help from english translations Mainly- YLT, GNV)
as i already read all of the above in school i was mostly interested about the stories 'in the cracks' so to speak, between the famous stories. well they are less well known for a reason but i had a nice time "researching" about the identities of the nations of the sons of Noah.
3/5
Review of Exodus: well the first half is a classic, by defeniotion, what can i say?
the second half start to drag when almost all of what remains is the creation of the Mishkan/Tabernacle+some laws and the golden calf story.
all in all it's fine.
2/5
Review of Leviticus: Giving a review to a code of law is an interesting thing to do, how do you evaluate such a thing? As I see, it was a fine law for a certain society at a certain time, but no one should seriously consider using it as a law today as is. And truly no one does, beside maybe the karaites.
The ideology of sacrifice is interesting. It is part of a pact with god, it is a social obligation toward the priests the children of Aharon, and sometimes it is a way to forgive sins. Obviously for the Christians this is a prelude to the ultimate sacrifice that will free humanity from sin for good.
There is also an ideology of Tehara and Tuma'ah. Purity and defilement. Tuma'ah is contagious and it the people need to fight it by bathing consistently and keeping themselves from defile things.
The calendar is set, and some economic-social laws.
O, what that is? Yes also some sexual laws, this book describes Canaanites as sexually depraved, sleeping with their family and with animals. And also with other men. This seem to be the main context that Leviticus is mentioned in, but truly the gay thing take much less place than things like purity and the sacrifices. And even this fact was already stated dozens of times. I don't think I have anything to add. Loving men is great and you should do that, if you tend to, obviously.
1/5
Review of Numbers: out of all books of the torah, even genesis, this one feels the most like an anthology. all the extremly short stories of israel at the desert ("the wildernes") are put here, they are ordered by a list in the end of the route that isreal took.
the 40 years go by extremly fast by the way, they start in the middle of this book (everything since the exodus until the spies took 2 years) most of the chapters afterward is still with the "wicked" generation. and by the end they are ready to go into the land and moses is ready to die. also they don't go back to sinai and go in circle but most of the time stay in place at the transjordan.
the beggining of the book is the Census of israel, it could be boring but there are some intresting point I reckon, you probably should skip it. the only story that is truely well developed literary is the balaam and balak story, which is nice. otherwise the stories are very basic and matter of fact.
2/5
Review of Deuteronomy: this law is clearer and less boring than the priestly one. Its ideology is very legalistic- rule of law, the law is known to all and is interpreted by judges and Levites. It is strictly monotheistic. It is interested in the Concentration of worship and the pilgrimage, but not in the sacrifices themselves. And it is interested in justice and charity (צדק ו צדקה), and in easing the burden of debt.
The recap at the start of the book is pretty redundant if you already read the last four books. But the final few chapters finishes the story of Moses and bridge it to the place where the book of Joshua starts, and (spoiler:) the death of Moses in the last chapter is an excellent piece of writing probably.
3/5
Review of Joshua: and you thought Leviticus was boring, just boring battles with geography lists and then land distribution with geography lists. some stories: Rahab and the spies, someone don't do what God say so they lose one battle, the TransJordanians build there own altar and it's kind of dangerous according to the priestly source. mmm that's it.
1/5
Book of judges:the intresting one is defenitly samson, which cycle is much diffrent in theme and style from the others. the ultimate stories about the statue of micah and the mistress on the hill are nice. the rest is ok I guess, warriors saving israel from the goyim.
3/5
I skipped the book of samuel becouase I feel I know it enough, sorry about completeness
Lang(hebrew, with help from english translations Mainly- YLT, GNV)
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