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“Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. Theres the ancient connection right there.”
“Sol wanted to know how any ethical system much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter h...”
“We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bibles single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-wh...”
“- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!”
“Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne čuje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.”
“For a brief moment the previous day, I’d felt a flicker of kinship with him because of my own barrenness, but he brandished his brokenness like a sword, ready to cut anyone who displeased him becau...”
“Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There’s the ancient connection right there.”
“Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it – could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter...”