And then, incredibly, we are with him soon after, as he visits the very site where Sinwar breathed his last, and sits in the seat where the monster had spent his final moments on earth, the blood of the villain still on the chair as Douglas reflects on what he sees, and on where he is." "Borrowing a page from the late 20th century theologian Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's suggestion in his The Lonely Man of Faith that due to differing accounts of humankind's creation in the first and second chapters of Genesis, Adam, the first man, must have balanced two senses of self—a majestic, conquering inclination ('Adam the first') and one characterized by awe of and submission to God ('Adam the second')—Julius offers us two Abrahams. "Julius retells the idol-smashing midrash and the canonical biblical Abrahamic narrative with bold creative license—Terah 'was a manufacturer, a retailer, and a trader, the owner of shops in Ur and elsewhere, a person of substantial means and well-connected to the ruling circles in the city.'
Author: Victorino Matus
Published at: 2025-04-13 21:57:03
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