Family Dynamics in the Bible:
The Causes of Conflict, the Roots of Reconciliation
The Bible features an extraordinary variety of family relationships: husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandchildren. And these relationships, explored with realism and insight, are remarkably like our own. With often surgical precision, the Bible uncovers the nature and foundations of healthy relationships, the reasons that relationships go sour, and the ways in which families can heal themselves. Among the relationships we will consider are those between Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Sarah and Isaac and Ishmael, Isaac and Rebekah and Jacob and Esau, Joseph and his brothers, Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Hannah and Elkanah, David and Bathsheba, and Ruth and Naomi. We will also think about the Bible’s idea of family as metaphor: The Jewish people as a sometimes cooperative, sometimes quarrelling family; and the audacious claim that all human beings are brothers and sisers and that we are all children of God.
We will begin on September 10 with an overview of biblical literature and biblical history and a summary of the Bible’s wisdom about the human condition. All are welcome… beginners and veterans alike!
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September 10, 2011
September 17, 2011
September 24, 2011
October 01, 2011
October 15, 2011
October 22, 2011
October 29, 2011 (Technical difficulties with microphone for first 20 minutes (clicks and noise) and secondary recording for the last hour. Best we can do)
November 05, 2011
November 12, 2011
November 19, 2011
November 26, 2011
December 10, 2011
December 17, 2011
2012
January 07, 2012January 14, 2012
January 21, 2012
January 28, 2012
February 04, 2011
February 11, 2012
February 18, 2012
February 25, 2012
March 03, 2012
March 10, 2012
March 17, 2012
March 24, 2012
April 7, 2012 No Torah Study
April 14, 2012
April 21, 2012
April 28, 2012 Silver Scholar Dean Minow
May 05, 2012
May 12, 2012
May 19, 2012
May 26, 2012
June 02, 2012
June 09, 2012
June 16, 2012
June 23, 2012
June 30, 2012
Once again we come to the conclusion of a wonderful year of Torah Study. We will start again in the fall.